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#101
03-01-2007, 10:02 AM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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[ QUOTE ] Varkoni is the biggest fraud... [/ QUOTE ] "Fraud?" He never pretended to be anything other than a novice. [/ QUOTE ] Varkonyi is a fraud if he pretended to be a novice. In the interviews at the WSOP he said he had taken 1 1/2 years off from work to play poker. Now like about 2/3 of the people in the software field lost their jobs at about that time. He has a BS and MBA from MIT, so he probably could have found another one at lower pay. He probably didn't want to admit he was trying to be a professional player, because he was playing relatively low limit, and because of his educational and professional background. Varkonyi is probably not at the same level as a player as most WSOP champions, and probably not as strong as Hachem, Raymer, or Moneymaker. However, he is probably at a comparable level with Gold, Furlong, McEvoy, or Daugherty. I literally sat next to him ITM at a $300 tournament. He seemed like a nice person and was interesting to talk to. He was modest and didn't act like he was someone important. He stacked his chips neatly and was into using proper poker terminology. Gold seems like he is somewhat sleazy, and there are plenty of other poker players like that past and present. I don't know if I would call him a fraud. His job was an agent for B actors. As such, he overrepresented his clients' qualifications to the studios and misprepresented assingments to his clients. He also was manipulative of both parties to make the deal go through. You can see some of this in the way he represents himself and his style at the poker table. 
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#102
03-01-2007, 10:17 AM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
well this thread turned to [censored].
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#104
03-01-2007, 10:25 AM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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well this thread turned to [censored]. [/ QUOTE ] It has definately gone off topic. Rizen's article was not all that interesting, but it confirmed what I have noticed that tournament donks have learned to push steal, resteal, and squeeze.
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#105
03-01-2007, 10:31 AM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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Rizen's article was not all that interesting, but it confirmed what I have noticed that tournament donks have learned to push steal, resteal, and squeeze on the US sites, but on Euro sites they're still pretty clueless. [/ QUOTE ] Ruthlessly FYP [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#106
03-01-2007, 01:06 PM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
So you're saying we all need to find our way back to Party?
Did Party ever fix their rebuy MTT bug? If not, anyone know what the field/payouts are like? The $5 rebuy was always a blast [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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#107
03-01-2007, 01:10 PM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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[ QUOTE ] Rizen's article was not all that interesting, but it confirmed what I have noticed that tournament donks have learned to push steal, resteal, and squeeze on the US sites, but on Euro sites they're still pretty clueless. [/ QUOTE ] Ruthlessly FYP [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] I thought all the dead money was American. I am very confused by this post.
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#109
03-01-2007, 03:16 PM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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So you're saying we all need to find our way back to Party? Did Party ever fix their rebuy MTT bug? If not, anyone know what the field/payouts are like? The $5 rebuy was always a blast [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] No, the "bug" is still alive and kicking. The fields are much smaller now, which is both bad and good...
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#110
03-01-2007, 03:17 PM
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Re: Rizen just wrote a great article on P5\'s...
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Rizen's article was not all that interesting, but it confirmed what I have noticed that tournament donks have learned to push steal, resteal, and squeeze on the US sites, but on Euro sites they're still pretty clueless. [/ QUOTE ] Ruthlessly FYP [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [/ QUOTE ] I thought all the dead money was American. I am very confused by this post. [/ QUOTE ] Not sure if you're serious here, but in case you are, the Euro fish are evidently just as bad...if not worse. I'd say the competition is as bad as it ever was, and way below Stars' level now.
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