Is Darvin Moon the next Jamie Gold / Jerry Yang

I think it all depends on whether or not Moon tries some fancy play syndrome.

I just hope he doesnt have the same string of bad luck Dennis Phillips had the first ffew hands of last years main event.  I felt bad for him losing a major part of his stack in the first several hands.  Did Moon hire a coach?  I though i read he hired Hellmuth.  So you know there s going to be some "taking advantage" of his stack size.........

Nsh, not Shulman.  I think the rest of the pros will beat up on him for threatening to throw the bracelet away!  I know I would. 

I have played with Darvin in several tournaments at Wheeling Island where he won his WSOP seat.  I've read, seen and heard several folks talking about "Who is Darvin Moon?" , "Is he better than he;'s leading us to believe?", "Is the backwoods logger image just an act?".  

I can guarantee you that he is just what we all have seen.  He's not real comfortable with all the attention.  He is a very nice and humble family guy.  He cares about his business and his employees.  And he is not a good poker player.  There's no tricky moves up his sleeve.  I've seen him make more bad decisions than good.  To my knowledge, he has only had two decent finishes in any tournament....His WSOP seat win and now making the Nov 9.  If he never has a good run at another major event, the rest of the poker world will never see him again.  He has no plan of going pro nor does he want sponsored by online poker sites.  He doesn't want the life style of having to be away from home to fill sponsor obligations playing events all over the place.  That just isn't his style.

I have talked with Darvin a few times at Wheeling and most of what I said here is straight from his mouth.  Some of what I said here i got second hand from others that have set at a table with him in recent months.

My prediction.....Darvin stays out of hands unless he AQ suited or better, maybe middle pairs if in position.  He'll Check fold his way to at least 4th. 

No matter what happens, Darvin will be the same Darvin on Nov 10 2009 as he was on Nov 10 2008.   He is a truly humble man and deserves all the good that has been happening to him!




Edited by markfb - 06-November-2009 at 10:36am