Robert Varkonyi = Rodney Dangerfield

[ZBTHorton]

when your among the chip leaders, how is that 33 hand a "desperation" call?

[Daliman]

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when your among the chip leaders, how is that 33 hand a "desperation" call?

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TO be fair, I'm not positive he was a chip leader heading into the hand, but Boyd did have him covered in that hand.

[ttleistdci]

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when your among the chip leaders, how is that 33 hand a "desperation" call?

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TO be fair, I'm not positive he was a chip leader heading into the hand, but Boyd did have him covered in that hand.

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I think it might've been that hand that gave him the chip lead.

[Hauser_III]

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I disagree with a lot of you on Varkonyi.

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What exactly is it that I said that you are disagreeing with? I said

1. He's an amateur (hard to argue with that; he wasn't playing poker for a living at the time he won, so he was by definition an amatuer)

2. who got lucky (and he did get lucky, as does everyone who wins one of these things at some point, and you even admit that)

3. and truly gets no respect (I'll use your words to back this up: [ QUOTE ]
he isn't all that great of a player

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I said nothing about whether he deserves any respect, nothing denigrating his play and nothing singling him out as having been the only person that ever got lucky to win.

[betgo]

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He's an amateur (hard to argue with that; he wasn't playing poker for a living at the time he won, so he was by definition an amatuer)


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On the TV broadcasts of the 2002 WSOP, they kept referring to Varkonyi as an amateur, but when they interviewed him he said he had taken off the last 1 1/2 years from work to play poker.

[Hauser_III]

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when they interviewed him he said he had taken off the last 1 1/2 years from work to play poker

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Really? I honestly didn't remember that.

[betgo]

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when they interviewed him he said he had taken off the last 1 1/2 years from work to play poker



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Really? I honestly didn't remember that.


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They kept repeating that Varkonyi was an amateur to generate interest that an amateur won the WSOP, so you may not have noticed what he actually said.

[JohnG]

Maybe being a 'poker champion' isn't worth much respect. I think varkonyi gets the respect he deserves and the other champions get too much respect.

[betgo]

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Maybe being a 'poker champion' isn't worth much respect.

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You've been watching too much "Tilt."

[riffraff]

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Sheesh, i thought idiocy of this kind had been educated out by now...

Yep, Dutch was right, and Farha was right. Moneymaker sucks, and the pros are mad now.

Among the most misinformed posts I have ever read on here.


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Care to explain why? Besides just calling me an idiot and misinformed?