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People still didn't think JJ was in Vegas?? He's been there for years now.
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Anyone who honestly thinks that this isn't business is out of their mind....it is great marketing for sure...you post an ugly Asian chick meeting with a ghost you are guaranteed to get views....i just hope she doesn't start handing out infractions...with either of her accounts...cuz we all know she has multiple..
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used to think this guy was a jerkoff but he's sharpAnyone who honestly thinks that this isn't business is out of their mind....it is great marketing for sure...you post an ugly Asian chick meeting with a ghost you are guaranteed to get views....i just hope she doesn't start handing out infractions...with either of her accounts...cuz we all know she has multiple..
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You fukos forget what Shari posted about Kick and the multiple accounts?Comment -
Congrats, much happiness to each of you!Comment -
good job, JJ....
had my doubts, and for that I owe you an apology....
shoulda hit f'n kitty glitter tho, dammit..... or triple wheel extreme
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LAY THAT PIPE, BRUTHA, LAY THAT PIPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Comment -
Wonder how much baldy had to pay that hoe...Comment -
escape from Godzilla but she will never escape Coach's fukk stareComment -
Hey Coach are you going to watch Kickles play poker through a keyhole, pal?
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Thanks men!Comment -
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called her 3x already..SHE IS NOT ANSWERING
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Called her another time
make it 4
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Is JJ the first male in history to go for a first date at the slot machines and the pull if off?! Unreal, that's why he's called the coach folks.Comment -
Hey Coach, don't end up like this at the end of the date.......
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JJ, how old is she? She looks in late 30s or early 40s? She looks clean-looking middle-age woman, not the gambling type woman.Comment -
Asians are the biggest degenerate gamblers by far.
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She is 24 years old, I have not heard from her since our meeting and I'm getting very very nervous here I think it over before I ever started she didn't like me
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Scotty Nguyen
Thuận B. "Scotty" Nguyễn is one of the true characters in the poker world, a loud and personable guy with legendary poker skills mixed in with gambling and drug problems, He is a player who has bridged the gap between the old school and the new.
As with so many others, Nguyen built himself up from literally nothing into a millionaire using only his card skills – and just as quickly saw it reduced to ashes when the fame and fortune took their pound of flesh.I was naive, whatever you call it, too confident,” he told Pokerlistings back in 2014. “Thought I could beat everybody, which I did, in poker I beat everybody. Not the casino, they broke me,” Nguyen said. “That was a long time ago when I got introduced to being famous. Fame. They introduce you to all kinds of things, nice limousines, women, drugs, you know baby?”For a young Vietnamese boy from a family of 13 who would get horribly beaten by his father just for touching playing cards at home, the rise to poker stardom was a long and arduous path, involving various work sponsors in the US before he found his way to the bright lights of Vegas.
Poker pitfalls
His very first WSOP would set a trend for blowing his winnings, Nguyen scooping over $150K for his Omaha Hi-Lo title victory – and lost it all on dice between the cashier’s desk and the exit.
“By the time I made it to the front door I was busted. I lost everything at the craps table. I had to borrow $5 to pay the valet guy,” stated Nguyen wistfully. As many others have discovered before and since, the road to poker greatness has a lot of pitfalls along the way, and Nguyen has fallen into most of them.When you’re 21 and they’re like ‘Anything you need,’ I mean god damn. Nice beautiful suite, $3,000 or $4,000 a night, you know what I mean baby? That’s how they got me. You know, I was young, didn’t know better. OH MY GOD. You don’t see that in Vietnam, baby. It’s just, everything was new, and they trapped me.”No regrets
Nguyen has seen plenty of controversy throughout his long and illustrious career; his alcohol-fueled rants at the poker table causing major problems in the past. This is not to mention drug-excesses which cost him more than money and even ‘soft-playing’ accusations which hurt more than the lost millions. Still, his hero-status is well-established among the poker elite, despite the bad times.I never regret,” says Nguyen. “They teach me a valuable lesson growing up. Pay for what you get, pay for what you want, don’t go looking for something for free. If they offer you something for free, take it, but don’t give nothing back, know what I mean?”
Act like a champ, always
While some champions have hit rock-bottom and literally begged their way back into games, Nguyen has never been able to do this he says:Being a world champion, you have to keep your style, classy, no matter what. Know what I mean? If I need help, if you’re a good friend I call you at home. If you say no, that’s it, that’s between me and you and nobody else. That’s why when I walk out here baby, it don’t matter if I have $500 in my pocket, people think I have $5million."Whether he now has $5million or a dime in his pocket, Nguyen has recovered from his worst and darkest days of drink, drugs and gambling – not everyone is so lucky!
Erick Lindgren
When it comes to stories of poker pros going bust, they don’t come much uglier than Erick Lindgren’s sad tale of debts, gambling degeneracy, bankruptcy, and legal actions.
As the ‘All-American face of poker’, Lindgren was one of the most successful poker players of the noughties boom – a total of $10million+ in the bank from tournaments alone, including his 2004 $1million scoop at the PartyPoker Cruise. The future looked sweet indeed for the young poker sensation.
Football and sports
Almost from the start, Lindgren had an addiction to sportsbetting, and it wasn’t a cheap one either. “I was betting very big, $50k to $100k per game,” Lindgren confessed, after fellow pro and sportsbettor Haralabos Voulgaris came out and publicly claimed that Lindgren owed him six figures for years and had failed to pay the debt in full.
