Who is the worst poker player to ever win the WSOP Main Event?

**MeSayBeauxm** · 08-17-2013, 12:50 PM

gotta go with yang. been a long time since i watched, but i just remember him being scared money praying with his little picture but hitting everything.

haven't watched the gold episodes either in a long time but remember him playing aggressive deepstack huge field tourney poker essentially correct while also hitting everything and being a damn asshole. i also think he made quite a bit of money irl which could explain to some degree lack of subsequent playing and/or success.

edit to add: also i think i remember that a backer eventually took him to court over their proportional share of the prizepool that he stiffed them on, though i don't remember the outcome. wiki says not really a backer but a like a bodog rep or something.

also he won $12,000,000. it is insane the wsop got that big. i wonder with legal poker nationwide, sponsorship like there was, bar leagues being legal, internet satellites being paid directly to the wsop as they used to be, etc. how big it could get.

**Drywallman3** · 08-17-2013, 03:45 PM

I would say Joe Hachem, not that he is an *ss just that you don't hear anything about him since.......................

**mikey4141** · 08-17-2013, 04:26 PM

Yea well everyone thinks jamie gold is a idiot!

**123loweman** · 08-24-2013, 09:11 AM

gold is unlikable yes but i must agree that moneymaker era on is must harder than before...i dont like gold but he has a high win rate at small tourneys in casinos...he talked his way to the win and i must say again i dont like him but he did win it and i think yang is the worst since moneymaker era has started