Jackpot Jay's Losing Streak Article (Kinda fun to read)

[Jurollo]

Nice losing streak, or rather, long overdue correction.
Jackpot Jay's new Article (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lovinger/050208)

[Dariel86]

That was a nice read =)


- Dariel

[sthief09]

blows my mind how someone doing it for a living would sit down at a 20/40 LHE game with no LHE experience. what a douche

[SomethingClever]

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The site I play on -- Captain Cooks Poker

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Never heard of that one...

I love how he jumps into the 20/40 games both live and online without any limit experience....

I wonder if he uses Pokertracker? Or GT+/Playerview? Oh, wait, he's playing on Captain Cook's Old-Tyme Poker Site... not a Party skin.

I wonder if he knows about rakeback? Bonuses?

You know, if he spent a week reading this site he could probably become a profitable player online.

[phillydilly]

If he was on party, it would be pretty amusing to see how many of us had him on our buddy list after his first week or two

[7ontheline]

Anyone here played that 20/40 game at Foxwoods? Is it as tough as he claims?

Of course, then he goes off and plays 10/20 and 20/40 online with minimal limit experience - online is even tougher, isn't it? I was really excited originally when I read that there would be a series of articles on trying to make it as a poker player - I loved Pos. 5th Str. Jackpot Jay blows huge donkey balls though.

[Bellagibro]

Funny stuff

[nolanfan34]

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blows my mind how someone doing it for a living would sit down at a 20/40 LHE game with no LHE experience. what a douche

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I agree, I was shocked at that as well. How can you possibly pass yourself off as even semi-legitimate if you admit you sit at a 20-40 hold em table with 10 hrs of limit experience?

He's no Dynasty, that's for sure.

[Uglyowl]

"Once, I had two-thirds of the chips at the table -- more than $9,000 of the $15,000 total -- with seven players left. "

And he lost, didn't make the top two.

Guess he doesn't understand tournament play either... what a knob.

[lorinda]

I've seen one or two links to this moron before, I always assumed it was a joke or something.

Is he actually serious?

Lori

[Jurollo]

Lori,
It is very much serious, ESPN stakes him a bankroll and he plays... think they could have invested in some 2+2 books as well /images/graemlins/blush.gif At least reading about him losing is mildy entertaining.
~Justin

[lorinda]

It's more entertaining now I know it's real /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Lori

[RollaJ]

He dont play so GooT

[Yobz]

I want ESPN to stake more players and have them play in online games, that would make me happy /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Sponger15SB]

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Nice losing streak, or rather, long overdue correction.
Jackpot Jay's new Article (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lovinger/050208)

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Wow. -$13,000 in 6 months.

This is just sad.....he has a gambling problem. /images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[Jurollo]

Sponger,
Is that the great early 90's wrestler Kwang in your avatar? Talk about a flashback to my childhood if it is! I just remember him spitting a green mist into the faces of his opponents... but anyway I digress... back to jackpot jay
~Justin

[johnnycakes]

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ESPN stakes him a bankroll and he plays..

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FWIW, he's specifically said in previous articles that ESPN does not stake him. He gets paid to write, like any other ESPN writer. The bankroll (or lack thereof) is his own.

[Jurollo]

I believe he wrote before that he got paid but part of it was for poker and he kept wins or losses, almost 100% sure, although this could have been imagined in a drunken haze.
~Justin

[Russ McGinley]

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Sponger,
Is that the great early 90's wrestler Kwang in your avatar? Talk about a flashback to my childhood if it is! I just remember him spitting a green mist into the faces of his opponents... but anyway I digress... back to jackpot jay
~Justin

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Are you nuts? That's the Macho Man! More specifically, that could be the Macho King. OOOOOOOOOH YEAH DIG IT

[Sponger15SB]

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Sponger,
Is that the great early 90's wrestler Kwang in your avatar? Talk about a flashback to my childhood if it is! I just remember him spitting a green mist into the faces of his opponents... but anyway I digress... back to jackpot jay
~Justin

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Are you nuts? That's the Macho Man! More specifically, that could be the Macho King. OOOOOOOOOH YEAH DIG IT

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Check out my "Macho Man Randy Savage Rap" thread in OOT

[Jurollo]

HAHAHAHA, i need to turn the contrast on my laptop up as well as the brightness!!!! And stop slouching, the lcd became so dark it looked like Kwang haha... wow, I just lost all credibility I had left on these boards.

