for my bored friends part 1

[klinkman]

Incorrect. Durr, Antonius, Moneymaker (kinda), along with hundreds of others, all play well and win. Consistantly. They are bankrolled for it.

Playing bad cards is not sensible. Playing medium hands (suited connectors/gappers, suited aces, KT, connectors) is ok to limp, but not to go crazy with

Well kind of. What seperates the top players from the rest is ability to play post flop and read their opponents and understand the situtation. Frankly Durrr plays trash all the time, and not because "bad cards are winning today", but because he reads situations so well that he knows when he can fire 3 barrels and get you to fold, where he can get calls after flopping an unlikely monster, and all of the other things in the art of hand reading.

ABC by the book poker strugges to win not because you can't fight the bad players, oh no sir that's hardly the case. The case now is the weakest of the weak have been feasted on and left poker. Loose aggressive players might appear to be bad, while they are exploiting your tight strategy by making you fold when both of you have nothing. Solid, aggresive players have stuck around by countering these players with solid holdings and better timing. And the weak-passive players calling raises with K3 without a plan for how to play the rest of the hand get eaten alive by all of them. And that's the rub. Good players have a plan as soon as they enter the pot. Do you?

[Ringo]

Thanks for the input guys

I play mostly by feel and I am always focussed on the other players.

It doesn't matter what cards I have most of the time.

I am looking for easy situations against easy players.

It works quite nicely for me.

I also have a keen sense of the software tendencies.

I have called all ins with 2-3 in the BB and won

I am self taught and have never read a book and I never will.

I learn from my mistakes and I try not to make them twice.

In my poker mind 84% of the time players get folding cards

I prefer to exploit the 84% instead of the 16% of good hands

[eejit101]

I always have a plan. Ill know what to do on each flop now as soon as it comes. