Re: Gabe Thaler = Class Act
"I'll say he's one of the nicer human beings around, near the same level as a Tommy Angelo."
Thank you for that very high compliment!
It so happens I've shared many hours with Gabe in his earlier years, at poker tables and beyond, and I like to think that maybe just maybe I'm somehow responsible for a little bit of his comportment.
Check this hand out, from only a year or two ago. $1000 buy-in NLHE game at Lucky Chances. Gabe had KK. I had QQ. I almost got off my hand before the flop. Gabe was by far the only guy I would have laid it down against at that table. But I didn't find it, and we got allin preflop for $1700 each. (I was the final big raiser.)
We turned our hands up. The flop was K-x-y. Turn: Q. River: Q.
Both Gabe and I did exactly what we would have done no matter who won the hand or why or how. Natta. Good man.
Tommy
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