Poker players can agree on nothing. So the fact they do agree on Phil Ivey is a rare circumstance. Phil Ivey has a sixth sense like all good poker players do, but he has like a sixth-and-half sense. He has the ability to read situations better than the next person. In poker it’s hard to [...]
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: Chad, good players, Ivey
Virtually every poker situation can be broken down to a simple mathematical formula. If there is $600 in a pot and you bet $600, you’ll be getting even money on your proposition. That means, in the long run, you’d have to win that pot half the time to make it a profitable play. When you [...]
Categories: Poker Strategy
Tagged: control, good players, Negreanu
I realized that people are getting better at poker. Whereas I used to sit down at a table and presume people were bad until they show me that they aren’t, now I play and presume people are good until they prove otherwise.
Gavin Griffin – 01/2010 – in PokerStars Blog
Categories: Players on other players
Tagged: evolution, good players, Griffin
It’s no coincidence that Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey and a lot these really, really top players are in excellent physical condition. They’re in great shape, they eat healthily and I’m sure many of them have mental coaches, sparring partners of some kind. [..] I think in the next three to four years the players that [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: Antonius, good players, Hougaard, Ivey, sport
My game is way too deep for anyone to figure out. The minute that I start thinking that they are figuring me out I’ve got so many different gears and so many different plays in my no-limit heads-up book that they are going to have to play like a million hands against me. They’re never [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: ego, good players, heads-up, Schwartz
Is there really a best poker player in the world? I don’t think so. It is much like saying, ‘Is there a best artist in the world?’. Poker is too much art to have a best player. A list of great players could be written, but the word ‘best’ shouldn’t be used. No offense to [...]
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: art, good players, Ivey, Schneider
In Europe, there are more very good players, but also a lot of bad players. In the United States, there are a lot more average and good players. I think there are more great players in Europe than America.
Antonio Esfandiari – 02/2009 – In Poker News Daily
Categories: Poker Players
Tagged: bad players, Esfandiari, Europe, good players, U.S