adsthepro123 said:
I don't know if i have ever heard of this player and have definately never seen him on any of the major tv shows. This is a huge amount of money to have as a bankroll, obviously if his bankroll was on such a rollercoaster ride i don't know if he is using the correct bankroll management, i would say he had a bad loss and went on tilt and lost it all, that is the only way to lose that much money.
adsthepro
*sigh*
He was featured in a few episodes of the WSOP Main Event in 2008 but other than that no, you wouldn't have seen him on any of the poker TV shows because:
1 - He's broke nowadays (he was staked in a couple of events in the 2008 WSOP, including the Main Event)
2 - As discussed above
the vast majority of his bankroll was run up playing craps, not poker. He's a gambler first and a poker player second. Or maybe he's a pool hustler first then those things second and third, IDK.
3 - Even when he
is playing poker, NLHE isn't his game. He specialises in stud games, razz in particular, and it's highly unlikely he'd have any kind of edge in a televised NLHE game outside of huge donkaments like the Main Event.
Now as I mentioned above, bankroll management will only affect the rate you lose at when you're playing -EV games like craps.
Anywho, for those who want to read the whole story here's the link to the first in a ten-part series on Karas that Tom Sexton wrote for
poker news:
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2008/02/sextons-corner-31-archie-karas-part-1.htm
Follow the links at the bottom for the other nine parts. It's long but it's fascinating and it'll probably clear up a lot of the funny ideas people seem to have ITT
