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    john gale broke

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    Yeah, I'll do that.  Then I'll go get an avatar of a character on a really bad T.V. show and move to Miami where I can live in my grandma's condo.
    Actually...NO...and Deadwood is a great show...and Swearengen is teh best character on TV besides Tony Soprano...so......in other words....weak effort dude.
    Sorry--your avatar is from the second best show on TV. My bad. Didn't mean to distract you from the idiot box. You can watch your TV now, and then head back to the Indian Casino and play 1/2 with all your old retired friends. Later.
    ??????????I am 31 years old you moron.....and I don't play 1/2....We got $1,000 sng's and $575 MTT's down here...ya know?Our gambling laws are retarded like that.But by all means...suck that fart out your mothers azz.
    Wow. You should be proud. Let's run this down:31 years old. Avatar from a T.V. show. Plays 1/2 at an Indian Casino. Hangs out on an internet message board. Tells people to suck farts out of their mothers azz. I practice law in San Francisco. Good Stuff.

    john gale broke

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    Yeah, I'll do that.  Then I'll go get an avatar of a character on a really bad T.V. show and move to Miami where I can live in my grandma's condo.
    Actually...NO...and Deadwood is a great show...and Swearengen is teh best character on TV besides Tony Soprano...so......in other words....weak effort dude.
    Sorry--your avatar is from the second best show on TV. My bad. Didn't mean to distract you from the idiot box. You can watch your TV now, and then head back to the Indian Casino and play 1/2 with all your old retired friends. Later.

    i made the front page of gutshot.com

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    Great "article".  Can I have my 2 1/2 minutes back?
    why?/ you're just going to waste them. be honest, you have nothing important going on in your life. You suck. Plain and simple, you suck at life.
    Oh oh. Looks like I've angered FCP's two biggest nerds. God forbid. Surprised I could pull you away from licking on the balls of Daniel Negreanu for long enough to read my post. BTW, "you have nothing going on in your life". OK. Anyone who has the time to make 3,000 posts on a message board should really be talking.

    john gale broke

    in General Poker Forum

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    John Gale has more money than god.....Isn't he another retired millionaire that plays poker?
    Uhhhh I think it's a mock thread genius.
    UHHH...I knew that Azzhole....now go suck a fart out the azz of your mother....
    Yeah, I'll do that. Then I'll go get an avatar of a character on a really bad T.V. show and move to Miami where I can live in my grandma's condo.

    an editorial

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    "I have no idea what you are getting at when you say collusion rules should be enforced by large corporations. How exactly would they do this? "So, you would be stoked if you were down to the final table at a WSOOP Event, and lost to El Capitano and "his friends?"These corporations are large enough to make millions of dollars hand over fist. There is a way to stop collusion. BAN THESE PLAYERS.

    an editorial

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    yet another reason poker is not a sport...and in golf the entrants do not pay a fee to play, which is what make poker great. Anyone, good or bad, can sit down if the pony up the cash.
    Anyone can play their way into the U.S. Open.I never said the format for buying into, or playing your way into events, was wrong. Golf has the PGA, so there are no entry fees. This is what poker needs. I just feel rules need to be implemented. It might be impossible to prevent people "backing" each other, be it for buy-ins, or travel expenses. But someone needs to sure as hell try. Come on. Let's see the best players playing to win. If I had $25,000 to drop on a WPT Championship seat, I would drop it. I wouldn't want anyone paying for me. If I didn't have $25,000, I wouldn't play. The best pros don't have anyone spotting them cash to get in tournaments. These are the pros who should be representing the sport.Let me ask you a question: would you rather see a final table with 9 nobody's, or would you rather see a final table with Negreanu, Ivey, Scotty Baby, etc.? I wouldn't watch the PGA Tour if Tiger, Phil, and those guys weren't playing. Let's face it--the majority of us aren't going to be playing golf in the U.S. Open, and we won't be playing the WPT Championship either. Would you like to watch the NBA Finals if anybody who had $100,000 could get a team together and play? NO, you wouldn't. So let's see the best players play.

