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Daniel Negreanu: PokerStars pro, Kid Poker, and self-confessed cards stats geek.

In a past journal entitled “I am a Stats Geek Like No Other”, Negreanu dissects mountains of statistics and aggregation in visit to systemise his crowning decade cards professionals into threesome unequalled lists.

You can verify a countenance at Negreanu’s authorised journal here.

Kid Poker took every contestant who had participated in 30 or more World Poker Tour events into consideration, and acknowledged that there would be a accepted ROI (return on investment) of at small $20k in visit to counterbalance food, accommodation, flights, taxes, etc.

He utilised individual categories to care the 176 limiting players into the lists, with Total Earnings, Final Tables, and Cash Percentages all factoring into the test result.

The results are quite interesting:

Top Ten Players in Earnings Per Event:

1. Carlos Mortensen – $107,354.29
2. Jonathan Little – $93,077.19
3. histrion DeKnijff – $92,130.72
4. king Chiu – $91,053.53
5. Gus Hansen – $90,816.93
6. Tuan Le – $90,781.26
7. Nick Schulman – $77,838.60
8. archangel Mizrachi – $69,479.43
9. justice Negreanu – $68,591.79
10. Alan Goehring – $59,936.17

Bottom Ten Players in Earnings Per Event:

Don Barton – $2,056.33
Matt Glanttz – $1,794.71
Jean-Roberte Bellande – $1,792.57
John Esposito – $1,678.67
Yosh Nakano – $1,547.50
Jason Lester – $1,010.52
Robert Williamson threesome – $1,000.00
Alan Schien – $938.45
Dan Alspach – $728.47
Frank Kassela – $606.29

“Essentially what that means, is that for every $10,000 on cipher that these players place into an event, they intend backwards what’s listed.”

Finally, Negreanu lists his crowning 10 (okay, 11) players supported on test plateau percentages:

1. Gus Hansen – 15.6%
2. Scotty Nguyen – 11.1%
3. Jonathan Little – 10.8%
4. Phil Ivey – 10.5%
5. Ted Forrest – 8.8%
6. justice Negreanu – 8.6%
6. Can Kim Hua – 8.6%
6. Humberto Brenes – 8.6%
9. king Pham – 8.4%
10. Steve dynasty – 8.3%
10. Hoyt Corkins – 8.3%

- TheDoctor