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[QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 1336019, member: 23910"]
There's some points in between that you're leaving out, and they're important ones.  This is the most important one:
 
[I]2.5 - He got those good hands often enough for his "strategy" to work.[/I]
 
The flaw in that "strategy", if you want to call it that, is it's 100% based on luck.  In poker, if you can't win with the lesser hand at least some of the time you're going to wind up losing overall because those premium hands don't come about often enough.
 
So his "strategy" is basically to turn up and run like god.  There's no Plan B so if he doesn't get his regular servings of aces and kings, he doesn't get anywhere.
 
And this is the other important one:
 
[I]3.5 - He loses [B]too much[/B] when he's got a worse hand.[/I]
 
It's OK to lose with the worst hand.  You're right, we all do it and sometimes there's nothing you can do to avoid it.  But Moon was losing [I]too much[/I] in a lot of spots when he had the worst hand, particularly at the final table.  When you've got leaks that big you really [B][I]really[/I][/B] need to run like god to make up for them.  Luckily, he did run that good.
 
As for whether he's good for poker... meh.  You're right, he put up $10K just like everyone else and he's entitled to do what he likes.  But people (especially poker fans) are allowed to hold the fact that he's not going to be much of an ambassador for the game against him when they're choosing who to cheer for.
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