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Originally Posted by SageDonkey
I'm going to wildly speculate it wasn't pre-meditated nor something he's done before but being drunk (alcohol is a depressant), having had poor MTT results for 1 3/4 years, the "devil on one's shoulder" got the better of him and he opportunistically pocketed the chips.
Seeing someone else quickly win £4K may have made the world feel an even darker place than it already did, having bricked more tournaments.
I don't have him down as a big winner in cash games and even with sponsorship ~2 years of travel costs and much brickage + living costs, adds up, maybe -~$200K.
I agree it probably wasn't premeditated...unless by premeditated means he thought to himself at some point: ' if the opportunity comes up, i'm going to steal some money'
Very unlikely the first time he ever tries to steal from a friend also happens to be the time he gets caught though. More likely, he's done it and gotten away with it enough times to make him get sloppy and caught.
All speculation.