Young Hi-Limit Players?
I was reading the Favorite Pro threa and Phil Ivey came up a lot. Someone mentioned he was 24. On TV they mentioned he see's quarter million swings in his bankroll daily.
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Anyone know how he got to that level? Great plyer who worked up? Born rich? et.
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For example, One guy they called "mini-Gus [Hansen]" was identified as a dot com millionaire, retired at 25.
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Just curious if the majority of young prodigies are like that.
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Also, anyone draw any inferences from the fact that a total noob took the 2004 WSOP and he claims to only have been playing 6 months? (At my own 6 month mark I think I was down $1000.)
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I get the feeling it means he's an oldster prodigy, or he had an edge because he was an unknown, or luck plays a *much* larger factor than us +EV believers realize.
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