About Jamie Gold...

[MrFizzbin]

So whats the OP's opinion of Mike The Mouth going over and talking to Mark Seif and Phil Gordon during the 2005 event.... Or other pro players talking to their Peeps @ WPT events... as long as it's not during a hand, and not disturbing other players then fine. The card flashing is crap in a tournament and someone should have called Jamie on it and gotten him a warning. That would have put an end to it, because he wouldn't have risked his stack to a penalty.

As far as the yapping goes, not a fan, but hey everybody has their style... I do think that other players played too passively and gave Jamie too much credit for having hands, he went all in or put others all in a lot. Guess we'll find out just how good or bad everybody was in about 40 days when the event is on TV. Congrats Jamie enjoy it....

[Lawman007]

Personally, I think Jamie Gold is a world class jerk. However, he outplayed every single person at that final table, including and especially Alan Cunningham. The way they let him run over that table, they should have just given him the bracelet and the 12 million at the beginning, then played their weak-tight game among themselves for second place money.

We've all seen players with monster chip leads self-destruct at the final table. I kept waiting (and hoping) for Gold to do that, but he never did. He played almost perfect big stack poker.

Did Gold get hit by the deck? Of course. Was he very lucky? Yes. Did he earn that bracelet last night? You're damn right he did.

If he just weren't a rich, arrogant, obnoxious, Hollywood agent, I would feel a lot better about him winning.