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[QUOTE="ph_il, post: 2981223, member: 508"]
I agree, MM wasn't the best player but he wasn't the worst player either.

I don't get why you can't understand that luck plays a huge part in MTTs.  Nobody who has won an MTT has ever won it without getting lucky at some point or another.  Name anyone and I 100% guarantee they got their money in bad some point in the MTT and had to get lucky to win the hand.  You don't win MTTs without getting lucky a few times.  With that said, players who have skill + luck > luck alone in MTTs.

That's why you see a lot of the same familiar faces making it deep in MTTs.  They have the skill to out play their weaker opponents.  However, a bad opponent is going to pick up strong hand sometimes.  A good player is going to make a mistake at one point or another and get their money in bad.  Its inevitable.  The only difference between a good and bad player is that good players will make more +EV decisions in the long run.

It's a simple formula for winning MTTs:  Make more +EV plays + make less -EV plays + win flips.  A dash of 'run good' doesn't hurt either.

Look at J.Duhamel.  He's definitely on another level over MM as a poker professional, but in the 2010 (i think) WSOPME, he got his money in bad with JJ vs AA vs Matt Affleck.  The way Affleck played was obvious that he was really, really strong, especially with 6 players left before the FT.

Duhamel himself said that he knew he was way behind, but called anyway because he was tilting at how poorly he played the hand.

So, just like the MM hand, we have a player who got their money in bad when they knew they were behind, got lucky, and then went on to win the WSOP ME.

So, it proves that it doesn't matter where your skill level is at, amateur or pro, you have to get lucky at some point in order to win.
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