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Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12248 Posts
May 19 2016 11:12 GMT
#61
On May 19 2016 05:26 Xyik wrote:
will stream sniping be a problem here? seems like theres a lot of risk.


Poker streams usually are on a 5 minute delay and players typically have far less time to act (except rarely during tournament play). You do give up information on how you might play certain hands though.
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Hularuns
Profile Joined November 2014
United Kingdom37 Posts
May 19 2016 11:21 GMT
#62
noice noice noice.
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Linear
Profile Blog Joined August 2015
60 Posts
May 19 2016 12:42 GMT
#63
On May 19 2016 08:44 Dunmer wrote:
Will Elky be streaming poker? Seems like his card games skills would translate well into poker


Elky streams poker all the time, I mean he's only won $11m in live poker...
Baradrist
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany96 Posts
May 19 2016 13:42 GMT
#64
Did anyone notice how the writer likes the phrase "bound to" while describing players? =) Other than that: Congrats on the new sponsor! Maybe with that money you can start paying people like Ver to write more of his exciting articles??
maartendq
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Belgium3115 Posts
May 19 2016 16:08 GMT
#65
A website specialising in gambling to sponsor Team Liquid? I don't like the sound of that.
mumming
Profile Joined June 2010
Faroe Islands256 Posts
May 19 2016 16:59 GMT
#66
On May 19 2016 21:42 Linear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2016 08:44 Dunmer wrote:
Will Elky be streaming poker? Seems like his card games skills would translate well into poker


Elky streams poker all the time, I mean he's only won $11m in live poker...

Won and cashed are completely different things. Most of the guys you see having "won X millions" have profited a small fraction of that. When they count "tournament earnings" they never subtract the cost of the buyins.
Linear
Profile Blog Joined August 2015
60 Posts
May 19 2016 17:39 GMT
#67
On May 20 2016 01:59 mumming wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2016 21:42 Linear wrote:
On May 19 2016 08:44 Dunmer wrote:
Will Elky be streaming poker? Seems like his card games skills would translate well into poker


Elky streams poker all the time, I mean he's only won $11m in live poker...

Won and cashed are completely different things. Most of the guys you see having "won X millions" have profited a small fraction of that. When they count "tournament earnings" they never subtract the cost of the buyins.


His largest tournament buy in was 30k from what I can see on Hendon and his 2mill cash was a 10k buy in tournament, admittedly these are only the tournaments he has cashed in but point stands that his earning are in the millions by some margin.
Liquid`Nazgul
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
22427 Posts
May 19 2016 18:49 GMT
#68
On May 20 2016 02:39 Linear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2016 01:59 mumming wrote:
On May 19 2016 21:42 Linear wrote:
On May 19 2016 08:44 Dunmer wrote:
Will Elky be streaming poker? Seems like his card games skills would translate well into poker


Elky streams poker all the time, I mean he's only won $11m in live poker...

Won and cashed are completely different things. Most of the guys you see having "won X millions" have profited a small fraction of that. When they count "tournament earnings" they never subtract the cost of the buyins.


His largest tournament buy in was 30k from what I can see on Hendon and his 2mill cash was a 10k buy in tournament, admittedly these are only the tournaments he has cashed in but point stands that his earning are in the millions by some margin.

Generally it is really hard to know/estimate what someone has won from this type of public info. It happens plenty that someone gets a buyin for a tournament from someone else and only keeps 10% of the winnings. The cash-games these players will play outside of tournaments will also contribute significantly to winnings/losses. Basically the public tournament winnings are always something to look at with some caution at least.
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Linear
Profile Blog Joined August 2015
60 Posts
May 19 2016 19:33 GMT
#69
On May 20 2016 03:49 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2016 02:39 Linear wrote:
On May 20 2016 01:59 mumming wrote:
On May 19 2016 21:42 Linear wrote:
On May 19 2016 08:44 Dunmer wrote:
Will Elky be streaming poker? Seems like his card games skills would translate well into poker


Elky streams poker all the time, I mean he's only won $11m in live poker...

Won and cashed are completely different things. Most of the guys you see having "won X millions" have profited a small fraction of that. When they count "tournament earnings" they never subtract the cost of the buyins.


His largest tournament buy in was 30k from what I can see on Hendon and his 2mill cash was a 10k buy in tournament, admittedly these are only the tournaments he has cashed in but point stands that his earning are in the millions by some margin.

Generally it is really hard to know/estimate what someone has won from this type of public info. It happens plenty that someone gets a buyin for a tournament from someone else and only keeps 10% of the winnings. The cash-games these players will play outside of tournaments will also contribute significantly to winnings/losses. Basically the public tournament winnings are always something to look at with some caution at least.


I'm aware of the staking scene but if I had cashed as prominently and consistently as Elky I would be putting stock in my ability and fronting the majority of the cash for my entry. I mean even with a paltry 10% across all his cashings he's sat on $1.2m not including his $1.8m in online poker cashes.
I mean Jason Mercier who is known for doing some staking has said on interview that the standard staking arrangement is around 50/50 after the makeup from the tournament buy in.
So I would estimate Elky to be roughly around $6-9m depending on how much he's been staked that's also including the times not listed where he's bought in and lost.

