So everyone remembers there first 4,5,or 6+ figure scores, the first "huge" pot you won or the long winning streak you hit. For some people losing $10 is huge, maybe $300, or others its $10,000 or higher and anywhere in between depending on BR and mind set. For guys like Tom and Phil its obvious losing a few hundread thousand or a few million is like the common man losing $50 bucks. When is enough, enough? The guys lose and win more money in one pot than a lot of people make in a year (30,40,50,100k pots). So where does it end, when they become dead broke? I mean i love watching these guys go back and forth with various players but when you have a few million its kinda doesnt matter anymore. Its like when you won a few tornys for a couple hundread after awhile it didnt matter, then 4 fig scores didnt matter, and $500+ pots didnt get you excited anymore because you get use to the amount won and lost. These guys need to play huge, so how huge could it go before these guys are all broke. I mean one bad run and a few million later you could have as much money as the average joe. Couldn't they relax at some point since at this moment or at one moment are/were multi millionaires?

lol not at all just curious on what everyone thinks. I heard Ivey was in the hole 3-6 million a few years ago and still played high stakes due to various backers ect...

Typically the type of people who are good enough to work hard enough to get to the Ivey/Durr status aren't the type to be content sitting around doing nothing. I don't think they'll ever quit.

 

Originally Posted by Slingtownorbust

yah ivey is big time in the hole. im pretty sure he's down like 15 million and his backers won't let him quit. my friends cousins husband who used to play in AC alot in the "no home jerome" days told me that he really wants to be a ballerina and if he won the main event last year was going to be out of makeup completely and he was going to pursue his dream.

i LOL'D

 

Originally Posted by leftygrove

He owns a part of FTP. He makes ridiculous money from sponsorships, not to mention he can crush the nosebleeds, let alone 25/50. No clue why people always have a tendency to think the famous top poker players go broke all the time.

lol its a fact two good friends of mine use to play in AC/Vegas/Foxwoods everyday all day for 5 years. They can name atleast 3-5 top pros in the hole for millions at one point or another

You don't think they're addicted to the action at this point?

 

Originally Posted by VitoRoma

So everyone remembers there first 4,5,or 6+ figure scores, the first "huge" pot you won or the long winning streak you hit. For some people losing $10 is huge, maybe $300, or others its $10,000 or higher and anywhere in between depending on BR and mind set. For guys like Tom and Phil its obvious losing a few hundread thousand or a few million is like the common man losing $50 bucks. When is enough, enough? The guys lose and win more money in one pot than a lot of people make in a year (30,40,50,100k pots). So where does it end, when they become dead broke? I mean i love watching these guys go back and forth with various players but when you have a few million its kinda doesnt matter anymore. Its like when you won a few tornys for a couple hundread after awhile it didnt matter, then 4 fig scores didnt matter, and $500+ pots didnt get you excited anymore because you get use to the amount won and lost. These guys need to play huge, so how huge could it go before these guys are all broke. I mean one bad run and a few million later you could have as much money as the average joe. Couldn't they relax at some point since at this moment or at one moment are/were multi millionaires?

 

Originally Posted by VitoRoma

lol its a fact two good friends of mine use to play in AC/Vegas/Foxwoods everyday all day for 5 years. They can name atleast 3-5 top pros in the hole for millions at one point or another

Well if they said that it's probably true. I'm sure their word is good

I've actually kind of wondered this myself at times. When you have a -3mil session, then a +5mil session, then another +3mil session, then a -10mil session....I mean, what is the point? Are you buying things with your +5mil session, then like "well hell, I lost a couple mil in that session". It's like the equivalent of the 1/2 player winning and losing $600-$800 at a time. It's all relative, but when the dollar figures get that big, what else is there?

U wanna ask Bill Gates when enough is enough too? It's all the same thing, just another business and there other are people making/losing way larger amounts of money everyday. naive post imo

Phil in make up? From who? Doesnt FTP pay basicly every entry in to any tourney he wants?

Ivey will be destroying people faces from the heavens. So he will play through eternity to answer your question.

i really dont think its about "money" to ivey anymore! ivey can be compared to jordan, tiger, gretzky, when those guys get to a certain point when they win sooo much its more about legecy! they want to be looked at as #1 not just a guy who won alot of money, im sure hes set for life, with NO worries!

this is like telling lebron and kobe to stop playing after 2 years, they make about 20 mil a yr, on top of that the millions they make of nike, its all bout gettin the $$$$

lol at the idiots comparing a poker Bankroll to an NBA contract... obv NBA players dont risk losing money by playing more years... you fail

this is a decent question and lots of players deal with the same exact scenario just with less money... if the thrill of the bigger games over-ride your BR management skills and you end up chasing money durring a shit-streak its not hard to go broke... alot of good poker players do it all the time

considering the fact that they are well known pros who can make a few mill just by picking up a pen and signing a contract... writing a book... or start coaching or doing other apperances and the fact that it shouldnt be hard for them to find a backer... Id say the lifestyle they live is rather secure

lol at the idiots comparing a poker Bankroll to an NBA contract... obv NBA players dont risk losing money by playing more years... you fail

yea becuase professional athletes dont go broke by buying cars, clothes, houses, jewerly, even in the pros you need bankroll management or you could go broke