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If you can watch Jerry Yang and not be hugely creeped out by his presence/voice/standing up/"in the name of lord jesus please let me win"/calling Bill Edler his idol/telling Norman Chad (!) it's an honor to meet him then I seriously doubt your judge of character.

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are you sure you mean to use the words "judge of character" ... first of all.. i can not judge a man's character by watching him play poker. that being said, he did nothing to damage my thoughts of his character. i did not witness him cheat or steal. i think you are using the word character inappropriately.

how can you be creeped out by watching a man pray. some people are deeply religious and incorporate god into practically all of their undertakings.. a religious person would surely call upon their god when involved in something as huge to them as an 8million dollar poker tournament.

the table behavior.. where he would sit like a stature then slowly stand up and move chips. perhaps he watched how hellmuth plays and wanted to emulate him. what's the harm in stealing behavior patterns from an 11 time bracelet winner.

telling norman chad it's an honor to meet him? where i was born that's simply a part of good manners. perhaps he would have been cooler if he'd have said "yo, what's up chad-dawg... this is jay yang in the motha fuggin house"... perhaps the pre-pubescent readers of this blog might say the champ is "such a baller.. word"

i really thhink you misunderstand the use of the phrase "judge of character".

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also I was thinking recently about this "you guys are just jealous, would you hate all winners" thing, and it's clearly not true. Hachem is a baller and I think pretty much everyone respects his play a little, and everyone here likes Raymer too. So people here don't like Varkoni, Moneymaker, Gold (I don't mind Gold fwiw), and Yang... maybe b/c they are the worst of the recent champs, and it has nothing to do with jealously.

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you've seen yang play one tournament where he controlled the entire final table .. which he entered in 8th chip position. i would say that based on the little i've seen of yang he more than did the job. perhaps he didn't do it how you say you would have done it.. but he did it nonetheless. raymer went to the final table with a serious chip lead. hachem played a short to mid stack very well then when the time was right he switched gears and made it big. i agree with you that yang is nowhere near as accomplished as raymer or hachem. but on that one day .. he was the best of the 9 that he had to beat. not even close.