Best Stud Player

stevenbcortez · 09-07-2007, 02:58 PM

can be a tournament player or a cash game.

i think it's either Ted Forrest or Chip Reese.

well...there's also Joe Awada.

but if i had to pick a player to bet on or run a Stud tourney. it'd probably be Ted Forrest.

guy is LETHAL.

donktheclown · 09-20-2008, 07:54 AM

Oh I just noticed that the thread is old, but I'd like to suggest Barry Greenstein. He's widely considered one of the best Stud players.

beaston · 09-20-2008, 09:54 PM

I mentioned Archie Karas in another thread, but from what I hear, he was one of the best in all games as well. He was beating the greats such as Stu Ungar, Chip Reese (Took him for $2M once,) and many others. When Doyle Brunson says you're good, that really means something. :smile:

Here's ESPN's interview with him...

http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/...ideoId=3569246

Quote:

In the middle of the Horseshoe's tournament room, where $25-$50 and $50-$100 games are common, Karas, with his newly minted bankroll, and Chip, competing with the financial backing of a famous hotel owner, played Razz and Seven-Card Stud for unthinkable stakes: $3,000-$6,000, $4,000-$8,000 and eventually, according to Archie, $8,000-$16,000 limits. In approximately two weeks, Archie beat the putative champ for $2,022,000.
Resigning from the game, Reese supposedly told Archie: "God made your balls a little bigger. You're too good."

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Indeed, after vanquishing Reese, few players had either the gumption or the bankroll to tangle with the man who was calling himself the uncrowned world champion. One who did was Stu Ungar, another two-time world champ known for his hyperaggressive, raise-it-to-the-roof style. Yards away from where his picture hangs in Binion's Gallery of Champions, playing $5,000-$10,000 limit Stud and Razz with a backer's money, Ungar lost $900,000 to Karas in just six hours.

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Next, the legendary Brunson took his shot at breaking Karas. The best he could do was break even. "We stopped after awhile," Karas reports. "He didn't want to play high enough."

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar...540,67,00.html