Hi, new here, was wondering if you all could help me out with something...obv.

What were the defining characteristics of each successful wave of poker players? For each “generation” what were they doing differently that set them apart?

Hard to summarise poker meta game in a short post but the internet generation of players are massively more aggressive than the previous generation.

There was a discovery back in the 2000s when people learned about this thing called 3-betting. There are older guys you see at 1/2 and 2/5 live who have been playing the same since 1990 who literally never 3b at >50blinds deep without KK+.

What is even more sick is that there are a few other old guys who have been playing just as long and haven't realised how much of a sick nit the pool of >50 yo regs is, so they cheerfully stack off with TT when they get it in vs KK+ exclusively.

Thanks!

Anyone else have input?

First generation just needed to play tight to win. Current generation needs to play basically perfect to win. All other "generations" were a degree between those two.

Thanks!

Honestly, I’m thinking of a completely different set of answers. Who can guess?!?!?

continuation betting the flop used to be a sure way of printing money. Ten years ago players would call too wide (with disregard for possition) and then play fit or fold on the flop. So you could:
raise first in from late possition with a tight range, get called, bet the flop 100% of the time and profit.

The few times you missed the flop and your cbet was called you could just slow down, This would happen rarely enough that you still made a profit from all the times that you either took it down with a cbet, or won at showdown against some fool who called with top-pair no kicker.

Yeah 3betting and cbetting pretty much anything was a moneyprint even live.
Nowadays people seem to play about any 2 (at least live) and I'm having a hard time.

any poker player who tries to move up the limits too quickly or make a lot of money quickly WILL fail. a player who gathers it little by little will profit.

Thanks for the input guys!

I do intend on contributing in this thread as well, fyi.

Everything in poker is exploitation and adaptation. The early generation played like super nits which was then exploited by the internet generation playing super aggro which is then exploited by playing somewhat tighter etc.

You can look at it in terms of a heads up match. My opponent thinks I'm super tight so I'm going to bluff more and more until he realises I'm overbluffing at which point I'll value bet more and bluff less etc.. It's all cycles.

Thanks for the input!

Anyone care to take a stab at the Big Picture?

Can anyone provide answers to these questions without referring to poker strat?

1) Nits
2) Exploitative
3) Balanced
4) Near GTO
5) Bots
6) Bots
7) Bots
8) Bots
9) Bots
etc

Think bigger picture guys.

And you know what...I don’t even know if that’s something that can be taught.

Live your lives and take on failure. Embrace sadness and pain.

Then come back to this thread and help me think.

Nope....

You need to get to the point...quickly please. (spoken as a mod)

Close the thread if you don’t see it has any merit or that my method/style of communication isn’t fit for you.

I won’t cry over that. It’s all good.

Thread has been open for over a month with limited responses/interest. It is not just me.

I am a big fan of the Socratic Method. But over a month and no REAL interest and maybe more importantly, no effort on your part other than "guess what I'm thinking"...this thread has run its course.