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Originally Posted by markdirt
You do realize this makes no sense, right? A person's poker skill isn't weighted against their starting advantage. If Phil Ivey started with a 100k role it wouldn't make him "worse" than if he started with a 10k role. He makes the decisions he makes while playing poker which yields him an average profit. That's it. Maybe Andy not starting from scratch takes out some of the romance of poker, but oh well, guess he's not a very romantic dude.
My point is..
He is playing live poker over a small sample size and that sample size is at the highest level and he can afford it unlike most due to his past profession where he made a lot of money.
If he has played 100 tournaments in the last 2 years then he could be just running like god and unlike some he jumped in at the deep end therefore he run like god looks great because he winning big money and higher prestigious tournaments.
Therefore he could just be a business man on a heater,maybe not but from his plays that iv seen and everyone else have seen he doesnt seem to be that good so his wins look like run good.
Overall,im saying is that when you are guna run good (if you seem to be a bad player) it may aswell be at the highest level like andy.
I have a higher respect for someone who plays unbelievably(Ivey,durrr,hellmuth.. and most online players) ,have built it up from nothing and have the results to show than someone who started at the top,seems to play bad from what we have seen, and has ran good and won over such a small sample