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Curtis Mayfield III is a freelance poker writer with several years of online and live experience.

He is also the son of R&B superstar Curtis Mayfield. As a player Curtis excels in all forms of poker and prefers No Limit Deep Stacks tournaments.

Curtis is author of the Do or Die Poker blog

He resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife and 2 daughters.

Favorite Quote: “In order to live, you must be willing to die!” –Amir Vahedi

Poker Players more Polished on TV

Posted by Curtis Mayfield III on Friday, September 25, 2009 - 07:26

I thought I would take a moment to praise the poker world and how it has responded to being a high profile sport. Initially some of the players conduct was not real good for TV. It took us a long time before players finally realized that bad behavior really does not play well with advertisers. Seriously, Phil Hellmuth does his act every tournament. It's amusing more than offensive. Besides, we all know Hellmuth is truly not a bad guy. The same goes for Mike Matusow. Especially if you have read his new book. Mikey is a teddy bear for goodness sakes.

So who do you have left that is truly a bad guy?

Hevad Khan is now a reformed hell raiser. Even Scotty Nguyen has leaned a lesson or two about conduct over the past couple of WSOP's. Today's poker player is a much more polished and public aware poker player. We look, sound, and promote the game better than at any particular time in its TV history. We can all be proud of that.