Yes. Just because he has results does not mean he obviously plays good. I am disputing that for sure.

so he runs extremely hot?

The guy is probably pretty smart, just uneducated. Anyway the interview is a lot funnier than most.

This is a definite yes

Whether he plays good is up in the air, although I think he does play very well situationally

i dunno dude. i think this attitude is a common trend amongst pros who think they are really good. not that they are wrong, but because they think so highly of their own play, they think that everyone that plays differently is "terrible." and the fact of the matter is, the possibility that lilholdem has simply been "running good" over all this time is miniscule to the point of implausibility. he is almost certainly a significantly winning player. he might have leaks, sure, but that doesn't make him bad. imo, "good" in poker should mean someone that beats the game -- something the overwhelming majority of players cannot do.

agreed

hahahah nice find jones. This is hilarious

NO ONE wins that many tourneys without getting lucky as hell. Three times this week in twelve tourneys alone my fate was decided on hands I SHOULD have won. Everyone has these stories, I know. It seems that he just has never run bad in his entire online poker career. Here are notes from this most recent video interview that I can remember...

"I will raise with 2 3 suited before I would with AJ, ya know."

No Chad, I don't, as a matter of fact, what the hell drug charges did you have against you?
Anyone who feels raising with 2 3 consistently before they would AJ is stupid and has immense heaps of luck if they are successful.

"Do you feel online players over play big pocket pairs?"

"Uh, I don't know, umm. Well I will have like 3 5 or 7 8 and flop a straight or flush draw ya know and they can't fold ya know."

Well Chad, only way that plan works is if you hit your damm draw every damm time, which he apparently does. HE is the jackass calling your all in with a draw and making it.

Basic concepts are mutilated by him in that video as we all know. Here are clips from other interviews of him I found on Google...

FOXSports.com: When were you first introduced to poker?


Chad Batista: Anything I ever tried to do in life, if I put my mind to it, I succeeded at it.

Well Chad, you tried school-mission accomplished. You almost certaintly tried basketball since you have always wanted to be black more than the pavement, guess you failed at that as well.

FS.com: Do you have any special strategy in those huge fields in the Big Sunday events?

CB: I never make it to the antes in those. (laughs) I really don't have a strategy, ever. I just play.


Speaks for itself, but guess Chad's luckbox is out of order for those tourneys.

FS.com: Have you read any good poker books?


CB: I have never read a book in my life.

Not just poker, that is ANY book. He should be featured in a new book...
"How to be an idiot for DUMMIES"

This sums it all up, really. (Different interview)

Chad Batista playing in day 2 of the Caesar's Indiana WSOPC main event...
"You've got a good lead on the field right now. Take us through this event and how it's gone for you."

Well, when I started out I was down to like 1,700 chips in the first thirty minutes and then I had a few double-ups. I've just been grinding. I haven't gotten too lucky, except just now when we were on the bubble and I had 3-6 and another guy had pocket sixes , and I really didn't even want to win that. I've just been playing my game, it's been crazy.


Yea Chad, you have no luck. All in with 3-6, the strategy of champions, also, not wanting to win is key I guess as well.

A classic quote...

"What are you thinking now, going into the final table?"

I'm just chillin'.

I am too sick of this to go on, but you should get the point.

When he finally plays enough tournaments to experience a cold streak he's in for a world of hurt!

apparently i'm not smart or edumacated enough to understand wtf this means

It's pretty amusing that everyone here just assumes that how articulate someone is decides how good of a player they are.

you are a fkn moron... let's see your tourny stats for the last few years and compare profit with Chad

such haterz in this thread, it's comical... since when did you have to dress nice and be articulate to be good at tournament poker?

Lets make a graph with luck in it. Would be more fair/realistic.

Chad is a poker genius, even if he can't tell you why...

tournament players AREN'T the most results oriented in the world! i'm being sarcastic! they are!

im not sure if lilhodem954=same guy on stars as on ftp, but im relatively sure its safe to say it is him, in which case his stats on pokerdb.com speak volumes

he has played almost 1700 tournies this year already for 89% roi, regardless of how brain dead he sounds this guy can play tournament poker (he'd probably get crushed in cash, but thats neither here nor there) im suprised aejones or any of you for that matter are disputing that

No... but I'd assume how articulate someone is shows how smart they are. Not too many people in Mensa named Billy-Bob. Ya know? Ya know?

I closed it after he said "Uhh what do you mean by that?" when the interviewer said "You've been crushing the tournaments lately." He may be good, but jesus christ man.

Call me what you want:

I couldn't care less if this guy was an astrophysicist, let alone a successful tournament player with 100x more money than me. I hate everybody, hate, everybody that acts/talks/dresses/looks like this kid.

then who is the stupid one?

you, for trolling 2+2.. go back to p5's lol

what Shane said?

my 4 yr old nephew knew what pompous meant

seriously

Yeah, this seriously annoys me.

He is probably really nervous in this interview and just has a hard time trying to say what he is actually thinking.

I do think he is really, really good at tournament poker.

Not every good poker player is an affable, well-spoken character.

been here longer than you... who is trolling? I read these boards several times a week, usually don't feel compelled to post, but when you read [censored] like this from morons like yourself, sometimes you can't help it...

I wonder if any of the players in this thread hating on Chad have even a portion of his tournament skill set and winnings?