Word I heard late last night here in Vegas was that Chris took down the match and the money...but until he verifies that, it remains a rumor.
Scott Lee
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Jayson Shaw's playing 1-hole 7 ahead for 90k
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This made me laugh out loud ... Too funny.
Jean Robert has spent or should I say loss more of 'other peoples' money than anyone I have ever known.
The late Jerry Buss (former owner or the LA Lakers) used to stake him repetitively for a number of years. Jerry just took a shine to him for some reason - I can not remember Jean ever winning anything...
He still plays, occasionally, I can only wonder who's money he is losing these days.
Think he's employed as the poker host at aria and plays bigger games all the time. I don't follow the action much out during wsop, but he was on live stream playing a big nl game with a few pros and a few whales for a couple days (Him and Antonio were doing most of the table talk), but it sounds like he's doing alright for himself these days...
My understanding is that Tall Bobby just won 784k playing in a poker tournament.
azbluemach1
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Wait, 90k sets? As in plural?
azbluemach1
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Wow, I bet there was quite a line waiting for hom at the cage, but good for him!
I guess what he actually said was -he was no longer going to travel around madly to try to qualify to get back to Cardiff-he had attained his goal. It surprised me when he said it. One and done.
The IPT-Everyone came back for that! Free money
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Just saw Chris an hour ago. He did indeed win the match and the money! :thumbup: Way to go Chris! Go buy a house with that money!
Scott Lee
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Scott Lee
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azbluemach1
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Scott, I don't know if you can share any more info, but did he win multiple 90k sets? He said yesterday he won 1st set and was 3 up in 2nd set.
I don't understand how anyone could care about anything else on this board with this kind of action going down. Thats would be about what #1 tournament winner SVB made in all of 2014!
I don't understand how anyone could care about anything else on this board with this kind of action going down. Thats would be about what #1 tournament winner SVB made in all of 2014!
Yet some here wonder why so many of us gamble vs tournament play. Exhibit A. Congrats to the Smooth Criminal.
Chris did win the first set and is ahead four games in set two. Scheduled to start back at 8 AM PST at Good Times. 16-5 is the game!
Because no one hangs on to gambling money. Dippy was beat for something north of 200k in the past. Within 8 days, the winner was dead broke.
Word on the street is this: is it completely true, dunno, but a reliable source.
Chris did win the set with Dippy for 90k, dippy tried to pay in poker chips, it wasn't accepted, someone went to cash the chips to get it paid off, brought it back to dippy. The next day they suppose to play again, yadda had da on the rest, but what I hear is dippy still has all the money and no ones been paid, and the second set was forced played. Then dippy quit after a game yesterday when he needed 1 ball and Chris needed like 16, Chris won, dippy broke down the stick and said I quit, I wasn't paying anyways.
How accurate it is I dunno like I said, but the quitting yesterday did happen, I saw it with my own eyes. We shall see what today brings.
Hopefully they play and whoever wins gets paid.
Chris did win the set with Dippy for 90k, dippy tried to pay in poker chips, it wasn't accepted, someone went to cash the chips to get it paid off, brought it back to dippy. The next day they suppose to play again, yadda had da on the rest, but what I hear is dippy still has all the money and no ones been paid, and the second set was forced played. Then dippy quit after a game yesterday when he needed 1 ball and Chris needed like 16, Chris won, dippy broke down the stick and said I quit, I wasn't paying anyways.
How accurate it is I dunno like I said, but the quitting yesterday did happen, I saw it with my own eyes. We shall see what today brings.
Hopefully they play and whoever wins gets paid.
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Yet some here wonder why so many of us don't gamble and play tournaments instead. Exhibit A.
Call me nuts, but I don't see Chris playing a second set before he's paid for the first set.
Call me nuts, but I don't see Chris playing a second set before he's paid for the first set.
Can anyone explain to me what part of - 'If you don't post then we don't play' - do so many players fail to understand?
Is it reasonable to think a player who plays without the cabbage being posted gets what he bargained for when he gets stiffed by some low life?
As far as I can tell Chris should not have played the first set - especially given the history of his opponent.
azbluemach1
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Maybe Chris can tell us the whole story someday. In the interview from 2011, he said something to the effect that Viffer was one of the only friends he would gamble with in the pool world. May no longer be the case if the above is true.
Refusing to pay an owed gambling debt is exactly the same as stealing.
If someone stole $90,000 or $180,000 from me, and I knew who they were, the torture and revenge scenes from "Law Abiding Citizen" and "I Spit On Your Grave" would pale in comparison to what I'd need to do to them.
If someone stole $90,000 or $180,000 from me, and I knew who they were, the torture and revenge scenes from "Law Abiding Citizen" and "I Spit On Your Grave" would pale in comparison to what I'd need to do to them.
"That's what Dippy do."