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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
I don't know Mason, personally. I've played a few hours of poker with him, but neither one of us is the life of the party.
Business-wise, I have a ton of respect for him. AaronW wrote an article for the 2+2 magazine a few years ago. I'm certain that a ton of places would have tried the "do this free for exposure" route. 2+2 paid for the article. The rights went back to Aaron after a reasonable amount of time (3-6 months?), and I believe he totally owns the rights to that work, including selling it in a book if he were able to do so. I don't think Mason had to cut that fair a deal for authors for the magazine.
I do business with a lot of people, and mostly they just take rights to stuff because they can. Very few people cut business deals that are good for both sides -- it is fun to ask clients if they'd sign my side of the IP agreement or my side of the NDA. They won't, because the deals are unfair.
I know LHE posters have had personal disagreements with him, but everything I've heard related to business has been super good/ethical. I'm sure that the editor of the book, any production people, and any ad people involved in no way deserved in internet ****storm. Publishing stuff is hard, and I feel for everyone involved.
Could also be missing stuff and wrong about everything. Having a 13 year old at home, wrong about everything is just a standard state of being.
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very often chip loans are made with the understanding that it keeps a good poker game going. that feels kinda meh.
This, too. Like if the "loans" are intended to keep a fish in the game so he'll lose more...