Jamie Gold: Not As Agently As Previously Claimed?

[Chalkeater 0]

Sorry to make a cut and paste "hater" post as my first, but I've lurked for about a year, and join in the feelings of shame many of you have had towards Gold after reading and hearing all the interviews. Here's an article pretty much laying out what everyone had to know was true - take what he says he's accomplished, divide by 20, the remainder is a positive spin on what may be the truth that you have to take with a grain of salt.Does the poker world really need another Phil Hellmuth-esque personality with 1/5 of the playing ability? Damn this sucks...here's the article:

Jamie Gold: Not As Agenty As Previously Claimed?When newly crowned World Series of Poker champion and former agent Jamie Gold expressed trepidation about the fame that would inevitably accompany a win in poker's biggest tournament-- the kind of fame he compared to that which makes people think that James Gandolfini possesses Christ-like healing powers--perhaps he also feared that people within the entertainment industry might call bullshit on the resume he'd been providing to the press during his run to the championship. The Defamer Special Correspondent on Onetime Agents Who May Have Bluffed About Their Client Lists offers his perspective on some holes in Gold's backstory:I speak for the masses. Please stop Jamie Gold, and his millions of lies. Jamie Gold never represented any of the people he keeps saying he has. Lies, lies, lies. He was an ASSISTANT, and then a very very junior agent at a small agency in the early 1990's who MIGHT have taken messages from some of these people, before forwarding them to their real agent. He is a classic Hollywood liar - other people's successes become his own, and his own failures become somebody else's. He has always had a pathological relationship with the truth...which makes him ideal for poker. Sigh. But have you noted his deranged ramblings about being the basis for the Ari Gold character in Entourage? What would your dancing Ari Emanuel mascot say!? It's really kind of sad, if you think about it; first taste of fame that he says he doesn't want, and he pops off a few corkers that defy credulity.It's really freaking a lot of us out who have known him over the years, to hear these wild, ridiculous claims in the press; it is also crude that the mainstream media has never checked any of this out, and keeps calling him an ex-talent agent, and citing this long list of stars he has supposedly been instrumental in creating. He's an ex-talent agent like Naomi Campbell is an ex-actress - forgettable, failed and dangerous. He hasn't even managed or been an agent in years and years. To be perfectly blunt, the only REAL celebrity Jamie Gold has ever personally signed and represented was Ron Jeremy. That's right. Ron The Hedgehog Jeremy. Not Jeffrey Wright. Not Lucy Liu, not Melora Walters, not Felicity Huffman, none of them. His agency was more like Talent Agency Waiting Room of the Damned. Think last stop on the downward spiral, and those were his clients. As for being James Gandolfini's rep (an actor he somehow managed to steal when he went solo for one disastrous year), that's a joke; that honor REALLY belonged to his ex-partner, who at that time wisely broke up with Jamie, probably right when he started repping porn stars. Which most of his former theatrical clients did, by the way; seems even they, in the ninth circle of agency rep hell, couldn't bear to be associated with Jamie Gold's Van Nuys Talent Hut.And as long as we're on the topic, Hollywood, Interrupted reports that after Gold pays off his tournament backers, he might only be walking away with second-place money after all. Once you get past the millions of dollars he'll clear after taxes, this fame stuff really does kind of suck.

[Golden 2]

Some of this has been done. But anything that continues to expose Gold as the doucebag he is works in my book.

[GWCGWC 83]

Some of this has been done. But anything that continues to expose Gold as the doucebag he is works in my book.

good lord, you didn't really read that did you?

[chrozzo 19]

too many motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!

[SPADES21 0]

too many motherfucking snakes on the motherfucking plane!

best movie of the year by far...i saw it tonight amazing

[Kurt213 0]

According to Jamie, Ari gold from Entourage is based on him

[rivergirl 2]

best movie of the year by far...i saw it tonight amazing

Everytime i see that commercial for it I think......is there really anybody who would pay to see this movie? Apparently there is.Maybe the commercials don't do it any justice, but .......it certainly doesn't look like its winning any academy awards this year...unless a raspberry is an academy award.

[Golden 2]

good lord, you didn't really read that did you?

I skimmed it. Then I shoved a pencil in my eye.

[Courtsdad 0]

Sadly as the OP stated I hate make my first post a hate post but after listening to a replay of an interview with this *** I can't help myself.The people interviewing him are used to having "famous" people call into the show so they have had their share of blowhards but even they were taken back by his arrogance and lack of humility. (I am betting he would have trouble even saying the word)One of the first questions they asked was if he felt lucky. His response went something like this...."No there was no luck involved in my win. I beat the outplayed the top players in the world. They couldnt handle me. I played 80% of the hands, bluffed people on most of them. There was absolutely no luck involved. I was a very successful player at the Hustler casino before the WSOP. I just flat outplayed the field"He name dropped quite a bit and not just the Hustler and obviously BoDog. He did admit the paid his entry even though he really didnt need the prize money since he was very successful.They asked what his current job was and he answered "movie producer" although he had been a very successful agent for such stars as Brandi, Donny Wahlberg, James G. of course (although he did admit it was long before the Sopranos) and some others that I cant recall. Then of course he dropped the name of the movie company we was working for.When asked if he felt like a lottery winner because of his sudden windfall of cash he answered "Absolutely not. It was all skill unlike a lottery where you have to get lucky. I worked hard for 2 weeks 12-15 hours a day. The top players in the world at the end of the tournament told me that i was the best player they had ever watched" Unbeleivable. I guess he wouldnt understand someone being courteous during an interview and complimenting his play. Ask any of those same players and i would venture to say that all (except maybe PH) would admit to getting lucky at the right moments. Any poker player who denies getting lucky at times in a tournament with 8000+ players should be taken out back and beaten over the head until the get some perspective.When the interview was finished and he hung up the phone, one of the interviewers spoke up and just said "Wow what a jackass" An unusual response from these particular folks.I have been fortunate in my life to work around people who are at the top of their chosen professions. From pro athletes (some of whom are the best in the world) to CEO's to pro poker players who have been successful for years and are viewed as the elite. They may be confident, they may be arrogant and they may be well aware how much better they may be than their peers. BUT the vast majority in the back of their minds know that luck and timing can make a major difference in their career.Sadly Gold stated that his dad has ALS. It is even more sad that this pathetic excuse for a human can't even find humility while watching a parent die.On a side note one of the interviewers after discussing the fact that Gold was clueless mentioned that he thought that Gold must think he is Ari Gold character in Entourage. LOL thought that was funny given the comment in the OP's cut and paste.Gold is in for a rude awkening when he finds out the Karma is a *****.Sorry for being long winded but if you want the short version just read the above sentence