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btmagnetw · #11 10-21-2007, 01:19 PM

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All I can is say is.. oooph! I think Aba is not as good as we previously thought, there are just so many sick players at those levels. High stakes online NL games are just not a very good way of making money these days. Live is much better..

[/ QUOTE ]....he was the biggest winner or 2nd biggest winner pretty much throughout this whole year...

eurythmech · #12 10-21-2007, 01:42 PM

Somehow I don't think he's up $1.250 per hand

[Phill] · #13 10-21-2007, 01:50 PM

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All I can is say is.. oooph! I think Aba is not as good as we previously thought, there are just so many sick players at those levels. High stakes online NL games are just not a very good way of making money these days. Live is much better..

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Assuming its right (which i seriously doubt) he is averaging over $12 per hand after his downturn.

He has played less than 100k hands and has made 1.2 mill - if anything you should be talking about how good a player is for achieving this.

Lol @ using this graph to draw conclusions about whether online and live is best and how many good players there are at the very top of the game.

augie_ · #14 10-21-2007, 01:52 PM

yeah OP is correct, the graph only looks amazing because of the stakes...i've seen more exciting 100NL graphs.

btmagnetw · #15 10-21-2007, 02:06 PM

regardless of the stakes, it's still pretty sick. assuming all of the downswing was 300/600 (which it wasn't), its 30 buy ins. if the average stakes are 200/400, its 50 buy ins.

and still, he lost 2/3 of what he made over 80,000 hands in his last 10,000 hands.

Daddy Warbucks · #16 10-21-2007, 02:30 PM

I think a good percentage is at 2/4 PLO.

john voight · #17 10-21-2007, 04:45 PM

so the greatest poker player in world made 1.25mill

IMO thats a tough career choice.

Owning an online website FTW

Brocken · #18 10-21-2007, 05:05 PM

didn't he lose that $1.8m hand live too?

[Phill] · #19 10-21-2007, 05:16 PM

Yawn, that is one account on one website. This isnt his total winnings for the year.

salesbeast · #20 10-21-2007, 05:20 PM

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didn't he lose that $1.8m hand live too?

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These guys play a way different level...Townsend and Ivey will play HU matches with super rich players like Kerry Packer the Aus billionaire whom Ivey once won $14 million off in a weekend session. These matches rarely get publicized but theses players are the elite of the gambling world and there is always someone who wants to play them.