Anyway congratulations on this deal Naz really is fantastic and will encourage some people to use the Liquid20 code.
11cc
Profile Joined May 2008
Finland561 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-05-19 20:08:27
May 19 2016 20:05 GMT
#70
TLO plays poker? Disappointing. Poker is a game that feeds off of stupid and irresponsible people to fund a small group of good players. A lot of suffering is caused by poker.
Linear
Profile Blog Joined August 2015
60 Posts
May 19 2016 20:34 GMT
#71
On May 20 2016 05:05 11cc wrote:
TLO plays poker? Disappointing. Poker is a game that feeds off of stupid and irresponsible people to fund a small group of good players. A lot of suffering is caused by poker.


From what I've seen I would say that 99% of all the money in poker is from middle class people having a bit of a flutter with some pocket notes, I would say at most only 1% of the money in poker is generated from people who have gambling issues even then I doubt it's that high.
Pokerstars also permanently shut down any account who's owner has a gambling problem.

LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
May 19 2016 21:56 GMT
#72
Congrats to Liquid, big step!


I'd argue that poker has the lowest problem gamblers out of all gambling. it's essentially an entertainment industry where recreational players pay just for that - entertainment!

Even though it's true that the owners of Pokerstars kinda don't do the best for the players right now and are facing multiple charges by Canadian trading authority it's still the biggest sponsor TL could get.
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Darkaros
Profile Joined February 2012
United States248 Posts
May 20 2016 05:17 GMT
#73
I like this sponsor. LiquidPoker's been sitting pretty in the top right corner of the navigation bar for ages and Liquid has a long history with poker, glad to see it pay dividends in terms of recognition back.

Like others have said most TL users are in the right demographic to gamble responsibly anyway.
Radicalness
Profile Joined September 2011
United States271 Posts
May 20 2016 09:34 GMT
#74
Cool.

I've played 10s of thousands of poker hands, but never really connected TL with the game. Probably time I start coming here for two of my interests instead of just one :D
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Madars
Profile Joined December 2011
Latvia166 Posts
May 20 2016 11:42 GMT
#75
On May 20 2016 05:34 Linear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2016 05:05 11cc wrote:
TLO plays poker? Disappointing. Poker is a game that feeds off of stupid and irresponsible people to fund a small group of good players. A lot of suffering is caused by poker.


From what I've seen I would say that 99% of all the money in poker is from middle class people having a bit of a flutter with some pocket notes, I would say at most only 1% of the money in poker is generated from people who have gambling issues even then I doubt it's that high.
Pokerstars also permanently shut down any account who's owner has a gambling problem.


I have read about cases where minors got access to parent's credit cards and spent thousands to never see that money again.
I don't know how many such cases exist, and I doubt pokerstars would publish such data.
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sashkata
Profile Joined September 2008
Bulgaria3241 Posts
May 20 2016 14:09 GMT
#76
On May 20 2016 20:42 Madars wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2016 05:34 Linear wrote:
On May 20 2016 05:05 11cc wrote:
TLO plays poker? Disappointing. Poker is a game that feeds off of stupid and irresponsible people to fund a small group of good players. A lot of suffering is caused by poker.


From what I've seen I would say that 99% of all the money in poker is from middle class people having a bit of a flutter with some pocket notes, I would say at most only 1% of the money in poker is generated from people who have gambling issues even then I doubt it's that high.
Pokerstars also permanently shut down any account who's owner has a gambling problem.


I have read about cases where minors got access to parent's credit cards and spent thousands to never see that money again.
I don't know how many such cases exist, and I doubt pokerstars would publish such data.

Whose fault is that? Are Pokerstars supposed to do DNA tests to make sure you are the owner of the card. That's saying it's Pokerstars fault that someone stole your card and used it to play.

Besides, do you really think the poker economy is fulled by kids stealing their parent's credit cards.
LethalBacon
Profile Joined June 2015
Spain355 Posts
May 20 2016 19:27 GMT
#77
We need a golf squad now. And let's start thinking about Bobsleight too.
omfg we lost
LemOn
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United Kingdom8629 Posts
May 20 2016 22:05 GMT
#78
On May 21 2016 04:27 LethalBacon wrote:
We need a golf squad now. And let's start thinking about Bobsleight too.

Liquidpoker was one of the first sites on here, and is still active.

So SC2, Dota and Heartstone sections are to Liquidpoker pretty much what Bobsleight section would be to LiquidDota
Much is the father figure that I miss in my life. Go Daddy! DoC.LemOn, LemOn[5thF]
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11062 Posts
May 22 2016 11:26 GMT
#79
Extremely disappointed with this decision given that every single thing that Stars has done since Amaya took over has been negative towards the players, be it huge cutbacks to player rewards, steadily declining customer service from the best in the game to a joke, failure to properly investigate bot rings that have taken millions of dollars out of the game, pushing games primarily of luck like spin and go's and newly incorporating casino games/sports betting into the client at the expense of poker, where they fail to recognise that most games are unbeatable due to rake, being the only site that still caters to mass-tabling players... if I ever go back to playing online Stars would be at the bottom of the list.
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zealotstim
Profile Joined February 2015
United States455 Posts
May 22 2016 23:26 GMT
#80
The guy in that picture looks just like Owen Turtenwald.
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