[WarDekar]

I corrected myself and said fraud was a bad choice of a word. I should've said, "Varkoni was a worse player than Gold so I'm not sure why Gold gets called an idiot and Varkoni doesn't"

Sorry. And yes he does seem like a very nice guy, as does Moneymaker.

From the pros I've met I think Hachem seems pretty cool, met him at WSOP 6-handed event last year (he was runner up) and PCA this year and seemed pretty down to earth.

As for Gold, that wasn't his backer, and I doubt you've read the entire story. I'm not sure what the MOST recent update is, but it basically boiled down to the other dude (NOT a backer) didn't want to pay ANY income tax on it since he was not a US citizen. Well unfortunately for him, that's not how it works, and if Gold were to just hand that dude $6mil Gold would make next to nothing (if anything) from his score considering he'd have paid taxes on the entire $12mil.

Other dude needs to realize he has to either take half after taxes, or pay the damn taxes on it like he's supposed to in a split-prize situation, otherwise Gold gets screwed over. And as much as the poker world would love to see that, he at least KIND of deserves the money.