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[Martin Aigner]

Anyone ever heard of this 50k-100k heads up matches?

I know there was a 20k-40k a couple of years ago, and from what I´ve read there were several known players playing on one combined bankroll against some rich banker. If i recall it right only Ted Forest played with his own bankroll.

Anyway, there was a lot of talk about this match, but now there seem to have been several 50-100k heads up confrontations and it seems nobody took any notice of it. Can this be right? Or was it just me who didn´t read anything about it.

Furthermore I´m curiouos wheather anybody playing in this match (and winnig) would be happy that it´s published in a magazine (for tax reasons this is). I may be wrong here though, since we don´t have to play taxes on casino winnings in Austria.

BTW, since there were rumors that Howard Lederer was broke I wouldn´t be surprised if that match really took place. Guess there is (almost) nobody in poker business who would have an adequate bankroll for this game (what would it be? Something like 30 million???)

Who else think that 50-100k is sick?

Best regards

Martin Aigner