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"That doesn't change the fact that I would love to play in a game with him since it's pretty clear he sucks."

I don't think we have nearly enough information on him to suggest this at all. We don't know he's great, but we don't know he's horrible. Given what we do know, I'd trend more towards "would probably own somebody displaying shoddy logic on the internet" than not.

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I guess you haven't read the interview or any of the posts from people that said they've played live with him. If this guy played online I wouldn't even think about saying he's bad, but I've played at the casino where this guy "mastered" poker. There's a 2/4 and 3/6 limit game and a 2/5 NL with 200 max that doesn't always go, as well as some tiny buyin donkaments. No matter how hard you study the game (in his case I'm guessing this is not at all) you do not gain the skill to perform this well in games where you are playing for lunch money.

I'm more than willing to believe that there are hundreds/thousands of players out there that play online that nobody knows the name of that are winning hundreds of thousands that could potentially pull off a similar WSOP, but please don't suggest to me that someone that was MAYBE (probably not) a winner in a $200, 40 big blind buyin cash game is somehow skilled enough to play and compete at an even remotely similar level against dozens of people that play in games where the average win or loss is at least ten times the amount of money he had to borrow from his parents and take out of his college fund to enter these events.

I'm going to make a bold claim and say that Chris Moneymaker is a far superior poker player than Jeff Madsen.