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I knew my hand rankings when i played in the WSOP ME but i certainly wasn't good enough, even to cash, let alone finish a highly creditable and brilliant 21st out of 7000 odd.
statement about wsop is true, standard of play in that tourny is terrible ask anyone who plays in it, look at moneymaker he won the thing. There is so much luck in that and any tourny,
As for you browndog you are one of best players on site and would be a terrific addition to the team.
Why should Sky have to give any reasons whatsoever as to who they picked for the first incarnation of Team Sky Poker?
Particularly laughable is the suggestion that they shouldn't have picked any one until the first three months had been completed.
Jealousy is an ugly trait to have.
I have no problem with any one queerying the fairness or otherwise of how the league points work and how the top three will be decided, but again it's Skys project and they can run it any way they like.
Hearty congratulations to those who have been chosen (looks like a pretty strong line-up to me) and I look forward to hearing how it all pans out.
Some of your comments i agree with AJS, others i dont, but i do respect the fact that you have been very frank and honest.
Maybe it would be better to make a system based on ROI from a larger number of tournies and/or analysing cash stats over a few thousand hands instead as that will make it less dependent on luck
GL to all who are/will be involved in this btw
so basically i think they can select anyone they want at any time, in addition to the three players that win the mtts of 30.
I don't see why team selection needs to be fair, transparent or open to all. Sure if it can benefit the Sky Poker Community, of which I think I play a part, then that's great. But it's not for the community to make Sky Poker business decisions.
They are getting probably the top 100 players playing double what they normally play to try and get into the top 30 and all sky are doing are doubling the rakeback on a handful of those players... (and [im speculating here] that anything these guys cash in the MTT's sky will get a % back)
There are many excellent players here and elsewhere who simply prefer to play MTT, whether to control their BR, or handle variance better, or just enjoy the challenge of tournament play more.
I have seen many highly respected cash specialists struggle in tournaments ,in a situation where they cannot reload, and also cannot choose who they wish to play against.
As I say, the selections here have proved their ability in all forms of the game, but there are bound to be quite a few of your top 30 cash players who would struggle to adapt to tournament play.
It all makes this quite interesting !
it reminds me of the first morning in ski school and being sorted into two groups by the french ski instructor. everyone had to ski down the nursery slope and at the end the instructor pointed to one side to show which group you belong; ok or bad skiers. standing in my group of beginners i watched others ski down the slope and i started assessing whether i thought they were any good. the first poor skier was directed to join my group, surely a mistake. the next one was ok but joined the other group. i started to suspect that i was standing in the bad group.
so i take your poker team selection as maybe not so fantastic after all ... is this group the "not really any good" one? unless the others can ski particularly well, that is.