Jamie Gold

Could we have had this Jamie Gold thing wrong this entire time? I wasn't around for the World Series of Poker fiasco but what I learned from reading about it and listening to my friends is that Jamie Gold won by pushing around the final table with aggressive talk and aggressive play. Also, I learned that Jamie Gold had made a promise to a friend/business partner to split his winnings and that a lawsuit was filed over it presumably because Jamie Gold didn't want to do it anymore. Looking back though, could we have been ass-backward about the situation the whole time?

Here are the facts to the best of my knowledge.

1) Jamie Gold promises to split winnings.
2) Jamie Gold makes phone call during the WSOP telling the other guy not to worry because he will get his half.
3) Gold gives ridiculously generous gift to dealers and casino staff.
4) The other guy files a law suit to make sure he gets his money.
5) Gold appears at different poker events. The ones that I've seen (High Stakes and Poker After Dark) show a Gold who is uncomfortable with his new star status and seems to try to be relatively humble towards the other players. Also, it appears as if most of the other players like him (Doyle being the exception).
6) Gold settles the lawsuit out of court.

Everything here shows Gold as a relatively decent fellow except the part where the other guy files a law suit. Could it be possible that we all just assumed Gold was a prick and decided he didn't want to share when in reality the other guy went "Holy crap! I'm going to get millions. I better find a lawyer and get this thing out in the open to make sure he doesn't change him mind?"

I don't know Gold and I don't know everything about the situation but we all jumped to conclusions about the guy and it would suck if we've been trashing a relatively nice guy for the past half a year.