“We all knew that (Lindgren) was pretty much a piece of shit when it came to settling gambling debts,” wrote Voulgaris on a 2+2 thread started by Max Weinberg who was also owed money by Lindgren. It sparked off a trail of ‘Lindgren owes me’ confessions from other pros.But as long as the Full Tilt money train was chugging along paying distributions, nobody wanted to speak up,” continued the Greek pro. “Now that it’s pretty clear that FTP is done, so are any prospects of Erick being able to pay anyone back.”Lindgren’s debts across poker and sportsbooks got as high as $10million at one point, and although he claimed to have paid back as many as he could, his name became synonymous with ‘bad debt’ in poker circles.
Seeking help
“I’ve had a gambling problem for a long time and I’ve finally got the opportunity to address it,” said Lindgren of his stay at a rehab clinic back in 2012. But as with all degenerate gamblers, getting away from the tables and the bets and the numbers wasn’t at the top of his list. There is a big win around the corner to save the day… Allegedly.I’d had a really tough year, I lost way too much money in football last year and couldn’t pay some fantasy football bets at the end of the year,” Lindgren said in an interview late in 2012. “I owed people a bunch of money, and it’s something that I’ve been working on for a long time, but I definitely slipped up, made some really bad mistakes and I needed to address that.”“I just want to get back to where my word, when I say something, it means something and I just want to get back to a level of full accountability,” Lindgren told Bluff magazine. But his plan for doing so involved…more gambling!
“That’s the thing, I don’t want to stop my profession. I just want to get better at it,” claimed the one-time golden boy of poker’s big boom.I want to stay in full control, which means not gambling wildly, not going beyond my bankroll and gambling with other people’s money. I want to gamble the right way and do my profession as well as I can.”
The addict’s dream
As every addict knows, you can’t control these things – they always control you. There is no such thing as ‘just one drink, one last hit, one final bet’, but it didn’t seem to be something Lindgren could or would accept.
And the flip side is what kills off the degenerate gamblers’ ability to pay off debts – if poker and betting is all you’ve ever known, all you’re any good at, how can you just stop AND pay off millions to your creditors? It’s a Catch 22, you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Throw in a $2million loan which was mistakenly sent to Lindgren twice by Full Tilt’s Chris Ferguson – and spent twice by the debt-ridden pro – and you have almost nowhere left to turn. Lindgren’s 2012 bankruptcy didn’t solve his problems – and it hasn’t helped to pay back all those he welched on deals with.
Despite the stint in rehab, and help from those left in the game willing to extend a hand, just last year Lindgren was slapped with a lawsuit from PokerStars – who had bought out, or rather inherited, his $2.5million debt from Full Tilt – and Lindgren once again filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
A very sad and cautionary tale that shows no matter how talented a player you are, or how much you win, the lifestyle of the rich and famous can come crashing down if you don’t learn to control your urges.
Chino Rheem
Sometimes – perhaps not often but sometimes – you can feel sorry for the man who once had it all and let it slip through his fingers by a combination of bad luck, bad choices, bad runs, and bad advice.
Other times, however, you feel that some people get exactly what they deserve, and poker low-life Chino Rheem falls into this second category.
Anyone who can get 118 pages of a 2+2 thread devoted to their ‘indiscretions’ entitled Chino Rheem SCUM part two (more scams) – yes, part 2!! – is obviously doing something very wrong in their lives and pissing off too many people. So what’s his story?
Can you spare $40K?
Chino Reem borrows money. Lots of it. And doesn’t repay it. Instead he blows it on the tables, or parties, or drugs or whatever. Not an entirely novel story, but Rheem has a bad habit of dragging others into his lies and deceit, claiming for example that Mike ‘the Grinder’ Mizrachi would vouch for him when the man had offered no such thing.
$40k here, $40k there and lots of sums in between have come Rheem’s way, and yet, whenever he wins big – which for a few years was a regular occurrence as, despite his terrible habits, Rheem is a fine player – he would suddenly not have the money to repay the debts.
Joseph Cheong, who loaned Rheem $40,000, said:I had no idea so few people knew about Chino. First of all, he's a very charming, nice guy. Second of all, if he ever won the lottery for $10 mil, I guarantee he will pay everyone back (as long as you see him before he sees the pits).”It’s not unknown for poker players and other gamblers to act this way, but Rheem has taken it to a whole new level it seems. After being outed by Will Molson (of Canadian beer family fame) on 2+2, and then seeing dozens of other players repeat their own versions of Rheem-scams, he finally admitted to his behaviour, at least partly.The things people say online are not necessarily all true but there is some truth in what they say,” Rheem said. “I’ve done some things I’m not proud of,” he once stated in an interview with PokerListings. “I man up to it. I admit it. I try to live each day and make the best of it.”
Bad role models
Unfortunately for Rheem, his role model is a man we’ve just met – a man who hasn’t quite gotten to grips with what gambling degeneracy is and entails.E-dog [Erick Lindgren] is one of the people that I respect the most in poker,” he said. “He’s a great guy. He came clean and said that he had some issues. He’s just trying to make the best of it. You can’t knock anyone for their past mistakes.”To be so broke that you have to lie and cheat other players out of their own hard-earned money to continue your own degenerate ways is about as low as it gets.
Rumour has it that he has paid off some of the smaller debts now, whether by choice or by force is unclear, but it has been said that even if Rheem wins the Main Event it would barely put a dent in what he really owes out there.
Apparently there is broke and there is ‘Chino Rheem broke’!
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JJ Drill it in the ass - it's about CONTROL
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alright take it easy K-Y
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Well i'll be goddamned! jj is actually in Vegas and actually met up with her! Way to go jj!Comment -
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JJ reminds me of this:
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anyone else NOTICE... JJ wearing same clothes as last FRIDAY
did they meet and make vid Friday ?Comment
