sick endurance from both Urnot and Isildur, I dont get how they do even half of what they can do. I'll sign off halfway through this session for sure.

The most tilting thing in poker is when ur opponent has like a small amount left, and he doubles doubles, etc etc. And a couple hours later you're the one who's ****ed

Im interested in who ran Good and who ran bad. Isildur had to run godlike end of session to make the comeback, low odds on that for sure.

Really?

you should have waited some till the results where accurate though

Don't do it, you'll regret it, guaranteed.

Besides the fact that these players have a ridiculous amount of sheer talent, resilience and willpower that allow them to rebound from the most dire situations and go back into battle just as quickly (watch Urnot build back in a few days and challenge Blom again), these guys are so well connected and have such reps in the online poker world that they'll get staked in 2 seconds by 90% of the high stakes community if they need to.

You won't. Plus, for every Urnot and Isildur1, there are 2000 broke degen bad brm players who tried to do the same thing and just as many great players who never recovered from the psychological hardships of one too many sick downswings (Lars Luzak, etc...), and we're talking people who were great players.

failll

That means waiting another day so yeah .. could update it tomorrow.

i know it sounds nice but he didn't go from 6k -> 1 mega

Brian Hasting doesn't think so...

Sami Kelopuro is still playing a lot at least on Entraction, MicroGaming and iPoker... if he is playing "low" stakes like 10/20...50/100 there's no need to play on FTP/Stars. There's a lot of players who had problems dealing with the swings etc. and have quit poker(or reduced volume significantly) but Luzak isn't really one of them.

Yup

Cant really send isil any more happy thoughts, I actually like urnot and this has now gotten out of controll.

I can imagine imagine Hastings railing the action, eating his cheeseburgers, licking his chops....

me 2... rofl

He left the tables with a 885k stack combined and he was still reloading on the one table he had 20k so that means he still had some in the account too.
Does he have a million in his account now? Prob not but it's close

Yeah, I know his name too....and that's quite a low from being considered the best NLHU player at the height of his career and playing every comer on FTP.
It's not about "needing" to play on FTP, it's about having been hurt so much psychologically that you can't take battling with the best on a daily basis anymore.

It's pretty well-known that he went on a 4 million $ downswing that really affected him psychologically and basically went for the big fish in a small pond syndrome.

If you can't understand how emotionally devastating such swings can be, I guess that you've either never played poker seriously enough to have a downswing or that you're like Urnot and never steam.

Either one, really.

From PTR:

Best Day: Mar 1 11 ($842,963)

Insane considering they were playing 50/100 blinds.

I respect Isil, MrSweets and urnotindangr for playing this many hands in the last 36 hours, BUT the true winner this last 36 hour is skjervoy who won $430,227 in only 466 hands.

Sure he is.

yeah, that would have been a good day back in the 500/1000 isildur days... pretty sick, so are people still saying blom sucks at plo? another thing, remember all the people saying 'how do stars even know blom is the real isildur?'

Lars Luzak was also very naive.
He never had a poker tracker until very recently and he started playign PLO at 200/400 against the best in the world.

There aren't that many players with his sort of sponsorship. There's the $35/hr +100% rakeback players, but it's not the same as being paid $x amount/month like the online elite (Ivey, Gus, Dwan, Patrik, Blom, Negreanu etc.) so you know if you bust you'll still have money coming the next month. It's very different if you're not a sponsored player. Some of it comes down to mindset, but knowing you've got a safety net really allows a player to take more risks.