Re: What % of major tourney players are backed by sheets/bax?
Camel,
I guess there are different levels of trust. There are very few people in the poker world that I need to explicitly trust, so I don't necessarily figure to uncover who all the unstrustworthy ones are. Still, it doesn't seem like there is a saturation of wicked people lurking around every corner in the poker world, trying to take advatnage of me or others. I think this is very true on the circuit, where people rely on a good reputation as much as anything to get by.
It's a version of Dylan's line, "To live outside the law you must be honest," and I think, for the most part, poker players are just trying to get by and most aren't actively out to jam anyone else up for their own advancement. Certainly, there are people on tour whom I don't trust, some that I like in spite of that and some that I avoid because of it, but I've found that dynamic to exist wherever I go in life.
Could just be that I am a "glass half-full" type of guy, whereas you and Sirio are "glass half-empty" types.
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