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12-20-2004, 02:16 PM
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David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
What poker/personal skills does David Sklansky lack to play in the big Bellagio poker game. Discuss. Note: the real point of this is to discover what “non-book” skills are necessary to hit it big-time. This should be of interest for all of us trying to move to hgh stakes games, where the guys obviously know their stuff. J. 
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12-20-2004, 02:24 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
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What poker/personal skills does David Sklansky lack to play in the big Bellagio poker game. [/ QUOTE ] Maybe he doesn't lack anything at all, but feels that are lots of more profitable games out there for him to play. Or maybe not. I don't know.
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12-20-2004, 03:38 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
I think this is an interesting question.
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12-20-2004, 04:24 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
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I think this is an interesting question. [/ QUOTE ] Some likely possibilities: He doesn't like having an 'almost break even day' and lose $40,000? Even the fish at this level know ever nuance of Sklansky's play. He isn't good enough at tell reading/obscuring? He isn't interested in games where you in the very best case have one opponent who doesn't play flawless poker? We have plenty of posters here who could beat the party 15/30 game, and still play 3/6 despite that.
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#6
12-20-2004, 06:59 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
why is there the assumption that a particular player lacks some skill, either personal or otherwise, when they dont play at the highest level. is theresome perosnal pride involved? otherwise i dont see why anyone would want to play against the best players in the world with extremely high variance when they can play lower levels and win withmuch more ease, less variance and better results.
the highest game i have seen was 4000/8000 at the bellagio and of the six players one was doyle, one was chip reese and one was johnny chan. who the hell wants to play in that game except the sucker casino owners who were there? Pat
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12-20-2004, 08:08 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
Some people are smart enough to know their risk/reward tolerance and don't give a damn what others think about them. Respect for money and the confidence to be yourself are pretty good character traits in my book.
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12-20-2004, 08:11 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
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Some people are smart enough to know their risk/reward tolerance and don't give a damn what others think about them. Respect for money and the confidence to be yourself are pretty good character traits in my book. [/ QUOTE ] I'm 95% sure I've seen basically these reasons in a post by Mr. Sklansky himself.
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12-20-2004, 09:01 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
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the highest game i have seen was 4000/8000 at the bellagio and of the six players one was doyle, one was chip reese and one was johnny chan. who the hell wants to play in that game except the sucker casino owners who were there? [/ QUOTE ] Three of the very best players and three 'suckers'. That got to be as near as perfect 4000/8000 game as one could ever dream about. (Unless one of the nameless casino owners/managers was Bobby Baldwin off course.) There are fewer suckers as one progresses up limits, and at these limits I guess a good game is one where one of the WCPs got a bad nights sleep is classified as good, and the posted game is classified as christmas. Otoh there are people willing to piss away amazing amounts of money, so a few live ones might still be around. (Does Bill Gates play losing poker?)
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12-20-2004, 10:09 PM
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Re: David Sklansky and the big Bellagio game.
I thought I read somewhere where Gates plays low limit hold'em. I hope he doesn't go bankrupt playing 2-4 holdem :P
Melch
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