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Old 09-02-2007, 02:55 PM
Rampage_Jackson Rampage_Jackson is offline
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Default How does aakkari get his roll?

How does this guy have any money in his bankroll? He is horrible at both cash and tourneys. I'm guessing he won like some world poker tour thing?
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Old 09-02-2007, 02:59 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

He's from a large emerging country which has experienced a prolonged period of strong economic growth, and which is currently underrepresented in the poker show-business. This means he's a highly marketable 'ambassador' for PokerStars.
Meaning that your granny would have a good shot at a sponsorship deal if she was Brazilian.
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:14 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

he puts players on tilt then calls them down with 22 and wins
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:19 PM
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Does Pokerstars fund him though? I find it pretty unlikely he is a winning player. When I booked about 500 hands him at 5/10nl he was playing 33/13. Any disussion I've seen about him in MSNL is about how bad he is.
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:32 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

I heard he came from a poor family and worked his roll up from pennies into hundreds of thousands. But I don't know much about how he plays or how much pokerstars pays him. Were you the person at our 100 rebuy asking him the same question from OP?
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:35 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

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I heard he came from a poor family and worked his roll up from pennies into hundreds of thousands. But I don't know much about how he plays or how much pokerstars pays him. Were you the person at our 100 rebuy asking him the same question from OP?

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Yep. My old account on 2+2 got banned. I guess I'm a little bitter cause he has gotten lucky versus me making some strange plays.
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:37 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

youll probly get banned again
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:38 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

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I heard he came from a poor family and worked his roll up from pennies into hundreds of thousands. But I don't know much about how he plays or how much pokerstars pays him. Were you the person at our 100 rebuy asking him the same question from OP?

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Yep. My old account on 2+2 got banned. I guess I'm a little bitter cause he has gotten lucky versus me making some strange plays.

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So you're not a professional? Where did you get your roll?
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Old 09-02-2007, 03:45 PM
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I heard he came from a poor family and worked his roll up from pennies into hundreds of thousands. But I don't know much about how he plays or how much pokerstars pays him. Were you the person at our 100 rebuy asking him the same question from OP?

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Yep. My old account on 2+2 got banned. I guess I'm a little bitter cause he has gotten lucky versus me making some strange plays.

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So you're not a professional? Where did you get your roll?

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I play semi professionally. Mostly built my roll from grinding going back to $10 sit and gos. It's hard to believe he built up his roll naturally (i.e. no huge tournament win).
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Old 09-02-2007, 04:00 PM
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Default Re: How does aakkari get his roll?

Quoted for amusement from PokerStars' blog article when Akkari joined their crew:

Over the past several years, Akkari's aggressive poker play has turned him into a successful and well-recognized player in his home country and on the international tournament circuit.

The write-up also asserts that he has accrued some $600k in donkament winnings.
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