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Old 11-20-2007, 07:53 PM
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Default Re: The Life Cycle of a Poker Player (and my thoughts on live vs onlin

I'm also surprised others liked the article alot as well.

I pretty much didn't like the article because I didn't agree with some of the main points. Can't compare chess to poker in terms of the difference in skill, I don't believe poker hinders one's ability to learn, and don't think live pros have an edge over online ones even in deep stacked games. Shouldn't Farha have been able to smoke Brian if he's the best PLO player in the world and they were playing half omaha, HU, LIVE, and deep stacked? I understand sample size is small and that's not definitive proof but if the best player in the world live can't win vs some online player without experience live at those high of stakes then theres not going to be some player that comes along standing head and shoulders above the rest. Theres this thing called variance that won't allow it.
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