Jamie Gold - Putting Things in Perspective

[Blizzardbaum]

I agree with all of this. Also, the issue with the top-top thing wasn't that he was talking about the strength of his hand while his cards were live. As you point out, there was only one other player in the hand and he was already all in. The issue with that hand was that conversation (aired by ESPN) immediately following the guy's bustout strongly or explicitly suggested the two players were colluding and had an arrangement to softplay each other. Gold actually said that he wouldn't have called with his hand if he knew he was AHEAD because they were buddies from LA and he didn't want to send the guy home.

[Mr Hobo]

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Google Test.

"Jamie Gold" + "Douche" / ("Douchebag") = 1912.

"Chris Moneymaker" + "Douche" / ("Douchebag") = 676

"Joe Hachem" + "Douche" / ("Douchebag") = 460

"Greg Raymer + "Douche" / ("Douchebag") = 1050
(Note- Almost none of them are talking about Raymer being a douche or douchebag. Matter of fact, 322 of the articles that reference "Greg Raymer" and either "Douche" or "Douchebag" also contain the phrase "Jamie Gold" in them.)

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LMAO

[Howard Treesong]

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As well as the link (so as to be free from accusation): Are you serious?

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"I got a perfect score on the SATs when I was in the 5th grade."

This quote is from the Bluff article. It is precisely why I think JG is a douche. Even if it were true (and I call BS on it, by the way), no reasonable person except perhaps Sklansky would ever say it.

[creamfillin]

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"I got a perfect score on the SATs when I was in the 5th grade."


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what a load

[ravenfan1733]

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As well as the link (so as to be free from accusation): Are you serious?

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"I got a perfect score on the SATs when I was in the 5th grade."

This quote is from the Bluff article. It is precisely why I think JG is a douche. Even if it were true (and I call BS on it, by the way), no reasonable person except perhaps Sklansky would ever say it.

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I have been quoted in the newspaper several times during my work career and I don't think the paper has ever quoted me accurately. So I would like to give him the benefit of the doubt that he may not have been accurately quoted here.

I did read the Bluff article and if it is true that he made deals with the people sitting on the left and right of him, he is pretty unethical and not very smart for bragging about it.

[Howard Treesong]

While I'm sympathetic to your notion of journalistic inaccuracy, Gold's quote here is in the middle of a paragraph long Gold self-tout about what a logic/math stud he is. It's still possible that he was misquoted, but it fits right in to the context of a larger discussion -- suggesting that it is accurate.