Re: My Statement
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The thing I can't understand is why someone who's obviously good enough to win a ton of money playing poker needs to cheat to try and win even more
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We are all wired a little differently. Competition and winning by themselves can drive a person to do strange things. I used to play Madden online all the freaking time. There were ways to manipulate the game that were pretty lame. Money plays, ways to get a sack every time, things that made the game not so realistic. And whenever I wanted to play the better players with the better records, 9 times out of 10 you would see this crap. This was with no money involved. Some people like to win, and will do whatever it takes to do so. I did not find this fun at all, so I stopped playing.
Now, throw money into the equation, and you have another driving force. Winning in poker means making the most money, and this kid looks like he was doing pretty well at that. Perhaps greed took over, or he was running with the wrong crew and thought he had to keep up with the Joneses, or he was just a young kid who made a bad judgment call. It probably was a combination of all these things. When I was 20 I did a whole ****load of stupid things for a lot less then 100G.
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