[OrionPro]

Originally Posted by LordRahl86

One last thing: He shows up late. Aside from being bad manners, this is arrogance and idiocy itself. The reasons are obvious.

This isn't necessarily bad. It lowers variance. In limit tournaments I believe you lose virtually nothing by sitting out the first level, since it's impossible to double up.

[WotaWaster]

In limit tournaments I believe you lose virtually nothing by sitting out the first level, since it's impossible to double up.

I have read threads by people who are good at limit saying you should start out playing like a maniac in limit and take some gambles to build up a big stack and apply pressure on others before you are forced to pick a hand and go with it. I'll try dig up the links.

[LordRahl86]

Originally Posted by OrionPro

This isn't necessarily bad. It lowers variance. In limit tournaments I believe you lose virtually nothing by sitting out the first level, since it's impossible to double up.

That's if you fold all hands until then. Not showing up is different entirely. The not showing up is what is idiocy and arrogance.

[MTdemocrat]

The 50K HORSE is ON!!!

I WISH they would televise the entire thing just like the ME!!!

I hope Ivey wins the Bracelet!!!

[wastrel]

Ivey's sitting 2nd in chips right now, 370,000 to Eli Elezra's 521,000

[KRE8R]

Originally Posted by LordRahl86

That's his biggest problem, right there. He can't get over himself. If he ends up losing too many of his chips, he blames it all on luck and ends up with a "Screw it" attitude. He's going to end up going into perma-tilt one of these days.

Meh, at this point he has made enough that he could have a "screw it" attitude and still be fine.

[LordRahl86]

Yeah, but that's no way to be legendary. His record will end up sticking at some point soon and never go up. Someone will break that record soon enough, and then what? He fades into poker history.

If I were him, I'd strive to be legendary. I'd try to build a record that people try to beat, but just can't seem to. It's possible NOW to do it. In the next 30 years, though, it's going to be very difficult to win enough bracelets to beat a record that he could set right now.

[willsparrow]

chan, helmuth, brunson. Most of there braclet wins come from when the game only had like 200 people in the whole tournament. They are good no doubt but just because they won 8/10 of those braclets when the field was 1,000 or less doesn't mean they are the best.

[LordRahl86]

Hellmuth's bracelets mostly come from playing every Hold 'Em game in the WSoP, and right now, there are a lot. At least 30 this year, IIRC.

I mean, come on. Are you seriously going to tell me that that's really a good test of Hellmuth's poker ability, with as few people entering some of those as they did?

No, see, Hellmuth sucks. He enters a ton of HE tourneys and manages to win a few. That the WSoP is now almost completely focused on HE only makes it worse.

[FaDi]

Get a backer and go play him then lord, since he sucks so much. Seriously, do you even read your own posts?