i love these LOL luminaries from LATB...

harry and mike are angle shooting scumbags and lol josh machiello and his con to buy the dodgers...

paints poker in a great light...

I'm not sure how to embed tweets but this is the video from it

https://twitter.com/Joeingram1/statu...29438786764800

When Armenia sends its poker players, they're not sending their best.

Garrett is the ****ing man.

I can understand Feldman feeling reluctant to stand firm, as there are likely conflicting interests as producer of the show. But if that's an issue, he probably shouldn't be playing in these games to begin with.

seems like people are scared of mike. does he have any shady history? floorman was a joke..he did nothing

It's pretty ridiculous that he's even allowed to play in these games.

good for him. but more people should do what he did when it comes to ridic situations such as this, too often, especially in life, nobody gives a ***** and everyone is silent. glad on him adding his 2 cents in a professional and courteous way.

Dealer is there and saw what happened. Floorman is standing by. Ryan looks at Garrett "What am I supposed to do here?". Props to Garrett, who clearly doesn't want to stick his neck into a situation he's not involved in, but he answers a direct question from Ryan about what should happen and it's pretty clear that he's right.

The floorman should have made a firm ruling that the bet stands. I know they don't like to get involved with ruling the higher stakes games, but in this instance, it's their job.

Problem is, Ryan always talks about how he loves Mike... Always talks about how great of a guy he is, how he’s a sweet guy, he’ll come in and give him a back run on stream, try to get him into the commentary booth, etc. They probably play all the time and joke around.

Also, there’s so much soft play on the show between friends, especially Armenian Mike, like Harry will give Mike his money back in hands, they’ll check it down etc.

So I can see that if Mike was joking, that this is all the context.

That said, he owes Feldman the money and the floorman putting in on Feldman was a joke. He’d been moronically shipping stacks all night, 20xing pots, and not “Joking”.
Thankfully Garrett spoke up

also agreed. thats what i was saying even before i saw the video and heard it was an egregious angle, why the **** is someone so close to teh show and players on a professional sense playing in the game LOL.


I mostly agreed floor should have been convincing and made a ruling but I wonder if because ryan is producer if that had any factor why he was borderline?



edit* also I personally feel ryan is a nice guy from what i saw there, I think he 100% knew if he checked mike was gonna spazz out here. when ryans planned work, ryan did what most people wouldn't do and thats not push the issue, prolly becuase hes a producer but imagine anyone else that was involved and this happened, they would be mad as all hell. and if you tell me "mike and ryan have history ryan is a producer" it all comes back to my point earlier

Another thing, I know in the past Feldman has been staked in these bigger games.
So, I guess you have to think about your backers too... I mean I'm sure they don't care what kind of relationship you have with Mike or that he thinks it's a joke, etc

LoL @ these pros in the video all kissing this guy's ass. Someone needs to tell it like it is. The dude is a total piece of **** degenerate dirtbag, which is unfortunately a fairly typical player profile of regular losing players in live poker.

Should not even be a discussion. Caught bluffing, end of.

bingo youre the best ricky!

What's the move if you're in Ryans place and the dealer the floor aren't doing their job and there's also nobody there to back you up? Just say give me your money and end up looking like the bad guy? What if he refuses? What if that scumbag just stood up and left? Would anyone have stopped him?

Harry and Mike best friends. Good guys. Sweet guys. Love em

They like to joke around and soft play sometimes. It’s just a prank bros

The primary purpose of the show is to promote the room as a fun place to play and to come on down. As someone that is visiting LA at the moment and has appeared on the show in the Limon days, based on the floor's inability to rule this correctly I am never setting foot in the Bike again.

Way to go Bike management and way to totally defeat the purpose of the show. Might as well pull the plug.

Ive always wanted to play live at the bike in the past...but now watching Harry and Mike I feel I would probably curse them out if next to them

now that's some next level angle ****

I mean how does Armenain Mike show his face again at a poker table in LA

Anyone that angles like that has no shame.

So what's the moral of the story here?

Never play poker in a cardroom in Armenia?

It would be really great to hear Limon's take on both situations.

your move is to act decisively and try to reason the situation through to Mike to make sure he understands why you're taking the chips and why it wasn't ever going to be construed as a joke. Feldman did a pretty subpar job of this imo, especially, and I know this got brought up before, but especially especially if he was backed in this game.

Feldman isnt a scumbag for saying that with what Mike did that the chips that went into the pot are now his. if Mike stands up and leaves it's out of your control, you're not Robocop, but that's an obvious ban.

He needed to have a lot more backbone in this situation, the play was clear as day. There are two huge issues that come to mind when Feldman takes this wishy washy of an approach to something so straight forward 1) it demonstrates clearly how tough of a time he'll have if there's much of a question at all in any big situation. (imagine if Mike had just said all in rather than also putting the chips in. or heaven forbid had slid the chips out, not let them go and then pulled them back) ...once again, bad deal for him, worse deal for his backers. 2) this situation calls into question what Feldman would do if he's not in the hand and a spot like this comes up. Feldman had Garrett to reassure him, is it now to be expected that Feldman would go to bat for Garrett, or someone else, in a similar spot (not insinuating Garrett would need this, but kinda crazy to want to have the cake and eat it.) I think from Feldmans reaction we might be able to infer no.

idk man, have had some similar situations come up in the games I play back home, and as a regular I always try to speak up for what I believe is fair and makes the game as honest as possible. I've done this several times even when the person who was 'in the wrong' was someone I liked and/or really good for the game. There's a difference between liking someone and blatantly saying that they don't need to follow the rules as long as you're not in the pot.

***wanted to lastly add there's a big difference between sticking your nose where it doesn't belong and failing to speak up when being asked. staying out of the situation is fine until the moment when Feldman asks for help. shame on the people not acting then and especially Shame on the floor.