I'm not sure if they're getting tired of playing poker online, but the live B&M events pay out more with a smaller field. The buy-ins are much higher, but they can afford it, so I'm assuming they are just going where the money is
I seriously doubt it, but he has stated he has lost 1mil in online play.
Yeah, some of the chatter that goes on while the pros are playing, sometimes heads-up, is ridiculous. It's rude, immature, sexist, and sometimes racist. If someone's playing heads-up NLHE for lots of money of course they're not going to be answering questions.
I can imagine when playing at the Bellagio or any other casino, they don't have rail birds hounding them with rediculous questions when they are in the middle of a hand. I don't blame them one bit. Yeah, I know they can turn off Observer chat, but then they just get flammed on the message boards for doing that, so it's pretty much lose lose for the pros.
in another part of that article didn't he say he lost 400k the week before the WSOP?