the best 7stud player you never heard of....
....won the $10,000 Stud championship at the wsop yesterday.
Eric Brooks and I first met in 1982 standing in the Dome Mines trading pit. We each were working our positions up to the (then) limit, buying a spread that still stands in my mind as one of the best I'd ever done. (That's a different story.) We both traded on the PHLX for some years, ( Read more... )
Eric Brooks and I first met in 1982 standing in the Dome Mines trading pit. We each were working our positions up to the (then) limit, buying a spread that still stands in my mind as one of the best I'd ever done. (That's a different story.) We both traded on the PHLX for some years, ( Read more... )
No, the player you allude to (Bill Chen, presumably) came along much later than this top-three ranking occurred. He'd make it now (perhaps), but when he started with SIG (which was near the end of my time there) he was only very good, not great yet. IMO.
(As an aside, if the head of the firm (Jeff Yass) had wanted to spend time concentrating on poker during the 90s-00s, he would have been better than all of us. But he has more important fish to fry, and wasn't top-three.)
The other top player I allude to (who happened to respond below), few know his name in poker only because, when you get a large mass of people together in a luck/skill competition, some of the best finish near the bottom, and a couple of the below average finish near the top, and that is just the way poker is. I don't think the game could survive otherwise. #2 doesn't have enough trials and opportunity to overcome his unlucky turn on the wheel.
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