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razios
Não vou dar um discurso aqui pois acredito que tenham boas opiniões aqui já e a minha não fugiria de opiniões como do @
Sphinter ou do @
kako e eu me tornaria repetitivo.
Achei muito legal esse post do Schneids (tenho nem ideia quem seja) no tópico do 2+2. Acho que vale a pena a leitura:
Allow me to play a bit of devil's advocate... To date, this game of poker has given you so much. A swanky place in Rio Di Janeiro that has a rooftop pool. The freedom to take months off whenever you want. All of the traveling you've gotten to do. Millions of dollars.
We all know there's a dark side of poker. Denying the interview for these reasons make it seem like you think you're better than everyone else and appears quite standoffish. It feels like you're just putting on a charade trying to sound profound. You in fact, have benefited from poker more than 99.9% of the poker playing population.
It's hard for your message to have any level of sincerity when you are well known for trying to tilt your opponents in chat; for trying to slowly goad them into playing you for higher stakes HU in your cunning sly ways you do... At best, you could've done an interview and admitted to being a bit self-loathing because you believe poker has been a net negative for too many lives, even if it has been a tremendous positive in yours. You could've easily said stuff like that, while graciously acknowledging "but it's fantastic that at least this event was able to raise $4.6 million dollars for such an important cause, so even if there's plenty of darkness in this game, I'm happy that poker has put me in a position to be able to play in a $1M tournament that benefits charity."
If you really do truly believe what you're saying about poker, I hope the one
drop was the last hand of poker you ever play. Between your online success, the EPT SHR win weeks ago, and now this, I presume you should have several million in the bank... That's more than enough to start making a positive difference in this world, while still being able to make some money for yourself. Among ways you can help the world:
- Get a real estate protege. Go into real estate in a low income, depressed area, and buy up the whole block. Rehab the places a bit, rent them out. You'll easily cash flow them, you'll help community revitalization and help low income people live in acceptable housing.
- Start a charitable organization for whatever cause is
close to you, and be the president of it. As an employee you can still be paid a fair salary.
- If you can't think of anything specific to do with the money, just get out of poker and do some habitat for humanities, volunteer at food shelves, etc., until something comes to you... Invested properly, the interest from all your spoils should be easy to live off with a minimalist lifestyle.
Anyway, if you really do believe what you said, you really dropped the ball. You could've become an ambassador to the game that truly did preach responsible gambling, first and foremost. Instead, you'll be remembered as that punk rebel who was too good for everyone. I don't mean this to come off as an attack; I don't even know you, and heck I even agree with a lot of your thoughts.