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Not at poker, but I have at snooker. (For American members who may not know, snooker is somewhat like pool but played on a larger table with smaller pockets, and therefore needs a high degree of accuracy.)
I used to be a keen player and have won an amateur tournament. A pro came to our club one day, John Pullman (retired now, but a former world champion and among the top ranked players in the world at the time I met him). The other club members put me up to play him, because I was supposed to be the best player there.
He wiped the floor with me, cleared the table while chatting to the spectators and apparently not even paying attention to the game. It was obvious that the gulf between a good amateur player and the pro was just ridiculous.
The same would happen at many (if not most) sports, I suspect. Which amateur would fancy challenging Roger Federer to a game of tennis, or Tiger Woods to a few holes of golf.
I`d suggest that poker is unique among big money sports and games, in that a good amateur really does have at least a half chance to compete with the best.
Plus poker involves a higher degree of interaction than snooker or golf. Golf's really a one-player game isn't it? It doesn't matter who your opponent is because it'll still take you the same number of shots to get round the course.Egon Towst said:I`d suggest that poker is unique among big money sports and games, in that a good amateur really does have at least a half chance to compete with the best.
Not only him, you're also playing against Mark Strahan!!!!!! aka UKpoker - gl tbPlaying at the same table as Ross Boatman, from the Hendon Mob at full tilt poker as we speak in a PLO game.
Anyone ever played with a pro? if so..were you itimidated? was there presence felt at the table?..how did you play against them?
IVE PLAYED WITH CHRIS FERGUSON, MIKE MATUSOW, AND JOHN JUANDA IN A 50/100 CASH GAME... CHRIS SURPISED ME BY GOING ALL INN WITH 8K ON POCKET 33.. HE ENDED UP LOSING OF COURSE. I THINK HE WAS ON TILT BECAUSE OF ALL THE OBSERVERS TALKING SMACK ON HIM..