aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot

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4) WE STILL DONT KNOW WHERE THE F*** FARHAS MONEY COMES FROM ... seiously, someone find this out

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didnt we cover it in an elaborate photoshop thread

[mittman84]

My brother in law was at a neighbor’s house helping him with something when they got on the subject of poker. The neighbor tells him that his cousin is a good player and is on TV sometimes. He then tells him his cousin in Sam Farha. My brother in law asks him where Sam gets his money. The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer, I cannot imagine it is true. Maybe this is what Sam told him, but I doubt is true. Kind of odd that Farha seems to be very rich, yet no one knows what he does....even his cousin. Something illegal? BTW I am almost positive the guy wasn’t lying about Sam being his cousin...he was genuinely surprised that he knew who Sam was (he was foreign, and didn’t even think of Sam as "famous"). He only said his cousin played poker for a living and was on TV sometimes, and only said it was Sam Farha after he asked his name, so it wasn’t like he was dropping names to impress him.

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My brother in law was at a neighbor’s house helping him with something when they got on the subject of poker. The neighbor tells him that his cousin is a good player and is on TV sometimes. He then tells him his cousin in Sam Farha. My brother in law asks him where Sam gets his money. The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer, I cannot imagine it is true. Maybe this is what Sam told him, but I doubt is true. Kind of odd that Farha seems to be very rich, yet no one knows what he does....even his cousin. Something illegal? BTW I am almost positive the guy wasn’t lying about Sam being his cousin...he was genuinely surprised that he knew who Sam was (he was foreign, and didn’t even think of Sam as "famous"). He only said his cousin played poker for a living and was on TV sometimes, and only said it was Sam Farha after he asked his name, so it wasn’t like he was dropping names to impress him.

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Sammy is still living off the residuals of being the Pac Man champ of Beirut in 1980. You people just do not appreciate how well celebdom pays.

[Dids]

"The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer"

Yes, poker players are never staked ever. This does not happen and is totally laughable.

[mittman84]

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"The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer"

Yes, poker players are never staked ever. This does not happen and is totally laughable.

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[RichGangi]

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I heard from someone that Brian made this hand up to hide money from the IRS and actually made several million in the last few days he played in the big NL/PLO game.

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Hmmmmmmmm.....very interesting.

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Too late! [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[AMT]

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"The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer"

Yes, poker players are never staked ever. This does not happen and is totally laughable.

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While its certainly a possibility, it still does not explain how Sam makes his money. The origin of the rumor mill and any questions arising from it is the fact that Sam is a seemingly bad/losing player (in the context of the biggest games, at least), so having stakers wouldn't make much sense if he is never giving them this "good return" on their investments.

[blainestar]

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My brother in law was at a neighbor’s house helping him with something when they got on the subject of poker. The neighbor tells him that his cousin is a good player and is on TV sometimes. He then tells him his cousin in Sam Farha. My brother in law asks him where Sam gets his money. The guy says Sam has "investors" who give him money to play with in exchange for the money back at a good return. This seems like a complete clueless or BS answer, I cannot imagine it is true. Maybe this is what Sam told him, but I doubt is true. Kind of odd that Farha seems to be very rich, yet no one knows what he does....even his cousin. Something illegal? BTW I am almost positive the guy wasn’t lying about Sam being his cousin...he was genuinely surprised that he knew who Sam was (he was foreign, and didn’t even think of Sam as "famous"). He only said his cousin played poker for a living and was on TV sometimes, and only said it was Sam Farha after he asked his name, so it wasn’t like he was dropping names to impress him.

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When I was yucking it at a 5-10 game at the Rio a 50ish year old man who I had been chewing the fat with saw Sammy walk by and proceeded to tell me what a [censored] he was. He then proceeded to tell a little story about sammy. Due to my lack of proper english I will present the story in seperate factoids.

-This was mid 70s - mid 80s down in good ol Texas.
-Sammy was a well known degen who was really bad at poker and lost what at the time was a decent chunk of change to multiple people.
-Sammy was a huge douche who no1 liked.
-Sammy owed like 5K to some guy who ran a smokey cardroom in the back of a bar.
-The owner of the bar had a huge Indian guy by the name of "Chief Running Bear" or something along those lines.
-Chief Running Bear told Sammy it was time to pay up.
-Sammy being Sammy tells him to go jump on a broomstick.
-Chief Running Bear proceeds to pistol whip Sammy.
-Sammy decides to pay up a couple hundred at a time over the course of a few weeks.
-THENNNNNNN Sammy disapears (still oweing $800) and no1 knew where he was or what happened to him.
-About a year later Sammy comes back to town with more money then any1 could imagine and played in all the biggest games in town etc. etc. with no1 ever getting an explanation of where the money came from

So in recap, IDK where sammy got his money from, but in line with what every1 else has said, he seems like a big shade-ball.