Ivey is NOT Tiger Woods of Poker

[Rushmore]

Offensive or not offensive?:

Scotty Nguyen is The Vietnamese Burt Reynolds of Poker.
Daniel Negreanu is The Ally McBeal of Poker.
T.J. Cloutier is The Canadian Chia Linebacker of Poker.
Phil Hellmuth is The Poker Bitch.
Paul Magriel is The Brad Pitt of Poker.
Slim Preston is The Tall Old White Michael Jackson of Poker.
Robert Varkonyi is The Poker Sling Blade.
Johnny Chan is The Iron Chef of Poker.
Annie Duke is The Poker Midwife.
Eric Seidel is The Serial Murderer of Poker.
Mason Malmuth is The Great Oz of Poker.
David Sklansky is The Auntie Em of Poker.
Mat Sklansky is The Poker Toto.
Ray Zee is The Randy Weaver of Poker.
I am The Salman Rushmore of Poker.

I edited out the ones that were actually nasty.

[WEASEL45]

They look almost exactly alike.

[DcifrThs]

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The real problem here is you guys are looking at tournament results which are a poor measure of how well a person plays poker. Tournament poker is a bastardized version of the game.

Ivey (or anyone else) is one of the game's greatest players because of his performance in cash games where I believe Ivey regularly plays games with big bets in the thousands. Ivey also is known for playing for than just hold 'em. I believe he is also a world class stud player as well.

However, neither the poker media nor the regular media has any idea how to adequately cover cash games the way they skillfully cover tournament poker.

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a kindly chatty woman dealer at the bellagio spoke very highly of ivey saying it was like watching an artist at work. she dealt *according to her* the 1500-3000 stud game on the upper level when phil ivey, howard lederer, brunson and another big name were playing with some producers. she said he basically ran the game and made some great river calls against lederer.

at least i'm told...
-Barron

[fluff]

I agree with you. If anything, Tiger Woods should be called the Phil Ivey of golf!

[Dynasty]

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a kindly chatty woman dealer at the bellagio spoke very highly of ivey saying it was like watching an artist at work.

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Do you really believe a Bellagio dealer is capable of analyzing the play of those players? Consider the source.

[jedi]

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They look almost exactly alike.

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No way. I think Ivey and ARod look more alike than Ivey and Tiger.

[jdl22]

I agree with that Ivey looks a lot like ARod, much more so than Tiger.

Wonder who the Tiger Woods of baseball is.

[Duke]

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I believe he is also a world class stud player as well.

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Nah he's a fish. He's never taken more than, say, half a mil out of the Larry game. But that's a soft lineup usually, with other fish like David, Ted and Danny.

~D

[banditbdl]

While the skin color comment for this comparison makes sense, its only part of the real similarity that draws comparisons between the two. Besides having similar color skin, Ivey simply looks like Tiger, if Tiger wasn't so famous Ivey coulda borrowed his ID to use it as a fake when he was sneaking into the Taj underage back in the day.

[DcifrThs]

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a kindly chatty woman dealer at the bellagio spoke very highly of ivey saying it was like watching an artist at work.

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Do you really believe a Bellagio dealer is capable of analyzing the play of those players? Consider the source.

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yes and no. i could imagine him being quite good at stud but maybe thats why i was ready to believe it. i also left out how much she said about it. id say she at least knew above 1st/2nd level thinking and could maybe see a few thoughts...but then again, at that level those thoughts are beginners land. so yes and no...but now that you've provided facts based on real world stuff i'm more inclined to believe you.
-Barron