Who the **** is Dimitri nobles?

NickyOD

Has anyone caught hours 5 and 6 of the world series yet? This guy has to be the most obnoxious, donkey luckbox in the history of TV poker. Sick stuff alltogether.

The only worthwhile reason to watch the rest of the WSOP is to see this mother****er get knocked out.

Lazare

NickyOD wrote:

Has anyone caught hours 5 and 6 of the world series yet? This guy has to be the most obnoxious, donkey luckbox in the history of TV poker. Sick stuff alltogether.

The only worthwhile reason to watch the rest of the WSOP is to see this mother****er get knocked out.

I think RT was at his table for a while.

RoundTower

see if you can catch me putting in 10000000 BBs preflop with A5 against Dmitri's KK. I didn't think he was obnoxious or anything actually, he was very well behaved at my table though I don't think he's a good player.

NickyOD

RoundTower wrote:

see if you can catch me putting in 10000000 BBs preflop with A5 against Dmitri's KK. I didn't think he was obnoxious or anything actually, he was very well behaved at my table though I don't think he's a good player.

It was him!!! Why did you do that?

RoundTower

I put him on A4 obviously.

NickyOD

RoundTower wrote:

I put him on A4 obviously.

Actually that's probably not a bad read. He seems to think Ace rag is just as powerful.

staringelf

sweet. i didn't know hour 5 and 6 were available yet. i'm off to....my cousin's house now to watch it.

NickyOD

staringelf wrote:

sweet. i didn't know hour 5 and 6 were available yet. i'm off to....my cousin's house now to watch it.

lol! Say hi to your cousin for us!!

Tar.Aldarion

Do you download it or what?

staringelf

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Do you download it or what?

**ducks head**
in before the lock

Tar.Aldarion

Clearly it is the 'what?' (:

NickyOD

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

Clearly it is the 'what?' (:

There's a link in my blog. I can't post links to torrents. here.

opr

Think traffic is pretty heavy tonight. Cousin's are alot slower than usual getting to my house but i am sure it will be worth it when i do see them

Opr

Hectorjelly

opr wrote:

Think traffic is pretty heavy tonight. Cousin's are alot slower than usual getting to my house but i am sure it will be worth it when i do see them

Opr

The more family you have the faster they procreate, thats whats so great about tor.. I mean cousins.

unityofsaints

Yep Dimitri seems like a complete donkey tbh.

I could have cried when he sucked out on Danzer with A5o vs. KK- here's an amateur who actually bought in with his own money (as apposed to the 100000000 sattelites on the net), plays solid poker and then gets two bad beats off this eejit who tilts off a top 10 chipstack with rubbish hands.

I'm all for the buy-in going up to 100,000 next year tbh- we'll only have 1/10 the number of fishes (hopefully) :rolleyes:

Norwich Fan Rob

he was the big stack on the tv table on day 4 when i was on it, he kept min raising from utg+1 with the likes of A8 off, grrrrr.

NickyOD

Norwich Fan Rob wrote:

he was the big stack on the tv table on day 4 when i was on it, he kept min raising from utg+1 with the likes of A8 off, grrrrr.

He raised with Q4 suited UTG to 15K. A total rock reraises to 50K with Aces. Nobles decides to min reraise to 100K. well played sir!

It's really incredible. This guy woulnd't be able to beat the penny tables online. He's a fuktard of extraordinary proportion. He can't fold a pair. He does not know what he is doing. If an idiot like this can go so far in the WSOP what's to stop someone this stupid becoming World Champion. Tournament poker is such a joke sometimes.

ullu

NickyOD wrote:

He raised with Q4 suited UTG to 15K. A total rock reraises to 50K with Aces. Nobles decides to min reraise to 100K. well played sir!

It's really incredible. This guy woulnd't be able to beat the penny tables online. He's a fuktard of extraordinary proportion. He can't fold a pair. He does not know what he is doing. If an idiot like this can go so far in the WSOP what's to stop someone this stupid becoming World Champion. Tournament poker is such a joke sometimes.

