Gary Wise and Jason Senti interview 2010 World Champion Jonathan Duhamel to find out what he has been up to since winning the main event and how it has changed his life. A regular columnist for ESPN, more from Gary Wise can be found on his blog at www.JGaryWise.com.
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I don’t know that Gary Wise has a place to talk about the relationship between poker players and gamblers. For the Ashton Griffin thing, he has done crazy physical feats. In an interview he mentioned a hell week type thing he did in a wrestling camp. To him, there was no serious risk of injury and he was not going to get himself injured. There are guiness world records broken for crazy feats, so is someone a bad friend for not stopping people from breaking those records? Obviously not if they are prepared to do it.
On the poker side, from what I’ve heard, the high stakes poker world is the most TRUSTING community of professionals you could be in, far from what Gary Wise’s outsider view would depict. Just watch the businessmen on HSP say how they can’t trust other businessmen or even clients to stick to their word, yet for poker players, its what they live by.
It just seems like more frustrating outsider commentary from people who don’t know what the inside is really like.
Joe (March 4th, 2011 at 6:04 pm)
OK i use to like Jason Senti, but after hearing him saying Gabe Kaplans analysis is poor, i have so much less respect for him and his game.. Gabe Kaplans analysis is always on point, and on the next level thinking, I have no idea wtf Jason Senti is talking about id like to know Jasons id’s so we can look into his cash game stats.. Jason you are not a winning cash game player are u? Id guess ur more of a donkament luckbox.
grigrory (March 28th, 2011 at 2:34 am)
Joe, its all clear – Gabe left PStars TV Show, Jason was sponsored by Stars)
Jonathan (March 3rd, 2011 at 6:35 pm)
I don’t know that Gary Wise has a place to talk about the relationship between poker players and gamblers. For the Ashton Griffin thing, he has done crazy physical feats. In an interview he mentioned a hell week type thing he did in a wrestling camp. To him, there was no serious risk of injury and he was not going to get himself injured. There are guiness world records broken for crazy feats, so is someone a bad friend for not stopping people from breaking those records? Obviously not if they are prepared to do it.
On the poker side, from what I’ve heard, the high stakes poker world is the most TRUSTING community of professionals you could be in, far from what Gary Wise’s outsider view would depict. Just watch the businessmen on HSP say how they can’t trust other businessmen or even clients to stick to their word, yet for poker players, its what they live by.
It just seems like more frustrating outsider commentary from people who don’t know what the inside is really like.
Joe (March 4th, 2011 at 6:04 pm)
OK i use to like Jason Senti, but after hearing him saying Gabe Kaplans analysis is poor, i have so much less respect for him and his game.. Gabe Kaplans analysis is always on point, and on the next level thinking, I have no idea wtf Jason Senti is talking about id like to know Jasons id’s so we can look into his cash game stats.. Jason you are not a winning cash game player are u? Id guess ur more of a donkament luckbox.
grigrory (March 28th, 2011 at 2:34 am)
Joe, its all clear – Gabe left PStars TV Show, Jason was sponsored by Stars)