OK, I'm drunk and I'm not a fan boy, but these are the 3 players I respect most:

1. Heisenb3rg
2. JDalla
3. Unguarded

Discuss

OK, some of you may take this as a lol thread, but there isn't lot of limit hold'em discussion these days, so this is better than nothing.

Without these players post and inspitration I would not be as big winner as I am.

D Negreanu is a limit hold em legend...

The point here is 6 max. There lot's of great heads up players, but those rarely could cut it in 6 max.

jdalla is much better at ci-lo than 6 max poker, thing that suxs is all his old ci-lo videos got lost on stox after they closed

This JDalla guy seem to be master of many trade.

Thank you I am glad you have not only benefited from the wealth of LHE poker strategy I post on the internets, but you have also seen fit to realize the true pecking order of 6max LHE. B0rg is in fact the greatest, but he has one major leak - he ranks schaefsheep at least 3 spots too high. I think with time and practice you can surpass him for this reason and this reason alone.

However I do offer live ci-lo coaching, I charge only my losses, or if you're a friend the cheaper rate of $575/hr.

lol

lol inspitration

OK, it is inspiration. I'm not native english speaker, which is of course obvious.

1. Schafsheep

imo

It's sad that some life nit moderator deleted my Bobby Fischer thread. It would be intresting to see, what's top player like Heisenb3rg's IQ is (estimate 150-160) ? Mine is 133 and I'm not smart enough to challange top players.

The fact that one has a high IQ and is exceptional in one area does not mean that they will be exceptional in another. For example, your IQ is very high, yet you clearly have absolutely no idea how to post and thus should cease and desist immediately.

I have no idea how to post, because I'm anti-social egomaniac, who's english is bad.

This thread is not about me. This thread is about greatest limit hold'em 6 max. players and I'm not one of them. This thread is about briliance of the top players, their IQ and ownage. This thread is praise of limit hold'em and it's greatest minds. I love limit hold'em!

rumor has it heisenb3rg's IQ is the highest on pokerstars

lol **** you both :P

This guy doesn't like me, so if I agree with him it's probably really true. IQ is a factor but not a huge one, dedication, motivation, creativity, etc etc.

I know lot of smart people who are horrible at poker, and lot of idiots who are close to savant level.

If you just use online 6 max all time, and have actually played with the guys, I think it's schneider (huge influence thru cr), schaf(depri), skillgamblin, serok(korex), superman, and anyone else with an S name.

My top 3 was made tongue in cheek, because I don't play high stakes. It was just top 3 judging post, videos, results etc. So I really aren't the right guy to judge high stakes players. I just respect those 3 players and wanted to show respect to them.

About IQ: If you are smart, disciplined (not a degen, tilt problems etc.) and work hard you can beat fairly high levels. If everything else is the same, but you are dumb you can't beat anything but micros. Those idiots who are close to savant level have overall IQ of little over 100, they are like 140 in some areas and about 75 in some others.

BTW my IQ test was made by psychologist, but my score doesn't mean anything, because I'm a life loser, mostly because I have no social skills.

lol, heis is admitted one of the biggest tilters and def is a degen as well.

No clue why I'm responding. But read your statement. Better yet, allow me to be tautological for a moment and rephrase:

"IF two players have the same levels of motivation, br management, dedication, and intelligence - but one has 1 million and the other has 1k, the one with more resources will be more successful in the long run."

In reference to your comment on 75 vs 140, I said they were idiots - not mentally handicapped people in a wheelchair.

Take a look at the stock market, or most industries: are the richest people always the smartest people in the company? No.

This is why it's a moot issue to specifically address the IQ point when there are a multitude of other salient factors that account for one's success in poker.

#2, easily.

There's also elements of an IQ test that make up standard definitions of intelligence that are completely irrelevant to poker.

IE language processing.

Many brilliant mathematicians would have a lower IQ than many people because they are ******ed in some areas of "intelligence", but brilliant in others.

Pattern recognition would be the most applicable form of intelligence to poker.

FWIW, the two smartest poker players (by far) were mediocore poker players at best (by todays competition standard at least). Bill chen and David sklansky.

level?

No?

Sklanskys ideas blow me away...

Theory of poker at the time was so far ahead of anything that it more or less revolutionized poker.
DUCY? shows a ton of creative logic that id never be able to come up with.

He claims to test in the high genius level IQ's and given what hes written I believe him.

Sklansky is def a smart, but poker doesn't work like science. There were people who knew this stuff, but didn't write about it, because it wasn't profitable to do so in early 1980s (if you were a world class player), when poker wasn't big worldwide. Said that Sklansky was def ahead of time and is someone I respect.