Billionaire Poker Players

[pkour]

"If posting on 2+2 qualified you for the special olympics, this post would put you in division 1."

im flattered :/

[Quicksilvre]

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The "rules" of poker would say that they therefore must have an adequate Bankroll of Billion dollars....?

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

[streetz]

w/ 2.4 mill, i would sit down at that 4-8 game.

i heard ivey made 18 mill in 2005? exaggeration?

[streetz]

Daniel Negraneau has one time said he played 40-80 limit on a $3,200 bankroll

haha, this was me 3 yrs ago. i had 4800 and survived for 1/2 a yr playing 10-20 spread and 40-80 before taking my last 1k into cyperspace. i'm doing much better now. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[DarthIgnurnt]

Bill Gates.

Oh, also Andy Beal.

[cwsiggy]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

[Ness]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

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Yeah, reasonably good sources have put his role at around 25M. Chaus roll is/was [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] allegedly around the same size.

[aragorn_i]

If you are interested in the bankrolls of the big game players you should pick up Professor,the bamker and the sucide king.It is not only a great read but it gets into the amount of income the big players have at there disposal.

[Quicksilvre]

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No way. At 4000-8000 an adequate bankroll is more like $4 million. The biggest roll I've heard of is Phil Ivey's, and that was $8 million.

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There is no way Ivey's roll is "only" 8 million. More like 20-40 million.

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5000BBs? Sounds like a lot to me.

Admittedly I don't remember where I got $8 million from, so I could be wrong, but much more than that seems incredible.

[dc_publius]

I don't agree with the rationale outlined in that blog.

Arguing that poker pros can become billionares by investing their winnings in the stock market is completely different from arguing that poker pros can become billionares through winning that sort of money over the years.