Jamie Gold...Worst Possible Winner? - Page 11

ZBTHorton · #**101** 08-11-2006, 05:37 PM

Can someone please explain to me what's wrong with calling a 36 year old man middle aged? I don't understand.

I thought Gold was about 40. People usually live to be 70-80. That's the middle. If 35-40 isn't middle aged, what is?

Victor · #**102** 08-11-2006, 05:40 PM

zbt,

do you really think the early 20s male demographic needs to be further incited to play poker? every frat boy i know already plays poker. hell, look at the average age of 2p2.

ZBTHorton · #**103** 08-11-2006, 05:42 PM

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do you really think the early 20s male demographic needs to be further incited to play poker? every frat boy i know already plays poker. hell, look at the average age of 2p2.

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Their aren't many demographics that I think have alot of marketing potential left. The reason I focus on people being younger is because I see a younger person more likely to play online poker. 2p2 should be a good example, since our avg age on this forum is probbaly in the mid 20's, if not younger.

dogdrool · #**104** 08-11-2006, 05:42 PM

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Can someone please explain to me what's wrong with calling a 36 year old man middle aged? I don't understand.

I thought Gold was about 40. People usually live to be 70-80. That's the middle. If 35-40 isn't middle aged, what is?

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Dude, sorry to to break it to you, but a 36 year old man isn't middle aged for the same reasons a 19 year old isn't a teenager. We call a 19 year old a "young adult" because he can go to war and vote and buy smokes.

Somebody needs to enter their 40s to be middle aged. Somebody in their 40s is probably going to be out of place hitting a nightclub with coworkers on Friday night. Some guy who is 36 can do anything that a 29 year old can do, and nobody will question it. Somebody who is 43 cannot act like somebody who is 36.

That's just how it goes.

RacersEdge · #**105** 08-11-2006, 05:42 PM

I think he will be very good for the game because his table talking will make for great TV when it airs on ESPN in a couple weeks. He's an intriguing character and it will make people see that you don't have to be straight-faced and stoic to win a poker tournament.

Kneel B4 Zod · #**106** 08-11-2006, 05:42 PM

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Can someone please explain to me what's wrong with calling a 36 year old man middle aged? I don't understand.

I thought Gold was about 40. People usually live to be 70-80. That's the middle. If 35-40 isn't middle aged, what is?

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wiki:

Middle age is a non-specific stage in life when one is neither young nor old, but somewhere in between.

This is considered by some to be the ages around, or older than, the middle of the average life span of human beings. In developed societies, people are generally considered to be middle aged between the ages of 40 and 60.

(just sayin...personally I have no problem w/ calling Gold middle aged_

ZBTHorton · #**107** 08-11-2006, 05:43 PM

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Can someone please explain to me what's wrong with calling a 36 year old man middle aged? I don't understand.

I thought Gold was about 40. People usually live to be 70-80. That's the middle. If 35-40 isn't middle aged, what is?

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Dude, sorry to to break it to you, but a 36 year old man isn't middle aged for the same reasons a 19 year old isn't a teenager. We call a 19 year old a "young adult" because he can go to war and vote and buy smokes.

Somebody needs to enter their 40s to be middle aged. Somebody in their 40s is probably going to be out of place hitting a nightclub with coworkers on Friday night. Some guy who is 36 can do anything that a 29 year old can do, and nobody will question it. Somebody who is 43 cannot act like somebody who is 36.

That's just how it goes.

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Yeah, I don't understand how these things differ at all. I guess maybe "middle aged" isn't an insult to me, just an observation. Some people seem to take it as an insult. Which is what I don't get.

ZBTHorton · #**108** 08-11-2006, 05:45 PM

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Can someone please explain to me what's wrong with calling a 36 year old man middle aged? I don't understand.

I thought Gold was about 40. People usually live to be 70-80. That's the middle. If 35-40 isn't middle aged, what is?

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wiki:

Middle age is a non-specific stage in life when one is neither young nor old, but somewhere in between.

This is considered by some to be the ages around, or older than, the middle of the average life span of human beings. In developed societies, people are generally considered to be middle aged between the ages of 40 and 60.

(just sayin...personally I have no problem w/ calling Gold middle aged_

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Ok, so this whole argument is over 4 years. 4 years that I didn't even know existed when I made my OP. (I didn't know his exact age at the time, just made a generalization).

Triumph36 · #**109** 08-11-2006, 05:49 PM

I had this debate earlier and reading this, my mind is kind of changed - I felt Gold wasn't good for poker, he was somewhat of a douche, but he played well at the Final Table from what I saw, using his big chip-stack to drive people off their hands. He is personable, and he has a good (and sad) story. I think poker has been really lucky to have 3 winners like Hachem, Moneymaker, and Raymer - and I don't think Allen Cunningham would've been a good winner either. Of the players at the final table, it almost seems like Gold is the best choice.

archangel · #**110** 08-11-2006, 05:56 PM

i love Jamie Gold as the new WSOP World Champion if only because his win serves as a big "F U" to all the people who think that poker should be the exclusive domain of "internet whiz-kids" and "name poker pros" and that anyone who doesn't fall into either category MUST be a know-nothing "donk".

signed,
a 31yo guy who is apparently rapidly approaching middle-age

EDIT: i should have added a third category exempt from ridicule: "2p2ers, especially 'known' 2p2ers".