Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
11-04-2007, 10:00 AM
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Replies: 71
Views: 354
Re: Annette_15 massive chiplead 4left!
Imagine if Reuben had 55 here. Imagine what an amazing call this would have been by Annette. We could talk about her incredible abilities to read her opponents in live game situations.
In some...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
08-16-2007, 12:09 AM
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Replies: 87
Views: 582
Gavin Smith\'s Engagement
Why no love around these parts for Gavin Smith's recent engagement to Cindy Kay?
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d98/cindykay/DSC00203.jpg
Far left. Not too shabby.
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
07-10-2007, 01:32 PM
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Replies: 85
Views: 343
Re: The Late Phil Hellmuth
The first levels are bad for Phil. He doesn't want to get his money in without the dead nuts. If he played with low blinds, he'd get bluffed off everything, and have a horrible image by the time...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
06-27-2007, 02:17 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 73
Re: Poker Untouchables
So, you're saying that Barry Greenstein and Chris Ferguson are equally likely to commit double murder? I doubt they're equally likely, but it's close.
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
05-31-2007, 04:56 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 102
Re: Timex Calls out all of P5\'s
"2) They are still well into the upper echelon of athletes, I would estimate that in any given event, there are less than 3 people on this forum(~100000? members) who could do better"
This is...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
05-30-2007, 01:55 PM
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Replies: 376
Views: 2,785
Re: Several Hotshots Supposedly Broke Or In Debt
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"Who knows the great enthusiams, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of being a luckbox, and who at the worst, if he...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
04-27-2007, 11:29 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 220
Re: Investing Myths: Alpha and Beta
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We're invested with a manager who's beaten the SPX by 40bps a year after fees for 15 years...with 65-75% less volatility.
Think about that...that should be impossible! Better...
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Forum: High Stakes
04-12-2007, 09:30 AM
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Replies: 12
Views: 83
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
04-02-2007, 04:39 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Re: Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
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Even better would be a graph where each player moves up (down) in stakes once he has "sufficient bankroll" for higher flips. There would be a night and day difference between the best...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
04-02-2007, 04:32 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Re: Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
Nice plots. In the 52% graph, the biggest winner is up more than 600 on the smallest winner. This is on only 8 runs of 32k. If we take runs of 320,0000, 32 million, 32 billion, the difference (in...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
04-02-2007, 04:18 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Re: Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
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It's funny because reading the article what I thought was weird was that he was presenting these thoughts as though they were revolutionary, when I thought it was all just common sense......
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
04-02-2007, 04:14 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Re: Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
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You're a complete idiot. I've logged soooooo many hours with Ben Roberts online and LIVE from 10/20 to 50/100...he is definitely one of the top 5 FTP Pros...very very good, and also quite...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
04-02-2007, 04:04 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Re: Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
"Ben is widely considered one of the best NL cash game players in Europe."
Good for Ben.
"Anyway, the best no limit players I know, have had insane consistency in winning when playing live." ...
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Forum: News, Views, and Gossip
03-31-2007, 01:08 PM
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Replies: 35
Views: 156
Ben Roberts Full Tilt Article
Good old Ben Roberts:
Roberts article (http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/tip-email-98-deposit.php?utm_id=84)
Some beautiful tidbits:
"If you ask me, however, I'll tell you something you won't...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-29-2007, 11:07 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 76
Re: Shot in the dark
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It wouldn't be nutty at all, nobody has the patience to move up from small games that nobody takes seriously. Last year I had like $800 and some idiots tried to convince me I should play...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-23-2007, 11:16 AM
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Replies: 36
Views: 142
Re: One last try
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I think OP will soon receive a publishing deal offer from 2+2.
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for a book titled this is how fish think.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 08:58 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 142
Re: One last try
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I hope you are being sarcastic. His post boils down to saying that because one person is "lucky" they have an effect on the cards they get by just being slightly more lucky than another...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-22-2007, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 36
Views: 142
Re: One last try
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So I guess first step would be to prove that "luck" actually is normally distributed. How do you know it really doesn't follow a Cauchy distribution?
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Man, if it did,...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 200
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
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Phil Ivey is lucky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfLXr3eSxs)
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So, Phil Ivey making an incredible read in a poker hand is relevant to this argument? Phil Ivey is a...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 05:11 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 200
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
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An interesting claim. Better players are in a position to get sucked out on more often than bad players. A novel concept, and probably beyond my level of understanding.
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-21-2007, 10:48 AM
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Replies: 38
Views: 200
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
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Do you really not understand that Ivey is unlucky in the sense of getting sucked out on? I can guarantee you that he's been sucked out on more times than he's sucked out on someone else....
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 08:20 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 200
Re: Interesting take on Poker Pros (Part II)
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If Phil Ivey were the most unlucky player in the world and this could be proven, he'd still be so close to where he is right now that nobody would know the difference.
Sure, his total...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 08:15 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 246
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
"Are you really arguing that somehow $52,000 out of $1,000,000,000 is some statistically significant amount?"
Nope
"Anyone who says that the $52,000 out of $1,000,000,000 makes someone a better...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 08:11 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 246
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
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Really, what is more likely, that Phil Ivey has been 3 standard deviations to the lucky side of the curve, or 3 standard deviations to the unlucky side?
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It's...
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Forum: Beginners Questions
03-20-2007, 03:16 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 246
Re: Interesting take on poker pros
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GREAT POINT JOEY JOE JOE!
If Phil Ivy were in a low percentile of luck no one would be talking about the him being the greatest player in the world. Even though his skill...
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