This week, Neil Channing spoke to poker scribe Lee Davy during the WSOP shenanigans in Vegas for an audio interview on gambling news site (not an upmarket airline) CalvinAyre.
Over the 30-minute exchange, Neil covered a plethora of topics including staking, the poker community, and the origin of his 'Bad Bead' moniker.
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To kick-off the interview, the former Irish Open Champion discussed The Big One for One Drop event, a $111,111 buy-in tournament that was ultimately won by poker pro Anthony Gregg.
"I guess I would have worried about the poker economy in the old days…" he reflected, "and say whoever wins it is going to go and buy a house, a yacht, and a car, and it's not going to get pumped back into the poker economy, but, actually, they are pumping money into the poker economy… it's got to be good for poker generally."
In the midst of the recent debates surrounding vig, and players charging fellow members of the poker community for currency exchanges, Neil added his perspective on how the new generation of players might be thinking:
"They didn't have the perspective that I had of knowing what it was like in '99 and 2000, so they just thought it was going to on forever… so they didn't work as hard as they ought to, and so now we're in slightly worser [sic] times. I think some of them are now thinking it won't get any better, just harder and harder. It can get better…"
To conclude the audio, Neil was asked about Erick Lindgren, a self-confessed gambling addict who ran up seven-figure debts, before threatening a comeback in 2013 with a bracelet win in event #32 for $606,317, and a second place finish in the WPT World Championship for $650,275.
While many were quick to attack Lindgren for his financial failures, Neil was less hasty, reflected on his own past experiences in gambling to offer a little more sympathy than most:
"I got into some trouble… I lost over a million pounds, and I basically borrowed money from a bunch of friends in pretty much the same manner Erick Lindgren has, without really telling them the full story… I totally put my head in the sand… It took 20 months for me to pay everyone back, I worked really really hard… I hope he [Erick] gets over his problems."
Neil, who co-founded Black Belt Poker, is currently grinding out the big bucks in the Rio and preparing for the upcoming $10,000 Main Event. In side events, he has cashed three times, including a 56th place finish in event #45's Ante Only event.
You can follow his progress on Twitter by adding @SenseiChanning and checking our our WSOP thread on the boards.
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