Comments on: The State of Nosebleed & High Stakes Poker

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:53:58 +0000

Maybe you want to prove that you’re 1000 times better than a standard $1 / $2 player over 20k hands?

By: Squizzel

Squizzel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:00:54 +0000

Krantz will you play me for 10k hands at 1/2nl headsup so that you can prove this?

Thank you!

- Squizzel

By: Clayton

Clayton — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:33:22 +0000

One random note to this blog entry is that in my limited interaction with him during the WSOP ME, Tom was a really humble and nice guy at the tables, so it was kind of a shock reading the interview because I considered him one of the few over-40 guys who seemed to “get it” with respect to poker knowledge.

So I think he conducted the interview under the pretense of his own poker world, that being usually interacting with live fish in a live tournament and mixed game environment. So, he could definitely have a skewed perception of the internet poker environment.

Basically, I wanted to say that I don’t think he was being arrogant. One could read the interview and think his tone was Hellmuthian in its disrespect towards internet kids. I think it was more along the line of polite ignorance.

By: DeathDonkey

DeathDonkey — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:08:37 +0000

Tom Schneider is one of the biggest fish alive, in that he seems to have infinite money to lose in high stakes live mix games. He also loses infinite playing mix and triple draw on stars (luvgamble), he used to play like 50/100, sadly he must have learned something and now only donates at 10/20 and 15/30.

By: FuzzyPuppy

FuzzyPuppy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:04:14 +0000

If Tom meant the most “Talented” player could be playing 1-2, he might have a point as players do have to make a number of stops when moving up the ranks.

I also think great players may not want to play the absolute nosebleeds…but no chance they don’t want to move past 1-2

By: krantz

krantz — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:24:00 +0000

pj – i’m well known in the NL cash game world but if someone interviewed me about the big mixed games i wouldn’t pretend to be an expert!

inavacuum – well… that’s a tough question to answer. people love tournament poker and that’s a great thing. it’s great because literally anyone can win any given tournament. it’s an interesting world in its own right. but the most skillful poker is being played in the high stakes cash games… NL HU, 6m, LHE, PLO, HORSE, you name it. i’m hard pressed to say that it wouldn’t be better for poker if the public was getting more accurate information from great young players and leaders in poker. the traditional poker stories are pretty played out and boring. Joe Cada wins the Main Event, youngest winner ever, goes on Letterman and does a terrific interview. Tom Dwan gets signed to Team Full Tilt and then plays one of the sickest matches online in the history of heads up poker. people are starting to notice, and it’s good for poker.

pmp – i know, right!

By: playmoneypro

playmoneypro — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:00:19 +0000

krantz i can never get over how cool and non dorky you are

By: JacksonKings

JacksonKings — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:56:26 +0000

I’m the best player according to Schneider! MLIG

By: inavacuum

inavacuum — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:41:21 +0000

Personal bias aside, do you think it would be better for poker as a whole if the current regime continued, in that the media and Joe Public view tournament fish with a good amount of TV coverage as the top echelon of the poker world or if the media and Joe Public started to view the top online (and possible live, though I have no idea how we define that) cash game players as the most authoritative voice?

By: pj

pj — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:48:02 +0000

Tom Schneider’s nickname is DonkeyBomber…he’s fairly well known I would say, considered a good mixed games player. But I agree his comments are wayyyy off base.