CardPlayer interviews Steve “stevesbets†Jacobs
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CardPlayer online recently published an interview with well-known high stakes online poker player Steve “stevesbets†Jacobs. The interview sees the heads-up specialist comment on the luck involved in heads-up poker, the state of high-stakes play online and more.
Some excerpts from the interview are below.
Regarding the role of luck in poker:
The edges are small, they’re very small. You can see that never more clearly than when you’re playing heads up. The best players of heads-up sit-and-gos aren’t going to win more than about 55 percent of their games. If they’re playing against the absolute worst players who have the absolute worst strategies, maybe they can win like 65 percent. But that’s only because the player is making some sort of glaring error, like folding almost every hand or something.
On where he’s making his money these days:
For a while, I made all of my money in heads-up sit-and-gos. Recently, like over the last six months or a year, I’ve been playing a lot more Omaha high-low and other random games and have moved away from the heads-up sit-and-gos, because it’s my opinion that the competition in no-limit hold’em is at an all-time high online. It’s hard to get money on the sites, and it’s hard for players who go broke to continue playing. As a result of that, the games have gotten a lot tougher. Particularly in a game with as much literature and educational tools as no-limit hold’em has. So, I’ve tried to learn Omaha and to put whatever skills that I have to work there.
Read the whole thing here. Image courtesy of CardPlayer.com.
