aba20/sbrugby brian townsend = scumbag?

[snagglepuss]

you decide bbv

Full Tilt Poker Game #1546752624: Table Canfield (6 max) - $200/$400 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:09:42 ET - 2007/01/06
Seat 1: JWiggles ($124,494.50)
Seat 3: sbrugby ($90,681)
sbrugby posts the small blind of $200
JWiggles posts the big blind of $400
The button is in seat #3
*** HOLE CARDS ***
sbrugby raises to $1,200
JWiggles raises to $4,200
sbrugby has 15 seconds left to act
sbrugby raises to $14,400
JWiggles calls $10,200
*** FLOP *** [7h Qc 2c]
JWiggles checks
sbrugby has 15 seconds left to act
sbrugby bets $18,000
JWiggles calls $18,000
*** TURN *** [7h Qc 2c] [9s]
JWiggles bets $64,800
sbrugby: thanks
sbrugby calls $58,281, and is all in
JWiggles shows [Jh Ah]
sbrugby shows [9c 9d]
Uncalled bet of $6,519 returned to JWiggles
*** RIVER *** [7h Qc 2c 9s] [Ks]
JWiggles shows Ace King high
sbrugby shows three of a kind, Nines
sbrugby wins the pot ($181,361.50) with three of a kind, Nines


this struck me as particularly classless. always a chance that there is a lot of background here, and that it was provoked and (in some eyes) deserved. but that is just speculation, and it may have been completely unprovoked.

then again he also may just be an enormous douchebag like many have assumed.

what think you, bbv?

*disclaimer: i am immensely jealous of aba's success, ability, and bankroll.

[luckychewy]

'always a chance that there is a lot of background here, and that it was provoked and (in some eyes) deserved.'

this seems most likely to me. i don't know aba or anything but he always seemed like a nice guy from what he posts on here.

[samsdmf]

Trying to tilt an already crazy player is my guess- this is assholic but I guess you dont play poker to mkae friends

[ryguy2fly]

I think scumbag is a pretty harsh word for this situation. If this constitutes somebody as a scumbag, pretty much every professional athlete on the planet is a scumbag. heat of battle buddy, makes you say things you wouldn't normally say.

[AL5AcE]

I'm sure everyone here has done worse, but we are not under so much scrutiny.

Taking account possiblity of history and heat of battle: scumbag? um, no.

I thought this thread was going to be about aba20 ripping off innocent people or something like that. BBV shouldn't be such babies. This thread is going to make aba (awesome) look bad for something so trivial.

[bottomset]

without being provoked by jwiggles, I think its a big douchebag move

[Rootabager]

Tons of ppl have done [censored] like this to someone they hated. Im sure he just didnt like the guy. Just cuz it was for more money does not make it worse. Who cares about wiggles.

[apefish]

I personally could care less what he says in chats as long as he stops in here from time to time and blesses us with graphs and charts and screenshots that make us cream our shorts.

[demon102]

There prolly is some background here or in the heat of the moment of an intense hu game he just happened to say something thats not to cool. Aba has done a couple of Q & A posts on 2+2 and has even answered some of my small stakes posts on another forum and always came across as a good guy.

[dtan05]

meh, aba has answered to a few of my posts in the past, and he seemed really nice when he did it - so in my limited experience, i don't think this was unprovoked.