[Kevmath]

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Also, I am still unclear as to why Jamie Gold ever promised half of his winnings in the first place.


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Despite his bluster, do you really think he imagined he would make the top 20?
And some reports made it seem like Gold wanted Leyser to play instead, but Bodog said Gold had to play. So then it would have been half of what Leyser won.

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Yeah, I read this, but I don't understand why Gold would have promised his seat away in the first place to someone he hardly knew for services not worth close to 10K. It seems there is much more to the story than has been made public so far.

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Gold smooth-talked bodog into buying his $10k seat if he could get the celebrities there.
Gold then realized he didn't have any celebrities to get and he asked Leyser to help him out.

If Leyser hadn't helped him out there would have been no celebrities (hypothetically) and Gold wouldn't have even been in the WSOP in the first place.


Getting 2 stupid celebrities shouldn't be worth $10k.
But that's what bodog wanted Gold to do.
And gold was too lame to be able to do this on his own (despite the big game I'm sure he talked of himself).
Leyser totally saved him on this one.

Although if I was bodog and I saw the celebrities they had gotten I would have said, "Sorry...we thought you meant REAL celebrities for a $10k seat. These guys are MAYBE worth a $1500 2nd-chance event seat for you. Good luck."

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Did you see the Wild Card Poker series that was on FSN? It wasn't chock full of A-listers.