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I have read these throughout the website and couldn't find the asnwers so I decided to ask now.

Is Phil Ivey retiring?

Is Gus Hansen broke?

Is Brad Booth broke?

Were players like Daniel Negreanua and Barry Greenstien at one time broke, and how many other "world class" players have gone broke at one point or another?

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Happens to everyone. Time to time, everyone goes bust. You'll be back in the game before you know it.

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Scotty Nguyen claims to have gone broke over 100 times. God knows how many times Mike the Mouth has.

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phil ivery is retiering, my teacher from HS is actualy freinds with ivey...yeah my hs teacher was awsome

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Brad Booth hosted a tournament where I live (Edmonton, Alberta)... He was trying to get a 25-50 PL Dealers Choice game going, with min buyin 5,000... Not enough intrest, so they stuck to 10-25 PL... Doesnt really answer your question I guess... Just some info :P

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Happens to everyone. Time to time, everyone goes bust. You'll be back in the game before you know it.

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Why is Phil Ivey retiring?

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Why is Phil Ivey retiring?

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I don't know, maybe poker bores him/he has a lot of money/wants to play golf??

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Maybe Phil took some huge losses, and he did not want to deal with the variance of poker anymore? I'm sure he has millions, and he is a great name and image for poker which that in and of itself can make him hundreds of thousands. He might also want to avoid becoming like Brunson and spending his whole life with a deck of cards. Who knows? Maybe, the lifestyle and people he is constantly surrounded by really can get to you after a certain amount of time. I doubt Phil is an angel, but he seems to have a LOT more class than almost anyone in the poker community.

Does anyone have any factual reason as to why he would retire? where was this even confirmed? And does this mean he will NEVER play poker again or he will by and large cut his playing time down 95% or something like that?

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Mike the Mouth has only been broke once!!! He's still trying to get square!!!

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Were players like Daniel Negreanua and Barry Greenstien at one time broke, and how many other "world class" players have gone broke at one point or another?

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OP, you're going to get flamed for this and I can't say it's not deserved. Seriously, have you been living in a cave for the past five years? Do you know anything about poker?

The answer to your question is probably "almost all of them." Don't forget a large number of professional poker players are degenerate gamblers. Not all of them, but a lot. Of course they go broke from time to time.

Furthermore, who gives a flying [censored] if Brad Booth is broke today? Even if he is, within a month, he'll probably have more money than I'll ever see. I really don't think we have to worry about Negreanu, Booth, etc. ending up out on the streets.

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around february of 2007 barry greenstein said on an interview in response to a rumor that hanson is broke, that gus is doing very well in the big game, that in fact, barry had borrowed from gus. now a lot can change in 8 months for sure. but, as of 8 months ago gus was flying high.

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i guess the rumors about gus hansen being a shyt player are false then. He must be doing something right to do so well.

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I doubt G Hansen is broke. I watched him 3 table at 100/200 PL Omaha on FT against J Juanda, a couple other pros and some miscellaneous players a few days ago (Tues?). He was up 80K at one table when it broke and was OK at the others. I'm assuming a 40K buy in but some were coming in for as little as 12K. Just some gossip to add I suppose.

Mark

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lots of dumb in this thread

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this is all untrue except for brad booth, I saw him driving kinish's truck the other day he forgot the cardinal rule "always leave yourself outs"