Quote:
Originally Posted by RobFarha
if there was a guy i played rec bball with that unironically compared himself to lebron james and prime mj
yes. i would be infatuated with him
Can I say something? The worse NBA journeyman who gets 10 day contracts so that he can get the privilege of warming up the 12th seat on the bench can be seen as world class. There are literally millions of people playing basketball in the world.
Being the worst NBA player makes you top 350 or something. It's still pretty good. Better than good actually.
As for the guys beating NL500 and NL200 Zoom and beating it, I would also say they are world class. Without knowing anything about that player pool, there can't be more than 100 or so of them. How many players are above them, you know, the Linuses, the Redbarrons and like? 20? 30? I doubt it's a 100.
Pokerstars used to have 200k players at peak hours. It's much less than that now, but mostly due to legislation and market fragmentation. But that's not the worldwide player pool. How many people play poker at least a month? Not sure how to estimate this, but does one million sound reasonable?
I would say that beating live high stakes still puts you in the top 1% of that player pool, maybe even at the top 0.5 or 0.1%.
Why can't that be seen as world class? I mean, I would say that the majority of the posters in this forum, sucky as they may be,probably belong in the top 10% of the worldwide player pool.