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Originally Posted by venice10
mpethy has written that a top player can get to BE in the blinds at his or her level. With my focus on live play, I'm not playing much on-line at the moment. Therefore, I dropped stakes considerably. At 5nl and 10nl for the limited time I play, I've gotten close to that. However, that was done mainly by 3betting players not used to it and who are playing a lot of fit or fold poker.
I am not even really thinking about BE play, but actually tipping the balance well beyond BE play.
My thinking is that when we have a big skill difference we can easily overcome the positional disadvantage.
E.g. Villain is a MTT player that is L1 in all of his thinking, he will in most all situations stack off for <=100BB with top pair. This player loves to open from MP+ with Ax, Kx, Qx, Jx especially if they are suited. He will defend any of his chips in the pot when holding these same hands, i.e. he will limp call or defend his blinds with these holdings facing a raise.
We are in the BB with eff 80BB and hold KJo, it folds to the villain in highjack and he opens for 5BB.
In this situation I think we can play out of the blinds with a much higher level of skill than the villain and would expect to show a profit versus this disparity of skill every time we find ourselves in this situation regardless of position. So for example with the villain in the BB and we are in HJ we can profitably open versus this player (assuming we know the others between us) and expect some percentage of the time to stack him with a TP hand. The end result would not be influenced by position versus this player, we dominate this player in skill from all positions and any positional advantage we gain when IP is not significant compared to the skill differential.
So if the above is indeed true, then we should never significantly alter our play because one or the other of us are in a blind or even in a EP.
But if we go with the traditional line of thought that "tight is right, especially in the blinds and from EP", then we should never ever be calling or raising any player with a problem hand like KJo, i.e. we would significantly alter our play because one of us is in the blind.
So I am tossing this out there for discussion to see if there is something to this line of thought. Chime in, please.
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i thought a few online grinders were showing in the green from SB. i remember seeing that somewhere...
I would like to see that if you can find it.