Great anonymous interview about being a broke player

[Assani Fisher]

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99.99% sure the pro being interviewed is Layne Flack.

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FWIW I played $25/50 with him last year, and I could see how he could go broke...he was drunk, raising 1/2 the pots, playing hands blind, letting John D'Agastino play off his money when he went to the bathroom(I don't think theres anything wrong EV wise with that, but still I think that letting someone else play with your money shows a lack of respect for money), etc. On one hand, Gigabet raised to $250 preflop and then Flack pushed all in blind.

[outcastpoker]

Doyle Brunson

[TyFuji]

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Gather all players who played in the Event
Weed down to the ones that play golf
Weed down to the ones that seem depressed
Weed down to the ones that have children
Weed down to the ones that made some type of deep run in an MTT in the last 1.5 years

Bingo

Wasn't that hard was it?

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Dude you don't even have to do that. The Hendon Mob just added a new feature to their search database.


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Gold.

[josh arieh]

Well, first of all, i do get staked, and get way more than 30%. No i didnt have a deal just for the world series. My wife never left me and my kids are with me 7 days a week. I do love to golf and i love to gamble as well.... hmm, what else did that article say. well anyway, im here to confirm that its not me in the article....

[LonesomeFugitive]

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Carlos Mortensen?

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didn't he get divorced recently? he doesn't have kids though if not mistaken.

[LonesomeFugitive]

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maybe al krux gambled the grocery money one too many times

he had like 20 kids at his wsop final tablr

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al krux is in his 50's (it looks like it) but he does look like a broke live player.

[Dan87]

people keep saying this player is "broke" but having a 300k house to sell is far from being broke, just in the context of high stakes it is. 300k is a lot of money when the average wage per year is 25k where I live.

[Lottery Larry]

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I thought the main point of the interview was telling: that many high profile live players are busto or near busto and have little chance of recovering. There was another post today in a forum with a reply to the WPT and he mentioned that many players there are busto and need to make more than 12/1 on their buy in (Bellagio championship) that they get for coming in 6th.

We've known for a long time that staking is going on but the extent of it among "name" pros that TV has promulgated as being the "best of the best" is interesting.

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I think it's a HUGE jump from anonymous claims in a short interview to where you just arrived, Rott

I give that statement about 1/100 weight, but I have no knowledge of the pro poker world, in order to judge accurately.

I'm just really leery of what seems to be a current 'Net culture of "statement=fact" (in poker and everything else)

[hamsamich]

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Well, first of all, i do get staked, and get way more than 30%. No i didnt have a deal just for the world series. My wife never left me and my kids are with me 7 days a week. I do love to golf and i love to gamble as well.... hmm, what else did that article say. well anyway, im here to confirm that its not me in the article....

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Josh,

I'm happy to hear that you are doing well. I am however, equally UNHAPPY to hear that your wife has not left you.

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Good2cu conned the reporter into thinking he was someone else?