[Jimbo]

Now I'll answer yours in the same straightforward manner you used to answer mine.

What if he won the next 6 world series championships?

Still just lucky?

If they were heads up yes, if 15 entrants still probable, if there were the usual 650+ then the tournament was rigged. Why not ask a possible question?

Still lucky but now lucky with a little skill?

Again perhaps but the tourneys would still need to be rigged.

It is a given that anyone would have to be extremely lucky to accomplish this task but at what point does it turn into him being pretty good?"

Again not lucky at all but certainly crooked.


Now what did your questions prove? Do I think PH is a skillful tourney player? yes I do. Do I think I would rather enter him, in a tournament than about 500 other poker players? Now way Jose!! Is he in the top 1000 players? Probably is. Is he the next poker Messiah or even close to a WCP. Nope! Why do I feel this way? You obviousy are too biased to ever understand.

By your questions you seem to believe skill outweighs the turn of the cards in a N/L tourney situation. In the very long run so do I. The problem is that Phil has yet to enter the proverbial very long run and may never reach it during a lifetime of play.