Rolling Stone article on "The Crew"

[Luv2DriveTT]

Get it... Gank cales it like he sees it. Dutch is a con artist.

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[SossMan]

kinda stupid article

[JFB37]

The articlle (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/7371959)

Only if you are bored.

[lastsamurai]

what happened to the good old days when i was in college all we did was look for girls and Kegs!

[Go_Blue88]

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what happened to the good old days when i was in college all we did was look for girls and Kegs!

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what? thats still what we do...anyone who passes up a chance to get laid to play poker is a jackass...

[whiskeytown]

Photoc and I were talking about this on my ride to the airport.

When I think of "born loser" - I think of Dutch - or Russ as his given name is (hmmmm....that explains a lot - we Russ's are in bad shape for winning)

all the tools necessary to build an empire, (street smarts, high IQ, drive) - and all he can do is dig a hole over and over in all his personal/professional endeavours.

almost made me feel bad for him - but then, I didn't lose money at his site.

RB

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and six kids with killer good looks and IQs north of 150

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Wrong & wrong. Aside from Dutch, the main characters cannot be that bright. That's approaching Jimmy Woods status.


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they're taking money from people. Lots of it.

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Yeah, it's not hard when you steal from your customers.


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the former child prodigy who stitched together this loosely knit crew of savants

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I would stay he's still a child, but whatever. Savants? Bwhaha.. And that's all I'm reading.

[whiskeytown]

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they're taking money from people. Lots of it.


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Yeah, it's not hard when you steal from your customers.

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RB

[2planka]

Gotta hone my rock/paper/scissors skills.

[dawade]

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what? thats still what we do...anyone who passes up a chance to get laid to play poker is a jackass...

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The only place poker comes before pussy is in the dictionary!

[wacki]

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what? thats still what we do...anyone who passes up a chance to get laid to play poker is a jackass...

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The only place poker comes before pussy is in the dictionary!

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I guess that makes me a jackass. Of course I would of prefered a case of beer over screwing her as well. Does that make me an uber jackass?

[MicroBob]

Haven't read the article yet....and am pretty sure I'm not going to...because.......


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and six kids with killer good looks and IQs north of 150

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this part just made me throw-up a little bit in my mouth.

I'm not a great judge of male good-looks....but I suspect they aren't that freaking good looking.



Agreed about the whole 'playing poker before getting laid??' criticisms.
That's why I kind of wonder about all you guys who play on the weekends for these marathon sessions.
When I dealt BJ for a few months we would get some college-age (or slightly older) guys coming in to play for a few hours and have some drinks on the weekend and my thoughts were always along the lines of, "Why the hell are you doing this instead of hanging in some bar/club/house-party/wherever trying to get laid?"

I mean, I guess many might already have GF's or wives or whatever and are just getting away and 'hanging with the boys'.
But that's clearly not the case for every one.

If you're not regularly getting laid and still choose to spend your weekend in a poker-room where your chances of getting laid are virtually nil then you and I are definitely different breeds.


Grinding out $20/hr while chumming it up with Joe-60-year-old and Wayne-drunk-redneck is definitely < scoring with a hot chick (or even a not-so-hot chick).

[AceHigh]

I like how Fischman gets mad for losing a $180 pot at 5/10. Big time poker pro, doesn't like dropping 2 bills?! That should be chump change to a real playa. I can't see Fossilman whining on losing a pot like that.

There's a reason these guys have backers...they need 'em.

FWIW, I used to think Fischman was the one guy in the crew who could play.

[MicroBob]

shouldn't fischman be playing a bit higher than 5/10?
how much did he win with his 2 bracelets last year? I'll assume $200k or so.


shouldn't any player with a half-decent bankroll (at least enough to play 5/10) just be able to let a $180 pot roll off of them?

but i'm really confused as to why Fischman is playing 5/10 in the first place.

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shouldn't fischman be playing a bit higher than 5/10?

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Not if he can't beat 10/20.

Here's the part of the article I was referring to:

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Fischman, Card Player magazine's number-seven-ranked player, sits at his L-shaped living-room desk like a man in a duck blind. Beneath a gray i got the nuts baseball cap and brown wraparound shades, his mouth half-open in a rapture of concentration, he fires off $5, $10 and $20 bets and raises at eight online Hold 'em games he's playing simultaneously. Raised in Vegas (his father was a casino executive), half-townie and half-prodigy, with the peach-fuzz goatee, center part and imperious smile of a math nerd finally having his day, the twenty-four-year-old Fischman has been at it for four hours, shuffling together two stacks of ten orange chips obsessively as he toggles silently between his pricey twenty-seven-inch dual flat-screens.

"Keyser Soze has a [censored]' four!" he suddenly yells. "I'm gonna puke myself."

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But right now, all he has is Keyser Soze, "who has no business whatsoever being in this hand with a [censored]' four." Keyser is in, though, and he does have a four, and it costs Fischman a $187 pot.

And a mouse, which Fischman slams down so hard it breaks. "[censored]," he says, looking guilty. "That's, like, my tenth little mousey this year."

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how much did he win with his 2 bracelets last year? I'll assume $200k or so.

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I assume that money is long gone.

[KingCon]

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I like how Fischman gets mad for losing a $180 pot at 5/10. Big time poker pro, doesn't like dropping 2 bills?! That should be chump change to a real playa. I can't see Fossilman whining on losing a pot like that.

There's a reason these guys have backers...they need 'em.

FWIW, I used to think Fischman was the one guy in the crew who could play.

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I was going to post the same thing, the articile talks about how much money,luxury items and how money doesnt mean that much to them because they have so muc, and then Scott breaks a mouse over a $180 lost pot?

[Daliman]

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I assume that money is long gone.

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And replaced by the ~380K he made in WSOP event 2 2005.