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Originally Posted by tomdig
Nothing pre-Moneymaker is even in the ballpark. The field sizes and evolution of the game make the recent performances far more impressive.
Doesn´t this actually work both ways, e.g. if the fields have gotten much bigger and the level of play has gotten a lot better, you would need waaaaaay more luck to do what Newhouse did compared to what Chan did? Not saying he isn´t a good player, but achieving the FT in massive fields twice has to be super improbable in that you have to win most crucial flips, be on the right side of the inevitable coolers etc. Even if you assume that Newhouse does have an avg. ME ROI of say 300% (timex might want to dispute that), Newhouse ran MASSIVELY above EV in both 2013 and 2014 (> 7200% ROI in both).
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