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Originally Posted by JBS1273
I'd guess that half the reason he was invited to PAD had to with chatter about his stats and online winnings...the other half, maybe cause someone said he'd be competitive and maybe entertaining. But that's a different realm vs. real life interpretation of his overall image.
His episode is like an old school meet new school, where the old school was Doyle and two other well known live pros, and the new school was Andrew, Brian Townsend and someone else. I have no idea about results. The reason Andrew was picked was largely due to how many hours he has put in live and im guessing his table presence and personality impressed someone really high up to get him picked.
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The CL thing...could be him, could not be him. However, his so-called defense team hasn't addressed it...so who knows?
Getting interviews online is a far cry from getting a pokersite CEO or related business to 'want" you. Comes down to impressions...
Well, the craiglist stuff im not touching. Someone made a wild guess, i dont think its relevent whether he did advertise on craigslist or not, whatever.
Getting noticed is what poker sites want. That is why FTP has been sponsoring a lot of people who arent even close to the poker skills that Andrew has. That said, he is certainly heading in the right direction and im sure given the choice between him and half the random nobodies that FTP is signing (
linky) i know who is going to get face time between Andrew and some rando like
Biorac who seems to have been picked simply because he is from Russia or Poland or whatever (like most of the clearly lesser players they have signed).
Would you choose Negreanu over him, obv, but as far as young online players go i would pick him over a LOT of names because he wants to go out there and sell himself and by that token he will be selling the site he is tagged to.
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G2CU...brash, young, not a lot of substance to what he says, etc.
Any known pro...experienced, humble, outgoing, and is relatable to most players.
Winner.....older pros who know how to play the $$$ game. Any big biz that invests money on him at this point....is burning their cash. If they are, it's also a dying ship that's thinking he'll turn the tide when he won't
Image is everything when buying, selling, & making money!
Most of these so called "older pros" are broke degen losers. With g2cu you have someone who doesnt play the pit, who seems relatively open in front of a camera (he certainly hasnt been on the media training courses a lot of signed pros are sent on) and he is a truly quality player.