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Originally Posted by 2pairsof2s
I vaguely remember something about this as well, but I think it has something to do with Phil Helmuth training some absolute beginner girl. I think the plan was for her to go all in with 77+ and AK, and fold everything else. This was a long time ago and I think that even at midstakes such a plan would get you harvested today.
However, it does bring up an interesting point (which I first heard discussed by the evil hellhound Annie Duke,) about creating different levels of variance based on your judgement of the the skill level of your opponents.
Her point was this: against weaker players against whom you feel you have a skill advantage you want to create low variance opportunities for yourself, avoiding flips and all-in situations and relying on your superior skills to build your stack and grind them down. But if you are in a situation where you feel you are at a skill disadvantage, (and if you have ever played $100+ online or $1k live you have probably felt that way,) then the answer is to create high variance situations for your opponents, thus reducing their skill advantage by introducing a larger element of chance.
It was Sklansky, who was approached by a businessman who wanted to put his daughter in the ME.
BTW, saw the aforementioned playing a $200 nightly at Southpoint this week....