My GOD.

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Every year or two there's one of these. Bonomo, Bryn, Addamo in the high roller scene.

Guessing he's super skilled and making great decisions, but you can't get these results without also getting smashed by the deck.

all of this.
It also gives inspiration to the others of a similar skill set that they can be the chosen one.

I know he started out the 10k by getting allin with TT v AA on level 1... and binking a T when another player at the table had QTs. From the twitter post, it seems like he 4bet jammed v a bb squeeze.

$ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller #4
The Lodge Championship Series, Round Rock 2nd $ 145,000

pointy elbows imo

one of the best MTT players this year

Bink Win, AKA Bin Weng

When you always seem to successfully bink your way out when getting it in with the worst of it it can make you fearless and he probably wins many uncontested pots. Plus added comfort of flush bankroll.

So it snowballs

That said, guy is probably pretty good

Jealous losers.

Bin "The Win" Beng is a much better player than these trashcans

Bink Weng

Incredible. Can't run that good in so many different deep events. Genius player.

But how much did he lose?

Bin Weng been winning for a long time

Fixed it

all day, all night, long time.

There is absolutely no denying his massive skill level but statistically speaking, you can filter for 'massive skill level' and using that as a control group, will still have the beneficiaries of short term variance.

Via "Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville", if 200,000,000 monkeys all flipped coins and called heads or tails, about half would get it right.
If you took the winners group and had them flip again, about half would get it right.
20 flips later, you would have reduced the group down to about a couple hundred monkeys who managed to successfully call 20 coin flips in a row.
They'd all publish books on their system, the methods they used, etc and would have incredible results to prove it.

If 10% of the 200 monkeys all came from the same small zoo in Arkansas, that would be something worth diving deep into, but the rest is just statistical noise and will happen by chance.

And yet some people will still think the monkeys who sun ran their flips are super skilled. This happens all the time in poker.

Bin ain’t no monkey who won sun ran flips tho he’s the real deal

No denying this, he's a permanent problem in tournament poker forever, but the point is, even at the uppermost echelons of performers, short term variance still exists and we see this every year with players who grossly outperform at the highest levels for a while, then 'return to earth' to their otherwise highly respectable- but more 'statistically sensible' - ranges.

Played some 2/5 cash vs him at Red Rock recently and didn't recognize him until after he left and someone mentioned it was him, but he was definitely the table captain and was putting people in some ridiculously tough spots for a 1k cap game.

Unless he normally plays higher and was just slumming, safe to assume he plays 2/5 because that's the level he's identified as most game-appropriate to trivially crush for max ev, relative to his current BR, but as his BR grows, I'd bet you start to see him crushing higher and higher cash levels.

Pretty sure Bin has played much bigger than 2/5. He was probably playing because he was bored and when you win 5mil in a year poker is probably really fun.

Wouldnt doubt he has played much bigger than 2/5, but these kinds of dudes tend to be pretty rigorous with the mathematics of personal finance, and I'd rate it equally possible he determined 2/5 was max-EV BR appropriate.

$5mm is a lot of money, but deduct taxes, travel, buyins, it shrinks really fast. Buy a nice house and car, shrinks again.
Now, all of a sudden, crushing $1K buy in cash actually is BR appropriate, without having to worry about your nest egg.
10K a go at 5/10 is a very different animal.

Bink Win off to a decent start at this Wynn $25k final table.

https://www.worldpokertour.com/tours...al_event_tabs1


$25K High Roller: Orpen Kisacikoglu Eliminated in 9th Place by Bin Weng ($117,659)
$25K High Roller: David Peters Eliminated in 8th Place by Bin Weng ($141,590)
$25K High Roller: Joe McKeehen Eliminated in 7th Place by Bin Weng ($173,844)
$25K High Roller: Danny Tang Eliminated in 6th Place by Bin Weng ($219,306)
$25K High Roller: Joni Jouhkimainen Eliminated in 5th Place by Bin Weng ($295,116)


$25K High Roller: Final Four Chip Counts
8:52 PM PST, Dec 18, 2023 • Level 22: 75,000-150,000, 150,000 ante

Bin Weng - 22,000,000 (146 bb)
Thomas Boivin - 7,700,000 (51 bb)
Justin Saliba - 6,750,000 (45 bb)
Alex Kulev - 2,600,000 (17 bb)