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Originally Posted by dwalker012
I understand the math issue but you are still missing the point.
Sometimes you have to break from the norm to deal with an issue. The book may say one thing but you do another.
Smart people are successful because they do things other people will not do. They do things others say will not work. I refuse to let players make me run to unprofitable situations. I can adjust or goto a site more favorable to me.
Sometimes you have to give a little to make alot.
ugh. it's got nothing to do with my inability to adjust or being to stubborn to do so. i can go back and check my stats against the shorts and i'm likely making money off them, but that's not the issue.
answer this question, rather than continue on this futile discussion about winrate and whether it's possible to adjust to them (which, you seem to continually avoid the mathematical point that it's impossible to truly exploit these players if they play properly. we are all in thie thread probably winners against them because they do not, but that's not the issue...):
why should i stand for being forced to play a one street game in which there are no skill advantages? if i have no way to, in reverse, force the shorts to play a multi-street game? THIS is why it bothers me as i do not have any true recourse. the pleas to FTP to address this are my only recourse as the mechanics currently do not allow me to address the issue via my skill level.
what this is, is turning the game of online poker into less and less of a "skill" game and reducing it to pure random luck. if we all played the shortstacker strategy we would all make money, for now. as the % of shortstackers increases, the game becomes less about skill and gravitates towards random chance of whoever's running card-hot at any given moment.
this is bad for online poker, especially with the current political views on it in the US. the major poker rooms taking a stand on this is a small show of good faith to the notion that poker is indeed a skill game, and there's a recognition and desire to keep that aspect of it a priority. without this, we in the US can kiss our rights to play online goodbye.
so, keep pretending it's possible to truly adjust to their play style, but please stop coming off as ignorant to the truth of why this is more of a legitimate issue than you seem to let on...
is it a tired issue? HELL YES. i'm sick of it already and i've only been re-active as a player within the last month and change. but it doesn't mean it's not affecting me, and until i either have a real option of recourse or a real option to play back at it via my skills, i will keep harping on it (but probably will just have to move to Stars where it's less of an issue).