I'm not going to dispute anything that has been said in relation to the hands we all saw Nobles play. However, I do think it is a bit rash to make such sweeping statements about the guy when you've only seen four or five hands he played aggressively and badly. That feature table probably lasted for a few hours and he could have been completely running over it during that time for all we know. Obviously if someone here was at his table for an extended period of time and can confirm every hand he won was in this fashion, that's fair enough.

NickyOD

ullu wrote:

I'm not going to dispute anything that has been said in relation to the hands we all saw Nobles play. However, I do think it is a bit rash to make such sweeping statements about the guy when you've only seen four or five hands he played aggressively and badly. That feature table probably lasted for a few hours and he could have been completely running over it during that time for all we know. Obviously if someone here was at his table for an extended period of time and can confirm every hand he won was in this fashion, that's fair enough.

It only takes one horribly played hand to figure out if some is a either complete idiot or drunk. Unless Nobles was playing intoxicated then the only other conlcusion is that he has the IQ of a grapefuit.

ullu

NickyOD wrote:

It only takes one horribly played hand to figure out if some is a either complete idiot or drunk. Unless Nobles was playing intoxicated then the only other conlcusion is that he has the IQ of a grapefuit.

Take the Q4 hand as an example. Nobles makes a decent sized raise which is folded around to Danzer has AA. You state Danzer is a "total rock". I don't know how you can say that as that's the first hand we saw him play. We subsequently saw him play well but he was hardly a rock.

So Danzer raises and Nobles decides to come over the top. Perhaps Danzer had been mixing it up before this and Nobles decided to make a play, thinking his opponent may be weak and he felt the only hand Danzer can respond with is AA/KK/QQ?

All I'm saying is that there's no way you can be so adamant about his play as you've only seen what he's done for a few hands four days into the event.

NickyOD

ullu wrote:

Take the Q4 hand as an example. Nobles makes a decent sized raise which is folded around to Danzer has AA. You state Danzer is a "total rock". I don't know how you can say that as that's the first hand we saw him play. We subsequently saw him play well but he was hardly a rock.

So Danzer raises and Nobles decides to come over the top. Perhaps Danzer had been mixing it up before this and Nobles decided to make a play, thinking his opponent may be weak and he felt the only hand Danzer can respond with is AA/KK/QQ?

All I'm saying is that there's no way you can be so adamant about his play as you've only seen what he's done for a few hands four days into the event.

Have you ever actually played a NL Texas Holdem Tournament?

Danzer only showed big hands at the table. His image was tight and good. Everyone at the TV table would have to be completely stupid not to see that.

The Q4 hand he only minimum reraises, which means Danzer cannot fold any hand!

He also went on to crack Danzers Kings with A8 on an 8 high flop. Danzer check raised all in. There is no hand nobles can beat here but he calls anyway in about half a seond and turns the ace.

Donkey of ****ing century.

Samba

All my favourite cousins are staying at the one place these days 1st cousins to 2nd cousin ratios are always way higher than most other family relatives.

Drop me a pm...

Only Dimitri could have turned that A against danzer.

"im only going to play premium pairs" moments later seen calling with Q10o, not even soooted.

Ste05

Totally agree with everything written about Nobles, I can't believe some of his calls (in particular the A8).

But one person who I ****ing hate with a passion is Humberto Brenes. :mad: :mad:

And I have a question for anyone who's seen him on TV much or if anyone here played at his table or watched him play **looking at Dev** (who I think I remember posting about a severe dislike of him on Antesup).

When he does his stupid, loud, annoying shark raise (like against Friedman) does he do this only with the nuts, (presume not as what a tell that'd be, but Friedman's comments would lead me to think he does).

The reason I ask is because I would love nothing more than to see someone, let him do this little bit of TV grabbing, attention seeking sh1te and then just calmly say "Re-Raise" and put in enough to set him all in. I'd love to see what he does then (obviously he better not win :mad: )... But just to shut him up and I'd prefer that much more than watching him take a bad beat...

delanec8

NickyOD wrote:

Danzer only showed big hands at the table. His image was tight and good. Everyone at the TV table would have to be completely stupid not to see that.

How do you know this by watching 5 hands from a whole days play?

