Justin Schwartz - Love him or hate him, you can't ignore him

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I'm sure you've all seen Justin Schwartz at the wsop Main Event, I myself think he's a good poker player, but I don't like his poker table talk and behavior...is it just me?

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this video compilation of Justin, his best moments (you may say), or at least most entertaining moments from the latest WSOP Main Event.

Updated Feb 2018:

The Youtube video is no longer available so we removed the link0

An update on Justin Schwartz - Justin had a pretty good year in 2016 with quite a few tournament cashes, including 1st place for $27,373 in the $1100 NL Deepstack event at the Venetian.

He had no live tournament cashes in 2017 - wonder what he has been up to for the past year?
 
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I'm firmly in the 'love him' camp, he's a fantastic poker player and by all accounts a genuinely nice guy
 
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I'm firmly in the 'love him' camp, he's a fantastic poker player and by all accounts a genuinely nice guy

I agree about being a great poker player, he showed it during the main event. As for the nice guy, you think so?

I don't know the guy, do you? Maybe he is a nice guy...I understood everything he does around the poker table is on purpose for the sake of the game, maybe he's different in real life.
 
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his very funny,killing flop GOD!
 
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I love the look on his face when saw those sixes.
Priceless, like he saw a ghost.
 
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I love having people like Schwartz, Hellmuth and Tony G around. They make the game so much more interesting for viewers. Who else are we going to hate on?
 
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I agree about being a great poker player, he showed it during the main event. As for the nice guy, you think so?

I don't know the guy, do you? Maybe he is a nice guy...I understood everything he does around the poker table is on purpose for the sake of the game, maybe he's different in real life.
I don't know him, all I know of him is what he says on twitter and what he posts through his various 2+2 accounts. If you haven't seen it yet, have a read of this post he made shortly after this year's WSOP:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=48359366&postcount=353

He discusses life, having his sunday millions winnings stolen, his teeth, his addiction, dnegs... it's quite the read if you have 30 minutes spare to sit through it
 
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I love the look on his face when saw those sixes.
Priceless, like he saw a ghost.

He was so disgusted by it, if it wasn't this hand I'm pretty sure we would have seen him on the main event

I love having people like Schwartz, Hellmuth and Tony G around. They make the game so much more interesting for viewers. Who else are we going to hate on?

I know :)

I don't know him, all I know of him is what he says on twitter and what he posts through his various 2+2 accounts. If you haven't seen it yet, have a read of this post he made shortly after this year's WSOP:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=48359366&postcount=353

He discusses life, having his sunday millions winnings stolen, his teeth, his addiction, dnegs... it's quite the read if you have 30 minutes spare to sit through it

Thanks a lot man, I will have a read, much appreciated!
 
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The difference between Phil Hellmuth and Justin Schwartz is that I hear a lot of professional players and other professional "poker world" people remark about how nice and genuine of a person Hellmuth is. I don't hear anyone speak that way about Schwartz, from first-hand experience. It could be that he is not as well-known, so no one has really cared to bring him up in interviews and such. There is something to be said about the narrative that ESPN sought to convey with their presentation of the WSOP, but all I have seen from other sources is a confirmation that Schwartz's character matches what is portrayed on-screen. I will read the 2+2 post. It will be interesting to learn more about Justin.
 
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He's just one of those many different personalities you will meet at a live poker game. Some of them you dislike and others you like and then there is others that do neither for you on any given day. Kudos to the game of poker that brings us such a different array of personalities for a gathering.
 
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I'm sure you've all seen Justin Schwartz at the WSOP Main Event, I myself think he's a good poker player, but I don't like his poker table talk and behavior...is it just me?

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this video compilation of Justin, his best moments (you may say), or at least most entertaining moments from the latest WSOP Main Event.

Best of Justin Schwartz WSOP 2015 Main Event - YouTube

good video with a good player
 
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He seems like someone that is genius level that is just now having a chance to fall in love with and understand the game. (Assuming he is inexperienced by his totally inappropriate table talk in the D negs hand) I may be wrong. The typical course for a guy like this seems to be, fall in love, crush it, fall out of love, get bored, walk into the sunset to find something new to crush... the genius game playing action junky... a shifty, transient beast :)
 
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Its like pro wrestling. He's a "heel" and you need the heels to make the good guys look more appealing. He should ramp up his "heel" persona and capitalize off of it.
 
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Its like pro wrestling. He's a "heel" and you need the heels to make the good guys look more appealing. He should ramp up his "heel" persona and capitalize off of it.

Based on what I have read so far of Schwartz's post that Lucothefish mentioned, I think "capitalizing off of [his persona]" is something that he has already been doing.
 
