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Originally Posted by fabadam
doomswitch: I suppose you play fullring. I am more a 6-max player, so don't know the finer points of full-ring.
At the higher levels, it vertainly seems to be a "race to the bottom": who can play the tightest. There, I don't think 12/10 is very weird.
However, if you have trouble player looser than this at the micro levels, you are almost certainly not good enough at hand reading and opponent reading.
So, the super-tight play is not bad in itself (personally, I'd rather have tooth surgery than play so tight, but I'm a 6-max player), but if it's your only way to win at very low levels, you have a lot to learn.
Good posts, and I should have mentioned... I play 6-max, which means I'm a supreme nit, I guess. I also play a decent amount of CAP tables.
I don't play nitty because I fear my opponents ranges or because I'm confused. In fact, I've just done some stat keeping and figured out that I get my money all in (or all in CAP) at about a 3:1 ratio. I do well at showdown.
I play tight because I'm dead-afraid of being drawn out on. My pattern is that I play up a nice gain in my BR, and then go on a brutal run of 3-out-style losses, and wind up in worse shape than I was.
I'm not confused by these players at 25NL at all. In fact, I feel like I know where I am 90% of the time. I'm regularly thinking... "these guys are so bad." (And I don't consider myself great by any stretch.)
But, this pattern has me paralyzed to play a nitty style, as I'm too worried about massive negative variance runs, which seem to crush me every couple of days.
So, my way around that is to play air-tight ranges, steal blinds when I can... and only loosen up against players with wacky stats.
Air-tight seems to be the only way I can curtail the brutal variance downswings I go on. But, I also feel like I might be capping my upside.
I guess I just wondered if those numbers looked out of line, and if they're going to eventually hurt my chances, or if that's potentially a winning style for me if I can ever get cards to run my way?