Originally posted by ikkvr
Hey did u play nosebleeds? how much u won/lost max in a day? Did u face isildur1 in his mystery era?btw watched the documentary it was great good job
Thank you! I played quite a bit of nosebleeds from 2007-2010. Max won/lost in a day was probably 2-300k... can't remember my biggest personal winning/losing day exactly as I almost always had at least 50% action sold off or swapped and being up or down six figures was a common occurrence!
I played Isildur but mainly at 25/50, when he was playing nosebleeds I wasn't playing. I thought he was a tough, creative player when I faced him. I think there are two training videos from a 4-tabling 25/50 session I played against him available at DeucesCracked.
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Originally posted by metza
What was BetRaiseFold filmed on?
We used two cameras, the Canon 5D and 7D
Originally posted by outspan
What drives you? Is it money, the challenge, ego, something else?
Curiosity
Originally posted by mbml
do u still play?
are you ever coming back to play full time?
not with any regularity. time will tell, today i'm not playing full time but hard to see, the future is
It's my understanding that this was funded through KickStarter, what would you have done if you didn't reach your goal?
Originally posted by ThatGuyMatt
It's my understanding that this was funded through KickStarter, what would you have done if you didn't reach your goal?
Production and most of post-production was fully funded by an investment group of about 12 high stakes online poker players. Kickstarter helped us with finishing costs near the very end of post-production, as well as initial costs of marketing and distribution. It was also hugely valuable for raising awareness about the film before we released.
You can check out the Kickstarter campaign here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/betraisefold/bet-raise-fold-the-story-of-online-poker-moving-al
If we didn't reach our goal there, it wouldn't have stopped us, but we thought we'd be able to successfully sell enough pre-orders of the movie to make it work out well for everybody.
Hi!
What were the biggest challenges producing the movie, and what surprised you the most (both positive and negative) during the project?
What sort of fiction are you writing now?
Originally posted by LgWz
Hi!What were the biggest challenges producing the movie, and what surprised you the most (both positive and negative) during the project?
What sort of fiction are you writing now?
Hmm, good questions! There are an avalanche of challenges that come at you when producing a movie... it's a constant kind of chaos, and you're judged by how good your decisions are at every point and how well you respond to good luck and bad luck. So it's not unlike an online poker marathon 
Stories matter most to a movie's success, so incorporating an unexpected twist like Black Friday into the story of this documentary was the most difficult challenge to overcome. Was Black Friday an ending, or a beginning? What did it mean to online poker as an industry and as a career path and what does it mean to the people caught up in it? All questions everyone in the poker world was wrestling with (including those of us involved in the production), but we also had to figure out how to make the best movie about it. Figuring this out took a Herculean amount of work, trial and error, calling in favors, begging, smashing watermelons, praying to the poker gods... especially since the story was still unfolding as we were editing.
Finishing the film was challenging. Ryan recounts the story of the long editing process better than I can here:
The Four Cuts Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Marketing and distributing the film has been an interesting challenge. The independent film world is changing a lot, and this is our first feature film, so the whole process of meeting these challenges by taking some calculated risks, thinking like poker players... it has been an exciting ride.
I'm probably positively surprised by just how much I've grown and learned as a result of collaborating with so many different people to make BRF happen. It's been an incredible education. Negative... Prahlad Friedman never returned our phone calls!!!
re: fiction, I'm writing a science fantasy novel for NaNoWriMo right now... it's really hard. I work my way through this book to help (if you're a writer, I highly recommend): 3AM Epiphany