I agree that these limits online seem mystically impossible, but that means these guys who grind 5/10 must be just absolutely stellar, yet you never hear about em. Get some of these guys sponsorships.

harmon, annete, duke, in that order. the others literally have like 0 chance. seriously.

whats the 5/10 like at party now?

Sexism and calling people gay seems to be acceptable.

Duck can
Annette most likely
Harmon maybe
Duke probably not
Others lol

from the interview w/annette in the current cardplayer:

Did you use any tools to improve your game?

AO: I don't use Poker Tracker and stuff like that. I am a member of all of the training sites, and I've watched all of the videos. I also go through my own hand history, but that's about it. I've read a few books, but I don't believe that they've helped me too much. Harrington on Hold'em is all right, I guess, but I'm just not that interested in the math involved in the game. I play mostly by feel, and I don't really care if I have the pot odds to call. I don't call much, anyways (laughing).

Was it a conscious decision to focus on no-limit tournaments rather than pot-limit cash or other limit games?

AO: It just happened that way. I started playing tournaments and never did anything else. I tried to play cash games, but I didn't have any success. Besides, I find cash games online kind of boring.

http://www.cardplayer.com/magazine/article/17101

duke and annette are definite yes.
Harmon, duke, tran, lieu maybes
others prolly not

lol selbstaments

annette definitely could if she actually wanted to and set her mind to it. might not come to her instantly, but i don't think it'd take long. harman? maybe, but i only feel confident saying annette for sure. duke? no

Mimi doesn't play that small, but she beats the 25-50 nl on stars is ahead of the 25-50 nl at the commerce. Her problem is that she has to support so many people.

You may recall that she is one of the biggest winners in the history of HSP and she only played 4 hours!

Barry

cmon barry we love you but what kind of sample size are you basing this off of? please correct me with PT screenshots if Im wrong but 25/50 on stars is like one of the very toughest poker games that goes on a regular basis in the whole world. saying she beats that game is essentially saying she is one of the top ~100(maybe less?) nl cash players in the world, i dont believe it.

lol samplesizeaments

Sorry to disappoint you, but unlike some of the others, she is a professional cash game player. I think she prefers the 100-200 limit on stars, but she beats the no limit. That doesn't mean that she plays it all the time against the toughtest lineup.

As far as hours, Mimi averages more than 40 hours a week on the Internet in these games.

Barry

Fair enough, I guess this is the main cause of discrepancy. I would consider "beating" a game like that to mean being able to sit with the average or normal lineup and win. If you are saying she primarily plays limit but sits at 25/50 NL when its especially good and wins I dont think i can argue with that.

what's her sn on stars?

by this definition i dont think i could beat 1/2nl or 10-20lhe.

heh i mean i guess its hard to define "beating a game" but I suppose its probably somewhere between "is up in the game career" and "can win vs the avg lineup" I just thought barry was making a fairly bold claim about her being able to "beat" such a tough game before he qualified it with the part about game selecting.

ZOMG Katja Thater because she has a bracelet ldo

Lol, wtf goofyballer?

you need a penis to beat NL400+ imo

I really don't know if she can beat cash games
i suspect Liz Lieu can
It also says in the interview that Annette posted a video of the tournament she played without watching her cards
does any one know where i can see it?

Poker ability =/ intelligence IMO.

I've met a lot of people that are mathamatical geniuses that couldn't beat poker even when I try and trach them. I've also met some poeple that I feel are pretty average intelligence that do great.

I think 5/10 is pretty tough to beat and people that are beating it take it for granted and easy in the same sense that most Brain surgeries are probably easy for brain surgens.

If u have a significant PT database take a look, not many people are beating 5/10 for a lot of money.

I think most of them would have a shot at it, after they just played it. Any player, male or female, would have a period where they need to adjust to a new limit (or any situation where they are out of their element)

What are you suggesting are winning stats for a 5/10 NL online player? I don't see why a 20/14 player with a strong postflop game couldn't be a winner at 5/10 NL. I don't think the 5/10 games on US sites are all that much tougher than the games were in the olden days. They're just different, and the tough part can be adjusting to those differences when you're used to playing a certain (now obsolete) way. But, I've never won as consistently and at as high a rate at 5/10 NL online as I do today.

None of em, besides harmon.