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Jerry Yang for one moment in time played exceptional. Anyone who thinks differently is just wrong. Put almost anyone in his situation and they spit the bit. If you watched it live you could really see the ups and downs more.

Personally it would surprise me if Jerry ever did anything significant again but that doesn't matter. For the situation he got in to master it so completely, even just once, was spectacular.

I was talking about this with a friend because poker gets compared to chess a lot but in reality it is more like checkers, in fact, a very simple form of checkers. The key thing that makes poker special is when you take that bad beat how do you handle the adversity. I think Jerry handled it well for the situation he faced.

Does that mean he can beat .25-.50 game, I would imagine it does. Does that make him an all time great? Probably not. But he has 8 million reasons to not care what anyone thinks.