the saddest man in tournament poker

[jonathankaplan]

Tournament poker seems like such a glamorous game. Travel, excitement, television celebrity, chances to win millions of dollars; all of these are a part of poker. The current craze has exaggerated the allure of this, but in some venues, it always existed. Go to a WSOP event and you can feel the energy, the players are pumped, the audience packs in

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[entrager]

Are we allowed to guess who you're talking about? I think I know, as I've heard other stories about the guy I'm thinking of. Particularly about his fondness for craps.

I won't say who it is, since you seem to be trying to keep it secret as well.

Inflation

[walterzuey]

Used to be it was only $200. Times are tough, I guess.

[tom_bayes]

I'm pretty sure I know who you are talking about if the stuff I've read online is at all accurate.

Early one morning I was walking through the Bellagio and saw him standing at a low-level craps table, playing alone. Who likes to play craps by themselves?

Wow. I admit to playing lots of online poker at home by myself and having gone on poker playing trips alone, but I have never played craps on my own. In fact, I've only played craps once in my life, a few years ago during a "bachelor's party weekend" for a friend in Tunica/Memphis. I was semi-drunk and cajoled by friends. Normally, craps tables and slot machines are just obstructions the casino puts in the way of the poker room, as far as I'm concerned.

[fightonusc]

Now, come on. If you're going to make insinuations, just come right out and say it...Doyle Brunson is a deadbeat.

Ermm...what?

[grigoricennui]

Doyle hasn't "co-written a few marginal books", he wrote the bible.

Doyle doesn't always bust out early, he made a WPT final table that aired, what, two weeks ago?

Doyle isn't worried about winning the WSOP Championship. He HAS won it....twice....consecutively.

Doyle isn't broke, he AND his son routinely play in nosebleed high stakes ring games.

The author is not talking about Doyle Brunson.

J.

Re: Ermm...what?

[fightonusc]

Gee, thanks for that. I kind of figured that out myself...Allow me to indtroduce you to an old family friend: Sarcasm.

The guy in question...

[pb9617]

Interestingly enough, the only time I've ever seen him in person was playing low-level craps at Bellagio at about 3 AM. He had about $200 in front of him and lost it in less than ten minutes. He wandered away and showed up at the table an hour later with another $200. He bought in and lost it in twenty minutes this time. He did it twice more before disappearing for the morning.

To that point, I had always heard the storied, but thought them to be jealous rants, or hyperbolic gossip. However, after watching that, I knew the stories were true.

What's mind-boggling to me is that he has been in casinos for what, forty years? He KNOWS damn right well that it's a losing proposition to play craps regularly, yet he still does it. I wonder if he's always done it, or it was something that came about because of his larger successes?

[jonathankaplan]

Hey, the more the merrier!...smile

good luck!