[Salva135]

I have to say, I somewhat agree with the OP, except that his isolation of DN to prove his point is incredibly unfair. Poker has come so far so quickly that we've already reached the point where we start to think about poker similar to how we think about other sports, with superstars who dominate others regularly, in competitions that define their superstars status.

But poker isn't like a mainstream sport. We don't necessarily expect it, but we somehow want to believe that the very best in the game will consistently take down major tournies and have high finishes for years on end, so we can root for them over and over and over and be happy to see our "idols" at the top. When a really good player goes on a heater and wins a few in a short span of time, we want to believe that he/she can continue to do so, and are inevitably disappointed when they start busting out left and right. They don't have the consistency of our superstars in the NFL, NBA, etc., and it annoys us.

Yes, there are poker superstars, but our expectations of what qualifies them as such are impossibly unrealistic. DN is a poker superstar along with countless others, but we need to learn to ratchet down our expectations of them and realize what a great poker career truly consists of.