Top five most famous/influential online LHE players ever - Page 9 - High Stakes Poker Forum

**Mason Malmuth** · 01-06-2012, 12:48 AM

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Originally Posted by AlanBostick

Then Lee Jones belongs on the list, too, to say nothing of his uncredited co-author, Roy Hashimoto.

(NB: completely on the up-and-up. Lee offered space on the byline to Roy, who demurred, preferring to keep a low profile.)

I believe Roy Hashimoto is the person who first described the kicker battle in hold'em as being "domination."

No. The first edition of the Jones book was sub-par.

MM

**Mason Malmuth** · 01-06-2012, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Lestat

I doubt too many people reading this thread were even around 2p2 this far back, but for initially changing the way limit hold'em was played and thought about, my vote goes to Izmet/Angelina (Fekali?). It's been a while, but back in the day, they were game changers imo. They were among the first to challenge the then untouchable wisdom of S&M. His laggy/aggressive, show down bound style caused many heated debates (mostly with Malmuth iirc), but this was the beginning of the end for "tight is right" play. Not to take anything away from the other mentions, but Izmet was definitely ahead of his time.

This is news to me. I don't think you can find any posts like this.

Mason

henholland · 01-06-2012, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Mason Malmuth

This is news to me. I don't think you can find any posts like this.

Mason

yea, think i remember you(?) making a very nice post years ago about how most of the regs at that time folded way too much.

Probably in top 3 of posts ever written on 2p2 that i have learned the most from

cazj88 · 01-06-2012, 10:30 PM

It would have been nice if I played before, but I started to play LHE on 2010. bryce is great and should be on every list imo

skillgambler · 01-07-2012, 02:55 AM

Mason, how in the world do u play so tight and so so badly at live limit holdem?

AlanBostick · 01-07-2012, 12:24 PM

No tapping on the aquarium!

vankuver · 01-08-2012, 10:36 PM

I think fireworks are coming soon to this thread

vankuver · 01-08-2012, 10:37 PM

ok just saw its already been day and half so maybe not

vankuver · 01-08-2012, 10:38 PM

anyway masons gotta be up there influence wise, I mean Bryce miller etc were great thinkers but def didnt make a big enuf impact to makedveryone change their avatars!

vankuver · 01-08-2012, 10:40 PM

it was like one giant ass secret fan club, or dare I say an act of freemasonry among 2p2ers

J_V · 02-08-2012, 05:31 PM

Just though of Andrew Prock. Cantankerous poster but he did invent pokerstove which was way way ahead of its time. Sklansky was still counting combos on his fingers.

sublime · 02-09-2012, 01:29 AM

i still remember some battle between james282 and andrew prock in some thread back in the day.

DeathDonkey · 02-10-2012, 04:28 AM

All I remember about Prock was that he posted some things everyone thought were ridiculous and then a couple years later everyone realized they were really really smart.

sublime · 02-10-2012, 07:56 AM

it was the DERB thread where prock was arguing with james (and legions of others) about LAG play. lol re-reading thread i just stumbled upon Phil Galfond's fourth 2p2 post.

Mark275 · 02-11-2012, 06:12 AM

ID say st1ckman but i just saw him quit and type gg after losing only 30k vs a super fish in hu 1k 2k right now, weird