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Originally Posted by Tiltmonkey2
Some topics he does have descent insight on but poker is not one of them. He just kept saying that players are all degens, and you can never win, and we are all playing bots. He made it sound like everyone in the industry is a shady adrenaline junky thief. I guess every time he has been in a casino he was a loser. Then he went on to say how great drugs are.. haha
i listened to it. that's a gross misrepresentation of what he said; you have quite the imagination. you might be confusing what joe said with what the other guy said (i'm not familiar w/ the other guy). joe said that poker is a skill game and that his one of his best friends,
ari shaffir (of
amazing racist fame), is a winning poker player. he did say that howard lederer and the rest of the ftp guys are shady scumbags, but guess what? howard lederer and the rest of the ftp guys are shady scumbags. he did say that online poker has a bot problem, but guess what? online poker has a bot problem. furthermore, the one site that seems to be aware of it and willing to deal with it -- pokerstars -- is closed to the us market due to us gov't intervention.
he didn't talk about "how great drugs are" either. he just shat on the idea that they should be illegal, as he often does. he's an enthusiastic libertarian who believes in adults' rights. if more people were like rogan, online poker would still be thriving in the us.