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Originally Posted by DDAWD
Downloaded it last night. Can't wait to watch it along with his back to basics stuff.
Yeah, in my simplified view of lol-red-line-aments there are two approaches. The imfromsweeden and Chicago Joey approach of pretty much only winning without showdown. That would be hyper lag and super aggressive.
Then there is the small ball approach, where you are playing pretty loose, stealing small pots, and hoping to at least break even in non show down pots, but that really isn't where your money is coming from. The money is still coming from showdown. But you get the following bonuses:
1. Running fish stats: Gets you action from HUD-bots, and there are a ton of hudbots at lower levels. You basically never have a very defined range.
2. Tons of changes to flop strange monsters in position. <- $$$$
I was trying to play a small ball game for a while, but realized I was overcommiting and risking too much money. Think about risk vs reward. Why would you risk most of your stack to win a tiny pot? Think about bluffing and stealing in terms of lots of little pots. When you are building a big pot, you better either have the goods or have tons of equity to reach the goods by showdown. Try to eliminate crazy moves where you risk a lot of money in relation to the pot with very little equity.