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Originally Posted by Bunch_Of_Spergs
I've heard everyone say that about anyone. I've heard "famous" multi-bracelet winners say that about players who not an hour scalped them for six figures.
What people say doesn't matter. People are ******s. Judge by fruits.
Forrest plays- and wins- pretty high, with his own money. He is regularly staked by non-donk backers to play higher and wins there too. Whatever his personal idiosyncrasies with water bottles are are irrelevant. There are no 'poor players' who are long term at his levels like he has been, for as long as he has been. There is no waiting list that forms when he sits down. The same cannot be said for many others.
I am not happy to see him sit down at my table, ever.
I am thrilled to see any given 27 year old with Ray Bans and an IWC Portuguese.
Most hands there are clearly correct ways to play them, clearly wrong ways to play them, and occasionally situations so close as to not matter much.
Bad players are bad because they don't know the math and logic of how to play most hands correctly. So when they say someone sucks, we can easily discount it because their perspective is simply incorrect.
But when someone who is a long term winner who actually knows how to play well says Ted plays poorly, I have to give their opinion some credit. They can see hands he shows down and immediately say, good, bad or doesn't matter. Limping TT52ds UTG+1 in a 75 O8 game is an example where you could say he plays poorly.
And I hope you are right and he's playing his own bankroll and doing well, but sadly his reported behavior doesn't really match up with that.