The "Big Game" Bankrolls and EV

[crookedhat99]

[ QUOTE ]
i really cant see chan having any more than a couple mill at most in his roll. if you watch his emotions on the tournament of champions and the PSI:finals, its quite apparent that the money means something to him.

[/ QUOTE ]

Is this english?

[crookedhat99]

Tstone bring some facts to the table instead of saying like...derrr I tink cchip reeese has a big roll cuzz uhh his wife is hot. You call me dumb but YOU my friend YOU are the idiot

[In Paradise]

[ QUOTE ]
cold cards aren't going to affect these guys at all.

[/ QUOTE ]

That sounds pretty ridiculous to me.

[rdu $teve]

[ QUOTE ]
OK, there's no way Ivey is playing to high for himself because he's got the biggest roll of all of them. And also, cold cards aren't going to affect these guys at all. In that game it's not about the cards.

[/ QUOTE ]

You can't outplay someone who's holding the nuts

[sirtimo]

[ QUOTE ]
Two of Daniel Negreanu's recent blogs talk about the big game. On one day this was the lineup:

Seat 1: Chip Reese
Seat 2: Phil Ivey
Seat 3 Johnny Chan
Seat 4: Negreanu
Seat 5: Gus Hansen
Seat 6: Lee Salem
Seat 7: Doyle Brunson
Seat 8: Chau Giang

and the next day this was it:

Seat One: Negreanu
Seat Two: Johnny Chan
Seat Three: Chau Giang
Seat Four: Phil Ivey
Seat Five: Lee Salem
Seat Six: Chip Reese (followed by Gus Hansen)
Seat Seven: Lyle Berman
Seat Eight: Doyle Brunson



[/ QUOTE ]

So my question is...... who plays in these games besides the top 10-15 pros in the world? I've heard about super whales like Andy Beal that fly in sometimes but what about normal days? Seems that these guys would be passing the same money around to each other 90% of the time. How much money do you think Chip and Doyle have passed between each other over the past 20- 30 years?

Oh, another question... Todd Brunson plays there alot too correct?? I'm assuming he can hang with 'em or he wouldn't play but does he play anywhere else? Tourneys? Cash games?

regards,
Tim

[frank_iii]

[ QUOTE ]
I heard Ivey made 20 million last year. In Gordon's book, he mentions a pro made 20+ million last year so probably Ivey.

[/ QUOTE ]

I made 2000 BB last year.

[Dynasty]

[ QUOTE ]
You can't outplay someone who's holding the nuts

[/ QUOTE ]

Sure you can. You check and fold. At bare minimum, you played just as well as your opponent.

[partygirluk]

When playing a mixed game, sure it makes sense for your NL game to have smaller blinds than you limit?

Say the big game switched to $750/1500 for NL. Now they can player proper deep stacked poker, which is much better. It also equlaises the importance of the various games, which is surely one of the main purposes of a mixed game.