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He seems like someone that is genius level that is just now having a chance to fall in love with and understand the game. (Assuming he is inexperienced by his totally inappropriate table talk in the D negs hand) I may be wrong. The typical course for a guy like this seems to be, fall in love, crush it, fall out of love, get bored, walk into the sunset to find something new to crush... the genius game playing action junky... a shifty, transient beast :)

I am a post donkey, and now have done more reading on this dude. He has been playing at highest level for a long while. He wasn't inexperienced, just rude and brash in his table talking... other than that spot on... the prolonged and insurmountable victim mindset as a recourse of not being able to produce serotonin from drug abuse makes sense. It takes a new challenge a new rush, and even then... the end is tragic for the junkie, what ever you're a junky for... best of luck and best wishes to him. I have fought some of the same demons, and can relate %100 to some of the darkest things the guy has written. Life can be a dark journey, and being meta enough to be able to peer behind the theoretical curtain can be a bit much to bear...
 
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The difference between Phil Hellmuth and Justin Schwartz is that I hear a lot of professional players and other professional "poker world" people remark about how nice and genuine of a person Hellmuth is. I don't hear anyone speak that way about Schwartz, from first-hand experience. It could be that he is not as well-known, so no one has really cared to bring him up in interviews and such. There is something to be said about the narrative that ESPN sought to convey with their presentation of the WSOP, but all I have seen from other sources is a confirmation that Schwartz's character matches what is portrayed on-screen. I will read the 2+2 post. It will be interesting to learn more about Justin.

He's a great poker player, but you should read the 2+2 post he wrote, he answered people there and it's a long and elaborated post about his entire life.

After you read his life story, the video becomes even more interesting to watch, with "different eyes" you may say.

He's just one of those many different personalities you will meet at a live poker game. Some of them you dislike and others you like and then there is others that do neither for you on any given day. Kudos to the game of poker that brings us such a different array of personalities for a gathering.

He is an interesting character and the video is focused more about his personality and talk around the table, yet he's a great poker player as well, so you have here both a good player and someone interesting on TV :)

good video with a good player

Thank you so much, glad you liked it and I agree, a good poker player indeed.

He seems like someone that is genius level that is just now having a chance to fall in love with and understand the game. (Assuming he is inexperienced by his totally inappropriate table talk in the D negs hand) I may be wrong. The typical course for a guy like this seems to be, fall in love, crush it, fall out of love, get bored, walk into the sunset to find something new to crush... the genius game playing action junky... a shifty, transient beast :)

He said in the post 2+2 something about being good in school but not so interested at it or something, I'm sure he's very intelligent and it's connected to his poker success.

Its like pro wrestling. He's a "heel" and you need the heels to make the good guys look more appealing. He should ramp up his "heel" persona and capitalize off of it.

I liked it, "heel!" :)

So now, before the next river is drawn, Vince will come out with music and shout, don't deal the card yet...here's the stipulation ;)

I am a post donkey, and now have done more reading on this dude. He has been playing at highest level for a long while. He wasn't inexperienced, just rude and brash in his table talking... other than that spot on... the prolonged and insurmountable victim mindset as a recourse of not being able to produce serotonin from drug abuse makes sense. It takes a new challenge a new rush, and even then... the end is tragic for the junkie, what ever you're a junky for... best of luck and best wishes to him. I have fought some of the same demons, and can relate %100 to some of the darkest things the guy has written. Life can be a dark journey, and being meta enough to be able to peer behind the theoretical curtain can be a bit much to bear...

Like I said before, he's a great poker player with an interesting life story, people should look his post at 2+2 to get more of a feel about what he's been through.
 
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Im a big fan of Justin. He is a great MTT player and also a very good PLO player. He gets a bad rap because he is very brash and socially awkward, but i think he is a good guy who has just been through a lot of crap.
 
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I don't want to be bad, but man...his teeth?! -_-
 
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rubenz, read the post that Rinor81 linked to. 'Find' the word "teeth", and read the second match, and onward.
 
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If he's serious in his 2+2 post, then he has some damn serious mental problems.
 
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Is there reason to assume he's not serious? (I'm not trying to make a point with this question. I am genuinely asking.)
 
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Im a big fan of Justin. He is a great MTT player and also a very good PLO player. He gets a bad rap because he is very brash and socially awkward, but i think he is a good guy who has just been through a lot of crap.

I agree, he's a good poker player and he has played the highest stakes as well, with success.

I don't want to be bad, but man...his teeth?! -_-

Read the 2+2 post about his life, very interesting

rubenz, read the post that Rinor81 linked to. 'Find' the word "teeth", and read the second match, and onward.

Indeed, do that :)

If he's serious in his 2+2 post, then he has some damn serious mental problems.

He's had a troubled life, I'm sure he'll learn to cope with everything in his life, especially that now he has over $400,000

Is there reason to assume he's not serious? (I'm not trying to make a point with this question. I am genuinely asking.)

He is serious, a good poker player with an interesting and not easy life story.
 
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How many people do you know that can say they have played against Phil Ivey at 200/400 heads up PLO? Stealthmunk.
 
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Is there reason to assume he's not serious? (I'm not trying to make a point with this question. I am genuinely asking.)

No reason, it was a rhetorical question. Though he seems pretty suicidal, too.
 
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