Read a big chunk of this...
my two cents:
Too many posts here seem of people who resent poker and bash probably for not being a winner any more since fishes no longer fold to 3 bets.
People act like poker was always great before Full tilt came around and **** it up. Like now is all Lindgrens fault for being a scumbag.
Historically is always been about crooks and honest players. You think the "gambler word is his bond" was nothing more than a necessity?
back in the day (like today) you had to be careful, but now we idiots who came through rounders and the internet feel like any wanker who´s been around the block is Kanish and feel like "we belong" if eskimo clark ask us for a stake at the Rio´s WC. We behave like
all poker players are the bomb because TV said so.
We deserved this crap, like we deserve our politicians, and that remembers me that I read a post here saying that only pokerplayers are scum and outside poker all people are honest.
WTF?
If anyone here thinks the scumbags in poker are but babys compared with the true sharks in wall street, politics, pharmaceuticals or even the vatican needs to wake up, buddy!
The difference between FT and Madoff is that the three stooges folded for being incompetent at the first roadblock, while Madoff stole for decades and is probably running a new scam from his cell right now, while FT idiots are probably broke with all the accounts frozen.
Online poker and Tv has flush poker with money while us degens looked the other way at pokersites in offshores havens run by crooks with no guarantees as long as we could play and win and now we call foul...
**** us! 24 h ago I thought Lindgren was a "role model" for gamblers like me. Why? because I´m a donk who belives any crap Negreanu says and because people who knew kept their mouths shut. Let´s not forget that if E-dog had paid the guy who started this two weeks ago he would probably play fantasy with him again next season (that seems to be what they did with Lindgren until he was broke (the real problem here seem to be that he´s broke, not that he´s scum)
So I no longer will vouch for anyone because he´s a friend of a friend or Negreanu says he´s cool in his blog, but let´s not forget that are plenty of stand up guys around who don´t deserve to be put in the same boat with E-dog.
sorry for the brick..
PD
any photochopers willing to shop Lindgren´s photo on Richar Pryor in a "Brewster's Millions" picture to end my post ?