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Watch Full Flush and Andrew Feldman on BBC1
Created By: Matthew Showell Posted in: The Poker Reporter Blog, Industry InsiderWe found a pretty interesting segment on BBC1's Inside Out featuring none other than high-stakes UK players Luke "Full Flush" Schwartz and Andrew Feldman. We've got the clip embedded for you to watch right here.
It's actually a pretty cool little profile of these two players but, like so many like it, it doesn't really tell the truth about what it means to be a high-stakes player.
This line from Full Flush sums up what I mean.
"From opening the laptop I can be playing a game in less than a minute. In ten minutes I can be winning $10,000. Then I can just quit or I can stay on and win $50,000."
The best part of the FF segment though is the constant close-up shots of his Jakey.
The show then moves on to Andrew Feldman to showcase the potential pitfalls of young people playing poker. Feldman has talked about his downswings a lot in the past, and his gambling tendencies.
Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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Comments
4Jerry
2010-02-02Goddam kids these days, don't know the value of a doller I tell ya
ryan
2010-02-04But they probably know how to spell it
Arthur Reber, Ph.D.
2010-02-17The ol' psychologist here. This is important stuff and the poker community needs to pay attention because there are critics out there who will see reports like this and use them as support for their prohibitionist programs.
There are two points to make:
1. Yes, there are people who have gambling problems that developed around poker. It won't do us any good to deny or ignore that.
2. But, similar problems emerge in a wide variety of other human activities. There are "problem lawyers" who spend so much time at their desks that they neglect their families, suffer from a host of psychoneurotic conditions and never develop mature relationships. There are "problem brokers" who get in trouble making ill-advised trades and reckless speculations that lead them into horrible financial crises.
It isn't poker that is the culprit here. It is human nature and whatever difficulties we see in our game are mirrored in a wide range of human conduct.
We need to be careful not to let the game be demonized.
Luke
2010-02-28LOL@Ryan