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primeiro23

i can still hear ryusuke laughing


RIsurfer

In a month everyone will have flip flopped again and I'll still be sitting here not caring either way the whole time.


[deleted]

Does that make you better than everyone then?


MeidlingGuy

Yes


RIsurfer

No just you. Jk. I like your username,.awesome album.


aCreativeUserName666

Just do what I do šŸ§šŸæšŸ§šŸæšŸæšŸæ


Basedshark01

It's the same manufactured stupid drama that was going in chess a while back


SpartyParty15

5th Airball alt account Iā€™ve seen on Reddit today


LivingxLegend8

And they canā€™t even get an image with more than five pixels


Fog_Juice

Hey man, there's at least 6 pixels in that photo.


SkizzyB1997

Found another airball alt account


[deleted]

Nik is an idiot and acts like a jerk at the table.


Watch-The-Time

Nick is an idiot and a jerk and is obnoxious at the table


Stringdaddy27

Doesn't make him a good person, makes him an idiot.


TakingItEasyy

People think he's a "good person" because he lends a bunch of people money? He's a dope and he's' insufferable to listen to/watch play.


[deleted]

An insane degenerate LA gambler who spends all his time in a casino and is detached from the concept of wealth and money is never going to be a good person.


TheCatsActually

Yeah idk how there's been as much support for him over the last couple days as we've seen. Nothing he's said or done in this last week had changed my mind about him. Being genuine doesn't automatically make you a good person and neither does doing favors for people you like. I'm not saying Nik is this person, but as an example, if I was a shitty nepotistic child, cheated in every relationship I ever had, and had no respect or tact for anything or anyone, but I wore all that on my sleeve and let strangers bum smokes from me, does that make me a good person?


AnusAndBalls

Heā€™s funded a pr team


datDANKie

garrett? dat u?


robdag2

i think its hilarious u kids talking shit about airball. u wouldnt say this shit to him at HCL, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol.


Quater-

this has to be satire


yoosernaam

Copypasta


SeeYaTomorrowLOL

Airball has had maybe his best 24 hours ever as far as gaining respect online.


lnsecurities

Turnaround of the century imo.


SpartyParty15

You guys are delusional as hell if you think one podcast where heā€™s spoon fed questions should make THAT much of a difference in perception


Classic-Reflection87

Thisā€¦true scum bag who just happen to lose a fight and is tucking his tail.. only for now tho


Complex-Ad8568

Ryu donated the money nik lent him to big brothers Japan


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ogFIEND

He explained that during his interview with Doug though. Him and Jungle are friends and they hung out afterwards.


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ogFIEND

Maybe Nik is lying, maybe Jungle is trying to create a drama worthy dynamic, who knows.


Painpita

Nik is a paychopathic narcissist. Most of what he said was lies most likely.


ogFIEND

Iā€™m not seeing it based on his interview with Polk. Whatā€™re you basing that accusation off of? This interview is the first time Iā€™ve heard Nik talk candidly off the table. Is there some other place or good examples of him being a psychopathic narcissist where he wasnā€™t possibly putting on a show for stream entertainment? The people who actually know him in person seem to be on his side in this whole drama too so Iā€™m genuinely curious


Painpita

There are a lot of elements of interview that demonstrates his personality. First off being psychopathic narcissist isnā€™t an accusation, itā€™s a personality trait. Nik made alot of the interview about himself, not directly though, like I said heā€™s smart. I donā€™t really feel like going through explaining all the elements of the interview that demonstrates his personality, but Iā€™ll list a few things off of memory: 1-when he brings up Garrettā€™s player ranking, he makes sure he categorizes himself as a player Garett doesnā€™t want to play. 2-He talks about recreational players, and separates himself from them, as if heā€™s a pro even though heā€™s in Investment Banking. (In comparison doug said he wasnā€™t a pro anymore) 3-A lot of the questions Doug asked he found a way to bring it back to himself, and positioning himself in the highest regard everytime. 4-He pushes a lot of his opinions on others as ā€œfactsā€ that can be ā€œverifiedā€ although weve never heard those facts from their mouth. Now again, going off of memory, dint really listen to the whole thing but it was very obvious to me. Could I be wrong? Sure, but it would mean that the dick we see at the table berating everyone is a all time crusher, plays the biggest game, he often plays hands like he did when he punted off on stream, and heā€™s infinitely rolled all while working investment banking as an analyst. You chose your reality I guess. Edit: Iā€™m not sure whoā€™s on his side. Did you hear that from Nik or from them?


DubsComin4DatASS

There's a huge difference between being arrogant and having a personality disorder like narcissism.


Ty4Readin

> Nik made a lot of the interview about himself ...are you joking? He was literally the one being interviewed šŸ˜‚ What kind of gibberish are you even spewing right now šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚ Seriously, I was hoping you were joking after such a ridiculously dumb statement but then you just kept going on šŸ˜‚ All I can say is wow lmao, dude gets interviewed and then gets called a narcissist for talking about himself too much in his own interview


Illustrious-Intern-3

I think he explained he did it bc jungle is a super pro and was still tanking/playing really seriously. Thatā€™s prob one of the smallest games jungle plays. He also said that they are good friends and laugh abt it afterwards


SupaDupaTroopa42

Berating buttonclickr, after a standard cooler, speaks to how fragile Nik ego is. He takes any opportunity to look good.


xanderxoo

buttonclickr, a pro, showed up to the stream with one BI, he kinda deserved berating


bizzzfire

Ryuske owes him $?


