Phil is saving for a jet.

[Moonsugar]

Hasn't this @#@$# jumped the shark?

[The4Aces]

i think he was just making a conversation. Not being 100% serious.

[Hold'me]

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i think he was just making a conversation. Not being 100% serious.

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Correction, he was dead serious.

[Malachii]

Ah, I think he's doing a good job with the broadcast. I had no idea he could be so personable away from the table. I'd almost call him charming.

Almost.

[SoftcoreRevolt]

Poker players have always spent money freely, and almost recklessly, how does this have anything to do with jumping the shark? It's just a slight bump up the ladder of spending... but its hardly an example that poker has become too main stream.

[Moonsugar]

Yes, he is very good. I have seen him on some previous WSOP broadcasts and he was good. This broadcast is really good. Not like Lederer, but good.

[Moonsugar]

You think Phil is making enough for a jet from his poker playing?

[speedrissr]

You can buy a 1/8 fractional share of a CitationJet for 500K, plus you don't have to screw with hiring pilots, A&P's, scheduler's etc, just pay a monthly fee and an aircraft is available within 8 hours of a phone call to your frax operator.

Al?

RLR

[TStoneMBD]

i think a better discussion is about what daniel was thinking calling phil out over live radio like that telling him to challenge him to a game. i think that was a low blow to put phil in a situation like that. phil's business model is to advertise himself as the greatest poker player of all time and his rejection of daniels offer shows that he believes daniel is the stronger player, at least by his reasoning.

i dont think that was appropriate of daniel there.

phil tried to respond with how he might only be a small edge making the gamble not worth the variance but then decided to avert that strategy and blow off daniels offer by saying the 500k isnt even enough to buy a jet, as if its a waste of his time. probably the smarter approach.

[KSOT]

Is this radio broadcast online anywhere?

[Howard Treesong]

It sounded to me as though Daniel was messing around good-naturedly. Phil handled it well. Daniel even gave Phil the best of it, by offering Phil a coffee and dinner.

[KSOT]

Man, I can't get the commentary to play. It keeps saying it's "buffering," but once it gets to 100% it starts over again and again. Any ideas?

[dogsballs]

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i think that was a low blow to put phil in a situation like that. phil's business model is to advertise himself as the greatest poker player of all time and his rejection of daniels offer shows that he believes daniel is the stronger player, at least by his reasoning.

i dont think that was appropriate of daniel there.

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How can that be a low blow? If you pimp yourself as the greatest and crave the limelight like PH does, then better be ready to talk on air about who's the greatest and who'll take on who.

[TStoneMBD]

ive come to the conclusion that phil markets himself as the best player in the world but knows he isnt, even though hes very good. i believe the other pros know this to be true and know that hes just trying to make a buck through building a name. they let him do his thing.

daniel knows that phil isnt going to accept the challenge and thats why its a low blow. you dont just challenge someone to a fight over live broadcast knowing they will chicken out as its going to hurt their name.

i dont think daniel meant anything by it, other than that it was a shameless plug to boost his own name but happens to be at the expense of phil's. daniel probably sees it in all good fun but phil probably sees it as damaging his name a little bit.

[InkyWretch]

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You can buy a 1/8 fractional share of a CitationJet for 500K, plus you don't have to screw with hiring pilots, A&P's, scheduler's etc, just pay a monthly fee and an aircraft is available within 8 hours of a phone call to your frax operator.

Al?

RLR

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I don't think it's that big of a stretch to think Ivey or other big players might go that route. Pro golfers have been doing the same thing for years.