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Originally Posted by SenpaiSwift
some ppl dont have the stomach for big money swings, but what you're attributing to being special about garret is largely determined by bankroll. It's not a dig on garret, im sure he plays well and has made himself welcome/wanted in games ect..
but saying he's one of the best cash players bc he plays in big games while you admit he is a worse technical player makes 0 sense
and to the above poster, playing 3k effective and 300k effective, if you're rolled enough is just viewed in bb anyway. Think about moving up stakes how you viewed money on the table in absolute terms playing like 200nl vs playing 2k. A river decision amount you were agonizing over is now just your x/r.
best cash game player =/= best technical player
it may be semantics but it's all about how you define a "good poker player". If you say several attributes make up a good poker player (knowledge, implementation, intuition, live reads, experience, mental game. You can even argue things like bankroll, connections, ethics, personality should be included), Garret is going to score higher in a lot of those attributes. How one weighs those attributes is also up for debate. When people argue a good MSNL online reg is a better "poker player" than someone like Garret, I think that's usually based on "technically skill" (or a similar type attribute) being weighted extremely highly.