True. But the economics of that are a little tricky. If we assume the rapist to be extremely wealthy, then the people who need tests taken for them are likely not going to be able to come up with enough cash to make it worth the rapist’s while.
I guess if you were part of some sort of syndicate like that one that got Loughlin, Huffman, et al busted and your customers were mainly the mega wealthy, then there might be enough money in that. However, while I can understand those people shelling out a ton of money for elite college admission, I don’t think they would do the same for law school admission. That market has to be much smaller.
Of course above assume the rapist is very rich. If the rapist isn’t that rich, then most of above doesn’t apply.
It is an easy test. I think you think he is smart even with tons of evidence to the contrary. People saying he would be over 165 means he is in the top 20% of test takers. I see no evidence of that. I have likely made more money playing poker than him which is his designated field. The idea the 22 books were good is a complete fantasy go read one. Not to mention his entire body of posting work. It was all terrible.
He was literally an “expert” in poker from 2003-2007 and owned part of the biggest poker forum ever. He is still basically a poor. Even if that one book was good he is of below average intellect and the evidence is overwhelming.
“Is he smart” is a very subjective evaluation. I don’t think he is very intelligent. I really don’t and I have no reason to lie about that.
I just think that
The test is easy enough for someone not smart to get above a 165 without too much trouble.
2 The stuff on the LSAT lines up pretty well with things he is good at.
Less than 100k a year before buyins so almost certainly negative. And there is no way you can convince me based on his books and posting he is a winning cash player. The guy has lived off the tit of terrible books and 22. In a fair world he is homeless or dead like Eskimo Clark.
If he studied hard he might get there. 0% he can take it cold tonight and get a 165. I agree any dolt can game the test and get a good score. It isn’t a hard test.
I unfortunately have read most of his books. I have read his DUCY series of posting on 22 although haven’t read the book. Is he better than average in the US? Maybe. I think the average LSAT score in the US is in the 140s…
He very clearly underachieved a life full of luckboxing the 99th percentile for his line and the fact he still has people standing up for him is gross. His poker books are fucking awful. They are part of the reason people can still make money playing.
I’m not trying to be a dick here but he was a bottom 10% poster on 22 and would have been banned if he wasn’t an owner. To somehow hold him up as intelligent is fucking dumb.
Yup. He has been propped up by 22 and the dupes that still think he has anything valuable to say. I dare anyone defending him to go read a few pages of HFAP or whatever it was called. It was great for beating 2002 level games but I see no evidence either of them ever at least put into print anything thay has been good advice in the last 15 years. Add in the fact one is a rapist and the other a white supmrecist who spends his brain power on David and Goliath and how is this even a discussion. They both deserve the maximum amount of shame.
Also you guys really want me to go dig up his history of the worst OPs in 22 history? He had a lot of them. I know you don’t. So let’s just concede he is somewhere between slingblade and reasonably intelligent and drop it. Those of you who want to continue to think the guy who brought you cruise ship basic level poker advice while never making any real money from poker can continue to think that and we can all be happy.
He’s probably worth a few million. I don’t think NLHE was ever his game, and I assume he made a nice chunk off of his books and 2p2, and invested some, so at his age that would do it.
He’d lose now at most 5/T NL and be a fish at 200NL online. He’d probably beat a variety of limit games.
If this is what I think it is, this book was hugely beneficial to me. It was very key in my development as a poker player to take an “authority”'s strategy apart piece by piece and realize it was trash. It got me thinking about some aspects of the game I hadn’t yet, but then his suggestions on them were very wrong.
