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Originally Posted by Smarty 2.0
Can we please not drive away one of the best posters again a la avoidthe9to5? Thanks.
Do you mean driving away DonJuan, Sean Snyder, or Bicycle Kick? Cuz all 3 are pretty good players/posters . . .
Also, no one drives them away. People either decide to post or decide not to post. They aren't sheep.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm rooting for my friend's uncle Larry in this 300k No Limit Holdem Aria Super High Roller Bowl (I don't think they have a limit version at these stakes, yet). He went into semi-retirement before 50 and loves to play poker. He won some recent WPT and then was invited to play on the PAD cash game and was the last wildcard chosen to play the 300k.
His story is a little more special than most imo, given that despite all the thrills of victory he's undoubtedly experienced over his life, he recently experienced the most agonizing defeat I could imagine - burying his son. I didn't plan on posting about this until I spoke to my buddy and found out he had revealed this tragic event in an interview w WPT site.
I met his nephew through work and when he told me his uncle enjoyed poker, I just figured the guy donked around a little (my friend has always worked hard and I didn't realize his uncle was wealthy until he won this MTT). I guess my read was a little off hehe.
Pretty crazy to think that a single buy-in for these big bet players is more than the best LHE players running hot will make in a year. If uncle Larry could pick himself off the mat and win a WPT, play on PAD, and the SHR Bowl, I reckon he has solved life.