YEs. nice that u all understood how bad ESPN could be for his image. They were not helping him at all at any time. I think the image they passed could not help him get better but only make him more and more into depression. Iven his daughter trying to "help" said she did not whant to talk with him unless he stoped snorting... That was very cruel form her part I think, and that all happend because of this ugly image that "society" that didnt kwew him well has created for him.
Off course he was surrounded since childhood with abusses and execces of all type, thats why his father was so worried.
Anyway.. I also thinks that all this pressure made him a better poker player. He had to prove to everybody he was good. Because by himself, he knew he was.

He was just a poker player.
Not bad, not good, just a lost soul searching for asnwers.
I think He had might have found a lot of then.