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

[samsdmf]

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Looks like you prepubescent toadies and nerds will have to find another poker sage to emulate as the second coming of Jesus. Muhahahahahaha.

Well its back to Full Tilt Poker for you children to waste your time making moronic comments in the High Stakes Rooms.

Enjoy! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

DFSPON

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Why do you keep posting in an authoritative manner. Especially after this post:
"Lets look at the three types of Historical Money Management for Poker Players. In the 1970's and 1980's, there were three Poker Prodegies. You had Chip Reese, Bobby Baldwin, and Stu Unger. All were talented and had plenty of gambling heart.

Chip Reese has remained a level headed gambler his entire life. He doesnt gamble for the sake of gambling only. He loves the challenge but will not take the short side of a bet just for the action alone. He may be hustled short term and lose but wont continue. He has been considered one of the all time winners. We dont know what his Bankroll is but it is likely substantial. He is extremely disciplined and doesnt do drugs or have other unhealthy habits.

Then you have Bobby Baldwin. I suspect he was like Chip Reese in his early days but moved on to the business side of things eventually. You can be certain as CEO of the Bellagio, he is extremely wealthy with huge stock options, a vast investment portfolio, and this 1k 2K is well within his means to put it simply. He is also extremely disciplined, doesnt do drugs, and has no unhealthy habits."

It has long been rumored Bobby Baldwin was Steve Wynn's coke dealer. I am sure he wasn't doing any drugs.
http://tinyurl.com/3an2kw

"Bobby Baldwin in 1986

Bobby Baldwin put all his wife's jewelry up as collateral at the T-bird (or Thunderbird) Jewelry Store to a loan shark named Mr. Cohen. Bobby was a degenerate gambler. He lost millions of dollars to his sports bookmakers in Oklahoma.

This was when Bobby was at the Golden Nugget. Bobby never picked up his wife's jewelry and he owed theguy some interest on the loan. Bobby got Cohen a jewelry store concession at the Mirage and Cohen made a bunch of money. Steve Wynn found out about it and kicked Cohen out."

"After the Sheppard's girlfriend leaked the info about the scam out, all the top people knew about it; Steve Wynn, Bobby Baldwin, and Mark Shore. The management team called in the gaming commission. The commission serveilled the pit for 30 days then busted Sheppard and Katy.

After the bust I went to Harry Bruder, a close friend of Bobby Baldwin's, who was a drug dealer from NY. I was buying cocaine from Harry at the time. I said to Harry, "Listen, I need some help. The word is out about the marker scam and I'm afraid I'll get in trouble." I had
a bunch of money saved and didn't want to risk anything.

Harry Bruder set up a meeting in Bobby Baldwin's office. He said knew someone on the Gaming Commission that was crooked. He said if I paid him $50,000, they'd get me out of this. He promised me I'd never go to court, I'd never be bothered for the money and I'd never be barred from any poker room that Steve Winn, Eric Drache or Bobby Baldwin ran. He also gave me written immunity."

Chip Reese was an associate of Tony Spilatro(Joe Pesci in Casino) in the early 80's -that is very balanced and unhealty. Chip was also known to have a serious coke habit in the early 80's.

He would probably laugh in your face if you told him he never did drugs and is completely healthy and balanced.

I couldn't find the info on the web, but I think it might be in the book "Gambling Wizards" where either Chip or one of his early partners talks about their coked up craziness.

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Wow....was that post copy n pasted from another thread, surely thre cant be a good post in a bigbig aba game thread??

[citanul]

people who reply to huuuuuge long posts by quoting them and then adding one line should fall off a tall cliff in to a grease fire.

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Johnny Hughes wrote:
"Let me say a few things about the long, laughable "history" post. It is full of inaccuracies.
He says Steve Wynn, Bobby Baldwin, and Chip Reese were coke freaks and Reese was a mafia associate. Baldwin's rise from road gambler to Wynn's protege led to an early job as President of the Mirage, I think. He is a role model for all young gamblers. His business degree made him more money than being one of the world's greatest poker players of all time.

