How Much Higher Can You Go
Written by RogerCP | Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
The maximum $1/2 no limit table days at Party Poker are over. The question now is how high can you go. It no longer is a matter of how well a player you are but more like what kind of cojones you have, and how well you can play at that level. That and how big your bankroll is.
With people now playing $500/$1000 NL games online and normal swings occuring in the hundreds of thousands. In fact just today, Phil Ivey a pot for just shy of half a million. That’s not total winnings, that’s just one hand! Oh, and sit and go’s are now up to $5k a pop.
Now to get cash games even higher players are offering challenges to other players. Durrrr, an online poker pro, is trying to entice other pros to play PL Omaha ($200/$400) by saying that if he is down after 50,000 hands he will give the other player an extra $1 million on top of what he already lost. Phil Ivey and David Benyamine are a couple to have said to accepted the challenge.
I recently had a chance to have a quick talk with Gus Hansen and asked him, “when does poker get to be too much, don’t you ever get tired of poker, poker poker?”. His response, “it sucked last week when I had one of the worst runs ever,” as he had another drink!
Just at Full Tilt Poker alone Phil Ivey was the biggest winner last year making over $7 million. Of course this doesn’t factor in his offline play as well.
You have to give major props to the guys who do it without any backings or stakes in online poker rooms. Or those who have other businesses or came from money. The ones who grind it out and made it to the top by playing the lowest of low limit poker are the true ballers in my mind.
As with this challenge durrrr (Tom Dwan) put up, many expect them not to make it to the 50,000 hands because he expects players to have to quit because they go bellyup after losing $5 or $10 million. I guess that’s not much though, just a mansion on Malibu!
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