I don’t think poker is a sport. It’s the greatest game in the world, but it’s not a sport. The Olympics is the place for sports without leagues. Poker has its own place.
Howard Lederer – 02/2010 – in ESPN Poker
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: Lederer, sport
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- March 28, 2010
Usually I just feel like another guy, but yeah, from time to time it happens that I run into Australopithecus tables, where my table mates seem they haven’t seen a woman in ages. I hate it in these cases. I don’t like feeling over observed or realise that the other people at the table are [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: Margets, woman
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- March 26, 2010
I think games with variance built into them are so much better than games with no variance modifier. In chess there is always an optimum move. In the same way poker has an optimum move or decision as well, but its often much much harder to see that or even think about that [...]
Categories: Poker in General
Tagged: chess, decision, good players, Townsend
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- March 25, 2010
It’s my belief that Phil Ivey is the best poker player in the world, and that includes every format. I’ve played live with him, and cash, Hold’em, Stud, Omaha, whatever, and he is just the most consistently good player at everything – include online based on what his results look like. I don’t think anyone [...]
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: Ivey, Negreanu
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- March 5, 2010
Tilt has many causes and kinds, but it has only one effect. It makes us play bad. It makes us do things we wouldn’t do if we were at our very best. And that’s how I want to define it, exactly like that. Tilt is any deviation from your A-game and [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: Angelo, tilt
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- March 4, 2010
Without online poker, many of the new top players wouldn’t be able to compete with the old-school professionals. With online poker, it is possible to get years of playing experience in a few weeks.
John Tabatabai – 03/2008 – in Card Player Europe
Categories: Online Poker
Tagged: experience, Tabatabai
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- March 3, 2010
Of course experience helps and playing tons and tons of hands online helps, But the more you play live, the more you pick up on as well. That’s why so many of these big online guys have yet to have a big score live. A lot of it has to do with variance, but a [...]
Categories: Online Poker
Tagged: Corkins, experience
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- March 2, 2010