If Raymer wins...greatest poker accomplishment ever? - Page 3

Sponger15SB · #21 07-08-2005, 02:44 AM

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so you would say if he wins 2 in a row........ that is better than helmuths 9? (is that right?) or doyle's 11?

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Yeah I'm really impressed with Doyle beating out like 14 people in the 1979 mixed doubles event.

pryor15 · #22 07-08-2005, 03:16 AM

yup. unless action dan's at the final table with him. then i think i'd have to go w/ dan, but only by a little bit.

cow_phunk · #23 07-08-2005, 10:08 AM

more than 99.9% of us will have a chance of doing in a lifetime.

drewjustdrew · #24 07-08-2005, 10:23 AM

I'm sure someone helped hershiser get at least a couple of those outs. Team accomplishment. Bad example.

revots33 · #25 07-08-2005, 10:58 AM

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I don't think Raymer winning 3 straight (or maybe 4) could compare with the accomplishment that was Danny Nguyen winning the WPT Reno event.

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lol nh [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

midas · #26 07-08-2005, 11:02 AM

If Harrington wins or make the final table that would be the greatest accomplishment ever.

Rosie5 · #27 07-08-2005, 11:03 AM

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If Harrington wins or make the final table that would be the greatest accomplishment ever.

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he should be happy with living past christmas

Voltron87 · #28 07-08-2005, 11:07 AM

res, easily, easily, the greatest accomplishment.

it would not make him the greatest player and he would not have the greatest career however.

Brad22 · #29 07-08-2005, 11:28 AM

Alright Raymer, kick some ass man!

If he gets tables with amateurs, I think he can bully his way to a huge stack, cause people won't mess with him. But if he finds himself up against a couple pros, I don't think he's gonna get away with the bullying thing.

LetYouDown · #30 07-08-2005, 11:57 AM

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Roger Maris has one of the greatest accomplishments in baseball history (his 61 home runs in 1961). But, he isn't even in the baseball Hall of Fame.

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While Roger Maris did have the single season home run record for quite a while, his overall stats were not that impressive. He wasn't even a career .300 hitter if I recall correctly, and his # of hits, and total number of home runs wasn't overly impressive.

Granted, there are a TON...and I mean a TON of people in the Hall of Fame right now that shouldn't be. Our local radio station had a "Baseball Hall of Fame Rejection Committee". Every day they eliminated a player until they got down to the final player. It was done mostly in good fun. For the first several weeks I was constantly saying "who?."