Jerry Yang?

OK..it's been almost a year since the last WSOP Final...
Jerry Yang ...no commercial stuff or TV appearances on Poker After Dark etc.

Probably because he is a poker dud who lucked out and played one decent tournament. He hasn't done anything sense then and many said that he wouldn't (which is probably why he never drew any endorsements from Full Tilt where he qualified from). He reminds me of Jamie Gold.

He realizes he got VERY lucky and isnt going to be like Gold and redistribute the money into the poker economy.

From wiki...

"He entered the 2007 World Series of Poker after winning a US$225 satellite at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA."

Jerry Yang was in the 2008 National Heads Up Championship. And he played in at least two 2008 WSOP prelim events. One of them he busted out on the first hand of the play. The other, he lasted a few levels.

Love or hate Jerry, it's ultimately up to him whether he wants to be a poker pro. Just because you win the ME doesn't mean you want to be going all around the world. While most people associate the ME champ with being a poker ambassador, it's not a requirement.

I still think that he was ignored..personallity or whatever!
Never has a WSOP Champ since 1996 gotten this freeze out...

Jerry Yang has better odds of winning the loto then going deep in the 2008 ME

^hes not that bad of a player, yes he was lucky but u have to be lucky to win, plus he made some decent plays

jerry yang made a choice to stay out of the spot light, something to do with religion and charity work and other stuff

U got it !!

he's not very personable...

Unless hes talking to jesus/god, he talks to him lots

It's weird....Tv no like JY...too religous maybe?

yeah he does, and I didnt care much for all the praying during play

The most memorable player of that series will have to be RainKhan for me

though, at first he was irritating and annoying, then funny, and finally as

a likeable, and memorable charicter. I have heard nothing about Yang

either, oh well, bring on the next champ.

Hevad IS the 2007 wsop, if he had won I would have been overjoyed

its not TV, its jerry yang, he decided that he didnt want fame and that is why u wont see him much

Honestly, Jerry Yang defied the odds during that tournament. He kept winning with inferior hands and catching his outs (regardless of the religious commotion). He's JJ beat out QQ, his 4's beat out something higher (can't recall, something above him but he caught a 4 on the flop). He continually outlucked everyone at the table and he won because it was just his tournament. Can't fault him for it but it's why he isn't a well known pro at this point. He's not consistent and he never will be.

i think it is impossible to not defy the odds if u win a tourny with 6K plus in it

thnx...
seems like all the other WSOP champs milked it more...

There's no luck in chess!

Honestly, if you watch the whole WSOP from 2007 and 2006, it's pretty evenly milked. Jamie Gold played some hands that he definitely shouldn't have (evan as chip leader) and lucked out postflop. The same thing happened with Yang on his final table. He didn't deserve to win one bit but he pulled out the victory. I'll reiterate what I said before...that's exactly why he has no advertising or endorsement contract now. He completely lucked out during last year's world series and nobody wants to risk looking like they endorsed someone who couldn't play poker and relied on religion to escape with victory.

Nothing against religion by any means as I consider myself a decently religious person but Jerry Yang took it a few steps too far and should probably thank any and all religious connections as it is over now and his time in the spotlight is up.

kinda ignorant imo

Jaime got mucho TV time..Jerry got squaduche...!

i was trying to determine which language this was written in

Just because your favorite sports team has a team prayer, doesn't mean their win is a gift from God. It means their natural talent + practice and a better strategy/play = victory. And just because BINGO is played in a church on Wednesday night doesn't mean God wants you to play BINGO and/or gamble.

You can't rely on religion to win at poker any more than you can rely on Altoids to win at poker(but you'll probably make a lot more friends with your powerfully minty breath! especially if you share). I have a lucky feather. It's my good luck charm. Lots of times I win with my lucky feather sitting atop my monitor. Am I relying on the feather for victory? Is the feather God? Of course it isn't.

I'm reminded of Dumbo though, and I think I'll see about everything when I see an elephant fly(someone's gonna insert a Raymer joke, I can feel it).

Is it not a bastardized form of a Norman Chad-ism combined with elementary Spanish?

Wait I can very loosely translate.

First in better(but not much) Spanish + bad-Chad: Jaime Oro conseguido mucho tiempo de television - mientras que Jerry conseguido squadoosh!

Now in English + "good"-Chad: Jamie Gold got a lot of television time while Jerry got squadoosh!

Norman Chad cracks me up!

wsop coverage would be so boring without him.

and your right, Yang got no coverage before the final table, I think I saw

him in 1 hand before the final.

Ask the feather if its god, it could be? You never know.

He was just so far behind in so many hands. For the most part he was making moves that should have cost him his tourney life. He risked more than half his stack with 4's when he really didn't need to and he had so many questionable plays. Just my thought on the matter but I felt like other guys played much more consistent tournaments than Yang last year.

One could argue that he was playing to win, aka getting as many chips as possible for the final table to secure a solid top position.

Of course thats msot likely not true, but replace him with phil ivey, what would you say?

gollee..wait what language is that?..so brilliant...
keep it up genius......try n figure now how u speak...

wtf...
another genius here @ cardchat....
do you need a translation? or better yet you probably invented speech!

Good thread,so no one likes poor ole Jerry,me either.
But lets ask the 8million dollar question....
Any of you win the WSOP?
right thats what I thought.....
who cares

I retract that..all geniuses are not equal....

It's not that ....but is it Jerry repelling TV or the other way around?
That's the question.....

A lot from column A and a little from column B, I suspect.

For poker players to get TV time (after the news cycle of their win has expired, at least), they need to make final tables. At the very least, they need to actually play in some events.

According to his Hendon Mob profile, he'd never entered an event for more than $1K before the Main Event, he'd never won a tournament, and he's only cashed in one tournament since.

If he's not playing in anything, then there's no opportunity to give him coverage. In this year's WSOP he played a couple of the opening events and was out within a couple of hours.

The Main Event is, as far as I know, about the only televised tournament where they actually start coverage from day 1. Most tournamnents only show the final table and even those that do show back footage (Aussie Millions, EPT) don't start filming until at least day 2.

I suppose there are freebies like Poker After Dark or the Heads Up Championship where you don't need to play well to get on TV, you just need to accept the invite. As someone mentioned above, he accepted the Heads Up invite, he just didn't do anything exciting.

Long story short? Tournament poker players need to keep doing noteworthy things to get on TV. At the very least they need to actually turn up once in a while.

Whatever ANY of you think of him, he has 2 things we all lack; one of those way kewl bracelets, and about $8 mil.

FWIW, IMO the final table at last year's ME was a donkfest, period. The Russian dude was the most skillful player at the table,IMO. Tuan Lam played the smartest game of the bunch, and folded his way to 4.8 mil, and a Team Pokerstars deal. Yang won, of course he was lucky. Nobody wins an event like that without luck, and lots of it. The fact that he didn't spend the last year touting himself is purely his decision. He can afford to kick back if he chooses.