I’m not asking, daring him to play conservatively. Phil Ivey is NOT a consersative player, and neither are you Younguru. But Ivey and you don’t bad beat a lot. All of us occasionally bad beat players. But there is a difference between dishing out the occasional bad beat, and bad beating 4,5,6,7 bad beats per tournament, and bad beating out other players 3,4,5,6 times per tourny, in addition to the 4,5,6,7 bad beats given out per tourny. Ivey, you, give out 1,2,3,4 bad beats per tourney, and 1,2,3 bad beat knock outs per tourny.
And it’s not just the bad beats, and bad beat knock outs. It’s the manner of them. Ivey, and you Younguru and Ivey do not call big, giant raises, all ins with garbage, to try to bad beat. Your friend does wrongly, badly, does call giant raises, all ins with garbage to try to bad beat. See the difference in that between that?
.Your friends results aren’t good. He has a few, some wins, and a few, some cashes, and is at or near the bottom of not only the RPOS leaderboards, but at, near the bottom of all the Replay leaderboards. And if he were to continue doing what he is doing, and start winning consistently, that wouldn’t prove anything other then he is lucky. I don’t know if you know what OPR, Official online poker rankings is. It’s like Sharkscope, if you know what that is. It’s a world ranking of a million+ players. There was a player at Poker Stars, that was a all in freak, whether shoving all in half the time, or calling all in half the time. Way worse then your friend, bad beating 15 to 25 to 50 times per game. He was the worst player, laughing stock. Would it surprise you that he was the #1 player in the world for 18 months before he then fell to at or near the bottom of the OPR for forever? Going by what your saying Younguru, that player was, and is still a awesomely skilled player. Well that’s wrong. That player is Not skilled, he was just insanely lucky for 18 months. That’s Variance, poker for ya. So likewise if your friend continues calling giant raises, and all in’s with garbage, and butlucking, and bad beating, etc, and either continues to luckbox a couple, few, some tournaments, or if he starts consistently winning, while still calling with garbage, and butlucking, bad beating, etc, that wont prove anything, other then he is not skilled, and just lucky, like the poker stars player that was #1 in the world for 18 months, before disappearing forever.
If your friend can play more like Ivey, you, and not play like loser Nik Airball, and Not call giant raises, all in, with garbage, and only bad beat 1,2,3,4 times per tournament, and only bad beat out other players 1,2,3 times per tournament, while bluffing, etc, and semi consistently win, cash more, then and only then will I be proven wrong.
Btw, my ITM% is about 25%, and ROI is about 45%, and my win % is about 5%, and that’s playing not nowhere near as conservatively as your friend thinks I am. You know, have seen some of the wild crazy bluffs that I have done that have both worked and not worked alike. And my bad beat ratio is that I give out .67 of 1 bad beat per tournament on average, with a couple, few, some tournaments giving out 2,3,4 bad beats, and my record is 5,6 bad beats given out in 1 tournament. And while I have done a few, some wild, crazy bluffs, I don’t call giant raise, all ins, etc, with garbage, and don’t try to butluck, bad beat players, and in position, can and have raised quite wide, in fact about a few weeks ago I open raised 72 suited from the SB, button, against a ultimate super nit, then showed it and said 72 flies. So my results are the result of skill and luck, while the rarely good results of your friend are the result of luck and very little if any skill, except for 1 tournament, he did win, cash, that was a exception, that he did play semi well.
So if your friend can be more like you, and Ivey, instead of being more like that OPR Pokerstars player, or Nik Airball, then I’ll be proven wrong.