Jerry Yang?????

wsorbust said:

Jerry Yang is undoubtedly the greatest poker player to ever live. He's bigger than Jesus.

Click to expand...

Forgive him Lord, Make him a believer and show him your miracles.

xtreme_calibur said:

Forgive him Lord, Make him a believer and show him your miracles.

Click to expand...

ROTFLMAO!

reglardave said:

Hachem, not a joke, very solid player......but look at his winning hand. Pushed with a 73os, and caught a 465 flop.

Click to expand...

No. Hachem called a preflop raise heads-up against Dannenman, who held AK. Flop came 456. He slowplayed - turn A, Dannenman hangs himself, Hachem wins. Hachem was the only one out of the players you named who actually made great plays throughout the final table, and was ahead in all but one of the times all the chips got into the pot for tournament lives. He's quite good.

vanquish said:

No. Hachem called a preflop raise heads-up against Dannenman, who held AK.

Click to expand...

no, dannenman had A3

Yang played super-aggressive poker at the final table, but I wouldn't say it was "good" play.
He is certainly the least skilled champion of recent history (maybe ever?). He doubled up Alex K. several times with terrible calls, and made questionable plays throughout.
He certainly got lucky to build a huge chip lead that could absorb the hands he lost.
The key to his success was recognizing that he was the least skilled player there, and utilizing a strategy to neutralize his opponents skills to the greatest extent he could via preflop play:
He constantly over raised preflop (10x, 5x bb, etc.), which is a good strategy given his chip lead, but also goes to show he has no idea how to play a "small ball" professional style. This "Kill Phil" type strategy was a good idea for him, as he perhaps recognized that he was the "worst" player at the table.

An objective look at the specifics of his play(s), however, shows how poor he really is, despite his good "meta-strategy".

As to Gold, I don't think he is really that bad, and is certainly better than Yang. His weakness is being a bit too "atc" and perhaps liking to gamble too much.

Both Yang and Gold have annoying personality traits (praying, talking, respectively) that seem to bother people to different extents, but shouldn't come into play when evaluating their poker skills or lack thereof.

about jerry's play...

I cant make a statement for his play early in the tourney...but his play at the final table was damn near perfect. he only made two calls that he should have given up..and even at that...preflop would make him a 3-2 dog unless his opponent had a big pocket pair. and also...a good player is aware when they are on a run, and play accordingly. dont be too quick to call jerry a donk...or are you just jealous as all of us are???!!

fredel1 said:

I cant make a statement for his play early in the tourney...but his play at the final table was damn near perfect. he only made two calls that he should have given up..and even at that...preflop would make him a 3-2 dog unless his opponent had a big pocket pair. and also...a good player is aware when they are on a run, and play accordingly. dont be too quick to call jerry a donk...or are you just jealous as all of us are???!!

Click to expand...

What final table did you watch?!?

damn near perfect; like when he bullied lee childs off of QQ with JJ, or when he raised all-in with j/8 vs lee childs K/j and donked out an 8 on the turn. yup, hes great.