I've been playing in Vegas and for a while and have met and played with many professionals(mostly in tournaments). I've been successful enough to make a living at poker and am good enough to realize who is good and who is not. I consider myself to be a good player but not amazing, but I also think there are a number of names on this list that are not even good at No Limit Hold'em, or poker in general to be honest.
I'm not giving out my name FWIW for security reasons, but suffice it to say that I'm not famous enough that any of you would have heard of me. I play mostly cash games, tournaments are not really my specialty, which also makes it hard to get on tv.
I live in Vegas most of the time of the year. I'm in NYC at the moment, took a job here for the summer and a few months afterwards, but I'll be back soon.
Anyways, I don't play poker for a living (mostly stick to 1/2 or 2/5), but I may have heard of you if you are one of the names in cash games. Where do you play most of the time? But if you don't want to give it out, no worries.
He's also been playing for a while...
just play with him sometime, go to Vegas at the world series and watch how many hands he plays, he seriously is a complete nit. He's also annoying (I think he's nice, but that shark thing is really rude).
I've seen him play. Yes he is more on the tight side, but he's not completely straightup ABC. He does make moves from time to time, most of the time when he is a bit short, but he does make plays when he has to. I think when he gets a bit bigstacked, he starts playing overly cautious, but you can't say the results have not proven he's one of the best in the
wsop at least.
Most internet pros have played many many many more hands of poker than professionals; you can play 8-12 tables at once online (sometimes even more), and get in many many more hands per hour at each one. Also, many internet pros specialize in one game, whereas live pros play a lot of different games.
I know this fact. However, that's the reason why I said that that comment was hilarious. Most internet guys are specialists. Live pros play a lot of different games. Yes, maybe if we were talking about just HE, then it may be fine to say that, but we're talking about the best poker player (like you said before in one of your posts, seems like your contradicting yourself)--and because we're talking about the best poker players, I don't think most of these internet phenoms qualify. Some of them may.
Just look at the results from a couple weeks ago, when Brian Townsend, an admittedly inexperienced live player, took Sam Farha for more than 1$ million over two days.
Matusow is down almost 1$million on Full Tilt, and is deeply deeply in debt. He is not a winning player. He is good enough that he could beat 10/20NL and maybe 25/50NL live (or probably 3/6NL online) if he could just keep his head, but he plays in stakes that are beyond what he can afford and that are beyond his skill level.
Townsend v. Farha, and taking him for $1 mil, isn't much to talk about. Farha isn't one of the best poker players in the world. If Townsend had taken Ivey or Reese or Negreanu for $1 mil, in a variety of HU games, then I would say that is something to talk about.
And Matusow, is not considered one of the top pros.
That is just hilarious.
