Your Model Is Yourself Part One
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010Your Model is Yourself part 1 By B. Butler At a home game I used to frequent, there was a online poker player there who seemed to be involved in every online poker hand. He loved putting pressure and getting money on the table, and rather than being a wild donkey, he was constantly taking down huge pots to the fury of many others. One night I mentioned that he played in a similar style to Sammy Farha, and he just shook his head. “I play my own game,” he said. This is true of many of the greatest players at Everest Poker. There are players who mimic others at the table, and play by books, and many times these kinds of players are successful in their own air. But the true legends of the game, Stu Ungar, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Chris Ferguson, Doyle Brunson, and so on, staked out their legacy not by playing by some mandated schedule of principles, but by developing the manners they know to work the best for them. Developing a style becomes supremely important in this way, but also vital to remember is that you can’t pigeonhole your style, or that is the same as stabbing yourself in the foot. All of the players mentioned above are important players and have distinct reputations for manners of how to play, but they are also unpredictable from hand to hand to hand.