Poker Players

[ManyBeers]

Listen to episode 65 August 13, 2006. Is it me or does he come off as a bit full of himself?

 

[chuckywang]

Poker always had their egocentric characters, and there is no bigger ego-swelling moment than winning the WSOP. WSOP was lucky in that their previous 3 winners (Moneymaker, Raymer, and Hachem) are all marketable and likeable. But since anybody can enter WSOP, you won't always have that.

 

[Koing]

I've not heard the thing (at work) but he did win and he can be cocky if he wants.

Koing

 

[jaybert]

Originally posted by: Koing
I've not heard the thing (at work) but he did win and he can be cocky if he wants.

Koing

he didnt just win...he dominated the last few days + final table...not saying that he was a better player (he wasnt), but he caught the cards at the right time

 

[sixone]

Confidence is a huge part of winning at poker. And he earned it.

 

[V00DOO]

Yeah, he go really lucky at the final table. If you want season 3 of High Stakes Poker, he got schooled. When he was about to leave all the players begged him not to go since he is such a bad player. I think he dropped over $100K that night.

 

[LordSnailz]

yeah, his type of play suits him better for tournament play vs cash games. I agree though if he won the WSOP he deserves to be cocky

 

[YetioDoom]

2006

 

[PokerGuy]

Gold was not the 2007 WSOP champion, he was the 2006 WSOP main event champion. I'm going to be the 2007 WSOP champion!

From watching the recent winners playing in many tournaments / events, I've concluded that Moneymaker was a fairly lousy player that got lucky in 2003, Raymer is the real deal, Hachem is the real deal, and Gold is a lousy player that just got extremely lucky to get the best cards or suck out when other players had solid hands. He made many mistakes along the way, only to get rewarded each time by landing an unlikely lucky card.

In addition to being a fairly lousy player, Gold is also annoying as heck and full of himself. Nothing wrong with being confident, but he's just an @ss most of the time.

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Gold was not the 2007 WSOP champion, he was the 2006 WSOP main event champion. I'm going to be the 2007 WSOP champion!

From watching the recent winners playing in many tournaments / events, I've concluded that Moneymaker was a fairly lousy player that got lucky in 2003, Raymer is the real deal, Hachem is the real deal, and Gold is a lousy player that just got extremely lucky to get the best cards or suck out when other players had solid hands. He made many mistakes along the way, only to get rewarded each time by landing an unlikely lucky card.

In addition to being a fairly lousy player, Gold is also annoying as heck and full of himself. Nothing wrong with being confident, but he's just an @ss most of the time.

So you agree with me that he was 'full of himself' in that interview. At least i'm not the only one who feels that way

 

[PokerGuy]

Originally posted by: ManyBeers

Originally posted by: PokerGuy
Gold was not the 2007 WSOP champion, he was the 2006 WSOP main event champion. I'm going to be the 2007 WSOP champion!

From watching the recent winners playing in many tournaments / events, I've concluded that Moneymaker was a fairly lousy player that got lucky in 2003, Raymer is the real deal, Hachem is the real deal, and Gold is a lousy player that just got extremely lucky to get the best cards or suck out when other players had solid hands. He made many mistakes along the way, only to get rewarded each time by landing an unlikely lucky card.

In addition to being a fairly lousy player, Gold is also annoying as heck and full of himself. Nothing wrong with being confident, but he's just an @ss most of the time.

So you agree with me that he was 'full of himself' in that interview. At least i'm not the only one who feels that way

He was full of himself in that interview -- he's always full of himself.