A quarter of million dollars! Holy crap. Did this really happen? The Internet is blowing up over this.
Well, you might not know much about the millions of people in the poker community, but guys like Mr. Beast and Kevin Hart regularly play on these live poker shows, so a cheating scandal is a big deal.
I guess now's the season, eh? In the past month, there have also been major alleged cheating scandals in backgammon and chess, and just this past summer a video game speedrunner was outed for cheating live at SGDQ (one of the major annual speedrun exhibition events) with thousands of viewers watching.
Not to mention Gabriel Kaplan (Mr.Kotter!) who is still active, quite highly ranked, and has won millions.
I am a big fan of the show or rather used to be. Are you throwing out Gabriel Kaplan as an example that is potentially better known to some audiences over Mr. Beast and Kevin Hart?
Mr.Who and Kevin Who? Just kidding I may be old, but I'm still hip. No, I was just bringing it up as a piece of trivia. Ben Affleck is also known to be a talented player who has challenged top-ranked pros in his career. More trivia
Mr.Beast makes terrible YouTube videos, but is a prolific philanthropist and a genius marketer. I don't watch his content, but I admire him as a person.
The girl that won that pot, Robbi Jade Lew I don't know who she is and where she gets her money from. She's not a pro poker player, she's an amateur. What was strange is after she wins the pot, they have a quick discussion off camera, and then she gives him back all the money she won from that big pot. One guy at the table freaks out after that. I have never seen that happen before. Every video Mr. Beast does get like 100 million views, so props for that. Though his videos are not very good. Kind of like a really poorly made reality TV show.
I watched an interview of Mr. Beast. According to him, if they make $3-$4 million in a month, most of that goes back to making videos, giving away cars, cash, etc. He said there profits are very minimal.
Yes, I think you and I both use that "other" Internet, Steve. And I think we should continue. If this is a sample, I'll stick to the familiar one.
But you have kids! Seriously though, some of the Mr Beast videos and challenges are actually pretty good. It’s both astonishing and admirable, with how he’s pulled off a lot of what he has done.
FWIW: Poker - Going with… cheating probably didn’t occur… Chess - Going with… it’s almost irrelevant, the chess.com essay has killed his career…
Cheating, chess, poker, even irish dance made the headlines today. Meanwhile I was diving today with an econmics professor at a top rated university in the country I currently am in (that does have a tons of schools and is very pro education) and the subject of cheating came up. Her husband is also current nearly finished MBA student at full time 5 night a week program at said school. The expectation there is that group projects are subcontacted out to writing services and they then review them before submission with the cohort splitting the cost. Now, that is not permitted but has become normalized to the point that unless a plagarism checker catches something, nothing is said. From the professor side, (who teaches cyrypto BTW and thinks it's a scam but will drift towards more tie in with national currencies and production where it will basically drift away from the current scam.. another fun side bar discussion) she has found that questioning students on content of paper shows her who doen't comprehend the material but as assignments are solid, is constrained by class verbal responses being such a low % of grade that from a looking at grades perspective, 3.6 and above means they have some idea, a 3.5 means they likely don't. My take away, I have spent my 55 years on earth being one naive person. I always failed over cheating because I thought the cost of getting caught cheating is higher than the cost of failing, plus it was just wrong. To much boy scouts, military and naive as heck I think. Meanwhile, I shall still do the work and not cheat in my DBA program, and guess take some pride I did the work in my low to no brand name recognition BSBA and MBA that folks that have a degree from schools where cheating has become normallized will look down at. Make no mistake, I was asked where I did my degrees today and where doing my DBA, they both were very interested and thought it was a great story, but that for their needs she a professor, he an up and coming mid 30's exec in a big worldwide accounting firm needed the brand name, not the knowledge. For her as a professor that extended to PhD over a professional doctorate and she expressed that was too bad as PhD's in the business education field generally had no actual experience in business. They were aware of my company and products and found it very interesting i was doing school stuff, they didn't see the need. To them, degrees are just paper required to do a job or progress in one. I just grinned and said, it is fun to learn stuff, and when you can combine learning with experience it's more fun. I liked them, good converstaion and nice people. But still eye opening
