Doyle Brunson has rant about online poker players
Doyle Brunson is one of the most vocal poker players on the online communities, and whilst highly entertaining and informative at times sometimes one wonders whether he should be edited by the poker room that carries his name: DoylesRoom.com
In a recent rant he is less than complimentary about online poker players and the new generation of players coming through on the live poker circuit. I assume he does not include the Brunson 10 in the “genius youngsters”!
Here is his edited version (it was very long and lets face it life’s too short!)
“I still believe poker is a “people game”. If you can look a player in the eye, you can learn more in a fraction of a second than a month’s worth of analyzing his play on paper. I’m not saying the paperwork has no value, but for Pete’s sake, don’t these genius youngsters understand the changing gears concept of poker? I may have certain trends in my play that can be monitored but I challenge anyone to figure out what I’m going to do in a poker game. How can they when I don’t know myself what I’m going to do until I do it? I’m always aware of certain things I do while playing a pot and I try to vary different things. That is an “old fashioned” thing called tells.
Speaking of tells, all the top poker players develop what we call mini-tells on every we play with. How? By the way a newcomer handles his chips, his table talk, plus physical tells that almost everyone has. The older pros are aware of this and try to change several times in each session how they bet, etc.
Even the great players sometimes are unaware of some things. I’ve picked up things on almost all the players I’ve played with. The tells have to be in the right situation always, but my point is, how do you learn things like that online?
Anyway, I’ve never pretended to be a bonafide online poker player so I might not know or understand some of the more complex problems. When I hear people talking about tracking devices, statkeeping software, etc. I just think WTF. So maybe it is a different world when you play online and perhaps I’m a dinosaur and don’t understand the ins and outs. But poker to me is a group of players sitting down and trying to figure out how to get the opponent’s chips.”
We always love a bit of the Brunster so let’s just hope he’s a little less cranky now his teeth have been fixed.
