The Life Cycle of a Poker Player (and my thoughts on live vs online)

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Nice post, but I think the lack of variance in chess and tennis makes the Kasparov/Federer analogies fairly meaningless. I think that's the real reason why there has never, and probably will never be a well-defined "best player" in poker.

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agree - and it's the lack of a luck element in chess and tennis that causes the lack of variance.