When I went out with my buddy Marc I was mentioning a hand I played with a pretty high profile guy and Marc said “yeah, I heard he was broke, so that should explain why he was playing so low.” Then he said the funniest thing I have heard in a while, “how the hell do I know that and more importantly why do I care, every year the WSOP just allows you to catch up on the poker gossip”.

There are a couple of things hurting everyone, the UIEGA didn’t help but Full Tilt’s higher limit games have broken more than a few people. Golf is another, it always seems the money with golf flows a certain way. Anyone who plays high stakes golf and poker likely knows what I mean. The nice guys seem to take the biggest losses.

Also the way people loan money in Vegas is unreal, that is probably the biggest reason everyone is broke. I was in town less than a day and I got hit up for about 70k, one of the guys asking I not only don’t know but I don’t know anyone that does know him. He is likely incredibly good for the money but I have been on the wrong end of too many of these in the past. Forget the fact that I didn’t have it.

One of the funniest stories was from a guy that plays in the 4000-8000 game. Apparently he needed a loan and one of the new internet guys had some money to loan but asked for a specific date to be repaid, which miffed the high limit guy. Well, the internet guy decided to ask him to do some promotions for a site he owns and in turn he would let the guy repay the loan over a longer time period, the guy literally got pissed at him. Apparently in Vegas you are entitled to people loaning you money and them asking you for any type of favor related to that money is out of the question. In his defense the guy is reported to have over 5 million out to various debtors himself.

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