Specificity Poker Generations

Generation - a community of individual objects in a certain time interval. In the original understanding of the word “generation” is associated with a part of life's journey: the young generation (people under the age of 35 years) is opposed to the older generation (parents, grandparents).

But this term is much broader and do not necessarily cover long periods of time, but, as a rule, when it comes to the generation of anything or anyone, 10 years and over - the norm. Anything less time - an exception or a minority.

Poker generation lasts about 3 years:

Bring this theory to the poker industry. In our case we talk about online poker, about a group of successful cash game player’s most high stakes poker in all disciplines. Tournament world will not touch, because it is not as well suited for the purposes of this article, but subject to the same laws.

So, who is now at the hearing? Victor «Isildur1» Blom Alexander «PostFlopAction» Kostritsin , Tight-Man1, Kyle «cottonseed1» Hendon , Odd_Oddsen, SallyWoo, Follow The Hawk, Rhje and many others. This is a new or old generation?

The answer is that there are representatives of different generations. For example, Blom and Kostritsin likely belong to the “old school ", they have long been at the top, has seen a lot and seen a lot of them.

A Tight-Man1, Kyle Hendon, SallyWoo and others - the younger generation, they are here only recently.

Remember who played 2-3 years ago who constantly gets in the news : Ziigmund, POKERBLUFFS, Tom «durrrr» Dwan, Patrik Antonius , IHateJuice, Urindanger, Phil Ivey , Kagome Kagome, Skjervøy, Isildur - a whole layer of players who are associated with meanwhile , with the boom of online poker , with hellish battles in which millions of won and lost !

Many of them play now, but now the "rules" the younger generation.

Features poker generations

1. Brevity

Three years for a generation - is very small. But perhaps even less - in any niche industry - for example, heads- up cash.

2. Promiscuity

The previous generation does not disappear completely, and partly mixed with the new. In fact, the players can be the same age and the same level, but their statuses are different. For example, Tom Dwan playing against SallyWoo, can be compared with some Brazilian soccer veteran teaching a young but very promising player.

3. Stratification

Up to now we have described the upper layer - high stakes. Layers but something much more. In simple terms, there is still the middle and bottom layer - limits players $ 10 / $ 20, $ 25 / $ 50 and players with $ 5 / $ 10 - something like that. They have their own poker Wednesday, their leaders, and their generation. Keep track of them or the players themselves May or specialists.

4. Inhomogeneity

Poker generation - the forest in which there are small trees, tall pines, shrubs, moss and even redwoods. Players like Viktor Blom - redwoods, you can see them from afar, they became known for a very short period of time: with aggression, excessive Dispersion results.

Others, those who profit chart smoother - regular size trees. They may have no less strong, but they are not visible.

Sometimes it affects the visibility of the player it belongs to a particular generation.

So, we found that the generation of poker lasts about three years that it has a number of interesting properties that some players are "above" the other, although they may not be experienced, younger, stronger.