Steve Wynn is the visonary of Las Vegas building bigger and grander casinos one after another. Now in Maceau. Hardly the track record of a coke freak. Anyone who has seen the movie, Casino, knows all that Spilotro stuff was false.

This stuff is so false as to be a horrible example of libel and slander."

Johhny, you are over extending my post. I am not saying they were coke freaks. I was responding to DFSPON's post were he made it sound like Resse and Baldwin were balanced living monks instead of gamblers in the unbalenced atmosphere of Las Vegas in the early 80's. Please reread DF's post on page 11 and tell me if you think that is accurate.

I am also pretty sure Reeese would admit he was involved with Spilatro. I am not saying it was by completely by Chip's choice. If you want to get into more of this (which I am sure Chip and Doyle wouldn't) why don't you ask Sklansky who the players were that Spilatro was backing in the early 80's in the big mixed games. David posted about this in his cheating threads. I'll bet you David won't say but if you catch him on the right day in Bellagio you could folow his eyes to Bobby's room while his mouth remained shut.

Topset72

[Whitewash]

You'd think from the posts throughout this entire thread that Brian is a huge loser during the Series, yet his posted results still have him well into the black (up more than 500K).

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Topset,

your "source" for all that information is a post by Russ Georgiev, some loudmouth who is widely regarded as a quack and a conspiracy theorist. dont believe everything you read on the internet.

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I DO know that Gold was invited back. Someone who many round here think has zero social skills.

Im also pretty sure Matusow will have been invited back. Now THERE is a guy lacking social skills.

I think sir, what you need, is to go look up the term "social skills".


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Actually both Matusow and, especially, Gold have way above average social skills. Most people who have actually met them find them very nice guys. Gold did some douche moves at the poker table but that does not mean he has any less social skills.

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Please reread DF's post on page 11

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Post hasn't happened yet.

Also, I don't get the Johnny Hughes hate. Johnny Hughes rules.

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Steve Wynn is the visonary of Las Vegas building bigger and grander casinos one after another. Now in Maceau. Hardly the track record of a coke freak. Anyone who has seen the movie, Casino, knows all that Spilotro stuff was false. This stuff is so false as to be a horrible example of libel and slander.

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Highly recommended:

Running Scared: The life and treacherous times of Las Vegas casino king Steve Wynn

(But I'd buy the later edition, with the account of the lengths Wynn went to to try and suppress publication.)

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I don't usually post here, but now I just have to. Don't you people know anything about poker? Go check pocketfives.com and you will clearly see that this "aba" fellow is NOWHERE NEAR the best poker players in the world. And NO, this is not a matter of opinion, the ranking system in pocketfives.com is totally objective. LOL, I don't think this guy is even among the TOP 1000 poker players in the world! Use your brain, morans (if you have one)!

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So the fact that aba started off online as a microstake beginner and worked his way up to being the most feared and successful NLHL player on Full Tilt, isn't objective? That's a pure meritocracy right there- and it's based on a huge number of hands which excludes variance as being the reason. I trust aba's results more than I do some well-known pro who likely gets a lot of his bankroll from endoresements and the like. When you see aba playing 4 tables on FT with 100 grand or so on each table, you know that most of those dollars (excepting the big fish like noatiama) were pried from the hands of a very good poker player.

I'm not saying that makes aba the best player in the world, but his results are much more impressive to me than some guy like Negreanu who gets huge amounts of endorsement money and who could well have been busto long ago if he relied solely on poker playing for his bankroll like aba does.

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i wonder if danny has been going broke now that he has decided to join up with poker stars. he used to have that sweet job at the wynn for a mil a year and left because he had pleanty of money. the wynn wouldnt let him play in the big game at belagio and venitian.......so he left. now he's workin for poker stars. i heard he lost a lot of money in those big games.