What was the conflict with jamie Gold?
 

I heard he got in some trouble about the WSOP?? anyone know what it was about?

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he threw a steamig cup of coffee into the face of another player on the first day and the guy sued him for half his winnings. i think they just settled out of court for a bit less.

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he threw a steamig cup of coffee into the face of another player on the first day and the guy sued him for half his winnings. i think they just settled out of court for a bit less.

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This sounds like a joke.

I thought he promised a friend half of his winnings, and decided he didn't want to pay up. Of course, there was probably no signed contract giving the guy ownership of half of Jamie's winnings, so I don't know what the deal is. I also heard they settled out of court.

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he threw a steamig cup of coffee into the face of another player on the first day and the guy sued him for half his winnings. i think they just settled out of court for a bit less.

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Close. Gold was supposed to find a waiter dressed in Bodog gear to deliver the coffee, but the loser Gold found just ended up spilling the coffee on the other player. Lawyers got involved, lawsuit, settlement.

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Leyser bet Gold he couldn't drink 2,000 gallons of Massengill. Gold tried but was only able to drink about 1,900 gallons, thus Gold had to pay Leyser half his WSOP ME winnings.

Ever since then Gold has been leaking Massengill from most of his orifices on a regular basis.

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it was hot tea, not coffee.

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Get it right, he spit blueberries at the guy.

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Chan brings his own masseuse to the Series with him and Gold asked to borrow her. This is a little slave girl that Johnny picked up in Taiwan. After Johnny got knocked out, Gold began to monopolize her, but Johnny wanted her for some side games. It got ugly and, long story short, Gold consulted King Solomon and they had to put her down.

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That's correct. According to my high placed source (The Attack of the Show ticker-from G4 tv) Jaime promised his producer friend half of his winnings if he could get him into the WSOP and his friend was able to do just that. Just recently, Jaime finally agreed to give up half his winnings.

I guess his friend wasn't interested in Jaime's previous offer of blueberries for life.

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Gold tried to get a free seat from Bodog at the WSOP for a "friend". Since that didn't work, he wanted to make the guy feel better and promised him to share the winnings from his seat.

After he won, the guy sued him for 6 million.

I don't know the verdict, but I assume the US comedy court went crazy like usual. In Europe, where we have reasonable rulings on such issues, the guy would have gotten half of the expected value from that seat at best. Judging Gold's skill, it amounts to something like $3,75 before taxes.

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I guess his friend wasn't interested in Jaime's previous offer of blueberries for life.

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I lol'd so hard.

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I heard he got bashed for saying 'top top'..

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Sheesh, talk about misinformation!

What actually really happened was that Gold entered into a verbal binding contract for 50% of the winnings, with some schmuck that he could eat two bowls of blueberries at the final table and not puke on Allen Cunningham.

As we all know, he is, after all, allergic to blueberries, and he only got two or three spoonfuls down before yakking all over the previous player of the year.

He lost the bet, but Cunningham sued and ending up winning more than Jamie anyway.

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This sounds like a joke.
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I don't know what the deal is.

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Way to open your fat mouth and make yourself look like a fool.

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Gold tried to get a free seat from Bodog at the WSOP for a "friend". Since that didn't work, he wanted to make the guy feel better and promised him to share the winnings from his seat.

After he won, the guy sued him for 6 million.

I don't know the verdict, but I assume the US comedy court went crazy like usual. In Europe, where we have reasonable rulings on such issues, the guy would have gotten half of the expected value from that seat at best. Judging Gold's skill, it amounts to something like $3,75 before taxes.

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Thanks for ruining the joke, tool.

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haha, is ne of this even serious? too many funny posts

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At least one of them is, up to you to figure out which one is correct....

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I'll beleive the producer one.

If he payed for 50% of the buy in though..no doubt you must give half of it to the payee

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Did they outlaw Google and Wikipedia where you live?

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I heard the conflict involved raspberry Jell-O, a flat-head screwdriver, and a signed copy of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Other than that, I have no details.

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Yes, using Google would have been more accurate but then the thread would have died too fast. Anyway, for those of you who want plain boring facts try this Cardplayer article.

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/article/8249

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There are no correct responses because the whole thing is an Internet rumor. Gold started it to try and trick the IRS so he would only have to pay taxes on 1/2 the winnings.

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This sounds like a joke.
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I don't know what the deal is.

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Way to open your fat mouth and make yourself look like a fool.

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What are you talking about? Those were both correct statements at the time of the post. I read the thread because I wasn't sure what was going on myself, but the first reply seemed a bit made up. In fact, the part you put an ellipsis over seems to be the correct answer according to the CP link in an above post.

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Sorry about that... I was pretty drunk when I posted that.

What I meant was, of course it was a joke.

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Sorry about that... I was pretty drunk when I posted that.

What I meant was, of course it was a joke.

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I think you're both a couple of farking tools who should be banned from the internet and then drawn and quartered.

Oh, and are we still on for tonight?

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Gold tried to get a free seat from Bodog at the WSOP for a "friend". Since that didn't work, he wanted to make the guy feel better and promised him to share the winnings from his seat.

After he won, the guy sued him for 6 million.

I don't know the verdict, but I assume the US comedy court went crazy like usual. In Europe, where we have reasonable rulings on such issues, the guy would have gotten half of the expected value from that seat at best. Judging Gold's skill, it amounts to something like $3,75 before taxes.

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I don't believe any court would base a ruling on expected value after the event played out. If Gold had busted out, would the other guy have a case that Gold owed him $5K? Of course not.

The "expected value" is now $6 million with zero variance.

You have the facts wrong too. Have you listened to the telephone recording?

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You guys think you're funny, but you're not.

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You guys think you're funny, but you're not.

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No, he is.

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Gold tried to get a free seat from Bodog at the WSOP for a "friend". Since that didn't work, he wanted to make the guy feel better and promised him to share the winnings from his seat.

After he won, the guy sued him for 6 million.

I don't know the verdict, but I assume the US comedy court went crazy like usual. In Europe, where we have reasonable rulings on such issues, the guy would have gotten half of the expected value from that seat at best. Judging Gold's skill, it amounts to something like $3,75 before taxes.

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I don't believe any court would base a ruling on expected value after the event played out. If Gold had busted out, would the other guy have a case that Gold owed him $5K? Of course not.

The "expected value" is now $6 million with zero variance.

You have the facts wrong too. Have you listened to the telephone recording?

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hmmm...it's half the WINNINGS, not the BUY-IN. If he busted out early, his winnings would be zero, not 5K. He won 12 million, so half of 12 million is 6 million.

I know math can be tricky

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Gold tried to get a free seat from Bodog at the WSOP for a "friend". Since that didn't work, he wanted to make the guy feel better and promised him to share the winnings from his seat.

After he won, the guy sued him for 6 million.

I don't know the verdict, but I assume the US comedy court went crazy like usual. In Europe, where we have reasonable rulings on such issues, the guy would have gotten half of the expected value from that seat at best. Judging Gold's skill, it amounts to something like $3,75 before taxes.

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I don't believe any court would base a ruling on expected value after the event played out. If Gold had busted out, would the other guy have a case that Gold owed him $5K? Of course not.

The "expected value" is now $6 million with zero variance.

You have the facts wrong too. Have you listened to the telephone recording?

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hmmm...it's half the WINNINGS, not the BUY-IN. If he busted out early, his winnings would be zero, not 5K. He won 12 million, so half of 12 million is 6 million.

I know math can be tricky

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you sir are an idiot.