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Originally Posted by Suited_Queens
Cash games have passed Daniel by. If you are not a math player you have no chance at all vs this kind of competition.
I could not disagree more to what you just said. Its not "math" at all at that level. One or two mistakes a night at that level is the difference between winning and losing. "Math players" would be annihilated in that game.
What makes Dwan and Ivey so particularly hard to play against is the intangible factor, their ability to feel what is going on in the hand, and exploit it.
When Dwan and Ivey are in hands, watch closely how it always seems to "work out" when they raise, or when they fold. They instinctively know when they are beat, they instinctively know when someone is making a move on them, and they come over the top.
Its not luck. They aren't using "the math". They are so so finely tuned into whats happening during the course of a hand that its almost amazing. I've watched Ivey and Dwan over and over and over again, trying to figure out how they "know". They make the same movements, they take their time, they do their actions methodically.
Now, watch Negreanu. He varies in the way he acts. He's an emotional roller coaster during the course of a big hand compared to Dwan and Ivey. Daniel gave up on a few hand I've watched him play, I've NEVER seen Dwan or Ivey give up on a hand.