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Originally Posted by fees
its harder to indentify players at the lower stakes because your player pool is thousands of people whereas mine may be a few hundred at most, but don't let this discourage you, if you start using the HUD as a cruch you're screwed moving up, just don't use it.
Ok.
How many tables do you usually play?
If you dropped down to small stakes (1/2 or .5/1) how many tables would you have to be playing before you'd use a HUD? What if you wanted to just grind those levels 20 hours a week and maybe play like 10 hours a week with fewer tables to try to expediate learning?
I dunno, I like my HUD......I mean I watch players and try to figure out more about them....But yea like you said I have a larger player pool and at the moment the HUD can help me. I mean....I like to think you can use a HUD without it completely becoming a crutch and limiting your upward movement.
And if you want to be really honest than most people in this forum probably will never reach the levels you are playing but may able to do decent at small stakes games where a HUD can possibly be helpful.
I'm just right now thinking it's a balancing act where it can help you, but you also need to be able to notice a lot more subtle things and be able to notice the spots where different numbers occur that make up the AVERAGES in your HUD......but it's a tool that in the right spots can be helpful....thoiugh possibly once you reach a certain level you can throw it out as it's a tool that really isn't so helpful anymore......like you would throw away a flat head screwdriver if companies stopped making that kind of screw for the type of furniture that you started to be able to afford.
I dunno....I feel like I have started rambling.