Very well put. You honestly started the TLB at the wrong time. Had you started it a year prior to what you did Ryan's play would surely show. Hindsight IS 20/20, but foresight will show that what you say is true. Ryan is hot right now, but his hands hit in every case. Even when he flushed on me, but worse when he overbet a flop of Ah Kh and 7 something, when Tiffany had AA. He pot committed her preflop. Then RYAN put HER all in on the flop in which she had the best possible hand. Ryan flips over 5h 3h and of course turns a Jack of hearts for a flush. Tiffany did not pair the board and no one was giving him resistence. He was literally raking the blinds. I saw Jim four handed fold A9 to one of Ryans raises. Four handed and how Ryan was playing. Thats an all in. Instead the blinds ate him up and he was forced to push on a raised and reraised pot with A2. He wanted to fold too, but i told him these were the best odds he could hope for. Triple up maybe. He only had 3x the big blind. It was also very ironic because me, him, and ryan watched the UB tournament prior to it and a guy was getting chastised the entire time for just letting people rake in his chips in three handed play. Oh well. Ryan hit quite a few suckouts as we all have at some point. Foresight is what we have. You and I both know a year down the road he will drop in the rankings and go back to being the marginal player, at best, that he is.
I think that all of us have hit our rushes and streaks over at that game, and right now it is Ryan's turn. Like you mentioned in your post, you can't fault Ryan for playing aggressively against passive players. However, it is the mannerisms at, and away from, the table that get annoying. If you steal blinds or win a pot or anything else rather common, then big deal. No need to get overly excited about it. If you suck out to take down a big hand, be excited over it, but in no way credit it to skill. Great players don't spend their careers trying to master the art of sucking out. And when you win a tourney, don't act like a douche to the other players. There really is no need to be like that. Also, for everytime Ryan has won at the table, I can recall numerous times when he was nowhere near being in the money (if not the first person out).
On another note, can anybody give me some info for Reid's game tonight? I might actually be able to make it this week. Adam, could you just IM it to me (if not, i'll just catch you online later). Thanks.
streaks are definetely a part of poker. my buddy shawn won 3 out of 4 games over in my sunday game (the non win being a 2nd place) and he admittedly knows nothing about poker and just has fun. thats the nature of the game. within the small timeframe of a single tournament, usually there is little you can do to change where you finish. perhaps if you are really skilled you can finished 3rd instead of 4th. or a top 5 instead of an early bustout where a lot of players might have. the cards are often king in the shortrun...which I understand and am fine with.
and who knows, in a years time...ryan still might be on top. its hard to say. i dont think it will happen, but you never know. i started this TLB precisely for the reason of finding out just how well i (and others) were really doing, that way I could be sure I wasnt lying to myself. for the first 10 tournaments, ryan has had the best performance.
it will be interesting to see where we are at around 30 tournaments...and even better, 50.
jerad...reid said he didnt know if he was playing tonight. and im not gonna play. i have 0 moneys. lol
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