Jordan Berkowitz- WCOOP Champion
Have any of you seen or heard of this guy?
As I was watching the final table last night, he was really animated about "WHO" he was, so I checked it out, here is an artice about him. Pretty crazy story.
http://www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1763272,00.asp
Clearly the kid has amazing talent, but personally I think his attitude sucks. It seemed like he was getting to Barry Greenstien and Greg Raymer, who were doing the radio broadcast.
Oh well, hes over a half million dollars richer so hes happy.
As I was watching the final table last night, he was really animated about "WHO" he was, so I checked it out, here is an artice about him. Pretty crazy story.
http://www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1763272,00.asp
Clearly the kid has amazing talent, but personally I think his attitude sucks. It seemed like he was getting to Barry Greenstien and Greg Raymer, who were doing the radio broadcast.
Oh well, hes over a half million dollars richer so hes happy.
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So, unless this guy won back-to-back, who won the WCOOP main event in 2005?
ScottyZ
ScottyZ
That's pretty damn sick.
ScottyZ
By then he'll be 23 still living with mom, Â uneducated and chances are the $500000.00 will be long gone, hopefully they'll still have the trailer.
But, wtf, enjoy the ride while you can.
It would be nice if he had stayed in school. Just in case. His mom really let him take the easy way out. That's why I'm calling her the idiot. So far it has worked out for him.
Jeez, if I was 17 and had 500k, LOOKOUT! Meh, if I had 500k now...
He even made reference to having Jordan join him in the "BIG GAME" playing 4000/8000.
Anyways, it will be neat to see this kids carreer progress.
Of course, adding 500000.00 to the bankroll won't hurt. But, in perspective, Ivey etal have 1 million dollar swings A NIGHT at times.
Wolffhound/Yoda: Broke you with go, hrmmf!! Spending your winnings on Mommy and loose women is not the way of The Jedi!!!! Training you must complete!! Only then will you be a Jedi, ready to face the Master of the Sith, Lord Hellmuth!!!! hmmf!!!!
I don't have anything to add to that, just thought it warranted a closer look.
As for Jordan, I don't think anyone that age would be able to handle these big poker wins. By 'handle' I mean: avoiding the need to talk about it all the time, avoiding the urge to brag about it all the time, trying not to be playing (or want to be playing) all the time, etc. He will drive his friends nuts, and he will attract women who want to be with him for the wrong reasons.
If he can hang onto the cash, though, in about 5 years he will (hopefully) have matured to the point where his poker winnings are bigger than his ego.
This will be an interesting guy to watch in the next couple years. You can't chalk this all up to luck. His weaknesses are his immaturity and lack of education. We'll have to see how he handles his bankroll over the next few years. I think that, along with the inevitable temptations that come with youth, fame and $$$, will be his biggest challenges.
Does this mean you have some pics?
ScottyZ
That's hot!
http://images.google.ca/images?q=the+appropriate+key+words&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images
ScottyZ
braclet me pls
'Brett Favre' (William Jensen), who also cleaned up all WCOOP long on Stars taught his magic buddy to play and theres a hilarious pic of these two kids at Magic camp or something.
As far as what AllAces was saying about handling it:
I believe, although it will go to his head for awhile, I dont think It will be his obsession to inform everyone about the half million he won.
I don't think this kid is just about the money. He will on the other hand, be somewhat obsessed with informing everyone that he is infact THE BEST.
Im sure he now truly believes he is one of the best there is, and sure he will want everyone to know it.
This is cocky, but in poker it can also be a good thing. (Not my thing tho)
Anyways as far as this kid coming into a lot of money, it is not new to him. Sure he will lose some. But he will win again too.
His dad had money. He has had absurd bankrolls on and off as he swings in the biggest games you can play online.
He is far from a new player, he is fearless and is not afraid to lose.
He has had 100K downswings before coming into this half million, so Im sure he will again.
One thing I can assure you. You will hear his name in the poker world again.
apparently he pissed away 50k
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=3463651&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=14&fpart=1
Rabscuttle was smart enough to follow him from table to table to take the $.
The Grinder took a bit off him too.
The play I watch the 100/200 regulars took him apart.
well this kid has played hi stakes b4. I saw noah clean him out at the 300 600 once for many many thousands.
Last nite alone exclusive/tsoprano went 12-2 against him in 5k hu.
stars knows the money will never make it offline.
kid scammed ub for thousands also once, they dont mention that in his article.
Always one for gossip...care to elaborate?
anyhow, zee said that at the time that article was written berkowitz had already lost all the money and was in debt to many poker players....
the article neglected to mention this, as they wanted to make him seem like 'the lebron james of poker'
www.zeejustin.com
How did he scam UB for thousands, UB had been my site of choice for the past 4 yrs, up until recently.
I paid close attention to all happenings on that site and the only time a big hoopla came about there was with another underage jewish kid.
xx Raged xx came into some problems with UB, but I am very curious about Jordans, scam.
Berkowitz, playing 4 heads up 5K matches at a time, is giving away too much advantage to these guys who are already heads up masters that could beat this kid without any help.
Kid still is outstanding, and will continue to have huge scores here and there.