Jerry Yang on Online Poker

[Tyler Durden]

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jesus christ

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lol

[player]

Seeing this guy win the main event made me wanna puke!!!
I cant even understand how a gambler can pray 2 a holy god.

[EL Burro Loco]

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Seeing this guy win the main event made me wanna puke!!!
I cant even understand how a gambler can pray 2 a holy god.

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Um Doyle, unless he's leveling everyone. Also, Daniel N, and it's insanely annoying.

[Mrage]

FOUR TABLES OMGGG SURELY ARMAGEDDON BEFALLS US APSOITUQPORITJASALSKDJG

[secretprankster]

FTP should run a contest in BBV to make Jerry Yang a custom avatar.

[HigherAce]

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from the new Edition of Sports Illustrated

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Yang, who learned to play poker two years ago from books and television, could be a fine ambassador for poker websites-if he ever used them. "I try to be there for my six kid," he says. " I hear horror stories about addiction and about playing four online games at once. ."

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LOL Wasn't he at the final table with RainKahn?

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Online poker is rigged, can get addicted, oh the horror! Guess I'll just play this $10k event...

[RunDownHouse]

I'd love to see what the terms of his endorsement deal are. I'm trying to think of any other big-time endorser slamming his sponsor like this, and just can't do it.

[I.Rowboat]

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I'd love to see what the terms of his endorsement deal are. I'm trying to think of any other big-time endorser slamming his sponsor like this, and just can't do it.

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Seriously. He was all decked out in his FullTilt Poker Sunday best at the final table, and when this is broadcast he will give everyone watching the impression that he plays online on FTP. The FullTilt player rep needs to have a little talk w/Jerry and explain the facts of sponsorship/endorsement to him.

[tautomer]

I'm sure the writer quoted him word for word and didn't take random comments out of context. They never do that type of thing!

[teddyFBI]

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I'd love to see what the terms of his endorsement deal are. I'm trying to think of any other big-time endorser slamming his sponsor like this, and just can't do it.

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Seriously. He was all decked out in his FullTilt Poker Sunday best at the final table, and when this is broadcast he will give everyone watching the impression that he plays online on FTP. The FullTilt player rep needs to have a little talk w/Jerry and explain the facts of sponsorship/endorsement to him.

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When i made a TV final table, there was no talk of 'sponsorship' per se -- they basically just said "hey, here's some money to wear our stuff". I'm sure it's a little different b/c it's the main event so the commercial stakes are higher and what-not, but while FTP may not be happy that he's ambivalent about online poker to say the least, if his "sponsorship" was anything like mine, there was no expectation on the part of the site that he'd speak kindly of them (altho it's a bit of a bonehead move not to, LDO)

p.s. going rate for wearing a site's gear for one of the non-ME prelims that's gonna be on TV is 10K. Heard from a ME final-tablist that it was around 100K for the ME a couple yrs ago, with performance incentives that could take it to 500K+. That's just for wearing the gear, mind u, and i'm sure post-ME sponsorship will pay them a lot more.