    an editorial

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    I just posted this on my website, but I thought I'd post it here too. I will probably be flamed unmercifully for it (since that seems to be the specialty around here), but what the hell. Any comments would be appreciated.AN EDITORIALThe Masters, 2005. Tiger Woods and Chris DiMarco are coming down the homestretch at the greatest championship in golf. The two greatest players in the sport on this day are engaged in a battle. This is competition—a test of nerve, skill, and the will to win. This is the essence of sport. The best player should win. This has been the essence of sport since the Maya ball game and the Greek Olympiad through today’s Masters and Tour de France.Unfortunately, poker is not there yet. Imagine, if you will, Tiger Woods missing a two foot putt for par on the 16th hole to give DiMarco the lead in the championship. Instead of grimacing and holding his head in his hands in agony, Woods slaps hands with DiMarco and grins. “Don’t worry about it,” Woods says. “You can win it now, man.” Woods doesn’t care, because Woods paid DiMarco’s entry fee into the tournament. If DiMarco wins, Woods will take half of the prize. Imagine, if you will, Tiger Woods on the 18th green at Augusta, again dueling with Chris DiMarco for the greatest title in golf. Woods is facing a tricky 6 footer for the win. Woods motions to DiMarco. “Hey Chris,” he says. “How about giving me a read on this one?” DiMarco smiles and walks over. He tells Woods to keep the putt just outside the left edge of the cup. Woods thanks him, steps up to the putt, and drains it—winning The Masters. The two have worked together, consorted, if you will, to sink the putt; they will split the prize money equally.This is the state of poker today. I was reminded just how ugly it is as I watched a rerun this evening of the World Poker Tour Championship. It was three handed play, Tuan Le was heads up in a pot against Paul Maxwell. Le won the pot. Then something strange happened. Le tapped knuckles with the other player still left in the tournament, Hassan Habib. Habib seemed genuinely happy that Le had won the pot. Later, after Le had won the tournament, he embraced Habib and said, “We did it man.” Yes, that’s right, “We did it man.” I am not blaming or accusing Hassan Habib or Tuan Le of anything—they didn’t break any rules. That is the point: they didn’t break any rules. A few weeks ago, there was a rather large tournament on PokerStars.com. I believe the total prize pool was in the area of $700,000. The tournament was won by a player named “El Capitano”. I don’t know who “El Capitano” is. In fact, I don’t even know if it really was “El Capitano” who was playing. It could have been “El Capitano”’s friend, or it could have been “El Capitano” playing together with a friend, or it could have been World Champion Poker Player X talking on a cell phone with “El Capitano”, telling him how to play his cards while he sat at the same table, but playing on his own computer. But, again, nobody broke any rules. PokerStars.com maintains that no rules were broken.The question we must ask ourselves as poker fans and players is this: Do we want poker to remain as it is portrayed on “Tilt”, as it was back in the day of the Dead Man’s Hand, and as it was when Amarillo Slim and Doyle Brunson roamed the barren highways of Texas in the 1950’s? Or do we want poker to become what it truly should be: a legitimate competition, a test of skill and ability, and the greatest game that I have ever known?We have the power to make poker legitimate. Now is the time. The sport will be better for everyone when players don’t have pieces of each other, when collusion rules are enforced by large corporations, and when the best player wins. I envision a day when a World Series of Poker Bracelet is as revered in America as a Green Jacket. Today, however, it doesn’t seem like that will ever be the case.

    why is josh arieh deleting blog entries??

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    This test only has the one question, but it's a veryimportant one. By giving an honest answer, you willdiscover where you stand morally.The test features an unlikely, completely fictionalsituation in which you will have to make a decision.Remember that your answer needs to be honest, yetspontaneous.Please scroll down slowly and give due considerationto each line.You are in Louisiana, New Orleans to be specific. There ischaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severeflooding. This is a flood of biblical proportions.You are a photojournalist working for a majornewspaper, and you're caught in the middle of thisepic disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.You're trying to shoot career-making photos.There are houses and people swirling around you...somedisappearing under the water. Nature is unleashing allof its destructive fury.Suddenly you see a man floundering in the water. He isfighting for his life, trying not to be taken downwith the debris. You move closer...somehow the manlooks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's George W. Bush! At the same time you notice thatthe raging waters are about to take himunder...forever.You have two options:You can save the life of G.W.Bush,oryou can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo,documenting the death of one of the world's mostpowerful men.So here's the question, and please give an honestanswer:Would you select high contrast color film, or wouldyou go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

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