Poker pro w/ most business savvy

[astroglide]

what big endorsements did boyd have?

[TStoneMBD]

namely pokerspot, but i think he had some other small time endorsements like clothes and such.

[KaneKungFu123]

How much does phil hellmuth make from endorsements and his name?

[astroglide]

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namely pokerspot, but i think he had some other small time endorsements like clothes and such.

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pokerspot was his own company, and it crashed and burned well before he appeared on espn. all press on it has been gigantically negative because it resulted in many players that were owed thousands of dollars.

he has blogged about playing like 1/2 holdem in recent times and went to ebay to try to drum up pieces of himself so that he could afford to play in tournaments.

[TStoneMBD]

thanks for the history lesson but im aware of all this.

dutch boyd claimed to have not been the owner of pokerspot. iirc he said that the actual owner was the one to walk off with all the money and dutch boyd was stuck with the liability and hate.

there was a period in time in which dutch boyd was very famous in the poker world and had an excellent name to market. he did a very good job of self-promotion at the time.

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dont forget about dutch boyd. his name collapsed because he dropped off the poker planet but he had a real big run at making a huge name for himself with insane amounts of endorsements and such.


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i also appreciate your explanation of how dutch boyd is currently doing in life. notice in my quote that i never said dutch boyd had endorsements or that he even had a big name. i said he made a run for making a huge name for himself implying that if he succeeded he would have had endorsements. i also mentioned that his name collapsed because he dropped off the poker planet.

[astroglide]

you said pokerspot was a 'big endorsement' when i asked for an example. obviously endorsement ops only came up for him after espn. this doesn't indicate that you understood pokerspot was dead by then.

you can get upset about this or whatever, but i had every reason to give you a 'history lesson' based on what you presented.

[TStoneMBD]

hi astroglide. im just replying back to see if i can get the last word in on something with you. lets see if it works.

[SoSo]

Phil Hellmuth is the McDonalds of poker.

[kenberman]

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Phil Hellmuth is the McDonalds of poker.

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I'm not sure how that analogy works.

But, McDonalds has been, and is, a very succesful business.

[TStoneMBD]

crappy product/charade, excellent marketing?