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Originally Posted by PTLou
Would you please define the "it" from above ?
It is clear that Dnegs hasn't played online poker for meaningful income for a long time, if ever. You can try to parse out high volume grinding, but I'm not sure Ansky is a high volume grinder -- he seems more of a high stakes crusher, if you want to throw in the jab of
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Playing high volume online is one part of one part of online poker
you're looking as much at our host, Joey, as anyone. He's crushed the volume at times. Your whole argument seems silly to me. Playing poker for income, all I care about is $/hour. In the short term, a guy making $100/hour grinding a lot of tables versus making $100/hour two tabling is doing the same thing -- it is making $100/hour playing poker. No version is more noble. Since we eat and pay rent out of net $, who cares whether the net $ has a given % of rakeback? Oh yes, people who mostly post on NVG.
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And yes it would be fair to say he has never played high volume online.
No idea why you're concerned with volume. Dnegs never won real money online relative to the stakes he's played (or vs. his own personal situation). He's played the odd tournament. He's made a cameo in mix games. He played a little NLHE. He has way more hours of golf than online poker in any given year. Is the PGA tour calling and asking him about format changes? It isn't unfair to say that he's no more than casually acquainted with playing online poker. He does other stuff. Why would he be an expert in the online economy, as he probably spends more time thinking about hockey than online poker.
Dnegs has a unique channel to talk to stars, and people who play (or recently played) poker for a living are trying to fill him in on their concerns on the site he reps. He's
never played to make money he needed. No shame/disrespect in it. He may not care about rake because he's playing big enough not to, but he may also have a 100% RB deal in the mix. Why would a guy who makes his living through endorsements and live MTTs know/care a lot about online poker as a profession?
Lou, you seem to be trying insult people who play a lot of volume. Do you insult other people who show up to work every day? That bus driver is just a road driving grinder! Ansky said a number of times how he believes the Stars changes will hurt the poker economy. I don't recall it being "mass grinders are our biggest concern, and they're really hurting". Maybe argue against his points, rather than just trotting out a meme/sound-bite? I know it is cool on NVG to pretend that people who show up to play every day, play decent stakes, and thus get in a lot of volume are somehow bad people. Low volume players can't be pros.