Barry Greenstein Critiques Top Players in the World

[That guy]

kind of entertaining fluff:

http://www.barrygreenstein.com/analysis.htm

example:

Gus Hansen
"I play with Gus in side games where one million dollar swings are very rare, yet I have seen Gus get stuck a million and get even in the same session -- three different times!"

[Luke]

Interesting stuff. I find it funny that Barry describes Howard Lederer as he does:

"When Howard was young and over-confident, he seemed too solid of a player for my tastes. I didn't consider him to be very dangerous. Then I saw him make a few risky plays, that coincidentally didn't work, and I remember saying to myself, "He's a player now"."

Luke

[PokerPaul]

Found it interesting that he claims to be the biggest money winner over the last few years from cash games.

Obviously i have no idea, and maybe he is indeed the biggest winner there, but i figure there are likely a lot of other top players with top egos who might challenge that statement.

[J.R.]

no there are not a lot, if any, who will challenge that.

[waj4ever16]

Interesting article. I respect his viewpoints because he is a top notch pro himself. I do think that Phil Ivey is the best player in the side game that they play in. I heard that last year, he made about 20 million playing poker. No wonder he doesn't like to do tournaments.

[fsuplayer]

I do think that Phil Ivey is the best player in the side game that they play in

watch the big game alot do you?

[drewjustdrew]

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Interesting article. I respect his viewpoints because he is a top notch pro himself. I do think that Phil Ivey is the best player in the side game that they play in. I heard that last year, he made about 20 million playing poker. No wonder he doesn't like to do tournaments.

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"Outsiders often claim to know the relative skill level of players in the big games and they are usually mistaken."

[Mason Malmuth]

Hi Paul:

I have my sources, and they all agree with Barry's claim. Of course these games are so big that things could change in a relatively short period of time. But as of this moment, I believe his claim is right on the money so to speak.

Best wishes,
Mason

[phixxx]

EFIGHT

[RowdyZ]

I enjoyed reading his take on the top pro's but I did notice that under weaknesses he really only listed an observations about that person game or life but that observation wasn't always a weakness most of them were a weakness but a few weren't.