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

[skaboomizzy]

I think Barry is getting at this:

Think of all the poker players you would normally see in an imaginary 1000-player WPT field. Pick an imaginary player who's maybe... #250 in the field in terms of total all-around poker ability. Player #250 goes on a great run for 4 or 5 days, and wins the tournament for $3,000,000.

Off of that $3,000,000, our good friend player #250 can:

- play WPT and WSOP events for years, hoping to get lucky and win another.
- make a couple hundred thousand dollars off of a DVD, book, commemerative chipset, etc.
- get tons of airtime and a sponsorship from a site, or a B&M, or whatever
- constantly have a "champion" image in the eyes of Fishy Joe because, HEY HE WON A TOURNAMENT ON TV!

On the other hand, Player #250 can sit down with Barry, Chau, Chip and Doyle with no observers, no cameras, no publicity and play some $20k-$40K mixed games.

Between being a "tournament pro" and playing with the 4-5 best players in the world, which do you think is the better career move for Mr. #250?

I think Barry is just DYING for Mr. #250 to play. I'm not so sure that's the most +EV move for #250, though.