Getting bored of nosebleeds?
The Isildur1 Vs. ‘the poker world’ story has fascinated me of late. Every day there’s a new instalment to catch up about who’s winning these ever-expanding, record setting pots. As we move into the third week of the real action though I’m starting to wonder what will become of it.
You see, it was exciting to read about the world’s biggest pot being won by an unknown, to learn that a 2+2 poster boy was being ripped up by a secret player, then to hear about the first seven figure pot, and how the world record pot was being expanded on a daily basis but now it’s starting to bore me a little if I’m honest.
The reason that the story is starting to grate on me slightly is that it’s just a slightly exaggerated version of things that are happening at every stake, in every regular game around the world. There are a million different articles about bankroll management and downswings that any poker player can read at any time. Anyone with a few months experience starts to realise that they can’t treat a single pot as being the cause of either positive or negative results, yet this is exactly what’s being reported worldwide at the moment. There were tons of headlines about Antonius taking 2.5 Million off Isildur1 and the first million dollar pot ever played yet when we look at it, they basically got it all-in on a standard coin flip Omaha hand. This is not really ‘good’ poker news from a theoretical point of view.
In my opinion, one of the saddest things you’ll see at a local level is the same faces in any regular live game simply moving money about between themselves, never winning, never losing, just playing. It’s good when it’s a group of friends enjoying a simple hobby together and the fun that comes with it, but when it’s a set of players who believe themselves to be winners but don’t really appreciate that the rake is the only winner then it’s quite sad if you ask me.This appears to what will happen here if you let variance run its course. Now the Andy Beal story where a billionaire tried to outgamble the poker establishment in Vegas was a real tale (hence the book entitled The Professor, the banker and the suicide king) but this doesn’t really come close . Isildur1 is a good story for poker in general at the moment but how long can it continue?
I suppose someone big may go broke at some point and maybe there’s a bankroll management lesson to be learned but, to me, now it’s starting feel like a bunch of rich poker players moving other peoples money around until they get bored.
Or maybe I’m just getting miserable again!!
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Interesting topic, but I think you are taking it too much at face value, Gaz. To say that the daily reporting on High Stakes Poker games is akin to viewing long term varience on a pot by pot basis doesn’t reflect the significance of it.
For Example – that would be like viewing the significance of a Premier League Football match and comparing a win/loss in one game to being merely insignificant when viewed on the 38 game season as a whole, but it’s those margins that seperate winners from losers.
It’s the fan-fare that captures the imagination at rail-heaven as they like to refer to it, wishing you could play for those stakes, the pressure involved in making Million Dollar decisions every hand, it’s entertainment, just as a football match is. The difference between these games and Joe Blogs is that everyone can empathise with games at local/small stakes and it’s really not interesting for anyone to here as it’s all ‘too accessible’ and we experience it daily.
However, being Isildurr1, the Joe-Nobody taking a shot at the biggest players at the world (and not being a multi-Billionaire) to me is just as exciting if not more so than Andy Beal throwing his cash around and out-gambling Pro’s purely on the basis that his riches cannot affect his decision making, that would be like Durrrr playing £1/£2 with us at the Grosvenor lol