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Originally Posted by ArtyMcFly
At some stage in your poker life - and you may be at that stage now - you realize that poker is a game with vanishingly small edges, and very high variance. How you cope with those small edges and high variance will dictate how you play the game, and/or for how long. With today's tougher games and lower winrates, risk-aversion is not a particularly useful trait. You kind of have to take the "thin" spots just to break even.
In other words, you can't just be a nit and print money in 2019 in the same way that you could in 2009. Unless you're in a very soft game, you have to fight for pots.
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Is this the kind of situation that you speak of? Even the established posters disagree on the correct play. I know that at some point you "have to play poker". In the above example let's say I call, V cbets, I fold & get pissed off at myself for donating $45.
While the above example might be at the extreme it illustrates the kinds of situations that I'm completely lost in.
Maybe it's just the games I have access to at the moment. When I read some posts or articles describing low stakes I shake my head. There are quite a few players in my game that aren't passive fish with no clue about ranges, odds, equity, etc. There are a few loose passives/players that will bet/call three streets with TP. But mostly my games consist of high aggression with players that will bluff.
Maybe it's just as simple as you stated and I need to accept the variance. For example I adjust my opening size but instead of a "sweet spot" that gets me to the flop HU or 3 way it's more like a light switch. Either we are going 5 ways to the flop or the table folds and I make $3 with JJ.
Last edited by Mr. Big Stack; 07-30-2019 at 05:56 PM.