Re: Phil Hellmuth best holdem player by far
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Someone with a ton of NL experience back then was probably someone who had played like 10,000 hands lifetime. Now with all the info available, with people who have played millions of hands and studied the game with tools like Pokerstove (keep in mind the Hellmuth who apparently crushed these games was the same one who thought AKo was a favorite over AK suited).... geez pre-boom games must've been 5x softer.
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How does this mesh with somethign Greenstein said here that the number of hands played is not important, the quality of opponent is... So someone who played one million hands against mediocre opponents would be owned by someone who played against the top players for 10,000 hands.
I also think live games and online games are SO different in how you play, that experience in one is of much less importance than experience in the one you will play.
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