Re: aba caught bluffing against bobby baldwin in 1.8mil pot
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My take.
These young Internet hotshots who think they're the be all end all of poker just don't have the seasoning to really understand what the poker world is all about.
People like Baldwin have been around for a long, long time. They've seen lots of hotshots come and mostly go over the years, but nobody ever gives them any credit.
Some of these kids just think they know everything there is to know about poker. What with all of their two to five years of experience.
And some of them haven't hit the variance roller coaster on the downhill slope yet either. It can be a long, long ways down to the bottom of that hill.
I would love to see how some of these new superstars would have fared in the old days with Baldwin, Brunson, Moore, Reese, Zee, Zewin, Tomko, Chan, Ferris, Berman, Ungar, Strauss et al. There used to be some mighhty big no limit and pot limit games around. I used to watch these guys push around 200K pots back in the early 80s. What's 200k in 1983 worth in today's dollars?
I give these kids their props though. They made the money, and they've got the balls to step up and play in the biggest with the best. They'd just better be careful. What goes up, usually comes crashing back down.
For those who haven't read it, Bobby Baldwin's book, Winning Poker Secrets is a very good read. This guy's been through eveything these kids are facing now--and then some.
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posts like these make me laugh so hard.
I suppose you haven't read the hundreds of posts about how many leaks these "best players in the world" have in their poker games? like, undeniable penetrating leaks. not to say they arent good players, but I love how losing one pot in the biggest game around constitutes these "cocky" internet pros knowing nothing compared to the older live pros.
"crashing down" is also so ridiculously overstated. the guy lost one post. hes routinely pulled in over a million in each of his live sessions played in vegas...did you post about how good he is or all of the praise he deserved in those threads?
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