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Dan Cates announced that he'll be stepping back from poker for the time being. He wants more time to work on other pursuits, such as acting and blogging.
Writing through a Medium post entitled Quarantales, Cates discusses what he's been up to lately. 'Jungleman' also details why he's not as excited about poker these days.
Over the past 48 hours, a Poker Twitter row has exploded. What started as an angry tweet from Bill Perkins about a pro having cheated escalated into a guessing game that would rival most poker. During the episode, the panel discussed the role of regulation in poker, and whether regulation is a barrier to how online poker should run. Negreanu said that the obvious goal for online poker is. After the scandal was revealed through a series of serendipitous discoveries and an exhaustive investigative effort by members of the online poker community, the sites were compelled to pay millions in reparations to cheated players, and the story generated mainstream interest when 60 Minutes broadcast a segment on the scandal in December of 2008. The Absolute Poker Scandal. Absolute Poker was created in 2003 by a group of University of Montana fraternity brothers who had no gaming experience. They moved the company to Costa Rica where the site could operate without a gaming license. Today Dan Bilzerian accused Sina Taleb of cheating him, Perkins, and other players on the poker app Fun Ocean by having Daniel 'Jungleman' Cates play on his account, a practice known as ghosting. There is no information about who Taleb is, although Bilzerian shared a picture of him.
The recent ghosting scandal, which Cates was called out for, is playing a role in his waning poker passion. However, he's also ready to try something new as a career anyways.
Shifting Focus to Something Beyond Poker
Jungleman has been playing quite a bit of poker ever since the coronavirus pandemic began. He's also been winning on the tables too.
However, Cates notes that 'poker no longer satisfies my ambitions, so I have largely been working on a new career path.'
He has nothing but good things to say about the game from an overall perspective. Furthermore, he doesn't plan on quitting the game entirely.
'Poker was and possibly still is an excellent way to go from having not much money to having enough to give one freedom. [...] To be clear, I am not quitting poker, just shifting focus unless big opportunities or games come.'
Jungleman's Thoughts on the Ghosting Scandal
Recently, amateur poker player and millionaire Bill Perkins tweeted about being the victim of a ghosting scandal. He was playing on a third-party app with other businessmen...or so he thought.
In actuality, pros purchased the businessmen's accounts without Perkins' knowledge. They proceeded to win lots of money off him.
Perkins announced the scandal through Twitter and has only called out Cates so far. Jungleman admits his wrongful actions but also doesn't understand why he's the only one being named.
'Got screwed over a bit in new ways and in a scandal somehow despite having the tiniest role,' he writes. 'So, I got something possibly worth more than money: life lessons and experience! Yeay, thanks?'
What Else Has Cates Been Doing?
Jungleman has been playing a fair amount of online poker while COVID-19 scares persist. However, he's also been enjoying the following activities too:
- Visiting various parks around the UK.
- Learning life skills, such as cooking, using a laundry machine, and stir frying.
- Improv classes
- Blogging
- Working out and dieting
- Taking acting lessons
Cates is really passionate about the last activity. He's gotten so into acting that he's even taking private lessons from an established actor.
'I always wanted to see/feel the world through other people’s eyes, maybe this will sort of allow me to,' he notes. 'Acting also has to do with the many ways you can perform an action, stretching creativity and showing you new possibilities for how to behave in everyday life.'
Jungleman isn't the first famous poker player to get into improv and acting. Phil Galfond took 10 weeks' worth of improv classes while living in New York City. Coincidentally, he also married former Days of Our Lives star Farah Fath.
The chances of Cates going from the felt to the big screen seem slim right now. He mostly seems to be taking up acting for enjoyment purposes.
At the same time, he’s pretty interested in the matter and is searching for a new career path. It'll be interested to see what Jungleman does settle on if he indeed chooses to stop playing poker professionally.
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