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The Australian pro Mark Vos was the second biggest winner at Full Tilt Poker in February, pocketing $1.66 million of his opponents' money. While Vos has been winning big, he has not made many new friends in the process; his deep stacked opponents despise his short stacking strategy, particularly Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies as it seems. These examples from table chat illustrate the point:
Ziigmund: fu vos
Ziigmund: u f gay
Ziigmund: u r the biggest joke in pokerbusiness
Mark Vos: possibly
Mark Vos: but it pays the bills
Ziigmund: small bills for you
Mark Vos accepts the criticism but is not going to change his ways. This is what he recently wrote in the 2+2 forum: "I completely agree it's gay and annoying... But, I'm in poker because I want to make money, not to make friends. I dropped out of university to pursue a hopefully profitable, enjoyable substitute for a real job… It's cheap I accept, but it's where I am most profitable right now, so it's where I will play.”
Apart from short stacking, Vos has also been accused of multi-accounting. Naturally, this is a more sinister accusation since he is a Full Tilt Poker Pro and multi-accounting would be a serious breach of rules. According to some, Vos uses the alias JohnnyPav, switching between accounts efficiently to avoid the pocketing rule at cash game tables: he enters the table as Mark Vos with a short stack, wins some, takes off with the money, and just seconds later JohnnyPav takes his place - again buying in short.
However, Vos denies these allegations, claiming that JohnnyPav is another Australian player. Presumably they have to take turns playing in the same games because they share the same hotel room - and the same IP-number.
Be that as it may, right now Mark Vos and JohnnyPav are making pretty good money, if not new friends. In February, their combined profit was over $2 million.
The sources for this article were Poker Verdict and the Highstakesdb.com forum.
Ziigmund: fu vos
Ziigmund: u f gay
Ziigmund: u r the biggest joke in pokerbusiness
Mark Vos: possibly
Mark Vos: but it pays the bills
Ziigmund: small bills for you
Mark Vos accepts the criticism but is not going to change his ways. This is what he recently wrote in the 2+2 forum: "I completely agree it's gay and annoying... But, I'm in poker because I want to make money, not to make friends. I dropped out of university to pursue a hopefully profitable, enjoyable substitute for a real job… It's cheap I accept, but it's where I am most profitable right now, so it's where I will play.”
Apart from short stacking, Vos has also been accused of multi-accounting. Naturally, this is a more sinister accusation since he is a Full Tilt Poker Pro and multi-accounting would be a serious breach of rules. According to some, Vos uses the alias JohnnyPav, switching between accounts efficiently to avoid the pocketing rule at cash game tables: he enters the table as Mark Vos with a short stack, wins some, takes off with the money, and just seconds later JohnnyPav takes his place - again buying in short.
However, Vos denies these allegations, claiming that JohnnyPav is another Australian player. Presumably they have to take turns playing in the same games because they share the same hotel room - and the same IP-number.
Be that as it may, right now Mark Vos and JohnnyPav are making pretty good money, if not new friends. In February, their combined profit was over $2 million.
The sources for this article were Poker Verdict and the Highstakesdb.com forum.
I think what does is yes not sportsman like but we would all prolly do this to make a killing !if the profit from this was alot lower then one might figure it was better to just stay popular with ppl but at 1M in a month ,it's kind of hard or impossible to turn down and the reg's just make 50k min table's .I think for sure it's annoying to see these guy's double and run but I don't actually think that the reg's see this as personally malacious!!Gus the gr8 Dane practically does the same thing and also try's to rub it in with silly comment's .I am not a Gus hater , but I do think sometime's he can try to be irritating to other player's .
Gus doenst do the samething... when gus doubles up he stays, gus is only buying in for the min. Gus is only leaving when his stack is more then 3/4 times min buy in because with his type of game play, he's playing pr flop very aggrasive puts all in very fast, its better to have a shorter stack..
You cant compare vos with gus.. Vos is fucking gay
Evil!!
I detect a little hint of jealousy in what you say!Rise above it and see why Vos does his thing....Let Zig give an indepth comment on this ?
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Ziigfan
I was just arguing ur comment of gustav, I'm not jealous at Vos, not at all but its just gay thats all;)
Evil!
Point taken bro,peace
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