\"They\'d be drawing dead.\" Barry G on tournament pros...
 

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"There are five top players: There's Doyle Brunson, there's Chip Reese, there's Chau Giang, there's Phil Ivey, there's myself," Greenstein says.

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Pretty exclusive club.

Seems like Barry G is pretty pissed off. Very interesting article.

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I knew I liked Barry.

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"There are five top players: There's Doyle Brunson, there's Chip Reese, there's Chau Giang, there's Phil Ivey, there's myself," Greenstein says.

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Pretty exclusive club.

Seems like Barry G is pretty pissed off. Very interesting article.

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Maybe not quite pissed off, just wanting to sort it out is all. I am sure that when Chan was in Rounders and got all popular a number of years ago (and was probably considered by the non-poker playing public as the best player in the universe hands down) that Barry kind of rolled his eyes and kept making millions.

Now that TV poker is everywhere and MORONS like Chris Rose has somehow been picked to commentate its important to get the story straight at least a little. This of course makes me want to be like Phil Ivey even more of course...

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Can anyone find the book on Amazon? On his site it says the book is available for pre-order on Amazon, but I can't find it. I've always thooguht the book was a hoax/joke or whatever, and this isn't helping to dispel that feeling. If it's not, I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Update: Check this thread
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Well, how could a minor player like me, ever question a player like Barry? I probably can't even discuss his play without embarrasing myself. He's probably right.

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At the risk of semi-hijacking your thread, I think it's worth noting that Steve Rosenbloom, who wrote this article, is clearly the best poker journalist working today. Indeed he might be the ONLY poker journalist working today. His story several weeks back about sponsored logos was also interesting.

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So the media is missing some of the truth... why should poker be any different?

Daniel Negreanu is a great player. Yes, I am defining great player as a great tournament player. Chris Ferguson is a great player. No one said great player automatically means 'great cash game player.' I agree, he is grumpy.

As Phil Ivey would say "why do you care so much what others say, Barry?"

Andy Roddick is a 'live one' when he plays Roger Federer but damn, why dis him for making money off of commercials.

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Apologies...

Here is the logo article I mentioned:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker...amp;id=2036285

You should also check out his poker columns at the Chicago Tribune:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/search...target=article

My real point is that what passes for "poker journalism" is usually breathless recounting of tourney play (AJ Shulman in CP) or shameless reprinting of PR Materials (Sexton in CP). Rosenbloom is doing what reporters should do: identifying interesting issues and exploring them.