EDIT: Im not disputing Nobles was a "fuktard" but when watching an edited show like this i always keep in mind that i have no idea how a table has been playing or many other factors which would influence a player's decision.

NickyOD

delanec8 wrote:

How do you know this by watching 5 hands from a whole days play?

EDIT: Im not disputing Nobles was a "fuktard" but when watching an edited show like this i always keep in mind that i have no idea how a table has been playing or many other factors which would influence a player's decision.

It's enough.

ullu

NickyOD wrote:

Have you ever actually played a NL Texas Holdem Tournament?

Fair play, that's a particularly incisive query. Fairly poor Hector impression though...

NickyOD wrote:

Danzer only showed big hands at the table. His image was tight and good. Everyone at the TV table would have to be completely stupid not to see that.

The Q4 hand he only minimum reraises, which means Danzer cannot fold any hand!

He also went on to crack Danzers Kings with A8 on an 8 high flop. Danzer check raised all in. There is no hand nobles can beat here but he calls anyway in about half a seond and turns the ace.

Donkey of ****ing century.

You seem to be ignoring my point so let me repeat it.

I am not claiming Nobles is a good player. It is quite obvious that he exhibits negligible hand reading abilities, badly timed aggression and poor bet sizing. I have been looking for POTENTIAL reasons behind his plays other than him simply being a poor, hyper aggressive calling station. There is no doubt his call with the A8 vs KK all-in is just terrible play but you are making your judgements on the basis of a few televised hands whereas Nobles had already played about 40-45(?) hours of poker in the tournament before this. Maybe luck was the only reason he got to be a huge chip leader by Day 2 but I would doubt it.

I see Rob said "grrrrr" in relation to Nobles min raising utg+1 with poor hands. Maybe Rob could elaborate but I'd assume this expression of frustration is because Nobles was so difficult to play against at the time? The commentator (Lon I think) even referred to him as the table captain.

I'm not even sure why I bothered to post in this thread. When you look at the thread title, it would imply you don't particularly want discussion on the matter, all you want to do is have a rant.

PokerSquid

NickyOD wrote:

Has anyone caught hours 5 and 6 of the world series yet? This guy has to be the most obnoxious, donkey luckbox in the history of TV poker. Sick stuff alltogether.

The only worthwhile reason to watch the rest of the WSOP is to see this mother****er get knocked out.

he's horrible. as a novice player, i'm embarassed by his play. and his ego.

ego will grate on you enough if the guy is good. but when someone who's just horrible talks stupid trash? that's almost unbearable.

interesting, i thought the commentators were dead on when they said something to the effect... "like many internet players, he was good at accumulating chips, not so good holding on to them"

alot of those guys build their stacks making bad plays and catching lucky. that seems to be how it goes online. as evidenced by the other "internet wonder" that 21 year old who bluffed off ~ 1/2 his pot with 10/7 suited and busted out not too soon after.

NickyOD

ullu wrote:

Fair play, that's a particularly incisive query. Fairly poor Hector impression though...

I don't know how I can ask the question in annother way but anyone who thinks Nobles in anything more than an imbicile who just got continuously lucky can't know anything at all about poker.

Anyway the point of thread was more to develop discussion about the coverage of the WSOP inn General as there hasn't really been much talk about it on the forum.

ullu

NickyOD wrote:

I don't know how I can ask the question in annother way but anyone who thinks Nobles in anything more than an imbicile who just got continuously lucky can't know anything at all about poker.

To reiterate YET AGAIN, I am not saying Nobles is a good player. He appears to be a bad player from what we saw in the last episode but most people will have the sense to realise that that is all we saw out of his four days of poker playing so far. It's almost comical that you refuse to accept this. First impressions are all well and good but you're judging a player who finished in the top 1% of the largest main event ever on the basis of four or five hands. Now if you've read extensively on how Nobles played throughout the entire event (it's probably possible by looking at the PokerStars blogs from the ME), then I'll bow to your judgement. Otherwise, try to keep the sweeping statements to a minimum.

mewso

Jaysus calm down children. I just watched this and I have to agree with Nicky. I understand the point that very often we see hands that seem badly played only for the player to give a fairly justified explanation based on his reads of his opponents etc. and I go along with the player saying this because he is the one that has been sitting there playing them for hours but in this case Nobles imo was just a guy who got lucky early on and was able to trash talk players quite well into calling him (which only says he was facing some donkeys too). Then with a stack he mismanaged it so badly as to be embarrassing. Playing back at tight players on several occassions. Seriously no matter how much leeway you might want to give to players it's hard to justify some of his moves.

