David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

I know David Sklansky is a mid-limit specialist and can be found crushing the Las Vegas ring games for 1 BB/hour; however, what is his tournament experience? I'm asking because I'm considering the purchase of "Tournament Poker for Advanced Players" and don't want to waste my money on concepts that he cannot even apply himself.

Re: David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

There are rumors the he just cant play NL,
just ask doyle brunson

Re: David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

I don't have S/S in front of me, but I think he won a WSOP bracelet for whatever game he wrote about in S/S (razz or duece-to-seven or something like that).

Re: David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

I wouldn't waste my money; doesn't sound like you'll get anything out of the book.

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Why not?

Don't bother bringing up the popular retort, "can Mike Tyson's coach beat Mike Tyson him up?" Poker is a game like chess, not a sport like boxing. Your physical attributes and raw athleticism have nothing to do with your results in this game. A respected author in a game such as chess or poker needs to have proven success because there's simply no excuse not to.

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I'm really not sure why I'm replying.

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I wouldn't waste my money; doesn't sound like you'll get anything out of the book.

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Why not?

Don't bother bringing up the popular retort, "can Mike Tyson's coach beat Mike Tyson him up?" Poker is a game like chess, not a sport like boxing. Your physical attributes and raw athleticism have nothing to do with your results in this game. A respected author in a game such as chess or poker needs to have proven success because there's simply no excuse not to.

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Using your logic then you should purchase the book since David has obviously performed better than you in tournaments you will certainly learn something.

Perhaps you are being too results oriented in your thinking? You think? Obviously not or you would have never made this post in the first place.

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if you thought hpfap was bad then why even worry about it? your obviously just trolling. you can look at all your posts and see a theme. we have all learned alot from these books and you arent going to be able to convince winning poker players that the material they learned to play with was bad. you can also see from your posts that you have no idea what you are talking about when you actually comment on hands.

Re: David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

WSOP:

1982
1st David Sklansky Draw High
1st David Sklansky Mixed Doubles

1983
1st David Sklansky Omaha Limit

(The above does not include the times he came in 2nd-9th or "in the money," as these statistics weren't kept until recent years.)

2001
5th Limit Omaha

2002
42nd Main Event
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2003
25th WPT Borgata NLHE

I am obviously missing a lot of tournaments. They are harder to research the further you go back into the past. I don't believe David plays many tournaments anymore, but obviously his skills lie in limit events.

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Re: David Sklansky\'s tournament experience?
 

Just out of curiousity what does mixed doubles mean in poker?

I think it is a pretty darn good resume and I think the book is solid. There is still a better tournament book out there to be written but none has been written yet imo.

I am very hopeful one or all of the upcoming twoplustwo books will fill the void.