out of bordem, I checked pokerlistings to see the days big winners...... here ya go..... http://www.pokerlistings.com/market-pulse/poker-player-stats/money-makers patrick antonius $422k ..... ADZ124! a measly $23k what a ****ty day when you only make $23k dollars.
Well... Gus Hansen is also sick, but at times in a much different way. As in mentally ill. <embed id="VideoPlayback" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-8487189507450245394&hl=en&fs=true" style="width:400px;height:326px" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed> Great player anyways
Stu wasn't that good? Mike Sexton begs to differ: http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/pokergreats/stu-ungar01.htm The results speak for themselves.
what is a good online poker site to play for money? I would like to try it, but nothing that take a huge amount to start an account.
I'm feeling a little lazy about searching, so pardon me if this has been answered already, but why is televised professional high-stakes poker on sports channels... and why is it so popular? I'm fairly ignorant about poker - I'll admit that. I know there's a considerable amount of skill involved, but also a lot left to chance. And a qualifier here that may explain a bit of my perceived bias against it: I've been in enough bars that have TVs, where the bartenders appear more interested in watching the poker on TV than they are in serving customers. I could excuse that during a basketball game or another "action-filled" sport... but poker?
I heard that most of the high stakes pros are broke, and owe investors millions.... Gus Hansen is supposedly one of the worst. DD
If you like playing poker, you should. It is a great way to play many tables at the same time and mastering the art of reading hands based on betting patterns. There is a $100 (i think tht is the case for most sites) minimum deposit and they have many tables (cash games with tables that have blinds as low as $0.01/$0.02, tournaments, many different types of poker games). They even have freeroll tournaments (no buy in) in which you can earn money (usually a huge tournament in which the top 1% of finishers earn money or other prizes with some even being entry into a major tournament tho u hafta place very high in multiple tournaments to get a prize like that, not alot but its fun to pay and a little bit of money for free is always nice, I've made $2 before twice lol. Before Jesus (Chris Ferguson) played in his first WSOP main event he went from $0 to $10k on Full Tilt Poker. There are alot of sites out there. Good sites include Full Tilt, Pokerstars, Bodog
I think the fad for your average Joe is over, thank god. But, for those who really play for a living and make their money grinding online, it will never just be a fad for them. I love watching these guys play high stakes on FT and Pokerstars. It's incredible how many tables they play and how much cash is at stake on each hand. I watched pr1nnyraid lose about 300k to Patrick in about 3 hands. Anyone familiar with pr1nnyraid and whitelime? They are a couple of college kids in NY who made 2.2 million in a short amount of time playing high stakes online. They worked their way up to that, now they have their own reality show on the G4 channel. I think its called 2 months 2 million.
Well, HSP is actually shown on GSN. ESPN does show WSOP though. Some consider it a sport, although the literal definition says a sport has to be a physical activity, as opposed to a mental activity. ESPN also shows golf, bowling, darts, and the freakin' spelling bee. Why not poker? I would put it in the same class as chess, which if popular enough, would be shown as well. So the real answer is popularity. These channels will show any "games" that will generate ratings. As for why it is so popular, that seems to be an odd question. Why is basketball popular, baseball, golf, soccer? I've never really played baseball growing up, so watching a game feels like watching paint dry. I don't understand the intricacies that would otherwise make a real fan excited. Just like an outsider wouldn't understand the beauty of a great pass in basketball, or nice cut. It is the same for poker. If you do not play it, you probably do not understand it. For those who do, it is as exciting as any "sport". I would rephrase that with: it is a game of absolute skill, with an element of luck. Which is true for basketball, baseball, golf, or any other sport. Maybe the element of luck is slightly greater in poker, but in the end ONLY skill matters. This is especially true in cash games. Luck is a much more significant factor in tournament play, due to the high amount of players, thus variance. This is why I would much rather watch the poker plays in HSP than the all ins of WSOP.
I had an old roommate at the boarding school I went to who started with a free $50 deposit from full tilt and is now a millionaire no joke. Although I'm not in contact with him, I know he recently played heads-up against Gus Hansen and took away $300k from Gus . Crazy stuff. http://www.pokerlistings.com/gus-hansen-loses-money-to-internet-pokers-37517
You've got to be kidding me. They are broke from losing to each other and the money just disappeared? First off you heard from unfounded rumors, meaning false. And Gus Hansen is one of the wildest players out there, even if he was broke, it is not indicative of other pros. And even being stuck "millions" doesn't constitute "broke" to these guys. In Hansen's case, he has won $1M in a 50 hour online session before. It is hardly that much money to them. BTW these "investors" are often times other pro players. So how in the world can they all be broke. Ridiculous.
Not sure if anyone was watching, but online poker history was made today. In an epic 8 hour session at the $500/$1000 table on FTP, durrrr was able to take down over $2.3M. Most of the action was between him and newcomer sensation martonas. Martonas has been THE hottest running player on the high stakes scene. After absolute obscurity, in his last ~5k hands he was able to take down over $1M, mostly from Phil Ivey and Cole South. That hot run has come to a screeching halt tonight, going from up to DOWN $1M overall, in merely one sit down. One of the highlights of the night was a $315K pot, with a board of 7h2d10c2h7s, culminating with an allin from martonas. Durrrr timebanked to the last second, and called, with K high... the winning hand!!!!! Probably THE sickest call I've seen online, or anywhere, considering the amount of money involved. In conclusion, tonight simply proves the thesis of this thread. That durrrr is a bad, bad man.
The money involved in all the online action is so ridiculously high that it's almost unbelievable to me. I don't think I'll ever comprehend a life where you can have millions dollar swings of your own money on a daily basis.
Or a loose cannon bound to be picked apart by a player patient enough to wait for the right moment to strike.
Except he is a consistent player on every level that he has played. He has played enough hands with top pros to prove that he is not an one time fluke, or kid on hot streak, but rather one of the best players in the world. http://www.pokertableratings.com/fulltilt-player-search/durrrr Martonas on the other hand may fit your description, and was picked apart by Dwan.
This is like having the weight of a company's roller coaster earnings ride all on your shoulders. It's nuts. How does someone be in the hole $1 mill and still keep playing crazy high stakes NL? So according to this graph, does that mean, Dwan already had a few million before he started playing full tilt...or is it that he became so famous for losing a mill that someone rich gave him money...or he played so well that even though he lost a mill, rich people invested in him because they saw his talent?
Durrrr has never been down. He has made one deposit ever, his initial $50 as a 17 year old. Pokertableratings.com only started tracking hands in 2008, when he was already up substantially overall. He has had drawdowns of over $1M, as have every pro at such stakes, but never gone negative.
