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Originally Posted by dilanesp
Limon deals with this point. The people he plays against in high and mid stakes games who actually make money "play boring" pre-flop, while a lot of people who have written poker books aren't actually winning players in cash games (and certainly don't have the winrates of the people he mentions in his post).
There's also plenty of evidence from online that the biggest winners play pretty tight. And not only is that more accurate data, but it's a much larger sample size. Live players believe a lot of old wives' tales, including many who think they are "good", because their sample sizes are so small.
As for difficult situations- in any poker game, the player with the stronger range will have the second best made hand less often. That's basically the mathematical principle behind tight play.
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Yes. But in the NL games...these "second-best hands" are much costlier, and can seriously damage the player...even if they occur "less often". In NL...a sound post-flop game helps you a lot more in this regard than a "boring" pre-flop strategy does...IMO.
I'm not defending all the "looser" players here, you understand...because I am on the "boring" side myself. In fact...my gambling motto has always been that "If you are not bored when you gamble...then you are playing the game WRONG". But I've crossed swords with some of these "loose/aggressive" players out there...and it hasn't been fun. And I can testify that a few of them are big winners.
