Talal Shakerchi
Sam Grafton
Jonathan Jaffe
Sean Winter

So you're doing it as well now. It is really pathetic IMO and shows you in a much worse light as a person than you are attempting to show her.

To one of DH Poker's specific points, "I just see her as the small stakes reg she always was taking shots with someone else's money...not really a hard thing to do"

Well, one of the player's mentioned in Defarse's post above, I bought a piece of, ~20% plus markup in a ~€1500 live MTT when he was playing £50 to £100 live tournaments and £1/£1 live cash games, so apart from a tiny number of players who deposited $50 online and never had to deposit again, the vast majority of players have got backing for either online or live to help them up the stakes more quickly. And he didn't cash, and it took him a while to become truly successful, perhaps 2 to 3 years.

Yourself and DH Poker, are just gratuitously attacking her IMO.

Well all of us/all known pros were once a fish, so each and everyone of us could be bashed on for once being a small stakes player/hard pressed to get cash at one point, so yeah, DHPoker comments come across as quite envious at best.

Really don’t see DH bashing her. Yes he mentions she took shots using others money but he didn’t pass judgement on that. As noted, many people do that. BFD.

The closest he came to attacking her was calling her “cringe”. Reality is many do consider her cringe. Some here who do so also had/have expressed genuine concern. I am not going to revisit all the data but much can be found ITT. But you don’t have to root around to find it. Assuming it is not now deleted, just go to her own TWTR feed, particularly 6+ months ago. Or go find the HCL streams. This certainly isn’t snooping; she literally encourages you to view these. So nothing private has to be dug up to form an opinion. She has out most of it out there herself, including suicide attempt

Is she doing better recently? Maybe, since I don’t routinely follow her, I really don’t know. I do know in a way I find even her recent behavior cringe, what little of it I have seen. Definitely behaves or acts in a manner I really would not want my daughter doing but she is an adult and can mostly behave as she wants. People are also free to form their own opinions of her based on this behavior

Btw, yes you are white knighting for her. But again, that is fine. There is no problem taking up for others you feel are being wronged. Just in this case, IMO, I don’t think it is needed or even accurate. I think PL generally knows the image she is projecting and is doing it intentionally. Many like it but some find it cringe

is this a serious post? what on this planet does her running a marathon or being an excellent skiier (if true) have to do with poker ?

There's nothing wrong with saying someone is ok at poker, good enough to beat small stakes and playing bigger stakes on someone else's dime (which she admits.)

Also her "reinvention" is wearing stupid bunny ears like she's 4 years old and having melt downs at the table while not being remotely entertaining to watch play.

What does it mean for a person to be "cringe"?

It has everything to do with it, they are real achievements. Beating a card game inhabited by a not insignificant number of degenerates and undesirables is not.
But my mistake anyway, it is just me being stupid, silly me, I forgot that the word compassion doesn't appear in the dictionary of many professional poker players.

Next time I'll think twice before posting anything even bordering on being kind, it's just not the done thing around here.

But you and your kind carry on, attacking someone's whole existence on a public forum with no care for the consequences, because that's what you do.
It's just a game to you, no different to stealing the blinds from the button. Just a game, played by adults (many of whom have child like minds)

You decide to show your life on social media to profit from it you and/or your supporters don't get to whine when others view it negatively and express their opinions.

The vast majority? Who? If you can't grind your way up the stakes in a relatively short time you probably aren't good enough to merit staking.

Cliff notes:

* General monthly living expenses are a barrier for many winning players to moving up the stakes quickly.
* Online cash is the easier route than live cash, or live tournaments to move up the stakes in.
* One can move up the stakes in online MTTs by being a volume beast, binking super big in a comp or by getting backing.
* 10K is not really that much of a poker bankroll. Most new or aspiring players don't have $10K, plus they would also need a backup life roll of about $6K.

I'd agree with you for online cash games where if you have an edge the variance is pretty low if you can multi table, although it can still be very restrictive moving up the stakes because of living expenses being equal to or not much below the increase in the bankroll each month.

Also there is always the possibility of hitting either a skill road block or skill plateau at a stake that's one or more levels below your ambition stake. But I'd agree with you in general that at online cash, with good game / time zone / player pool selection you can move up the stakes.

Doing so at live cash is harder, a smaller selection of games and much longer to get volume in, so I think staking/backing helps a lot.

But for live MTTs, backing to move up the stakes in tournaments I think is close to essential for a lot of players as the variance is huge and if you look at the math logic, if a player has a 15% ROI (post juice and rake back) they will have to load $40K of tournaments per month to make $6K a month in profit, approximately half of which might go on living expenses. Now, this might sound okay, the bankroll going up by $3K per month, but what sort of bankroll do you need to realistically play $40K of online MTTs per month and to stay within proper bank roll management?, which really is 200 buy ins, but let's say 100 buy ins, if we pinch a bit and build in that we know we are already a very good MTT player and will only get better the more we play.

$40K divided by 25 days per month, because we will burn out playing more days than that, our game will suffer and we'll have a terrible life/work balance, is playing $1.6K tournament buy ins per day. Assuming we are already very good and can multi table quite a lot, we need to play 16 x $100 MTTs per day.

We therefore need a bankroll of $10K and that is if we are already good enough to have a 15% ROI at that tournament stake and if we are prepared to play quite long hours 25 days per month.

So we do all of this and at the end of the year we are $36K better off. And this is assuming that we have $10K in the first place, plus some sort of life roll of say $6K in case we go on a 2 month terrible downswing.

The four main ways players, good players, can move up the online tournament stakes relatively quickly are: (in no particular order), 1. If they are an absolute volume beast. 2. If they live in a very low living cost economy, or low cost as they they live with their parent(s), 3. If they bink a very big score in a tournament. 4. By getting backing. Many players don't have option of 1. or 2. available to them, so either have to wait, and sometimes, wait and wait for 3. to happen, or they do 4.

In live tournaments the same type of thing applies, only worse, as potential playing volume is so small.

I agree winning at poker isn't an accomplishment (unless you're elite) but again what does her skiing or running marathons have to do with someone staring facts about her poker play?

Absolutely nothing!

On top of that she's volentarily putting herself out there as a poker pro so she's fair game . The poster who made those comments wasn't following around randoms in poker rooms ,assessing their poker abilities and posting about it online.

You also literally did the same thing (assessed someone's poker ability) with Nick Airball-you just rated him highly.

It's pretty obvious if you read what I said, what I was calling him out for, which included his one dimensional views about backing.

I critiqued, both positive and negative, Nik Airball's poker play and behaviour at the poker table, I didn't trash his personal life.

One thing you are definitely elite at is trolling me around these forums. Well played, I hope it gives you a lot of satisfaction.

Nah not trolling I just disagree with a lot of what you say (and point out times I do agree.
She backed bc shes a young attractive female. You can add that to the list of things that aren't actually accomplishments.

And to be fair I do think most people who are backed for poker at non nose bleed stakes for a long period of time are wasting their lives.

When’s she due?

+1

Tomorrow

She looked 8 months 3 months ago. D-Day is almost here. Congrats in advance to Poker Bunny.

Is she really preggo? When will we see her in her classy outfits at poker streams again?

Does she have any idea who the baby daddy is?

Is there any need for that?