Poker pro w/ most business savvy

[Voltron87]

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This is specifically regarding people who are primarily known for being poker professionals.

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If you include Phil Gordon in that category (which I acknowledge is highly debatable), I think he would give Phil H. and Daniel a run for their money just viz a viz poker enterprises. If you look at his past busness success, I suspect that he has more overall business savvy than either Hellmuth or Negreanu.

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I think diablo is referring to "guys who start out playing poker for a living and have business successes" not people who are businessmen and semi rich first. but i could be wrong.

[Schneids]

DUSTIN WOOLF, JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE

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DUSTIN WOOLF, JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE

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Imo he will go broke playing 500/1000 vs lagerborg before he starts any business.

[colgin]

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This is specifically regarding people who are primarily known for being poker professionals.

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If you include Phil Gordon in that category (which I acknowledge is highly debatable), I think he would give Phil H. and Daniel a run for their money just viz a viz poker enterprises. If you look at his past busness success, I suspect that he has more overall business savvy than either Hellmuth or Negreanu.

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I think diablo is referring to "guys who start out playing poker for a living and have business successes" not people who are businessmen and semi rich first. but i could be wrong.

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That is probably what he meant (which is why I noted that includign Phil G. is debtable). But given his public persona as a poker star, I think he is much more in the category of Phil H. and Daniel N. than someone like Jerry Buss, for example.

I'll let Diablo make a ruling on this one.

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Schneids: I do not know if you are joking or not, but it would not surprise me one bit given what he's already got rolling w/ nwp.com.

colgin: I'm not sure whether I'd include Phil Gordon or not since he already had money, but he's clearly done an impressive job at crafting himself into a poker celebrity.

[astroglide]

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DUSTIN WOOLF, JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE

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awesome

[Schneids]

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Schneids: I do not know if you are joking or not, but it would not surprise me one bit given what he's already got rolling w/ nwp.com.

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Both. It was comedic and truthful.
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colgin: I'm not sure whether I'd include Phil Gordon or not since he already had money, but he's clearly done an impressive job at crafting himself into a poker celebrity.

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In Gordon's mind he's already the biggest poker celebrity out there.

[callydrias]

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[Noo Yawk]

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I think it's a tossup between Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth, with Daniel having the slight edge.

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I actually give Phil the edge here. he's promoted himself as the greatest player ever, and has gone along with the poker brat image without ever breking character. He's done this for several years prior to the poker boom, and was way ahead of everyone when it hit. Daniel's done a great job, and is a tireless worker, but Phil did it before the exposure was easy to get.

[Randy_Refeld]

I am going to throw Roy Cooke and Linda Johnson out there (although I don't know if Linda Johnson ever lived off of poker income alone).