Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
jsearles, while you have had a lot of haters as of late, I'm not one of them. I actually like you.
However, I do have to admit I am a bit perplexed about your obsession with China. It seems like you have a lot of criticism and desire to discuss the stake he's running, and I never quite understood that. I would totally understand it if the situation was shady or if China had a spotty past, but neither is the case.
China's stake is straightforward. If you don't think he's good enough to be worth it, don't invest. He has been up front about everything, and I think people pretty much know what they're getting when they invest in him. I never understood the whole reasoning behind trying to start a debate with him about the whole matter. It's not like he's trying to cheat people, and he's not misrepresenting himself.
Regarding the "whining", I can tell you that it's actually therapeutic for some people to get it off their chest when they're running bad. I do plenty of whining myself when I'm unlucky, though usually not on these forums. (I don't think China would be doing so on the forums, either, if he wasn't being staked.) I can also tell you that China has ran REALLY REALLY BAD on Merge for the past several months. I see him take so many beats and coolers to the point where I think he's had the worst luck of any regular limit players on the site in 2012. Just yesterday we had a lovely hand where it was capped 4 ways, I had QQ, China had 55, some other guy had 99, and the flop came 953. I see this (or bad beats) happening to him repeatedly.
Anyway, I'm not sure why you have it in for China, but I can tell you that he's only being rude with you because of the recent trolling you've done to him.