Sbrugby's $1.2 million downswing

[LBK]

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How does the guy have a mansion, porshe, fully loaded retirement package so he could retire today and not worry? Didn't he have people buy a stake of him in the HSP episodes? How much has this guy actually won so that he could have all the things he mentioned. Fully loaded retirement at that age has to be at least 50K a year for what..60 years at least? So he's saying he has at least 3 million socked away in retirement plus a house and a porshe and just lost 1.2 mill? Something doesn't add up..

[/ QUOTE ]I'm pretty sure nobody staked him at all for HSP, and he took 750k.


Something doesn't add up? You're not too familiar with aba are you? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Actually, he even posted about how people were buying a % of him in that game. I believe that is correct info. I still find it hard to believe he has 3 mill in the bank when he was playing 5/10 NL less than a year ago.

[Methodz]

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How does the guy have a mansion, porshe, fully loaded retirement package so he could retire today and not worry? Didn't he have people buy a stake of him in the HSP episodes? How much has this guy actually won so that he could have all the things he mentioned. Fully loaded retirement at that age has to be at least 50K a year for what..60 years at least? So he's saying he has at least 3 million socked away in retirement plus a house and a porshe and just lost 1.2 mill? Something doesn't add up..

[/ QUOTE ]I'm pretty sure nobody staked him at all for HSP, and he took 750k.


Something doesn't add up? You're not too familiar with aba are you? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Actually, he even posted about how people were buying a % of him in that game. I believe that is correct info. I still find it hard to believe he has 3 mill in the bank when he was playing 5/10 NL less than a year ago.

[/ QUOTE ]Not too many people are able to move up that fast, and yet still crush 100/200, 200/400, and 300/600....but somehow he did it. I'm not sure if he has 3mil in the bank, but he has alot lol.

Plus, according to him this is his biggest downswing ever, so it's not like he loses 1mil + regularly.

[Whitewash]

I believe Brian said a few months ago that his biggest downswing was ~10 BI up to that point.

[MikalSjekson]

he said 7 buyins.. me think

[Sofisdad]

I admire what Brian has done in poker for the last year or two as much as anyone but does anyone else feel like his blog post was kinda smug? He's always been classy and humble and not mentioning how much money he's made as he's been a winning player to the nth degree. But now that he's on a downswing he starts talking about his mansion and retirement package and how loaded he really is. I'm sure he's made $4 million or so from poker so he's not hurting at all. Yet.

[NLfool]

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I admire what Brian has done in poker for the last year or two as much as anyone but does anyone else feel like his blog post was kinda smug? He's always been classy and humble and not mentioning how much money he's made as he's been a winning player to the nth degree. But now that he's on a downswing he starts talking about his mansion and retirement package and how loaded he really is. I'm sure he's made $4 million or so from poker so he's not hurting at all. Yet.

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you guys are finding every little thing to nit pick and hate on. How can the guy not be pround of where he was few years ago to where he is now, that losing 1.2 isn't breaking him. He's trying and listing the things to be positive on his worst downswing and people . Nothing more

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I admire what Brian has done in poker for the last year or two as much as anyone but does anyone else feel like his blog post was kinda smug? He's always been classy and humble and not mentioning how much money he's made as he's been a winning player to the nth degree. But now that he's on a downswing he starts talking about his mansion and retirement package and how loaded he really is. I'm sure he's made $4 million or so from poker so he's not hurting at all. Yet.

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There's quite a big difference in gloating and being smug and in recognizing the fact that you have it better than 99.99% of the people your age and saying that you can't really complain about losing some net worth since it doesn't change that fact.

I took his comments to be more "hey, I can't really complain right, I mean I still have it really good and I'm thankful for that" rather than "lol I'm rich and therefore better than everyone".

FWIW, I try to reflect on the same fact (on a much smaller scale obviously) any time I go on a big downswing. Ok, I just lost some money playing poker. But it would be silly for me to feel sorry for myself if I stop and take a minute to look at my life as a whole.

[LBK]

The luckbox found variance. All those guys will go broke. They always do.

[luckyjimm]

If they ALL go broke, where does the money go? It leaves in rake, 50 cents at a time? Or it gets spent and taken out of the system? Or it just passes on to the new hot-shot player, with the effect that a few top guys are rich for a while until, if they keep playing, like runners in a relay race they inevitably (and unwittignly) have to pass on to someone else?

I am genuinely interested in how money moves around the poker economy. What's the best thing I could read, has the movement of money around poker players been theorised?



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The luckbox found variance. All those guys will go broke. They always do.

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[blackmagix]

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The luckbox found variance. All those guys will go broke. They always do.

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lol