DEFINE A GREAT PLAYER

[storman99]

define a great nl player

[TheBlueMonster]

me

[edfurlong]

Sponger.

[HedonismBot]

Some great players, even pros, won't play no limit. They can't handle the swings

[Poker Plan]

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Some great players, even pros, won't play no limit. They can't handle the swings

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Some say it's the only pure game left.

[hockeyplayer33]

Reading ability of Daniel N., the mind of chris ferguson, and I would say the aggression/patience of sammy farha. I think you would have yourself a pretty good player then.

[otnemem]

Why is every thread in this forum completely and mind-numbingly bad?

[SixT4]

Great players can look deep into your soul and tell what you had for breakfast yesterday.

[6471849653]

Aggression and reads. At NL it's mainly about the reads; the better the reads the better the player. At limit it's mainly about the strategy that keeps one the aggressor without losing too much doing so.

Here is an example, Ivey in a heads up nl holdem situation (four minutes):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEfLXr3eSxs

When the reads get to be that good on all streets in enough situations, then one is a great nl player.

[g-p]

great players can read hands then know what to do with them, which usually is something aggressive