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Originally Posted by Kubz18
i agree with you about raymer hes not really a fluke, but look at 2002 winner robet vayrkonie(sp?) he hasnt finished in a money in any tourny since 2003 even doyle brunson went so far to call him a "bad player" and "a fluke" hes actually went back to being a stock day trader...but thats not the only example
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He's the guy that kept winning with a 10-Q or some such hand, and no, he's not done much lately.
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chris moneymaker- a great example of an amateur winning and now hes trying to be a pro but people are catching on to him not in the money in the last 2 wsop's plus if anyone watched him in poker superstars 2 he not only didnt win any of the 6 matches he played in he didnt even get higher than 4th out of 6.. he finished i belive in last out of the 24 pros
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Well, someone's got to finish last in those things, and as they were set up, if you got behind early, you had to take chances that a prudent player would pass on--a sort of nothing-to-lose approach, because if you finished out of the cut, it didn't make a lot of difference if you missed by one slot or 8.
And Moneymaker's made the final of at least one (and maybe two, I'm not sure with all the reruns) WTP events. That's an accomplishment, too.
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but i agree that maybe a pro wont win anytime soon but they well be the ones that will be more consistant look at phil ivey, he finished 10th in 2003 in the money last year and 20th this year,
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Or Dan Harrington, at the final table in 2003 and 2004.