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Originally Posted by de4df1sh
Serious question:
How more advanced has live poker gotten in the last 2-3 years? Is it possible i could jump into a 1-2 or 1-3 game and smash in the way I used to?
i have barely played in recent years so I too am very interested in what others would say but for me the major gap in skill occurred in the few years after black friday as the new players stopped showing up and those who stayed got markedly better
playing in 2007 knowing something like pot odds would put you in elite company and people who were otherwise generally pretty good players would still overplay trouble hands like KT and AJ because they didn't know the math and game theory behind why
there are still people who make those mistakes, but they are exclusively in the dngaf camp of people there to play cards with little view of the big picture, and those with no fs to give may still understand things like pot odds
played once live about a year ago (posted about it here in 1-3 against people who had specifically flown in for a tournament) and felt they all knew things like relative hand strength and pot odds etc but they'd make the kind of mistakes that separates the wheat from the chaff like getting married to a hand that is good on the flop but bad on the turn or having a pretty good hand & getting reraised in a spot where it's nearly impossible for villain to think you are weak and still calling off your stack
it's a lol sample size of 1 but also on acr playing micro spins and sngs have noticed no difference in overall skill from before, it's even arguably easier than in the past but that could be because acr has a weaker player pool than stars
tl:dr there was a time when even the good players were acting on instinct and inuition whereas now they are much better because they have real data as backing instead of suspect subconcious knowledge - but that moment happened a while ago and now while the good players are able to continue getting better, the average 1-2 guy isn't going to be putting in the work and if they were putting in the work but still playing 1-2 then they clearly don't have it anyway