Who was Jamie gold and what did he do that was so significant?

alaskabill said:

Also, let us not forget that he promised 50% of his winnings to a backer and then tried to back out of it. When confronted with a recording from an answering machine that proved he was lying and the threat of a lawsuit he paid up and called it a "misunderstanding"..

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This^^^ He's a scumbag and a pig. I hope he stays broke.

the guy is a idiot, and not a very good player and hugely lucky... but

i do give him some credit, his table talk was different to any other player, it REALLY put people off their game, in the main event people made some awful calls against him purely because of his table talk, you gotta give him that

trouble is, now that everyone has watched the main event, everyone knows how he plays and what his table talk means, he should have adapted and/or shutup when playing after that, it was only ever going to work once

I heard he was the best bluffer in the world, yo