The -90bb/100 is quite the achievement
Nominees this year
- Josh Arieh
- Barny Boatman
- “Miami” John Cernuto
- Ted Forrest
- Kathy Liebert
- Mike Matusow
- Matt Savage
- Isai Scheinberg
- Bill Smith
Isai the obvious choice but he gets ignored every year. Next would be Ariah.
lol matasow.
Im a huge poker nerd but i cant give a fuck about HoF. Just doesnt fit poker
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Wait, Ted Forrest isn’t in already? He’s the easy pick if you ignore Isai (and it seems like they will again).
I generally agree but still fun to bitch about.
I will thinly veiled brag that i spent a lot of hours with isai and he’s one of the more impressive people ive worked with.
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I talked to him on the phone for an hour when PokerStars hired me for some contract work. He asked me about all kinds of stuff as a Stars reg who also does software development.
I had no idea who he was until afterwards. Pretty sure it’s the only time I’ve ever said more than a few words, if any, to a billionaire.
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As I understand it, the Poker HOF started as an advertising gimmick to help bring in fish. It fits poker if they make picks based on that instead of merit.
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He’s also quite old. I think we should stay away.
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decided to read up on Bill Smith, one of the HoF nominee i knew nothing about.
“I never saw Bill at the table without a bottle of Budweiser in my life,” Barbara Enright once wrote. “But he was a great player.
Mike Sexton also confirmed in an interview that Bill had two invariable attributes at the table – a bottle of beer and an elegant suit. At the same time, according to Mike, he always remained very friendly, and the degree of intoxication did not affect his behavior in any way. Another feature of Bill is that he never complained about bad beats.
After his most significant victory, Bill flew home to Dallas in a private jet. “Any poker player should experience this at least once,” he explained to his friends. “Winning the Main Event and flying home in a private jet.”
In the cash game, no one monitored Bill’s degree of intoxication, so the money did not stay with him. In May 1985, he became the world champion, but by the next year, he had difficulty finding money for a buy-in. By May 1986, he only had $6,000 in his pockets. He was looking for backers right in the Horseshoe poker room.
After the final table in 1986, Smith’s record does not include a single cash in tournaments over $1,000. At the end of his life, he could only afford $20 tournaments and $4/$8 limit hold’em tables at the Gold Coast casino. Friends wanted to help him – Bill got a job as a manager in one of the small poker rooms in Las Vegas. But he did not stay there, regular work does not go well with alcoholism. In 1996, at the age of 61, Bill Smith died in a Las Vegas hospital with his wife and children by his side.
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What a compete meltdown by Rast in the 25K plo last night.
He had it right there too if he didn’t fold the straight. Eldridge had been bluffing like crazy. He knew he didn’t have 78, so he literally put Eldrige on 73 only.
Now that’s poker
Whenever you have bottom set in the main, you have to open jam river for 62% of your starting stack.
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One of the things Sklansky was right about was folding KK preflop vs an all-in early in the main event.
Yeah I’m no pro but that hand is a trainwreck. Pretty sure I get away from the boat in the first hand as well.
Yeah you’d have to have a sick read on the first hand of the tourney to know you aren’t up against JJ.
But it was Darroch who shoved river. We don’t see the suits so there could have been a lot of flushes out there in addition to the straight that might call (as we can see from the set call below it0.
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Without knowing how the hand played out, you could also be against AA that binked a two-outer.
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