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Dunno if this is true or not but u gotta love it.....


http://www.pokerlistings.com/blog/wsop/2009/the-cristal-balla

interesting story, doubt its true mind!

i reckon its definetly true.

Standard Ivey 4 bet.

I  would love this to be true.. :)

It pops up on 2p2 every few months, sometimes with someone other than Ivey as the subject.

(  ) It's true

cant wait to see Flushy in the chippy

1 can of coke ftw..

Would love it to be true but I don't believe any restaurant would stock 200 bottles of the stuff on the off-chance.....

+1

Good point, I reckon it's a run-of-the-mill transmogrification of joke into urban myth.

That would be 226 bottles pre-allin shove.

He did leave the first place prize money from his latest bracelet win as a tip though! That's balla.

He says he didnt leave the 1st bracelet money this year as a tip on pokerroad

Yeah on the 'Life of Ivey' Leatherman asks him about that rumour and he says its not true

Doesn't Greenstein do that for every tournament he enters.

He gives his winnings to charity

He used to give away his winnings to charity but not anymore i remember him giving the reason i think it was some bad investments and he doses't have as much cash now

Whatevah, same thing innit?

That's a shame, fair doos though.

That explains why they're all struggling.

Very bad play all round here.

The businessmen's 3-bet should have only been to about 11 bottles - no need to go to 20.

Ivey's 4-bet to 200 is just horrible spew - could have achieved the same result by raising to about 60 imo.

Mods, plz move this thread to the CHA board.

I don't really understand this thing about people proving how much money they can afford to waste, or of others being impressed by it.

It reminds me of how, when sugar was a luxury only the rich could afford, those that had it would rub it on their teeth until they went black because black teeth = wealth.

did they really do that? crazy. thanks for my learn something a day doggy.

I agree, i respect people who are generous but this 'balla' thing is something else...

A band called the KLF had a few hits during the late 1980's/early'90's and then burnt £1M cash in a big bonfire.

How balla was that ?

And that as back when £1m was a lot of money.

 It's a sad reflection on society that it will have impressed more people than it would if they had spent the money on MRI scanners or incubators for premature babies.

I wrote up this story and apparently it's true! (well let's just say that in essence it's true, although details of the story may have been exaggerated somewhere along the line)

It is ridiculous excess obviously and AndrewT is right, the bet-sizing is all off.

I guess in some ways it does represent what Vegas is all about - vulgar excess and showmanship.



I prefer the story of Ivey about how some small stakes player shipped him $10 on Full Tilt as a joke, only for Ivey to ship him $1k back.

I always wondered if this was true, or a clever money-making scheme by Ivey, involving tens of thousands of small stakers all shipping him $10 hoping for the same treatment!

In a way they did

ducy?

No.

Probably not a very good gag from me then.

Trying to say they spent all their money on women, and that those women's bodies could be considered baby incubators.

As I say, not the best, but I'll keep trying.

I wasn't talking about money they spent, but the £1m that they burned.

(I think that's why I missed the joke)

Any chance they had of sexing women just went up in smoke imo.

+ the joke was shit which never helps.

let's not get too moral. People waste money everyday not just the rich trying to be "balla"

If this story is true, Ivey might be even more dull than he seems.

So, he might have impressed the businessmen, but they were not the only people in the coup. How does Ivey think the waiter feels about him throwing away more money than he and every other normal person earns in a year? Pretty pathetic I would think.

Not when the waiters get 18% service charge on every bottle.
fwiw I think the story about the Cristal and shipping 10 bucks is total bs, someone in the Ivey balla thread on 2+2 said they were going to do the "ship Ivey 10 bucks on tilt" thing and now it appears to have happened and he got 1k back LOL
urban myth ftw

Lol @ everyone just wanting to take this so serious and start questioning the way people spend their money. I'd hate for you guys to go out and have fun.

+1 million

Besides balling is good for moral, when i spend 5k on a night i feel good and thus earn more, cristal is +EV

I raise you 5 bottles

Maybe it depends on your life position as to what is waste and what is fun. The line is different for all

At least we live in a country where we are allowed to waste resources to have fun, maybe we should become puritans and turn ourselves into Iran.

You're absolutely right, I have no right to question how peeps spend their money, and I didn't really intend to do that, nobody likes a sanctimonious bastard.

Anyway, however it's spent, I suppose it still works it's way through the economy, so everyone benefits.

Burning it though?  :dontask:

"I'd hate for you guys to go out and have fun"

This made me laugh because it reminded me of something that Mrs Red says.

Although she doesn't drink much, she likes parties, weddings etc, I don't, but I sometimes go along for her sake. When I do, I tend to stay in the background and she says "Your problem is, you don't like enjoying yourself".

Lol. You've added 99,999 opinions to your own James.

Now that's balla!  ;tightend;

Please keep Mrs Red away from MrsB at the next Blonde bash...they might agree on too many things.

Although I bet Mrs Red doesn't tell you  "you're getting jowly"

You were out on that figure by some 900,000 Tom, which you obv didn't even notice....now that's balla!

He has opinions to burn.

that happens when u get old...

Bollocks! I just can't get the hang of these 6 figure sums.

I should stick to women. I understand those.

please explain to those of us who don't

I must be getting old, just don't see need to spunk money against the wall for no reason just becasue I have it. You can have lots of fun without spending $100's on champagne and larging it up. I guess that's what the young un's do these days.

Enjoy it while it lasts :)

I read an interview with one of the KLF - quite a while ago, so memory of it is a bit hazy - but IIRC burning the million wasn't a balla act it was some kind of art type statement.

i.e. They were just a bit mental

Apparently I'll end up like a cross between Victor Meldrew and Walther Matthau :(

end up?

this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Quid

the original Balla,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHo2pXO_XAI&feature=PlayList&p=98EA9955B6BFEC9D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=20

 :'( that hurt.

I would send someone round to bust your kneecaps for that remark but that'd just be wasting my dosh, wouldn't it old man?

surely you'd want the personal pleasure yrself no? + i'd then sue yr ass and get op done @ bupa come on big man get yr ass down south........

they do say the truth hurts ........

LMAO. I also know someone who that character must be based on.

Depends your definition of fun. Mine is having a laugh with people that you know and like, not spending sick amounts of money in the hope that people will think you're great.

In fact, Ivey is the one person that never looks like he is having fun.

Yeah but really he is DUCY?

Because you never see him in a club spending 5/6 digits on Cristal......

Guy in XS other night managed to run up a tab of $200k+ my new hero!

Pardon my stupidity what is XS and 200k??  how'd he manage that?

club and prob most expensive bottles in the place, more than could be drunk!

That's just idiotic, there's no other word for it.

Two bottles of this should do the job. 1787 vintage Sauternes from Château Yquem

business men balla's?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1558471/Businessmans-bar-bill-hits-105805.html

burning it is silly though...