also i know this is slightly off topic but i see my gif got totally messed up when i resized - anyway to correct this?

To be struck by lightning twice all you gotta do is stand out in the open in a place where they have lightning on a reg basis. Are you game?

inb4 lightning strikes

Rough estimate is '*** NVG'.

I hope Shaun effin Deeb is going to post itt. I want to hear from someone who actually played him lately and who is also a pro.

LOL horrible analogies

I dont understand the random hate on here sometimes.

The guy is playing well and running great. Like every other person that wins these things.

Would you guys consider Andy Beal a poker player?

Hate Frankenberger

Makes Feldman cry
Shows bluffs to Ivey
Enrages NVG

Love Frankenberger

Nice haiku level. Made me count syllables.

This?

So any live pro's success cannot be accurately related to his skill. Sorry Mr. Hellmuth, NVG is not impressed.

I guess the whole WSOP is meaningless for determining who is a good player. Never mind POTY.

So how do we determine who is good and/or the best?

He says that Ivey was difficult to play against because he plays differently than the other players.

Interesting.

Where did i say that he is not a pro?

Not for live donkaments.

That is a pretty solid guess.

LOL @ POTY. Unless you really believe the best player in the world changes every year based on a few tournament binks?

Large sample results, evaluating their play from a technical perspective, and considering the opinions of their peers / other top-level players.

Fack playing for the long term. Play for now. And win NOW. Not in some "long run" distant future when ur faackin 90 years old. A lot of the Sklansky disciples just don't "get" tournament poker - it's ALL math to them. It IS about gambling it up, not fold, fold, fold, stndrd, stndrd, stdrd, etc.

U go Andy Frankenberger, keep crushing it. You are now my favorite poker player.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQHA...feature=relmfu

To those of you saying the haters are just using the QQ fold to show he's a bad player, the evidence is in other videos of his poor play and simply awful acting. He does the amateur donk bet so often in this episode and always manages to find a slightly worse hand to call. Hits all his outs, makes every flush/flops every top pair etc.

I don't berate other players for winning. Even guys like Will Failla have a game that online guys don't really agree with but I still respect his play to some degree. I just don't understand how Frankenberger is so successful when he doesn't even know the basics. I really think this is just a once in a blue moon heater.

By the way, the hand starting at 9:05 is HILARIOUS. Better than the QQ fold in terms of pure cringeworthy hilarity.

^^ had me loling

Hate to QFT my own post, but, QFT.

This thread is just dumb. re: that link you posted, it's a WPT final table, wtf do you expect? Everyone knows tournaments and TV tournaments are just poker for the masses. Newsflash: sometimes people who win tournaments aren't as good as durrr. People being bad at poker is actually a good thing, believe it or not, are we probably shouldn't berate them for it.

The AK hand is indeed hilarious. The string raise on the flop and then the speech with absolute nuts is classic. But I will still give him some slack if this was his first live tournament he ever played

welcome to reality

How is that reality. Its a joke!!

"I guess the whole WSOP is meaningless for determining who is a good player. Never mind POTY."

You seriously wrote that without even a touch of irony?

yes, live poker tournaments are a joke.

I really hope a video surfaces of Frankenberger showing Ivey his bluffs. Would ****ing love to see that. I didn't see the stream.

The final table streams are being archived and will be available at some point (they're not available yet).