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11-14-2005, 01:11 PM
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mahatma broke?
The legendary Matt Flynn made a statement that surprised me in a MHNL thread. He believes Mahtama is an overall losing player.
I've always liked Friedman, ever since he made an anti-war speech after winning a WSOP bracelet. He's also a sick poker player, but that's less important to me than his politics. Anyone have thoughts on the idea that Mahatma is broke? How can he be a losing player and still have the bankroll to play in these huge games? Who is staking him? I know a lot of well-known players are essential broke, but these seems to be old school gamblers who have been around forever. They are part of a different era than Mahtama. Do online pros get staked the same ways as live pros? How does all of this work? I guess one possibility is that he's taken some of his winnings and invesnted them in the stock market. Other sources of income keep him from being broke. 
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#2
11-14-2005, 01:26 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
[ QUOTE ]
The legendary Matt Flynn made a statement that surprised me in a MHNL thread. He believes Mahtama is an overall losing player. [/ QUOTE ] Link? (or was this from a long time ago? I think I may have read it if it was over two months ago.)
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#3
11-14-2005, 01:29 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] The legendary Matt Flynn made a statement that surprised me in a MHNL thread. He believes Mahtama is an overall losing player. [/ QUOTE ] Link? (or was this from a long time ago? I think I may have read it if it was over two months ago.) [/ QUOTE ] I think it's misquoted. Flynn was on about people adjusting to sr's continuing bets make him a losing player in that game at the time.
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#4
11-14-2005, 02:07 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
It's definitely mis-quoted.
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11-14-2005, 03:18 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
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It's definitely mis-quoted. [/ QUOTE ] I just re-read the thread and now I get it. Thanks.
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#7
11-14-2005, 03:31 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
Well, you are from Huston. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
I'm from Red China.
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#8
11-14-2005, 07:17 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
Mahatma had a run of hugely overbetting the pot all-in with far too high a (bluff/little hand:big hand) ratio. Even I, who had only played him a few hundred hands, knew to induce and to call those huge all-in bets. Full-stack errors of that frequency are insurmountable. Either Prahlad backs off or does it vs donkeys only or goes broke. At that point, he was a losing player.
Nothing to say Prahlad cannot make a simple adjustment and move on. Likely he did. I have not payed attention and have not played him in months.
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#9
11-14-2005, 07:49 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
Thanks for the reply.
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11-14-2005, 11:41 PM
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Re: mahatma broke?
[ QUOTE ]
Mahatma had a run of hugely overbetting the pot all-in with far too high a (bluff/little hand:big hand) ratio. Even I, who had only played him a few hundred hands, knew to induce and to call those huge all-in bets. Full-stack errors of that frequency are insurmountable. Either Prahlad backs off or does it vs donkeys only or goes broke. At that point, he was a losing player. Nothing to say Prahlad cannot make a simple adjustment and move on. Likely he did. I have not payed attention and have not played him in months. [/ QUOTE ] Funny thing is, when I played against him some last year, I didn't see this strategy at all, even though I was expecting it.
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