congratulations, you loled. no one cares.

ZOMG a degenerate poker player can be described as being a "weird freak"?! LOL. I mean, what next -- we hear that someone accuses academic mathematicians of being a weird lot?

I guess FTP wants to keep it's image pure as represented by those mom-and-pop-apple-pie paragons of normalcy in Lederer, Matusow, and Jesus, etc.

And if this was a public statement that would be 100% true.

It wasn't, and it's ridic to assume that everybody talks like perfect gentlemen in closed quarters.

Jimmy's not hating on HL, and obviously rubbing Howard's face in it means at the poker table. Just like Annette did to Pokerstars when they turned her down.

QFMFT

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=s&n=68936

here is why they refused sponsorship, one donkament 2nd place does not maketh the poker pro

I can confirm that I say horrible things about my clients all the time when speaking internally. I am glad they don;t see what I say.

Gobboboy doesn't have a super-impressive live tournament record yet because he's not old enough to play in US tournaments. Given his skills, I'd be very surprised if he doesn't become a big winner in the US tournament scene once he turns 21.

We had Gobboboy on NWP Radio once, and I didn't know what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised to discover he was actually a cool guy, and quite mature for his age.

Given that Gobbo is male, his looks are less important in terms of marketing. If he's one of the top tournament players (and it appears he's probably going to be), he's definitely an asset from the poker marketing standpoint. Maybe he doesn't have a future in doing Full Tilt commercials, but he definitely has a future in getting them exposure and claiming another succesful pro on their team.

Besides, has anyone looked at the roster of Full Tilt "pros" lately? It seems they add anyone with a pulse these days.

Regarding Howard Lederer: Yes, this was an internal message, but mistakes do happen -- as witnessed here. A similar blunder occurred at the last company I worked at. One of our support guys called a customer "******ed", and that e-mail was accidentally attached to the official reply sent to that customer. Afterwards, a new protocol was developed by the company NEVER to say anything negative about any customers in internal e-mail. Howard could learn a lot from that.

lol who's the athletic and attractive young man on the left?

Dan,

Nobody's saying it's not dumb, just that being frank doesn't make him an [censored]. Obviously if any of my employees said something like that in an email, I'd tell them to knock it off.

Is this place new? I had never heard of it before like a month ago but since have heard like everyone talking about it.

lolz the trippin pat aint true ? would have been so awesome, expelled?


anyway gobbo your ply impressed me at aussie millions, lucky obv in some spots but very good play.


gl and hopefully some other site will sponsor u.

Gobbo, this is awesome, thanks for posting it for most of us to enjoy, knowing some percentage of people were going to be total asses.
I'd say it's a decent brag that you're good enough that Howard was even consulted.
Obviously 99.9% of the people get the immediate "don't call us, we'll call you" reply.

i just listened to super freak all the way through, man thats a good song. thanks yeti.

Can you give us howards email and we'll bomb his email?

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They were probably thinking "yeah, that kids a freak and a weirdo".

Howard always was a philanthropist.

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Plus, what's all this about gobbo saying some VERY negative statements about the 'pros'? I must've missed that part.

The obvious play now is to sue for age discrimination since you have evidence that he might have denied you based on your age.

I think he was overly truthful in some Cardplayer interviews.

he said most live tourney "TV pros" are overrated and not great poker players

Yes, sue FTP in like [censored] Gatalupos or whetever island they reside on based on Age Dicrimination. Perhaps the Supreme Court will take interest.

Secondly, I have loosely said several things about people I work with, many of them based on comic principal without deep layered thought. Like, "this guy is a tool," when at the heart of it, he's a nice and reasonably intelligent person. Fair enough. But, here, "the professor of poker," this man who postures himself as a thoughtful businessman of the poker community, seems to have influenced a decision worth several thousands of dollars because someone is "a freak and a really weird dude." Let's forget about the fact that 95% of successful pokoer players are "freaks" and/or "really weird dudes."

One would think that as someone who takes interest in the poker community's progress, he would do research on Gobbo and realize that the benefits of having him as an FTP member would far outweigh the costs. But, no. Instead, Gobbo is a "freak and a "really weird dude." Nonsense.

That rubs me the wrong way and causes me concern as to several more global, business orientated decisions that FTP and other poker sites make. Multiply that by 100 because FTP let this one leak. FTPDoug - care to comment?