No Maroon love

[uDevil]

Congratulations, you just sold a copy of your book.

I'm surprised you don't see many benefits to being an author, particularly if you really think your approach is superior to that of the 2+2 "hive" and can justify it in print.

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And Mason, I would be eternally grateful if you would email me or PM me and tell me why you thought my book "not very good".


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I hope Mason gives us a review, as I value his opinion, though I don't always completely agree. I guess my connection to the hive mind must be haywire.

[El Diablo]

Guys,

I don't see how you can question this guy's results. If there's anyone who knows about wealth creation, it's Matt Maroon. I know people who have built multi-billion dollar companies who only made a couple hundred million. Yet he knows door greeters and cashiers who have made half a billion dollars from intelligent management of their stock options and $7.50/hr salary. Obviously, when it comes to wealth creation, Mr. Maroon is the guy to pay attention to.

[Starfish]

I wouldn't read "half billion dollars or so" literally.

I have read only couple of chapters of Mr. Maroons book yet (I'm reading several poker books currently), but his strategy advice on SH seems very good and I liked the chapter on plugging the leaks too. I'd really like to hear what Mason thinks is flawed in the book.

[Roswell]

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I don't see how you can question this guy's results. If there's anyone who knows about wealth creation, it's Matt Maroon.

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You're trying to be sarcastic, but he has played for a living for several years, moved up in limits, and bought a house. Those are pretty good results.

[TheMaroon]

That isn't the silliness I was referring too, in fact I didn't even know it was you. I was referring to the idiotic crossbooking wager you offered me this year. You wanted to make a wager for what amounted to hundred of thousands on a crossbook over a very short time, despite the fact that we don't know each other, and that I suspect you have little or no money at all.

[TheMaroon]

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For someone with admittedly modest cash game results for most of this year and has admited to playing bad in some major live tourneys, I'm very suprised to hear you make such an outrageous and baseless claim."

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I'm surprised to hear you say that. If you are who I think you are, you're one of the few people on here I've met personally and your play is exactly what I refer to as 2+2 style. I don't know where you got those impressions, they certainly weren't from anything I wrote. With the exception of one recent week I've killed the cash games this year. I'm at over $700/hr total. That's far from modest. If anything I'm running hot.

And I've played one major tournament, in which I went broke with KK to QQ. Bad play, I know.

[palman]

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And contrary to El Diablo's idea, it's certainly not out of jealousy. There are very few people who post here with any regularity that make more in a year of playing poker than I do, on average, and almost all of them play twice as much.

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A great number of the regular posters here in the high limit and mid high limit forum I know personally to be top players in the 30/60-300/600 level. For someone with admittedly modest cash game results for most of this year and has admited to playing bad in some major live tourneys, I'm very suprised to hear you make such an outrageous and baseless claim.

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2+2 and internet messageboards are inherently hostile. People act more aggressively and arrogantly on messageboards than they they do in real life. If you threw 99% of internet messageboard fighting participants in a room together, they'd be docile and get along quite nicely.

As someone who lurks here often enough, I know there are some really good poker minds here. However, as someone who obviously doesn't, and was met with "idiodic hostility" the time he did post here, is it really surprising that matt jokingly pokes fun at 2+2'ers in his blog?

[El Diablo]

Maroon,

Yes, that is correct. You made some claims that were absurd and thus I offered to crossbook against you. As I always do in such situations when there's an outrageously profitable opportunity, I offered to escrow the money w/ a reputable firm and pay all fees, so the not having money part does not apply at all. If you can dig up whatever that wager was, I'll likely happily offer it again, whatever it was (I believe it was something like you making more money 2-tabling than me 4-tabling the same stakes or something like that). And if you'd like to up the stakes, I'll match any amount you're willing to escrow against the wager. I'd also be willing to wager that I've been involved in many individual transactions that are all greater in size than the entire amount of money you've made over your total poker career if you're looking for more wagers.

[TheMaroon]

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Congratulations, you just sold a copy of your book.

I'm surprised you don't see many benefits to being an author, particularly if you really think your approach is superior to that of the 2+2 "hive" and can justify it in print.

I hope Mason gives us a review, as I value his opinion, though I don't always completely agree. I guess my connection to the hive mind must be haywire.

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Ka-ching. Another $1 in my pocket. I should post here more.

There really aren't that many benefits to being an author, or at least a poker one. It's fairly meaningless. Saying "I wrote a poker book" is about as meaningful as saying "I won a WPT event", but with a substantially lower cash prize.

I hope Mason reviews it too, or at least tells me what he found to be the problem with it. Opinions from anyone who knows anything about poker are of interest.

[El Diablo]

Roswell,

Those are indeed good results, but they are not in the same league as many on this forum. Matt does not appear to realize that simple fact.