Originally Posted by
wantitall4moi
I was telling people Ivey was trash a couple years agi and everyone defended the guy like he was their mother or something. Claiming all the money he made/makes and how he is set for life and makes more money than (fill in the blank here). Guys are greedy pieces of shit. Poker was a cesspool about 10 years ago, these guys running ring games and ganging up on rich stooges who didint know any better.
Then Moneymaker wins on a fluke and every sucker ever born becomes a 'professional' poker player. And in the process makes every tournament that wasnt worth shit a very +even proposition. Only maybe 3 or 4 top guys played in more than one or two world series events, now they all play in every one of them. Mostly due to getting backed by n army of people or through scum sites that rob people.
But poer is basically like the touts. These guys sell their name, their look, their photo whatever they can and get money from it. They basically dont need to play anymore because they get hooked up with the scum that isnt afraid to steal money from people.
If this were the old days a couple of these guys would be dead by now. Lederer for sure. But so many people are crooked they just figure it will all even out in the end.
It is just so awesome though that they have all these shows and all the fake shit they do, like Poker after dark, and high stakes poker. total make believe shit right there. But they sell it as the real thing and bring in enough better known 'rich guys' to make it look plausible. Then they have the commercials and the 'boot camp' nonsense and try and make it out like poker is an 'honorable' endeavor. Complete joke. The fact that so many people got suckered by it shows just how smrt even the so caled professioals are. A lot of big name pros are buried by those guys and the only reason a few of them have gotten money is because lederer and a couple others threw them a bone. But some still havent gotten shit.
I am sure some are looking at legal avenues first, but once those come up empty it might be interesting to see some old school tactics get used.