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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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When Limon labeled those well-known players as "boring"...was he insinuating that their post-flop play was somehow LACKING?
Because, when you say that the most important facet of NL is the pre-flop portion...then you are implying that the POST-FLOP part of the game is of less significance. And I can't quite picture Ivey, Patrik and Dwan agreeing with that.
