Superstar showdown Isildur vs Haxton

so they are done ? how many hands did they play ?

A little over 5k hands.

Is it a small sample, or Isi>Ike ?

On April 02 2012 16:29 el_Pato wrote: Is it a small sample, or Isi>Ike ?

obv a small sample, they played "only" 12.5 buy ins deep, but i think most will agree that isil kinda run over ike. hard to only blaim variance.

These scheduled matches seem to be perfect for isildur. They keep him from playing too long sessions and too many tables.

Unfortunately it will probably be really hard for him to get any NL action now... I mean it's quite possible that isil just ran good, but it really looked like he had an edge on Haxton, and that should scare people away.

Balzamon, I always wondered, have you read The Wheel of Time?

On April 02 2012 16:47 Almebeast wrote: These scheduled matches seem to be perfect for isildur. They keep him from playing too long sessions and too many tables. Unfortunately it will probably be really hard for him to get any NL action now... I mean it's quite possible that isil just ran good, but it really looked like he had an edge on Haxton, and that should scare people away.

I thought that getting 6mil off Dwan already should scare people off...
I'm really surprised Ike thought he had an edge, especially since they played 50/100 showdown not so long ago.

On April 02 2012 16:50 Almebeast wrote: Balzamon, I always wondered, have you read The Wheel of Time?

Yes of course! My nickname is a short form of Ba´alzamon from the books, i also nicked -Ba`alzamon- in brood war for like 6 years (if you played it as most here did).

Actually probably just read halfway thru Wheel of Times, it started of really great but became a bit slow towards book ~10 (swedish version). I may finish them one day, we will see.

edit: In response to el_pato:

^ That was 2009 yo. People forget, people think other peoples NL games must be rusty since they play so much PLO etc...

Ike won both previous showdowns though, right? Not that surprising if he thought he had an edge...

On April 02 2012 17:16 Balzamon wrote: Show nested quote + On April 02 2012 16:50 Almebeast wrote: Balzamon, I always wondered, have you read The Wheel of Time? Yes of course! My nickname is a short form of Ba´alzamon from the books, i also nicked -Ba`alzamon- in brood war for like 6 years (if you played it as most here did). Actually probably just read halfway thru Wheel of Times, it started of really great but became a bit slow towards book ~10 (swedish version). I may finish them one day, we will see.

Cool, thought it must be. Never played brood war though.

I highly recommend finishing WoT. I know the books in the middle of the series are kinda slow, but books 11-13 (and probably 14 which isn't finished yet) in the english version are great. It's a shame Jordan died before he could finish the series, but Sanderson is doing a good job.

i dunno these show matches are kinda silly if it was true HU skill. a good player might realize hes lost the momentum and thus not +EV at that time to play or very marginal at best. and decide to quit. But getting yourself locked into something like this ends up being silly

Thanks for posting the hands guys.

On April 02 2012 17:08 el_Pato wrote: Show nested quote + On April 02 2012 16:47 Almebeast wrote: These scheduled matches seem to be perfect for isildur. They keep him from playing too long sessions and too many tables. Unfortunately it will probably be really hard for him to get any NL action now... I mean it's quite possible that isil just ran good, but it really looked like he had an edge on Haxton, and that should scare people away. I thought that getting 6mil off Dwan already should scare people off... I'm really surprised Ike thought he had an edge, especially since they played 50/100 showdown not so long ago.

and he won, twice

isildur already down 200k at PLO after this? jesus

im just guessing here, but isildur has been at a severe disadvantage in a lot of his matches. It's really hard to defend the crown when you have 10 people studying your game, but your only one person that has to divide their study time over all 10 of your opponents. ike is now playing big enough $$$ that isildur can actually be bothered to prepare for his matches.

yeah severe disadvantage when pokerstars backs your roll...

On April 02 2012 18:39 Nazgul wrote: Thanks for posting the hands guys.

On April 02 2012 18:11 DooMeR wrote: i dunno these show matches are kinda silly if it was true HU skill. a good player might realize hes lost the momentum and thus not +EV at that time to play or very marginal at best. and decide to quit. But getting yourself locked into something like this ends up being silly

no its not silly and it should be manditory over bum hunting

On April 06 2012 23:02 Target-x17 wrote: Show nested quote + On April 02 2012 18:11 DooMeR wrote: i dunno these show matches are kinda silly if it was true HU skill. a good player might realize hes lost the momentum and thus not +EV at that time to play or very marginal at best. and decide to quit. But getting yourself locked into something like this ends up being silly no its not silly and it should be manditory over bum hunting

i dunno, dwan seems to have figured out the 'no time-line clause' pretty well. when in doubt, sit the fuck out

On April 07 2012 02:03 devon06atX wrote: Show nested quote + On April 06 2012 23:02 Target-x17 wrote:   On April 02 2012 18:11 DooMeR wrote: i dunno these show matches are kinda silly if it was true HU skill. a good player might realize hes lost the momentum and thus not +EV at that time to play or very marginal at best. and decide to quit. But getting yourself locked into something like this ends up being silly no its not silly and it should be manditory over bum hunting i dunno, dwan seems to have figured out the 'no time-line clause' pretty well. when in doubt, sit the fuck out

he learned from the master Antonius who decided to sat out with like 10% remaining hands to save face lol