Patrick Antonius interview!!

[stinkypete]

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So, Antonius is willing to play a $1M roll with 15 buyins? $70K x 15 = $1,050,000

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ya i'm not too sure what he means... 70k = 20 buyins, or 70k = ~1 buyin, i think its the first. so he'd be playing like NL400 with a million dollar roll... sitll doesn't make any sense

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pretty sure he's referring to $70k per session.

i'm pretty sure he's indirectly saying you need $15 million to sit in the big game (he's made similar comments in the past). so he's probably worth 15-20.

[sokiraJ]

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/4...tonius-one.htm

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/4...tonius-two.htm

[DLizzle]

He's saying he wouldn't play any higher than a game where a -70k session would be the most he would ever lose. I'm not sure about limit but I'm thinking this would be around 50/100nl online, at the most.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

what is his country tax law on gambling income?

[dDiabolical]

Is he really worth ~$15m?

He's won a couple million in tournaments and a couple million online, not sure about live, no idea about his investments, but how would get climb to $15m so quickly?

[luckyjimm]

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He's saying he wouldn't play any higher than a game where a -70k session would be the most he would ever lose. I'm not sure about limit but I'm thinking this would be around 50/100nl online, at the most.

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He is speaking hypothetically about what stakes he would be able to play IF his bankroll was one million. But obviously it is more. Since he can lose $500,000 in a session without too much discomfort, we can presume it's maybe ten million.

[lastas]

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Is he really worth ~$15m?

He's won a couple million in tournaments and a couple million online, not sure about live, no idea about his investments, but how would get climb to $15m so quickly?

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i saw some pokertracker screenshots that spanned from like october 2006 or something. those had him up ~$5M, and thats on FT only.

[lwlee]

It's good to be Patrick.

I don't know, everything has been going so fast for me. It's so funny, from the limits I played; I've never had to go down a limit, nor have I ever lost an amount of money that would force me to step down a bit. I've always gone up, step by step, up to the point where I am now, playing the biggest games there are. I never had super bad streaks which would have forced me to step down.

[SZEppi]

So Antonius is basically saying Ivey, Greenstein, Reese, Benyamine and him are the best in the big game, the rest are relative fish. I'm surprised Brunson, Harman and Forrest didn't get a mention, but perhaps they're not so good allround in all of the games.

[stinkypete]

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what is his country tax law on gambling income?

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i believe his country is now america as far as taxes are concerned