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Probably one of the coolest reads was the story of how sheets began backing gank and other successful players.
Unfortunately, some people hated on him and he never finished the story.
Who would be interested in hearing the end of the story? I think on a personal level, it would renew positivity in me on backing situations.
Here is the original...
http://www.pocketfives.com/1E311E1E-65C4-44BE-A0C4-7D3B03E8973A.aspx
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yeah why would people threaten Sheets to not share a part of his life? it's his choice, i doubt he's going to reveal something like "Gank was a crackho and Dutch just killed a man." I want to hear the world changing decision!
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Pupkin
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08-21-2007 3:11 AM
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more more more moreeeeeee
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MBMD
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08-21-2007 6:15 AM
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To be continued...
"Gank called me on a monday asking for a stake in a potsmoking contest. I said, "is it +ev?" Gank said "what?"... said dude the potsmoking contest!!! To wich he replied "What potsmoking contest?" It was then and there I knew we we're gonna get rich."
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very cool read.
sheets owns
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The full version of this story was posted on foxsports.com or something a while (1-2 yrs?) back...I remember reading it and then having to wait a couple weeks for the next installment. I am pretty sure its the same story.
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Wein
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08-21-2007 8:52 AM
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this is sheets' story of how he came about backing them.
Never been finished :-(
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No i realize that. The story was on foxsports.com/poker, an interview with eric haber about "the crew" and what not. I remember this story for sure, because the beginning of it that you didn't post above told how sheets met gank one day when he had to get someone to take over an MTT because he had to leave, and he asked Phil Laak to do it (i think) and Phil said that he knew someone who would take over, and it turned out to be gank...I'm 99% sure that it's the same story. I just can't find it on foxsports now because they don't seem to archive their poker articles :(
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Wein
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08-21-2007 8:58 AM
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I think that was on the site somewhere...
Wasn't it a snow day and sheets needed to pick up one of his kids?
Gank busted and shipped him back the buy-in, I think?
**EDIT** oops I was wrong on the busting thing. was just a fee sheets wanted to send.
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Wein
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Ah, here's part 1
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by sheets on 4/29/2005 16:43
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(this is an excerpt from a piece i am working on which details my experience backing the crew)
..."so
it's a cold a snowy day in linkoping, and i am playing a small
tournament online, and doing pretty well. Out of nowhere comes an
emergency call from my daughter's school, saying that school is
cancelled, mrs sheets is unreachable, and I have to come pick her up.
Well I had been only playing on this site for a week, so i knew almost
no one who played there who could take over for me. I called the one
person who i thought could find me someone, the now famous Phil Laak. (as
an aside, I refuse to use his stage name of "unambomber". I have known
for over 10 years, and for at LEAST 4 nicknames). Now it must be
understood that most gambling stories begin with Phil Laak. They dont
"begin and end " with him though, as the oft used phrase suggests,
because the thing with Phil is, he is like a small tornado...he comes
whirling in, does his thing, and then disappears before anyone realizes
what happened, I remember Phil and I spending 3 hours concocting
complex backing and swapping arrangements for a 50$ backgammon
tournament which neither us could probably afford to play.
In
any case, I got a hold of him in the middle of some cash game he was
playing in some weird place with some bizarre rich people, and asked
him if he knew anyone who could take over for me. He said.."dude , no
problem, i'll get gank to do it"..."GANK??? WHAT THE HELL IS A
GANK????"...at this point i didnt care..i gave phil my password to pass
along to the GANK or whatveer it was and i asked him how much this
"gank" would want of the winnings. Phil told me..."dude he'd probably
play for nothing...". This is the essence of Gank, as I will describe
many many times throughout this story." I said ok fine whatever and
left.
When i returned form my errand, gank was just about to
go out with AK VS ACES on the bubble when i got a hold of phil and
asked who this gank was?...He told me that he was roommates with dutch
boyd and some other poker players and phil had been staying with them
for a while, and that gank was the number one player on the site based
upon their points system. Now, gank had long since busted out when I
was still googling him to figure out who the hell was playing for me.
It was at this point that I first learned of the crew, which was known
about by maybe 6 people. Young kids trying to take over poker???I
LOVED THE PASSION.
Now gank sent back the small fee i tried to
force him to take, (although phil still inisted on his finders fee of
10$), and I did some more homework on this whole crew thing. I had
spent a good part of my youth trying to dominate non traditional
occupations as well, so something about what they were doing really
struck a chord. I dug up ganks email address through some creative
poking around and asked him to get in touch with me . At the time , i
was to learn, he was looking for someone to put him in the poker stars
wpt event, and phil thought i might be interested, so we hooked up
pretty quickly..
I basically asked phil If i should maybe
include the whole crew in a backing offer, and let them pick which game
should be played by each player, not knowing whrther one player had a
particular speacialty. Phil told me that all that bologna didnt
matter, becuase gank was the best player at all the games, so I should
proabbly just back him. Phil, by the way, is very rarely wrong.
Something
about backing him in one tournament didnt sit well with me, as the
whole invesment can go up in smoke in one hand. So i sugeested that he
go to tunica, Mississippi for the world poker open events, and i would
put him in all of them. This seemed counterintuitive to some, as I was
putting up 3 times the stake in my scenario. However, I would rather
increase my overall stake and diversify the results a little bit. He
asked if I would give him maybe 10% of the winnings. He told me he just
wanted to play. WOW!. Standard deals called for the player getting
50%, so i basically FORCED him to take 25%. As the tournament was
going to start in 6 days, he had to get his act together and leave
right away so his train from LA to Tunica Mississippi got there in
time. HUH????? He was gonna take a train??? Through CHICAGO no less.
He just didnt feel like flying.
He told me he was all
pumped...he was gonna play 30k worth of events, all games of very
type..maybe 17 tourneys total including the main event ,..He was
completely in the zone and ready to kill. Also, just to make sure he
had some support down there, he called his friend scott fischman and
basically offered to match scotts tunica bankroll if he went with him.. Dutch
was going to be there too, as poker stars had just refused to allow him
to play the wpt cruise event...(thats a whole other story). I was going
to go as well for the last few days of it.. I was PSYCHED! I had GANK
goin to tunica, ready to clean up, and continue my streak of NEVER
BEING WRONG about identifying genius. ...what could go wrong?.......
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IIRC i think that Gank actually placed high in the tourney and when sheets asked how much of the winnings % he wanted, gank just said he didn't care and didn't want a cut. I might be off base here, it's been a long time since i've read it...but i know the full thing is out there somewhere.
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