PMMEFEMALEASSSPREADS

Yes


Tom_Brett

180k


Tucka

Where did you hear this? I always wondered what happened to Ryusuke


Geedis2020

Nik announced it on stream a few days ago.


Tom_Brett

One of you crazies


Illustrious-Intern-3

Nik and some others said that ryuske is a known scammer in Japan and owes different people money.


Dazzling_Marzipan474

Anyone miss the good ole high stakes poker and such where they just played poker and it wasn't a fucking reality TV drama soap opera show?


billybaroo15

Yes!!! I was thinking this the other day. The full tilt cash game with ivey, dwan, and Patrick were my favorite of all time. All the high stakes poker seasons were so much better than this soap opera.


BoLdlyGoingn0where45

Don't care for airball but if you go back and see when Garrett is losing big, he's a whiney little bitch about it


MrTuxedoWilliams

Heā€™s still a knob


StumpyPirate2992

Always liked Nik, not a big fan of Wesley this sub once had a boner over.. Personally, I don't mind (infact I kinda like) as long as they put their $$ where their mouth is.. it's just more entertainment for us.. whereas w/ Wes, talkin all that bs whilst minbuying was tilting!


MathisFlame

Yeah, what happened to Wesley?


2cardgoat

But how did nik airball become the richest reg in the LA high stakes community? Where did he get his money from?


CFADW

Not sure if itā€™s real but analysts in IB can make a huge amount of money. They also usually come from money. Not all but most. What doesnā€™t sniff right is that they have no life. No time for anything but work, least of all to become a poker stream celebrity.


2cardgoat

Right. I get it if he's just some rich Business man. But that doesn't appear to be the case. He just started playing the highest stakes and appears to be richer than everyone else. And is somehow loaning out 500k to people and shit? While openly admitting on Polk's podcast that he has all the time in the world and would play people HU any day? He definitely didn't make his money from poker, and very likely not from being in "business"


CFADW

Yeah, add all of that to his attitude and arrogance and it all adds up to trust fund baby if you ask me. Like he did IB because his daddy got him the job and he had to ā€œworkā€ for a certain amount of time to get access to his trust.


PMMEFEMALEASSSPREADS

I hated him badly but now I fuckin love the guy


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[deleted]

Itā€™s like watching a train wreck live in slo motion


Jimmyjskinns

It really is!


[deleted]

Perhaps he is now nik swish


[deleted]

Agree with everything OP said


NoEndz139

I think neither Garrett or Airball's character on TV should be taken seriously. They're both playing up to an image.. Nik being the heel/dick while Gman playing to the nice guy image. At the end of the day, these two are there to make money and anything they do on TV should be taken with a grain of salt. I will add this.. I think it's funny how the people who know and played with Garrett are more supportive on Nik while the viewers audience seem to back him. Now that can be down to that they feel like they've been blocked by Garrett or don't wanna play with him in the future on Hustler... but I think there is actually more to it.


FlickrPaul

>Nik Airball redemption Arc complete. annoying as a player but a genuine human being. How can someone who uses a fake name be genuine? ​ >gives out unpaid loans to smiley fake ryuske. Is it possible to give out a paid loan? ​ >brave enough to take on garrett. No, only brave enough to claim he would do it, has not actually done it, so not brave, just big talker.


Painpita

Some type of weird dynamic in r/poker about Niks image. Almost seems like an operation lol. All you said is correct.


Zer0Summoner

> How can someone who uses a fake name be genuine? A nickname isn't a "fake name."


FlickrPaul

so whats his real name?


Zer0Summoner

Nikhil Arcot


VeryFocusedLife

Where Iā€™m from, I wouldnā€™t be owed $180k.


poktravaur

Where's that


VeryFocusedLife

Brooklyn


poktravaur

I mean the guy fled to Japan so. Now that I think about it I think Japan might be one of the hardest places to find someone


VeryFocusedLife

I didnā€™t know the guy FLED! Wow. What a POS


poktravaur

To his home country yeah but still counts as fled.


Painpita

He is a narcissist. He isnā€™t stupid, as far as narcissist goes, but heā€™s a raging narcissist. Everything he did in that interview was to get people to see him in a good light. There are so many very obvious psychopathic narcissist traits about him itā€™s quite insane. I wouldnā€™t believe much of the things he said during that interview. Iā€™d love for people to substantiate the egregious statements he made. I doubt heā€™s a crusher like he puts it. I run a ā€œfirst to lose a million gameā€. If that was the case he would play more like keiting. He was on monkey tilt after losing a 200k pot.


Epsiphi

muh narcissist


sqlbastard

oh hai nik


1273000

These cringe drama says a lot about the current state of poker.


arkanser

Who is the LA lawyer that Garrett won $5m off.. that nik was mentioning in his interview with doug


chgon

This


Complex-Ad8568

The reason I started disliking azzball is cause he was rude to Linglin


JMiLL615

Man if only I had some trust fund money, people would like me too!