Mods can we get this username changed to "Nik_Airballs_Mom" please

Spot on analysis, and you've highlighted some key areas in which live cash differs a lot from online. In live cash, the truly great players like Nik, can pinpoint profile opponents' tendencies, ranges, and overall strengths and weaknesses, build a false or confusing image, and skilfully act or talk to their advantage. Live profiling, learning the player pool, having little or no time clock pressure, and live cash being a game of patience and one of being super sharp and ready at key moments in a long session, is why much smaller sample sizes live are worth as much as bigger sample sizes online, because there is nowhere to hide live, you have to battle on one table against the same players in the session, so it is real combat, with no excuses. The best players will rise to the top in far quicker time (way less hands sample) than online, because playing live is more multi faceted and more multi disciplined by nature, so players to be successful have to be good at multiple disciplines, not just at GTO, poker theory and HUD analysis and application. Art obviously would have faced no table talk online (bar some chatbox stuff which some sites now ban or he could have muted) and he would have been multi tabling so have been done with that hand either after being raised to $7K and definitely after being raised to $27K. Nik got in his head and outsmarted him big time.

Jungle is his b1tch!

Jealousy doesn’t suit you Kn1sh.

The way Nik proclaims “That’s me!” And the table cracks up and he adds “well that’s not u!” Wow talk about a Jedi mind**** trick to get his entire stack nearly drawn dead.

Airball is the KING!

"Jungle is a fish....bring in more Jungle's!!!" LOL

The $400 was probably just an "insult block bet" for super cheap SDV. But when Jungle raised it, Nik made a very quick and agile situational artistic pivot by magically transforming SDV into a bluff. Nik can turn in a dime. Sick!

Sick value play against Art; sick bluff play against Jungleman. Both outside the boundaries of GTO and into the realms of glittering White Magic. I'd like to see Finding Equilibrium and the Poker Guys make videos of these plays and see them helplessly rationalize those plays as GTO even though they're not. They're above GTO.

GTO is incredibly overrated.

Nik Airball is a sandwich artist with a rack of your chips on the side!!!

No one has been able to own players like this using psychology since Tony G, and Tony didn't do it as often as Nik does and did it more on a live reads and trash talking basis.
Nik is doing what Tony did but also incorporating ranges and GTO, so it is far more impressive really. Nik still needs to do it against higher level opposition to really prove himself,
but I think he can and will do because he is only a young man and will get better at the technical side of the game, which he can still improve at.

Honourable mention to Viffer, who could also get players to get their money in really bad by creating a table image and then tricking or trash talking them.

NikAirballFanClub,

How does one become a member of said club?

Asking for a friend.

Well it's like an unofficial fan club, but it wouldn't surprise me if Nik starts a real one at some point or starts doing some merch with some Airball branding and Airball catchphrases on it.
He's also challenged basically anyone to live $500/$1K NLHE HU, on the condition that they're playing on their own dime. No takers yet. Can you imagine playing him live HU, it would be a nightmare, he would be in your face and in your head constantly. It would take someone with a very good temperament as well as a very solid technical game to be able to cope with this.

block bets turned into bluff raises are gto you clown. its just his sizing was ******ed

another way his 200 IQ comes into play

Fyp, you're welcome.

Next level leveling

The best part about Nik Airball is how much it must be tilting Garret that Nik stole his limelight.

Heard briefly about Ryusuke scamming Nik on last night's stream. Anyone have details?

You've gotta move past the "epic table talk tilting opponents" stuff at this point, you are really over selling it.

Nik mentionned on stream that Ryusuke owes him and some others 500k+ and is basically ignoring everyone

Nik Airball seems too smart to lend someone untrustworthy 500K+.

It's very logical that Nik Airball will own (or partly own) a casino by the time he turns 31. The Hustler could be his by 2026. Poker player plus investment banker equals casino owner. All it will take is Vertucci and Airball eating lunch and talking retirement exit for Vertucci (who informally consults Nik about the financials) and voila....Nik, who can raise the money, is the rightful owner of the Hustler. You heard it here first.

If not the Hustler, something smaller that most likely wouldn't have serious legal issues like the ones in Texas.

According to posts elsewhere, which reference what Nik said during a stream, and if true, it is $160K to Nik and the rest to others.

Would love to see the biggest losers, people like Mike X/Francisco/Dentist Dave are hopeless and will probably go irl broke. Wtf do they do for a living. Must be nice to keep getting a seat in games when these fish are there lighting money on fire multiple times a week.

This thread is the troll hall of fame.

I genuinely had a good lol this. Eskabor you a funny man.

Where did Nik learn to play poker? And can I also join this fan club? Asking for myself.

Oh okay $160K makes a lot more sense then. Thanks for info.