WCOOP Main Event Winner Playing 4 HU 5k on Stars at Once

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I agree the Kids got skills. Does that mean he has the maturity, bank roll management and other various skills that requires a great player to maintain his success? Who knows?

The kid wins tourneys, wins cash, but I don't think you can be so sure as to say the Kid will dominate the poker landscape. Diablo, you are definitely a better judge of poker talent than I. I'm not going to argue that he has talent, I just think his current decision to try to play multiple top flight players on Stars all at the same time is a great reflection of his BR skills and tabling selection skills. He is playing an extremely high variance game, and not to mention a very high variance game against some of the best NL online players.

Maybe he was just living it up for 1 day, but if he maintains this kind of carefree attitude with his money, there will be many happy high limit stars players who have gotten much richer because of this kids good fortune.

As you mentioned Stu-ey, Stu-ey had probally the best pure tourney NL skills of anyone ever, thing is the guy ended his life poor to do poor decisions elsewhere. JB's bad habits in turn could outway his skills in his future just like what happened to Stu. I could win 2 big tournies like JB, join up and play all the big games online. I could challenge Mr. Friedman to 100/200 NL, and play 4 5K HU for days at a time and be broke really quickly. Yes I might be a great tourney player, but I might go broke playing cash games ALA Cloutier.

All I'm saying is, Skills can be brought down by poor decision making outside the game. This guy so far hasn't shown great control of his money outside and inside the game as well as a maturity level that would be envious of my 5 year old niece.