There has been lots of talk about José "Girah" Macedo, from Portugal, lately. According to different rumors, José had got special coaching from Dan "Jungleman12" cates, 2010's biggest winner online, and turned a €30 bankroll into $2 million dollars. However, many didn't believe that the story was real until a while ago when José was interviewed by a poker magazine and tol[...] Read more » José Mecedo - the man who turned €30 into 2 million dollars
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Its these kind of guys who are on the rail shouting" PLZ GIVE ME 5 DOLLAS I PAY BACK IMMEDIATELY !" Lying to his mom for a 30 € loan TO A VIDEOGAME... seriously ...
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Such articles make me laugh He wasnt lucky. It was his " intelligence " (as Durr's ) and all that book reading he did that made him win all that money Nice joke
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anyone that plays poker regularly knows that poker is mostly all luck
this guy that turned 30 euro into 2.5 million , like come on, to do that you have to have a tremendous amount of luck really and truly 30 euro into 2.5 million
------------ oh yeah i missed a bit 30 euro into 2.5 million in a MONTH!!!!
Edited by DjAlexxKidd1 (23 March 2011 @ 00:33 GMT)
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This guy decided to stop playing fun poker and passed three years reading lots of poker books, actually he wasn't just reading them, he was studying, dedicating his time to them like a student does with Maths, History, Biology, whatever. Studying before practicing, decorating parts of the theory and applying all his effort in real money game after that. It worked! It was just like making a graduation program for your own risk. He only had to pay for some books, others he got them on the net, and than work, read, study, understand all the meaning of it in order to do money with it! Very nice! Why do we study? To get a job to get money! So, you decide what you study and where do you want to take your money from! Congrats Zé!!!
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Nice done .. :} I want to try the same;] just started to play omaha cash 5/10ct sure in micro limits playing omaha u pay a lot of rake and it is hard to get good profit but I am trying my best GL.
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Hey andy5521 I'll take your $1200 from $10 that great!!! Jose & Durr are just gifted young men....Go Boys!!! I'm ready for it to start paying off for me
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for turning 30 euro into 2 million u definitely need luck but u need good skill too. lets see how long can he hold onto this money , whether he stays there or disappears like many others.
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Posted by Fakiry: This guy decided to stop playing fun poker and passed three years reading lots of poker books, actually he wasn't just reading them, he was studying, dedicating his time to them like a student does with Maths, History, Biology, whatever. Studying before practicing, decorating parts of the theory and applying all his effort in real money game after that. It worked! It was just like making a graduation program for your own risk. He only had to pay for some books, others he got them on the net, and than work, read, study, understand all the meaning of it in order to do money with it! Very nice! Why do we study? To get a job to get money! So, you decide what you study and where do you want to take your money from! Congrats Z�!!!
DO you really believe what you are saying here? for real. Cause if someone spent 3 years reading poker books he is just wasted 3 years of his life. And to be honest its silly comparing poker with maths and biology. Poker is not rocket science. And if you believe that someone could accomplish what he did by reading few poker books then everyone would be a millionaire, everyone would quit his job and doing that for a living. But this isnt happening, and i think you know why.
Cause simply not anyone can be a winner, and it has nothing to do if you read the books or not
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Fairytale story. this is for the poor people to play and loose there money to the riged online poker. they lure people to this mirage and hope they will be someday the same succesful player like this one. pfff. This is just for the one they are so naive to think they can win online like this player here. Im not a regular online player but when i make a diference from online an live game the diference is huge. I know that i will have comments like "online you play more hands and so on and so on but if you want to sea the real online poker watch MAGIC612 chanell on youtube and you will sea what im talking about