As to Brenes. I think he is the player I currently dislike the most and I still think more should have been made of the way he played those Aces (seen in episode 5 I think). He made his opponent wait until the cameras could get to the table before showing the hand/moving all-in. Pathetic and the TV guys shouldn't give him a second more TV time imo. Maybe he told his opponent he had Aces before the camera got there, who knows, but his constant show-boating should be studiously ignored. It's incredibly irritating. I would rather play with Phil Helmuth, Tony G and Mike the Mouth then have to sit at the table with that git. I was there watching Dave (Roundtower) play when Brenes was shouting and roaring at the TV table and man was it annoying. Unfortunately this means we have him to look forward to on one of the show probably the next one.

Best moment of the episodes was Doyle Brunson's milk and cookies.

Atlas_IRL

i hate his all in move, he's an attention seeker.

Who's up there for player of the year, i'd say Cunninham has a good chance to make it two in a row, he's prob the most underrated pro in poker

NickyOD

Atlas_IRL wrote:

i hate his all in move, he's an attention seeker.

Who's up there for player of the year, i'd say Cunninham has a good chance to make it two in a row, he's prob the most underrated pro in poker

http://www.cardplayer.com/tournaments/poy

Hectorjelly

It seemed pretty clear to me that nobles was a really bad player. He played several hands technically awfully, and in such a manner that betrays a total lack of understanding. The mistakes he made werent from tiredness or overaggression, he just had no clue as to the value of hands, general logic or any poker sense at all. Take one hand as an example.

He raises preflop with 67s, some guy reraises him. He has to put in something like 1/7th of the other guys stack. This is an awful call. Then the flop comes up 347 (or similar), and he just puts the guy all in out of position. Now there is no way the other guy is folding an overpair, and he just out flopped AQ AK etc, so the right move is to check raise all in.

StraddleFor6

I played blackjack with Mr Nobles a couple of days after he got busted. He was a really nice man...very very funny too. Told me he was very unhappy with the way he played and was well aware that he donked off all his chips stupidly. On day one he was all in with jacks on a Q high board against QQ. Turn J, River J!!!!

bohsman

ullu wrote:

To reiterate YET AGAIN, I am not saying Nobles is a good player. He appears to be a bad player from what we saw in the last episode but most people will have the sense to realise that that is all we saw out of his four days of poker playing so far. It's almost comical that you refuse to accept this. First impressions are all well and good but you're judging a player who finished in the top 1% of the largest main event ever on the basis of four or five hands. Now if you've read extensively on how Nobles played throughout the entire event (it's probably possible by looking at the PokerStars blogs from the ME), then I'll bow to your judgement. Otherwise, try to keep the sweeping statements to a minimum.

roundtower also played at his table for quite a while and cardshark watched the table, I think theyll both agree he was a donkey.

cooker3

StraddleFor6 wrote:

I played blackjack with Mr Nobles a couple of days after he got busted. He was a really nice man...very very funny too. Told me he was very unhappy with the way he played and was well aware that he donked off all his chips stupidly. On day one he was all in with jacks on a Q high board against QQ. Turn J, River J!!!!

This clearly shows he accumulated his chips through playing some skllful top class poker...........

Norwich Fan Rob

i thought he was a bit of a muppet all right, but he was dangerous, cause he was liable to move ott all in at any moment, so u needed a hand to take him on, which i never found whilst at his table.
His constant min raises, then over bets did seem very strange all the same, but what can u do with 82, 83, 74 etc for 2 hours solid.
(he certaintly wasnt the sort of player to be making a move on , that was clear).

I heard him talking to some friends on one on the breaks, and he seemed quite arrogant to be honest.

