Nolan Dalla on the Greatest Poker Player Alive



No one who can rise before dawn three hundred and sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. -- Chinese Proverb A few years from now when someone asks, “Who is the greatest living poker player?” the answer might be a surprise. It won’t be Doyle Brunson.  Not Phil Hellmuth.  Not Barry Greenstein.  Not Allen Cunningham.  Not even Phil Ivey.  None of the proper names that would normally come up in any argument about the most skilled poker professional will be correct. I predict that in just a few years – when the argument is based purely on poker knowledge and raw skill, or what some might call “natural talent” - the greatest poker player alive is very likely to be someone, somewhere out there now who is living in one of the 150 nations where online poker is played.  He’s putting in incalculable hours of poker playing, day and night, on his home computer. While many talented players will continue to win money and fame, the most gifted player will be an obsessively focused young person who puts massive amounts of time into his craft.  He’ll likely do this to the detriment of other activities.  He won’t have many close personal ...

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