Joined: Dec '11
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Did u guys noticed that in the very close past, are somewhat not so known players winning big events? and my opinion is that its only a good thing, for the competition, it seems like the scene is more and more tough recently. Anyway still looking to see my fav players taking down some big event
Joined: Mar '11
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there are so many good players out there now that recognising tournament winners is tough. plus you get alot of online grinders that are venturing into the live scene. not really a new thing tho. its been happening for years.
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Posted by bullettooth1: there are so many good players out there now that recognising tournament winners is tough. plus you get alot of online grinders that are venturing into the live scene. not really a new thing tho. its been happening for years.
if thats so, what the fk was that in Heads-Up in Monte Carlo? that Ziyad something guy vs Benzimra.. that was not really entertaining to watch them play Heads-Up i would have it done better by myself, i guess they weren't counting that much to get into Heads-Up on final table at all lol
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I have some favourite players myself, but i always prefer to watch me winning something instead of watching them. Online poker has created this new possibility of people who like the game to practice more, better and in a harder way, playing more than one game (sometimes four or even more) at the same time, and it would be a matter of time till the first group of champions who started here to appear in the big scene. It just did. Online poker is around for almost a couple of decades, in a few years there will be rare those who learned to play the game in a table, instead of having started on the net.
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There are far more players at each tournament than in the past. Knowledge how to play a tourney has spread around, so it is no surprise, that there are more new faces winning big tourneys.
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poker is a game of luck- although many try to tell that it is a game of skill- if you count colluding, cheating, playing against drunk etc. as skill than yep it is a game of skill- but if two players play a normal heads up match, both of them know the rules- then know one knows who will turn out the winner- even you can outplay daniel or ivey or any other pro in a tourney, maybe even in a heads up match...skill is a very thin factor in poker imo- i imagine if you would play a tennis match against nadal you would have no chance of winning, because skill is too important there....but not in poker- that's why you see so many different winners in tournaments these days
Joined: Mar '09
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Year by year the field of poker players increasing in live play i think The regulations in many countries will turn some more people to live play. The filed is way bigger than it was a few years ago, so its hard to top it up
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Posted by pochui: poker is a game of luck- although many try to tell that it is a game of skill- if you count colluding, cheating, playing against drunk etc. as skill than yep it is a game of skill- but if two players play a normal heads up match, both of them know the rules- then know one knows who will turn out the winner- even you can outplay daniel or ivey or any other pro in a tourney, maybe even in a heads up match...skill is a very thin factor in poker imo- i imagine if you would play a tennis match against nadal you would have no chance of winning, because skill is too important there....but not in poker- that's why you see so many different winners in tournaments these days
Not exactly. How woman tennis ? so many different winner two years later. Is game of luck, too ?. a lot of successful can't separate from luck, that's the fact ! maybe CHESS is pure skill game, no luck involve there.
Joined: Jan '11
Location: United States
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Yeah, it appears there's no one or two dominant players anymore. It's unpredictable now days with the wide selection of players to say any one supercedes the other. Besides seeing these on-line players who win a sit and several making it to final tables. It goes to show you anyone with decent skills playing poker or should say good skills at poker has a chance to become a winner if they play the right games at the right time.
Joined: Nov '11
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well in the beginning when poker wasnt that much played the same names always took down the big tourneys but now with the online poker everyone can play tons of hands every day so the skill goes alot harder up though online play is alot of difference then live playing the odds of every card stay the same
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I can understand why its so hard to win the poker tournaments not because 90% the time the high stack players are rakeing the lower stacks easily takeing there money without a sweat,
