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There is a new Guy Laliberté on the poker circuit: Jungleman takes $15M off "Monarch"
Posted on 8/21/25 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 8/21/25 at 1:37 pm
Challenging Daniel Negranu, now
I can only imagine the washed up old names who will jump in to re-live the glory days. I have to imagine Paul Phua will let Tom Dwan leave China/Macau to play, at some point. Guy in many ways made Dwan during his big, early career.
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Ossi “Monarch” Ketola’s high-stakes adventure at the Onyx Super High Roller Series in Cyprus has been nothing short of brutal. First, he dropped $2 million in a heads-up clash with Kayhan Mokri. The next day, things got even worse as Dan “Jungleman” Cates handed the Finnish entrepreneur a $15 million loss in what is now the biggest televised poker game in history.
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Undeterred, Ketola is already eyeing more challenges. When a fan on social media suggested he face Daniel Negreanu, he replied: “would love to, I think he’s super gay. Would love to mog him.” In online slang, “mog” means to completely outclass or dominate someone.
I can only imagine the washed up old names who will jump in to re-live the glory days. I have to imagine Paul Phua will let Tom Dwan leave China/Macau to play, at some point. Guy in many ways made Dwan during his big, early career.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 1:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
He has 4.75 million in tournament winnings on Hendon Mob and is probably down 9 figures. That’s why judging players off total tournament winnings is dumb.
Are we sure he doesn’t want to suck Negreanu’s cock?
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would love to mog him
Are we sure he doesn’t want to suck Negreanu’s cock?
This post was edited on 8/21/25 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 8/21/25 at 1:52 pm to TheWalrus
Dnegs got Amanda leatherman all kinds of plastic surgery before they got married .
Posted on 8/21/25 at 6:10 pm to Lawyered
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leatherman
also known as Beardwoman
Posted on 8/21/25 at 6:35 pm to SlowFlowPro
How does this guy have so much money to burn?
Posted on 8/21/25 at 7:01 pm to SlowFlowPro
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washed up
At what age would one become “washed up” when it comes to poker?
Posted on 8/21/25 at 10:19 pm to SlowFlowPro
Jungleman is one of the most gifted poker players, a heads up specialist in a variety of games, and back to back winner of the 50k poker player championship. Why on earth would this Monarch play him is beyond me.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 10:35 pm to Keys Open Doors
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How does this guy have so much money to burn?
Counter-strike and being an "entrepreneur/investor" or something
Posted on 8/21/25 at 10:36 pm to cubsfan5150
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At what age would one become “washed up” when it comes to poker?
Typically around 30 when the male brain starts to weaken
Poker is a sport for the young
Posted on 8/21/25 at 11:29 pm to SlowFlowPro
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Typically around 30 when the male brain starts to weaken Poker is a sport for the young
Do you have statistics on this?
Posted on 8/22/25 at 5:31 am to SlowFlowPro
I would agree. Poker is a mental grind and it's not the peak processing power that you lose so much as you get older, it's mental stamina. When I play online chess my win rate is probably 75% in my first 5 or so games that day and 25% (or less) later in the day.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 6:01 am to SlowFlowPro
Not going to lie, biggest thing I got from this is more confirmation we can say things are gay again, and that the world is healing.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 8:18 am to SlowFlowPro
Poker is not chess. I don’t care if you read Super System. Playing for fun is terrible because it is a simple, shitty game. It’s closer to the slot machine than chess. It’s closer to Go Fish than gin rummy or bridge.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 9:21 am to PeteRose
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Jungleman is one of the most gifted poker players, a heads up specialist in a variety of games, and back to back winner of the 50k poker player championship. Why on earth would this Monarch play him is beyond me.
Yeah seems like just a straight up bad decision on it's face, could always be more to it though that we don't know about I guess.
This post was edited on 8/22/25 at 9:22 am
Posted on 8/22/25 at 9:26 am to genro
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Super System
Pretty irrelevant today.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 11:24 am to genro
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Poker is not chess. I don’t care if you read Super System. Playing for fun is terrible because it is a simple, shitty game. It’s closer to the slot machine than chess. It’s closer to Go Fish than gin rummy or bridge.
Well that's a take for sure. Considering that even the smallest forms of poker have exponentially higher combinatorial complexity. Computers solved chess in the 80s-90s. Poker is only solved for a heads-up Texas Holdem variants today.
There's a reason no one is playing $15 million dollar chess matches.
Posted on 8/22/25 at 11:26 am to TheWalrus
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Super System
Pretty irrelevant today.
Still a reasonable starting point to get a broad introduction to a wide array of games imo
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