[Russ McGinley]

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Sponger,
Is that the great early 90's wrestler Kwang in your avatar? Talk about a flashback to my childhood if it is! I just remember him spitting a green mist into the faces of his opponents... but anyway I digress... back to jackpot jay
~Justin

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Are you nuts? That's the Macho Man! More specifically, that could be the Macho King. OOOOOOOOOH YEAH DIG IT

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Check out my "Macho Man Randy Savage Rap" thread in OOT

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I saw it. Good stuff. Macho was always my favorite.

[MicroBob]

"It's more entertaining now I know it's real "

I completely agree.
This stuff is REALLY entertaining.



My comments from the thread about this guy in the WPT forum:


I haven't been reading this guy very much because he's such an idiot. But...this guy ROCKS!!


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since the Friday $20-40 game is perhaps the toughest regularly spread at Foxwoods




I refuse to believe that the Foxwoods Friday 20/40 game is very tough at all.

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despite the fact that I am a fairly conservative player who almost always plays solid starting hands, draws only when the pot odds are right, and does not blindly call down opponents with mediocre hands (like a middle pair)



LOLOL!!! Stop it Jay!! ROTFLMAO!!! Please...Please!!! It hurts!!! LOL!!!! Stop...Stop!!! Har-Har-har


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Since August, I've been in a five-months-long poker freefall, by far the worst run of gambling luck I've experienced in a checkered lifetime of trying to get something for nothing.


Your absolutely right Jay. It's a really terribly run of
gambling LUCK. Losing for 5 months straight has EVERYTHING to do with luck and NOTHING to do with the possibility of being a really bad player.


I'm so glad that so many people think like Jay does.

Thanks Jay.
This was a very amusing article.

[tribefan9]

I (sadly) have read most of his columns since it is the only poker reading I can do at work due to the firewall being pretty brutal on gambling. It has been interesting from the standpoint of getting into the head of a fish who can write coherently. I believe the explanation of his bankroll at the start was that he was using the advance he was getting to write his book about being a poker pro. This makes his losing much worse, as he mentions in this column, since I don't think his book will do well. Anyone want to buy a book called "How To Lose Your Ass At Every Variation of Poker You Attempt"?

[jedi]

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ESPN stakes him a bankroll and he plays..

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FWIW, he's specifically said in previous articles that ESPN does not stake him. He gets paid to write, like any other ESPN writer. The bankroll (or lack thereof) is his own.

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The bankroll is actually the book advance from his publisher. So, while it is his own bankroll, he hasn't dipped into his savings yet.

[Hulk Hogan]

I like his articles and I don't think anyone on here can tell enough about his playing from them to definitively call him a fish. I think you're mainly looking for someone to jump on and insult more than anything else. He's only posted a handful of hands and it is entirely possible that he has had a bad run of luck for 6 months--look at what happened to Doyle (and no, I am not claiming he's in that league). The guy *is* up 14k this year overall, and we don't know much about how he really plays.

Jumping into the 20-40 at FW was a boner though.

[bobbyi]

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I refuse to believe that the Foxwoods Friday 20/40 game is very tough at all.

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That's the same thing I thought. Then I realized that it is pretty ridiculuous for me to expect a guy with 10 hours of limit HE experience to be able to know what tough game looks like.

[Army Eye]

Everyone has touched on the jumping into the $20-40 game with no experience, etc., but this comment of his I have to take issue with:

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I found myself thinking about a scene from "The Professional," one of the all-time great bad movies.

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Take out the word 'bad' and the sentence makes sense. There is nothing bad at all about this great movie.

[Reef]

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Everyone has touched on the jumping into the $20-40 game with no experience, etc., but this comment of his I have to take issue with:

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I found myself thinking about a scene from "The Professional," one of the all-time great bad movies.

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Take out the word 'bad' and the sentence makes sense. There is nothing bad at all about this great movie.

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Jacksh!t jay can burn in hell if he in anyway meant to imply that The Professional was a bad movie

[Moozh]

The Professional kicks ass, but then I don't think he was implying the opposite. Perhaps 'B Movie' would be a better way to phrase it.

[gasoltub]

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The Professional kicks ass, but then I don't think he was implying the opposite. Perhaps 'B Movie' would be a better way to phrase it.

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I agree with the first part. It kicks ass.
But it's definitley not a 'B movie'!

[MicroBob]

How on earth does this qualify as a "B" movie?


a 'B' movie would be something like "Killer Double-D Girls from Mars"....
or some of those 'direct to video' movies (I think I saw an ad for one with Katie Holmes in it) or most made-for-TV movies.
Almost any movie that you might see on Hallmark or Lifetime-Movie Channel will be a 'B' movie...especially if it has Meredith Baxter Birney.


The Professional didn't do that well in the U.S. at the box office...but certainly was a decent flick.
And I believe it did very well in Europe under the title 'Leon'.