Jamie Gold not that bad

[A_C_Slater]

I predict that in at least 3 years Jamie Gold will eclipse Hellmuth in terms of infamy and poker media obsession.

He will be very good for the future of poker.

Any publicity is good publicity, Gold knows this better than anyone.

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There was no way he would have laid down the best hand and openly admit it. Gold is obviously smarter than people think. If someone colludes to they openly say so with the TV cameras rolling?

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I haven't seen any of the main event on TV, but having heard his now "famous" radio interview, I wouldn't put anything past him in terms of cluelessness. It's definitely 'within the realm of possibility' that someone could get far into the main event and not understand much about collusion and ethics. Again, I haven't seen any of the tv stuff.

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And his chatter did a great job of getting mahatma to lay down those 7's when he knew he was good.

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So far this is the one time i've seen Gold outplay somebody. He got somebody to lay down 77 as the preflop raiser when the board was A-high. At all other times he basically held the nuts. He also got his money in bad a couple of times. I guess i'm still waiting for "...by far the greatest display of poker talent in the history of poker."

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he rubs me the wrong way.

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[primetime32]

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And his chatter did a great job of getting mahatma to lay down those 7's when he knew he was good.

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So far this is the one time i've seen Gold outplay somebody. He got somebody to lay down 77 as the preflop raiser when the board was A-high. At all other times he basically held the nuts. He also got his money in bad a couple of times. I guess i'm still waiting for "...by far the greatest display of poker talent in the history of poker."

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there is no question he was a luckbox and that is 90 percent of the reason why he won. But i don't think he lucked his way passed all of these players.

[UATrewqaz]

I love Raymer and Hachem and hate Gold, there goes your whole jealousy theory.

Most of the criticism of Gold does not stem from his play, but rather his very obnoxious and borderline unethical table talk.

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there is no question he was a luckbox and that is 90 percent of the reason why he won. But i don't think he lucked his way passed all of these players.


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I'm sure he did some things right. Bad players make good plays from time to time. Obviously his style is also good for acumulating chips which is important in tournaments. Everybody i've talked to that has played with him in a cash game has told me he is a donator. It's possible they're wrong because he has an atypical and high variance style but i doubt it.

[THAY3R]

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And his chatter did a great job of getting mahatma to lay down those 7's when he knew he was good.

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So far this is the one time i've seen Gold outplay somebody. He got somebody to lay down 77 as the preflop raiser when the board was A-high. At all other times he basically held the nuts. He also got his money in bad a couple of times. I guess i'm still waiting for "...by far the greatest display of poker talent in the history of poker."

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If you watched the Final Table, he completely dominated it with not many showdowns.

I can't wait to see what everyone had.

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If you watched the Final Table, he completely dominated it with not many showdowns.

I can't wait to see what everyone had.

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Yea, i'm interested too. I guess my prediction is that Gold catches some cards, makes some plays, and people play bad against him due to the pressure.

[dStrangefate]

Exactly. Varkoyi is a dork maybe but he's not a prick. There's a huge difference between the two for anyone over the age of fifteen.

Plus I wouldn't worry about Varkonyi cheating me or shooting angles if we happened to be the same tables. Gold, however...