Jcal, I love you, and I say this with the love and appreciation for you, but you have zero clue what you’re talking about. This is the dumbest take of all time!
We’re playing 2/4K 20k ante, the biggest game everyone in the lineup has ever played beside me and Rick. Only 3 of the 15 players who played are professional gamblers, the rest are business people playing for the fun and excitement. No one is advertising to win in “50k” buy-in games, I don’t and wouldn’t even play a 50k buy-in game! These are real pots and real emotions. I don’t know how you don’t get it, I once saw you about to shit your pants when you got all in for 100k with your QQ against 74s and beg to run it twice! Imagine how you would feel playing 4m pots.
If you asked your two home game buddies @stanleytang @Elamawy before tweeting this nonesone they would tell you how retarded you are! Now I know why @chamath @DavidSacks and @friedberg get so tilted at fired up at you on the podcast sometimes! 😀😂
At this level, in televised deep stack poker, there is so much going on
Ego, performance and staking.
performance creates reputation
Reputation will dictate how people play against you in a thousand other cash games — so this is an investment
These performances are advertising — the players are running marketing campaigns against future whales and upstarts they will take for countless 50k buyins, ground down over decades in home games and high roller suites
But enjoy them… they’re compelling even if constructed
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