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This just shows that Brian certainly has an ego problem/ personality defect. It doesn't seem that he has a completely sober-minded view of the game. Is he playing poker to maximize EV, or is he performing some kind of ego-masturbation...a big-boy version of "King of the Hill"?


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call it a "defect" if you like, but whatever it is, it's what got him to the top in the first place. Pretty much any wildly successful person seems to have the same motivation, of simply being the best.

"Defect" is subjective, and without the one you're talking about, you'll never make it to the top of anything.

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I don't agree with you. Do you think that Barry Greenstein thinks like this? He's not mixing it with up where an edge isn't absolutely defined. He's in it for the money. Brian seems to be motivated by "being the best."

To each his own. Maybe Brian will rack up the rest of his roll one day and look for other things to conquer. Maybe he'll spiral out of control. Maybe this downswing is just a bump in the road to never-ending poker glory. Who the hell knows?