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Just got through reading the story of Archie Karas as told by Tom Sexton in an 8 part feature..Its a very interesting read if you dont know the story.http://www.pokernews.com/news/sextons-corner/
i sat next to this guy during the series.......he doesnt care about money at all it so sick, he could be up 5 mill one day and leave the casino broke and not give 2 shitssounded like the guy gambled on anything...was a pretty interesting night to say the leastif i can remember any of the stories ill post them
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i sat next to this guy during the series.......he doesnt care about money at all it so sick, he could be up 5 mill one day and leave the casino broke and not give 2 shitssounded like the guy gambled on anything...was a pretty interesting night to say the leastif i can remember any of the stories ill post them
yes , the guy was sick...made $40 million and lost it all...
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Replacing the word greatest with dumbest,might be more accurate
Don't think this is fair. You probably think he's dumb for having lost the 40 million but he would have never gotten that 40 million if he didn't gamble the way he did. Thx for the post OP, it was a good read.
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I wonder who Mr. X in part 2 was...
I work with Chip Resses X girlfriend. When she came into work I asked her about Archie the Greek and If she had any stories about him. The first thing she said was that he started his insane run by playing pool against Bobby Baldwin.
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I work with Chip Resses X girlfriend. When she came into work I asked her about Archie the Greek and If she had any stories about him. The first thing she said was that he started his insane run by playing pool against Bobby Baldwin.
That would make a lot of sense.Cool tidbit.
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Wow, Very, very good read. I really like to read stories like this and this truly is one-of-a-kind. Props to Tom Sexton on the article and thanks alot for the link OP.I can't wait till next monday for part 9.Jan

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I have been reading all of the articles in this series on Karas and the man was insane. I guess TJ Cloutier isn't the biggest degen dice thrower of all time!!As good as the story's are...Sexton's writing couldn't humanly be worse. My 6 year old can put together better sentances than he can. Also...how many times can a human being start a quote from Karas with...."Tommy I tell ya""Tom lemme tell ya bout""Hey Tommy did I "...FFS we know you wrote the dang article TOMMY SEXTON...we don't need u to insert your own name into every other quote!!!

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I have been reading all of the articles in this series on Karas and the man was insane. I guess TJ Cloutier isn't the biggest degen dice thrower of all time!!As good as the story's are...Sexton's writing couldn't humanly be worse. My 6 year old can put together better sentances than he can. Also...how many times can a human being start a quote from Karas with...."Tommy I tell ya""Tom lemme tell ya bout""Hey Tommy did I "...FFS we know you wrote the dang article TOMMY SEXTON...we don't need u to insert your own name into every other quote!!!
If it's a quote he needs to directly quote what the person is saying... For effect, having his name in there, and the manner in which it is used is not for any self-serving purpose, but to give the reader a better grasp on what it's like to actually have him telling a story to you... When you read it, you almost put yourself in the shoes of the person the story is being told to, and in your mind you are intended to become "Tom" for that moment...i think any critical comments on the writing are irrelevant to how great the story is...So in summary go **** yourself and your self serving post on how self serving the article is....
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If it's a quote he needs to directly quote what the person is saying... For effect, having his name in there, and the manner in which it is used is not for any self-serving purpose, but to give the reader a better grasp on what it's like to actually have him telling a story to you... When you read it, you almost put yourself in the shoes of the person the story is being told to, and in your mind you are intended to become "Tom" for that moment...i think any critical comments on the writing are irrelevant to how great the story is...So in summary go **** yourself and your self serving post on how self serving the article is....
Sorry Tommy...didn't mean to offend....
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this is definetely a potential for a huge hollywood movie...Who would play Archie??Al Pacino, James Gandolfinior one of the younger starsMatt Damon, Phillip Seymour Hoffman

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