09-15-2001, 08:11 PM
Once upon a time,
there were about 70,000 perhaps 100,000 monkeys playing online poker.
These monkeys had never played each other heads up before. In fact
they had never even been taught how. But with their above avg. iq's and
poker skills they played...
60% of the monkeys bankrolls were immediately destroyed.
30% of the monkeys bankrolls were eventually destroyed
9.x% of the monkeys bought in more & more & more.....
.001% became the best at heads up and won countless sums of money.
(And lets face it, unless your name is David Sklansky, born with a genius IQ,
we're all just monkeys)
Which leads me to my point. I work with an individual who is currently emerging
as one of the top Heads Up players on the internet...The sad part is........
He SUCKS at ring games...He cannot even beat the $6-$12 limit, let alone $3-$6.
He admittingly plays bad and as an asian sincerely believes he is just "lucky"
heads up.
Now I have played with him live for many hours, and have watched him online
for 1 or 2....Im telling you guys, its truly AMAZING, at how bad he plays live,
and how good he appears to play heads up.
JV made an interesting comment a few posts earlier which provided the inspiration
for this post....He said something to the effect that he admitted Last Chance was
good at heads up, but sucked in ring games.
Now I have absolutley NOTHING against Last Chance, and have never even played
against him...He strikes me as an overall winner in ring games since he is still
playing them.
Judging by his writing skills and immaturity however, he indeed too is a monkey.
I was just curious if anybody has played with LC live before, or any of the other
top HU players before. I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of them can't
beat a middle limit ring game.
In case you didn't get my theme, it is this: These great heads up players
are not geniuses born with insight that we have no chance of gaining. In
fact some of them may actually be a step down from the evolutionary ladder,
and merely stumbled upon proper strategy vs. X,Y,Z opponent and implemented
it using their above avg. poker skills.
But then again I didn meet someone that killed heads up, and he
plays $80-$160 in L.A. for a living...His/her was listed as being
from N. Hollywood..Im sure some of you remember.
And then there was this story, if you put an infinite number of monkeys
in a room, each with a typewriter , one of them will eventually produce the text of
Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now that one I believe.
there were about 70,000 perhaps 100,000 monkeys playing online poker.
These monkeys had never played each other heads up before. In fact
they had never even been taught how. But with their above avg. iq's and
poker skills they played...
60% of the monkeys bankrolls were immediately destroyed.
30% of the monkeys bankrolls were eventually destroyed
9.x% of the monkeys bought in more & more & more.....
.001% became the best at heads up and won countless sums of money.
(And lets face it, unless your name is David Sklansky, born with a genius IQ,
we're all just monkeys)
Which leads me to my point. I work with an individual who is currently emerging
as one of the top Heads Up players on the internet...The sad part is........
He SUCKS at ring games...He cannot even beat the $6-$12 limit, let alone $3-$6.
He admittingly plays bad and as an asian sincerely believes he is just "lucky"
heads up.
Now I have played with him live for many hours, and have watched him online
for 1 or 2....Im telling you guys, its truly AMAZING, at how bad he plays live,
and how good he appears to play heads up.
JV made an interesting comment a few posts earlier which provided the inspiration
for this post....He said something to the effect that he admitted Last Chance was
good at heads up, but sucked in ring games.
Now I have absolutley NOTHING against Last Chance, and have never even played
against him...He strikes me as an overall winner in ring games since he is still
playing them.
Judging by his writing skills and immaturity however, he indeed too is a monkey.
I was just curious if anybody has played with LC live before, or any of the other
top HU players before. I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% of them can't
beat a middle limit ring game.
In case you didn't get my theme, it is this: These great heads up players
are not geniuses born with insight that we have no chance of gaining. In
fact some of them may actually be a step down from the evolutionary ladder,
and merely stumbled upon proper strategy vs. X,Y,Z opponent and implemented
it using their above avg. poker skills.
But then again I didn meet someone that killed heads up, and he
plays $80-$160 in L.A. for a living...His/her was listed as being
from N. Hollywood..Im sure some of you remember.
And then there was this story, if you put an infinite number of monkeys
in a room, each with a typewriter , one of them will eventually produce the text of
Shakespeare's Hamlet. Now that one I believe.