The Tiger Woods of Poker

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Thank you all for illustrating the point I made earlier.

Thread delivers.

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this thread blows.

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Its got to be one of these four:

1) Phil Ivey


2) Dave Williams


3) Paul Dardon


4) Andy Black


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i lol'd pretty hard


this thread now delivers

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Its got to be one of these four:

1) Phil Ivey


2) Dave Williams


3) Paul Dardon


4) Andy Black


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This is a very good post. I strongly considered these four in my shortlist of possible Tiger Woods of Poker.

This is another candidate which I considered.



He plays poker, golf, and is considered by many a tiger in the bedroom. Can anybody please verify this?

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That he was a better athlete than MJ was the ORIGINAL [censored] STATEMENT!

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Has Woods been unquestionably the most dominant golfer through his physical prime? Hell no!

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Alright, so this was what I had a problem with. Again, I won't argue with you about who the better athlete is, but I'm sure you can acknowledge after seeing those stats Tiger is the most dominant golfer in history.

And don't get your panties in a bunch, jebus.

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On a similar note, could Phil Hellmuth be the Jack Nicklaus of poker?

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nahh. Plus Tiger does work pertaining to mental conditioning too. The guy is just flat out the most dominant athlete in any sport ever. He has freaking won majors by 12 and 15 strokes! That's like a baseball team going 150-12 and sweeping the series. If anybody has any sports achievements this far out of the realm of what has happened in that sport I'm all ears.

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Mary T. Meagher was more dominant than Tiger Woods, and it isn't even close.

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I picked vertical leap because thats one of the standard measures of athleticism. If somebody can sprint, it usually means they can jump too.

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No, that's a measurement of fast twitch muscle fibers, not athleticism. by your scale, any half-way decent high-school sprinter would likely be a better athlete than the marathon world record holder...

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nahh. Plus Tiger does work pertaining to mental conditioning too. The guy is just flat out the most dominant athlete in any sport ever. He has freaking won majors by 12 and 15 strokes! That's like a baseball team going 150-12 and sweeping the series. If anybody has any sports achievements this far out of the realm of what has happened in that sport I'm all ears.

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Mary T. Meagher was more dominant than Tiger Woods, and it isn't even close.

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Another more dominant performer, as you say, in any sport, ever: Edwin Moses.

Not enough? How about Eddie Merckx?

Gee this is a pretty easy.

(Not to take away anything from Tiger, he is without a dobut the greatest golfer ever and his accomplishments are mindboggling. But he's not the first athlete to so dominate his realm in the history of sport.)

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Phil Ivey is the Tiger Woods of poker because he is also a black male

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but is Ivey blai...maybe thack.....or even blasian?