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Jamie Gold
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Jamie Gold is the 2006 World series of Poker champion. His
striking success at the no doubt comes as a surprise to most
players and casual poker fans, but his WSOP success came on the
heels of eight final table finishes in the previous sixteen
months, including five at the Bicycle Casino where I used to
work, most notably a first place in a No Limit Holdem event at
the Stars and Stripes tournament series worth $54,000.
Jamie's aggressive big stack play at the WSOP, while holding
about 30% of the chips going into the final table play, no doubt
was helped by his California experience. Likewise, more than any
other player at the final table besides Allen Cunningham, he had
considerable live casino experience playing in large field
tournaments.
In fact, Jamie had more final table experience than the rest of
the WSOP final table players put together, except Cunningham.
(Besides his win, he also had a second place at Hollywood Park
and a third place finish at the Bicycle Casino.) That is not a
small advantage in these large multi-day events, where no matter
how many players you eliminate, it always seems like there are
more and more moving to your table. A lot of players eventually
crack and make a mistake, or after running well above average,
all of a sudden think they can dodge bullets for all their
stack. Jamie consistently played for a portion of his stack
against players who had to commit all of theirs. When this
happens, you either win a small pot 100% of the time, or contest
a medium (for you) size pot. Aggressive big stack play against
the middling sized stacks is required to keep getting through
the many players continually thrown at you. You can't sit on
your chips in California tournaments -- which tend to start
later in the day and have faster structures but with more
starting chips than Nevada tournaments.
A manager/producer and ex-agent from Malibu, California (who
isn't one in Malibu?), at one time or another Jamie represented
James Gandolfini (The Sopranos), Lucy Liu (Charlie's
Angels), Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Felicity
Huffman (Desperate Housewives), Natasha Henstridge (Species)
and a whole lot more. He is attempting to setup an "untitled
poker show with Johnny Chan and Chris Moneymaker", although he
now can add his name to that duo!
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Jamie Gold
Malibu, CA, United States
15
$12,100,997
2
1
11
1785
in the past few years
Texas Hold'em
Gold is dedicating himself to winning the
world championship for his ailing father, who is in the late stages
of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). He says, “I want to make him proud
for the little time he has left.”
Playing poker
James Gandolfini, Felicity Huffman, Jimmy
Falon, Lucy Liu, Kristen Davis
10 Times WSOP bracelet winner Johnny
Chan, who has given me poker tips and tutorials |
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