This is not an example of "bumbhunting". Beal showed up looking to play a pro.

Originally Posted by Lestat View Post
Isn't this a little like following a bout between George Foreman and Larry Holms? Both these guys are older than me. Can they really be playing at that high of a level poker? You can probably pick a random 22 yr old online HU grinder who would destroy either of them in a HU match.

Yea sure but i think you underestimate the difference of playing a game with 5 million in front of you or 25k it makes you think if you are raising somebody 250k, and if you mean a on-line game you are a even bigger ..... then you could loose it in 25 hands.
Because very few people can get it out of their mind and not think about that they are playing for/with 5 million.

But he i guess you do that every week right? hahahahaha dumb.ss

Well it would be one of the biggest bumhunt in history right? LOL

Maybe you can't calculate EV with < 10 K hands, but being able to tell if one player's a favorite over another can be done, in some cases, with 1 hand.

Well i think the money part and physical part is the key, and i mean by that that, if you play live you have the money right in front of you[you see the amount on the chips and know it is representing real money] and on-line it are numbers, and that is a big physiological difference[many studies proved it].
And the physical part is you see your opponents and they see you, and you realize that how you behave, look, move, is being watched and interpreted by the live player and it effects your play for sure.
So i think the actual skill and knowledge of the game is not very big if at all, i think it is all in the physical presence that makes a top on-line player not a top live player, and for the live player it is the speed and not seeing his opponent of on-line play, and therefore a [very?] different approach/math to the game is needed is what trows the live player playing on-line off.

But i do think that a on-line player easier adapts to live play then the other way around, and gus hanson is the poster-boy example i think.
But anyway that is my opinion based on my own experience, because i can play 48 hours live 5/10 euro nlhe, but 2 hours of 1/2 euro on-line and i go nuts from boredom, irritation and what-not, and i bet i am not the only one. LOL

I heard that tom dwan is on a plane to vegas, and jungle is right on his tail hahahahaha

I had the exact same thought scrolling through the thread after I saw that Brunson won.

so sick

realpoker4lief

But for someone who has never has a real job, who a few years ago was doing a paper round for 20 dollars or whatever per week, 25K is equally unreal fantasy money, certainly to play poker with. It's individual though.

That's true, but i was just pissed about that guys dumb presumptions and opinion. LOL

He's somewhat better at math than everyone reading this thread. Unless, that is, NVG got close to solving Fermat's last theorem. If you don't agree Beal is a math genius, maybe you can solve the Beal Conjecture. He'll pay you one million dollars if you can.
Maybe he's not the greatest poker player, but he is without doubt a numbers wizard.

Congrats to Todd on winning 50K. Well done sir.

Holy smokes! Not only a math wizard, but backs it up with a cool milly. But......"he can't beat 10/20 online".....bwahhhh.

It's all relative. First time I played $400/$800 I was pretty nervous about it and at one point couldn't stop thinking about how I had more money on the table than most people make in a year. I'm also pretty sure my $20k buy-in represented a lot more $$ to me, than $20M does to Mr. Beale or whatever percent Brunson has of himself.

While I can appreciate the magnitude of both men's success in their respective fields, I've been playing poker too long to be impressed by chip denomination. I'm guessing you'd be fascinated by a $500k/$1M huhu match between Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. I wouldn't. Sorry if that disappoints you dumb.ss

To win 50bb in any poker game is more of a rungood affair then anything else so you need to chill with the 'skill' talk.
Lets see how this game continues before we give our silly opinions on anybody's skill level mkay?

Or, put your money where your mouth is and start making props.

He did those things for edge as well, for sure. But I picked out the computer thing, because the solving of HU LHE was mentioned.

Bottom line you were still nervous. No one cares if you were impressed, different arguments fish lol.

Nobody is coming into this thread to hear your life story. Your humble brags just make you look and sound ******ed. Go run on a treadmill or something.

i'm confused,i always thought he played the corp only onces,so who
felt Beal back in the day Brunson or Ivey ?

or was there a rematch.

Wow this thread got off the rails quickly.

Anyone know if any more session(s) are in the works or was this just a one time affair for old times or something?

+1 lol

Beal only plays super high stakes in order to not waste his time or others fish lol.

What humble brag? I said I wouldn't stand a chance any more against a random online huhu specialist and don't think neither of these guys would either. If you're into hearing about huge sums of money changing hands, well, I guess that's what the G is for in NVG. I prefer the N and the V. My only point was that it's laughable to think this is some impressively high level match between 45 and 62 yr old. Since they are both likely adequately rolled, it's not much different (from a technical play standpoint) than if the stakes were far less.

Hopefully we get a rematch today. Also would be really cool if it could be going on next weekend when I'll be in Vegas.