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Playing Perfect Poker doesn't exist. The whole basis of tournament poker is to make assumptions on image, opening, 3bet / 4 bet ranges, etc..etc...its all based on assumptions and how your hand fares against those assumptions. Every great player makes several mistakes daily, not taking the optimal line or making an incorrect assumption on an image or a range. end thread.
My personal opinion is that with all the internet training sites and forums, more people are not necessarily playing "perfect" poker, but instead, more people are playing the same type of poker. That can be a good or bad thing, depending on how you respond to it. If you don't adapt, it sucks as people are playing a style that increases your variance and puts you in more marginal situations as opposed to dominating ones. With that said, those that adapt and play a level above the rest will continue to crush. All the rages today (treating KQ like the nuts from late position, reshoving light just cuz you have a reshove stack, reshoving any two from the blinds) are not only exploitable, but extremely profitable to those that turn that shyt on its head.
three years ago, everyone played tight poker following standard opening rules and the rest played like retards. The players that realized that began to crush tournaments just by using uber aggression as they would be given way too much credit for their openings and reraises / reshoves. These players exploited the fact that most players played the same way.
Now everyone has been taught to overuse aggression, and its the same thing all over again. The best players will exploit the fact that most players while completely different players from say 2 or 3 years ago, they still play the same way as a collective group. Some fundamentals won't change...in the mtt world today, variance has increased and you will face more marginal situations than ever before. Most will be a slave to the process and attribute every deep run fail as bad luck with coinflips. A select few will adapt, embrace variance, and learn to love marginal situations if they include some sort of illusion of FE, and continue to crush. While I am not a personal fan of the high variance style, I will also admit that it has never been easier to take 20-50bb's off of someone than it is in today's environment. Shyt...i've seen guys get in 200 bb's + with hands like AQ and 99....hands that noone would have dreamed playing for 30bb's just a couple years ago. Cliff notes version: If you think everyone is playing perfect poker, than you are the fish at the table If you think all your non scores are attributable to losing all your coinflips, you are the fish at the table Be an individual and not the group, adapt to the group, exploit the group, and own the group....all the meanwhile selling additional services to the community like access to your website or replays of your sunday major win so you can make even more money off the group while you help to define their style of their play even more while you continue to refine and adapt your play to exploit theirs. all the meanwhile, they are thanking you in comments on your training site for helping improve their play as they sign up for another 6 month subscription and begin playing above their roll due to a newfound false confidence dumping even more dead money into the higher stake buyins. Yup..the door behind the door in poker is dark and ugly. And we haven't even begun to talk about backing, poor bankroll management, MA'ing, soft play, "pros" that go busto several times a year, etc..etc... Now that i think about it..just hang it up now kid...you'll save yourself a lot of time and anguish.
JD
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