Best Pros for Various Categories

Who would you consider... (all questions relate to NL texas holdem tournaments)

Best player?

Most aggressive player?

Best at making correct reads?

Best at post-flop decision making?

Most feared?

Unreadable?

Best heads up?

Best at large fields?

[A_Junglen]

Most Aggressive is easily Tuan Le.

Best at large fields.... Dan Harrington. I think I remember that he went to 2 ME final tables with those huge player pools and went pretty deep this year. Greg, allthough he is a great player at the big tournaments, Dan making 2 final tables through 2 of the deepest fields in tournament poker is amazing to say the least.

[SoftcoreRevolt]

I'm answering Phil Ivey for 90% of those.

[AKsPRO]

[ QUOTE ]
I'm answering Phil Ivey for 90% of those.

[/ QUOTE ]

As far as best at large fields, Harrington would be a leading candidate because of his performance in the 2003 and 2004 ME.

[Aceshigh7]

[ QUOTE ]
As far as best at large fields, Harrington would be a leading candidate because of his performance in the 2003 and 2004 ME.

[/ QUOTE ]

I gotta go with Raymer on that one.

Raymer came in like, what, 25th this year. Obviously impressive, but there is something to be said for final tables, of which Harrington made two in a row.

[Colonel Kataffy]

[ QUOTE ]
Raymer came in like, what, 25th this year. Obviously impressive, but there is something to be said for final tables, of which Harrington made two in a row.

[/ QUOTE ]

It can be said that greg raymer outlasted about 7000 people in his two years and Harrington outlasted about 3500 in his two years.

Two things: First, the results over a span of two tournaments don't really tell you anything. Second, if you are going by results, Raymer is the clear answer.

[TheBlueMonster]

[ QUOTE ]
Raymer came in like, what, 25th this year. Obviously impressive, but there is something to be said for final tables, of which Harrington made two in a row.

[/ QUOTE ]
No offense, but that makes no sense. YOu have to look at the field size in relation to how they placed. 2003 the field size was around 800 and Harrington made the final table. 2004 the field size was around 2500 and both made the final table and Raymer won it. 2005 the field size was around 6000 and Raymer came in 25th (after a really dumb beat).
Frankly this whole "best at..." debate is silly because you can make a legit argument for any player. You could legit. make an argument that Matasow is better at post-flop decisions than Jen H. Or that Chip Reese is better all around than the OP's man crush Phil Ivey.
Armchair poker players just aren't qualified to make these type classifications.




that's what Barry Greenstein is for [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]