Anyone know who Gaucho staked in the FTP NL 200/400 game?

[LuckyDevil]

Below is a quote from Gaucho's blog. Anyone know who he staked?

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life tilt...
Today I made a truly horrible decision, and was punished for it. A friend IM'ed me, asking for a stake in the 200/400 game that was running on FTP. I looked who was in the game, and I saw the lineup. Aba, who many consider the best NLHE player in the world, was in the game. So was David Benyamine, the biggest winner in PLO but a known loser in NLHE. That said, he is a very dangerous lag. Helge Larsen, Vaga_Lion (a known nit), and Serb (Nenad Medic) rounded out the lineup. I asked my friend if he thought he had an edge, and he replied that he did. I took up his offer, and off he was. The first four pots he played, he was cr shoved AI on the flop, forcing him to fold top pair. The other time he called 97o out of the blinds (Aba raised from sb, he called from BB), floated a gutshot on a two flush board, and bet a board pairing turn card, and was called down by aba by bottom pair. Also, he did not bluff the river when the flush hit, making the one reasonable hand he could have held. Aba's bottom pair was good. It was like watching a train wreck.

The next hand, he double barreled on a ridiculous board. He raised from LP with a4. Vaga (nit) called from blinds. Flop is K35 two clubs. Vaga chk calls. Vaga never has anything worse than a King or a flush draw here. Turn Q, non club. Vaga will never fold a king, two pair, or a flush draw on this board, yet my friend bets, obv. gets cr shoved on, and has to fold A4. The other hand was a cooler.

I could care less about how my friend played, I am utterly livid at my poor decision making. I blew a huge sum of money (40k) on a pipe dream high variance gamble. I work so hard at my medium stakes games that for me to do something stupid like this is basically a slap in the face to all the hard work I have done. I really learned a number of important lessons from this, and I will not make the same mistakes again. I also learned that I am not able to tolerate such risks in investments I can't control.



EDIT: I was so infuriated, after going out to a nice dinner, I decided to take my anger out on my opponents at the poker table. I absolutely demolished everyone I played HU, and won 23k in about an hour. Almost recovered from the idiotic mistake. An expensive lesson, but one which I will learn a lot from in the future.

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