Is Chip Reese the smartest poker player alive?

[slickss]

Reading Sklansky's forum, he doesn't strike me as the smartest player alive. He has the biggest ego though.

[good2cu]

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Dewey Tomko says in Cardplayer that he lost money investing in a TV station with Chip and Doyle. Todd Brunson alluded to the same type of bad investments Chip and Doyle had together. It's also known that Lyle Berman went to Chip and Doyle to start the WPT. They consulted with Jack Binion and took his advice to pass. All in all sounds like he's made more than his fair share of bad investment decisions that have cost him many millions.

As far as poker knowledge, how much money has Doyle made writing and how much information has he really given away? He's made millions for giving away the basics in most games and saying play aggressive in all games. In NL, he introduced the concept of playing suited connectors.

Chip Reese is my favorite player, but not for the reasons stated by the OP. It's just because he made it, he's a legend and he's cooler than the rest.

Johnny Moss is a legend too, but it's said he ended up living in Binion's and watching from the rail.

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umm doyle's book tells you how to play NL hold'em near perfectly.

[good2cu]

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she is smart in that she very successfully exploited what she has going for her into exactly what she wants

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I think you guys are confusing smart and lucky. Results orinated thinking etc.

[Daddy Warbucks]

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As far as poker knowledge, how much money has Doyle made writing and how much information has he really given away? He's made millions for giving away the basics in most games and saying play aggressive in all games. In NL, he introduced the concept of playing suited connectors.

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I think Doyle said it took him something like 20 years to break even on the publishing costs for SS1. And while you might think the information inside is basic now, at the time it probably wasn't.

[SA125]

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umm doyle's book tells you how to play NL hold'em near perfectly.

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Don't want to hijack here, but that's interesting. Look at what he says about hands like TT-JJ-QQ. It's a lot less aggressive than how it's suggested by many big winners here.

[fungaimike56]

It's great for individuals such as Hellmuth, Negreanu, T.J. Clouthier, Phil Gordon...the list goes on, to make endorsement income and book sales royalties outside of playing poker because of their celebrity as poker players. It certainly is 'smart' business as anything profitable can be so termed. Reese's investment failures take nothing away from his ability at the table--maybe Warren Buffet is a lousy poker player. Buffet famously avoids technology stocks, where many fortunes have been made, because he claims he cannot understand them. He's still the smartest investor alive. Chip Reese gives none of his knowledge away. He doesn't waste much time in tournaments because it's way more +EV for him to spend his time in side games where every night he's the favorite the take down a million or more--the equivalent of a tournament win.

Doyle Brunson was quoted in A. Alvarez' "The Biggest Game in Town" that he wished he hadn't written that damn book. It had taken from him his ability to dominate no-limit as he had before. He kept on running into guys who 'play just like me'. This 'smartest' is an odd thing to kick around. Arguably a dumb move (and considered one by Brunson at the time of Alvarez' quote) because it wised up the opposition as to what he was up to, the book elevated standards of play and became a a classic. It's author the game's most recognizable face. How to put a price tag on that? I love Doyle Brunson and while publishing Super System may have been a dumb move in 1979 it probably has by now evolved into a smart one. I just happen to think Chip Reese's way of basically shutting up and letting his play do the talking is the smartest thing he could have done because his record speaks for itself.