Just another tournament donkey in a tourney with some excellent players, and a lot of donkeys.

cardshark202

bohsman wrote:

roundtower also played at his table for quite a while and cardshark watched the table, I think theyll both agree he was a donkey.

Agreed

karlh

musician wrote:

As to Brenes. I think he is the player I currently dislike the most and I still think more should have been made of the way he played those Aces (seen in episode 5 I think). He made his opponent wait until the cameras could get to the table before showing the hand/moving all-in. Pathetic and the TV guys shouldn't give him a second more TV time imo. Maybe he told his opponent he had Aces before the camera got there, who knows, but his constant show-boating should be studiously ignored.

Brenes let the guy sweat for a full 3 minutes while calling over TV cameras so he could be a showboating cnut. i would have had to slap him if it was me.

myflipflops

have to agree with nicky, he's clearly a donk. whatever about making questionable pre flop re-raises, calling off huge chunks of your stack with marginal hands (and thats being very kind) cannot be justified.

I didn't think his behaviour was that bad compared to that of others. Brenes should literally have been taken outside and shot. That danzer guy should be given a lot of credit for the class he showed though. After understandably walking away when twice d**ked by nobles, both times he came back smiling and shaking hands. Nice to see someone showing the americans how to behave.

5starpool

karlh wrote:

Brenes let the guy sweat for a full 3 minutes while calling over TV cameras so he could be a showboating cnut. i would have had to slap him if it was me.

Is calling the camera over a sufficient reason for delay in the main event? Is it acceptable only if you are a 'personality'? Could the clock have been called on him? Were the dealers instructed in some way to accommodate waiting for cameras in big all in hands?

RoundTower

yes, the dealers were instructed to do as they were told by ESPN and to do everything they could for them.

5starpool

wunkers

Atlas_IRL

Who loves Scotty Nguyen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnmY3TQYBI

NickyOD

Atlas_IRL wrote:

Who loves Scotty Nguyen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLnmY3TQYBI

Didn't you mean to say "Who loves Scotty Nguyen...baby."

Hectorjelly

NickyOD wrote:

Didn't you mean to say "Who loves Scotty Nguyen...baby."

thats right baby, everyone loves Scotty Nguyen baby

bill_ashmount

Just watched episodes 7 & 8 there.

Prahlad Friedman and that young kid Molina came across as two complete dicks. Entertaining viewing though.

spectre

Can someone pm me the whereabouts of their 7th & 8th cousin please?

Much obliged

Lafortezza

bill_ashmount wrote:

Prahlad Friedman

He ****ed up with the

accusation against Lissandro. He shouldn't have said what he did, he should have just asked the floor person to check the tapes.

The hands involving those two afterwards were pretty good.

that young kid Molina came across as a complete dick. Entertaining viewing though.

God I wanted to slap him so hard. The hand where he berates the player for

going all in with J8o (probably to steal the blinds), and then calls him on the blind! Deserved a good cock-punching imho.

NickyOD

It's been a really horrible World series to watch so far. Why is everyone so incredibly rude at the table, or is it just that this is all ESPN wants to show. Surely there is some good banter between some players who are just enjoying themselves that they could show.

The incredible thing about the last episode is that Jamie Gold came across as quite dignified in comparison to many of the other players. He did prove though that when it comes to poker he really doens't know what he is doing.
I have no idea how the action went up to the turn but he calls a players push with the ignorant end of a straight draw, thinking it’s the correct call saying “I’m getting 3:1!" With one card to come he actually had a 15% chance of winning the hand.

mewso

Completely agree Nicky. I'm renaming this series the World Series of Assholes. I'm not sure about Gold as a person but yes some questionable plays. He says a couple of times he would be mad to play with anything but the nuts and proceeds to be mad more than once. It really looks sadly to me like he luckboxed all the way. I know you have to get lucky to win but a long tourney will normally find out the weak players, for example Nobles. 2 highlights for me - Nobles going out and Humburto Assholo going out. A dealer should say to him "Is there something wrong with the ceiling there Humburto or do you intend to raise by any chance you tit?"