Format you guys are playing

[Vinland]

Eric Lindgren - god I still remember the names - yeah I think he gambled his money away.

I always assumed most of the poker celebrities were either half crazy, assholes, or dry as toast, nothing in between.

After being away for so long I did look up some records for WSOP and saw that Phil Helmuth won another 4 or so bracelets while I was away so I watched a long interview with him where he was candid and he seemed like he had a good head on his shoulders. He knows he's full of himself and has to monitor his ego (and he never stops promoting himself) but to hear him talk about bankroll management was pretty impressive.

He recounted a story where he walked into a poker room around 2005 during the boom to play cash games and sat down on tables that weren't really close to the limit of the casino because thats what his BR allowed and he didnt play staked with other peoples money. He said it was tough on his pride but he sticks to his BR principles and sounds like he's pretty loaded for following it.

[oskar]

He recounted a story where he walked into a poker room around 2005 during the boom to play cash games and sat down on tables that weren't really close to the limit of the casino because thats what his BR allowed and he didnt play staked with other peoples money. He said it was tough on his pride but he sticks to his BR principles and sounds like he's pretty loaded for following it.

It has always struck me as very odd that someone with that bad of a temprament can not only be a winning player but be this damn solid. Huge respect for the player, and he says what we're all thinking!

[Poopadoop]

It has always struck me as very odd that someone with that bad of a temprament can not only be a winning player but be this damn solid. Huge respect for the player, and he says what we're all thinking!

Yup, Hellmuth seems like an outlier in the sense that he doesn't have an addiction to gambling. He not only does BR management well, he doesn't seem to place all kinds of goofy side bets on golf or whatever that people like Negreanu and Ivey do.

Also, I sometimes wonder how much of his tilting persona is just done to mess with people's heads. If you were clever, you might think well, if they think I'm pissed off all the time they're going to expect me to do X, then I'll do Y instead. But it does seem like whatever he's doing is always calculated, not just tilting, even though he looks like he's tilting 90% of the time. I wonder.