Jamie Gold not that bad

[benfranklin]

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Exactly. Varkoyi is a dork maybe but he's not a prick. There's a huge difference between the two for anyone over the age of fifteen.


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Well, you just lost half your audience here. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Trainwreck]

Visit defamer.com and put Jamie Gold in the search, some fun stuff...

[mikechops]

A lot of his table talk seemed to be aimed at encouraging a 'climb the payout ladder' mentality amongst the shorter stacks. "When you get to the final table, anything can happen." "Only 7 more to go." "Trust me, you should be happy I knocked him out."

He wanted them to avoid showdowns, so he could hoover up all the chips. When you go to the final table and one guy has almost half the chips, anything can happen, but it's highly likely he will win. Kim saw through it, but I can't say others did.

If you look at his table talk as having a purpose, it was still mildly annoying, but nothing I wouldn't do if it gave me a better shot at $12m.

[SEABEAST]

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Jamie Gold is that douchebag that hangs out in everyone's circle of friends. He isn't anyone's best friend or even a really close friend. He's the guy that just tries too hard to be liked and in return, ends up being the bitch of the group. He's the butt of thier jokes when he's not around and even from time-to-time, people talk down to him when they feel the need to belittle someone in the room.

This person isn't a bad guy by any means. He does no real harm to anyone. He just bugs you to your wits end (95% of the time, unintentionally). This person tends to be either somewhat clueless, or gives the appearance to be clueless, as a defense mechanism. Jamie Gold is the "tool", plain and simple. The hugging people when he knocks them out (in 23rd place), like they're close friends. The heartfelt speech, asking so and so why they'd call him there. The "I've got top, top" when he made the AJ call. Please, save the speech. You're not mucking that. It's a toolbox's slowroll is what it is.

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Nice [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[BeL0wMe]

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he rubs me the wrong way.

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He strikes he as an incredibly insecure poker player. He constantly ran to Johnny Chan for reassurance that he had made the right play. "Nobody could've laid down that flush, right?" Stuff like that.

[KingGeorgeC]

I thought all Johnny was supposed to say was, "You're better than me there's nothing I can teach now."

Or something to that effect.

Like Kobe coming out of high schoo.

[KingGeorgeC]

school.

[scorer]

Why is OP going out of his way to defend this guy/something wrong here as Dr lee said.

[Erik W]

From defamer.com

When newly crowned World Series of Poker champion and former agent Jamie Gold expressed trepidation about the fame that would inevitably accompany a win in poker's biggest tournament-- the kind of fame he compared to that which makes people think that James Gandolfini possesses Christ-like healing powers--perhaps he also feared that people within the entertainment industry might call [censored] on the resume he'd been providing to the press during his run to the championship. The Defamer Special Correspondent on Onetime Agents Who May Have Bluffed About Their Client Lists offers his perspective on some holes in Gold's backstory:

I speak for the masses. Please stop Jamie Gold, and his millions of lies.

Jamie Gold never represented any of the people he keeps saying he has. Lies, lies, lies. He was an ASSISTANT, and then a very very junior agent at a small agency in the early 1990's who MIGHT have taken messages from some of these people, before forwarding them to their real agent. He is a classic Hollywood liar - other people's successes become his own, and his own failures become somebody else's. He has always had a pathological relationship with the truth...which makes him ideal for poker. Sigh. But have you noted his deranged ramblings about being the basis for the Ari Gold character in Entourage? What would your dancing Ari Emanuel mascot say!? It's really kind of sad, if you think about it; first taste of fame that he says he doesn't want, and he pops off a few corkers that defy credulity.

It's really freaking a lot of us out who have known him over the years, to hear these wild, ridiculous claims in the press; it is also crude that the mainstream media has never checked any of this out, and keeps calling him an ex-talent agent, and citing this long list of stars he has supposedly been instrumental in creating. He's an ex-talent agent like Naomi Campbell is an ex-actress - forgettable, failed and dangerous. He hasn't even managed or been an agent in years and years. To be perfectly blunt, the only REAL celebrity Jamie Gold has ever personally signed and represented was Ron Jeremy. That's right. Ron The Hedgehog Jeremy. Not Jeffrey Wright. Not Lucy Liu, not Melora Walters, not Felicity Huffman, none of them. His agency was more like Talent Agency Waiting Room of the Damned. Think last stop on the downward spiral, and those were his clients. As for being James Gandolfini's rep (an actor he somehow managed to steal when he went solo for one disastrous year), that's a joke; that honor REALLY belonged to his ex-partner, who at that time wisely broke up with Jamie, probably right when he started repping porn stars. Which most of his former theatrical clients did, by the way; seems even they, in the ninth circle of agency rep hell, couldn't bear to be associated with Jamie Gold's Van Nuys Talent Hut.