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Originally Posted by jungmit
People are not tougher. Software tells them when to call and fold. As a whole players are horrible as they were in 2006
Does it? I'm not sure what you want to say but there is no approved tool that tells you in-game what to do in certain spots.
Back when I started several years ago being good at solely push\folding and ICM was enough to make good money even at decent stakes, because the population consisted mostly of fish, so it was enough to play a just "profitable" strategy.
Nowdays, regs even at low stakes know they have to play an "optimal" rather than just a "profitable" strategy because the overall edge has dropped. That's why exploiting, defending wide (and thus more postflop play) and stuff that was back then just known in cashgames are important skills a SNG player has to be able to pull off as well to make any meaningful money (let alone make a living from it). Tools are solely for analysis purposes or to maks ingame adjustments (however, using the stats shown about the players and making the right adjustments based to that is something not everyone is able to do either).