The 5 most overrated poker players

Annette Obrestad -Annette certainly has the results when it comes to poker tournament winnings, but the way she is talked about is astounding! The way I rate a tournament player is what I call the ‘3-Card-Exchange’. Basically if I change three results from your career are you still a top player? I use this method because tournament players will never reach the long-run so they may run good, or even bad.

In Annette’s case the answer is clearly NO! Peruse the hendonmob.com’s database and you’ll see that if you take away Annette’s three biggest wins her largest payday would be just over $160,000, the next at just over $100k, totaling about $650k. Don’t get me wrong, she would still be a decent player, but not the “legend” people think she is.

Not to mention her initial claim to fame is having played and won a 180-man S&G without looking at a single hand, which seems completely far-fetched, not to mention an asinine thing to do.

Brian Townsend – For a player who is supposed to be an online beast, Townsend’s results seem to make him more of a harmless gnat. Townsend has lost over $2.5 million at the online poker tables since 2007 according to highstakesdb.com, and with no live results to speak of, it’s amazing he is thought of as highly as he is.

Annie Duke –Duke has pretty much self-promoted her way to top poker player. Considering she has been around poker since 1994 and only has a single WSOP bracelet to show for her efforts -ZERO WPT or EPT final tables. Additionally way more than half of her $4.5 million in lifetime winnings have come from invitational tournaments!

Duke used to have decent success in live poker games, but I have no idea how she would fare in today’s poker world.

Emil ‘WhiteLime’ Patel – After a blistering run in 2007 Emil Patel, better known as ‘WhiteLime’, has shown how finicky variance can be in poker. Patel was definitely crowned a top player way too prematurely, and since being up $1 million in 2007, Patel has gone on to lose all of that plus about $500k of his own money according to highstakesdb.com, having hovered as a -$500k player for about two years now!

John D’Agostino – D’Agostino was the tournament version of ‘WhiteLime’, having burst onto the poker tournament scene in 2004, and continued to have some success through 2006. According to the HendonMob.com database, since then D’Agostino hasn’t cashed for more than $28k in a poker tournament!

It’s unclear how D’Agostino has fared in cash games, but according to highstakesdb.com he has lost over $600k at the online poker tables in his career.

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