Related: I remember a comment (can’t find it anymore) somewhere by Liv Boeree or some other poker player familiar with EA. The commenter explained that monetary results aren’t the greatest metric for assessing the skill of top poker players. Instead, it’s best to go with assessments by expert peers. (I think this holds mostly for large-field tournaments, not online cash games.)
If I remember correctly, Linchuan Zhang made or referred to that comment somewhere on the Forum when saying that it was similar with assessing forecaster skill. (Or maybe it was you? :P)
I have indeed made that comment somewhere. It was one of the more insightful/memorable comments she made when I interviewed her, but tragically I didn’t end up writing down that question in the final document (maybe due to my own lack of researcher taste? :P)
That said, human memory is fallible etc so maybe it’d be worthwhile to circle back to Liv and ask if she still endorses this, and/or ask other poker players how much they agree with it.
I’ve been much less successful than LivB but would endorse it, though I’d note that there are substantially better objective metrics than cash prizes for many kinds of online play, and I’d have a harder time arguing that those were less reliable than subjective judgements of other good players. It somewhat depends on sample though, at the highest stakes the combination of v small playerpool and fairly small samples make this quite believable.
If I remember correctly, Linchuan Zhang made or referred to that comment somewhere on the Forum when saying that it was similar with assessing forecaster skill. (Or maybe it was you? :P)
I have indeed made that comment somewhere. It was one of the more insightful/memorable comments she made when I interviewed her, but tragically I didn’t end up writing down that question in the final document (maybe due to my own lack of researcher taste? :P)
That said, human memory is fallible etc so maybe it’d be worthwhile to circle back to Liv and ask if she still endorses this, and/or ask other poker players how much they agree with it.
I’ve been much less successful than LivB but would endorse it, though I’d note that there are substantially better objective metrics than cash prizes for many kinds of online play, and I’d have a harder time arguing that those were less reliable than subjective judgements of other good players. It somewhat depends on sample though, at the highest stakes the combination of v small playerpool and fairly small samples make this quite believable.