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Originally Posted by borg23
No shot he's in the top 1 percent. A top 1 percent player makes way more than his sub 10 dollars an hour and that's without having to play in 4-5 casinos a night and table change several times in each casino.
I'm sure the play level is extremely bad but also shows you how comically nitty his play is. Despite all of this hilariously bad play he probably made about 6 dollars an hour last year in these games.
people tend to overestimate rarity
something that occurs 1% of the time in the wild happens far more than you think
for example, I'm taller than 95% of the US population but never thought of myself as tall when i was in college because every day in college you see hundred or thousands of other people and be exposed to the top 4% and to me those were the tall people - this is a typical experience
think of the population in general, not just the tail end of the regs (which are us) who know the game well and play and mostly interact with other regs because we see them all the time - think of the greater population, the people at the table who are strangers, or perhaps you played with once a few months ago but aren't quite sure - there's a whole lot more of them than there are of us
r/poker, which itself is a cohort of superuser has 272k followers, 2p2 maybe has 50k irregular monthly visitors & lurkers supported by what, 1k regular posters?
the 1-2 poker ecosystem is easily over a million people, rice is without a doubt among the top 10,000 out of any pool of 1 million 1-2 players
however... compared to people who put in as much time as he does, he's 100% at the very bottom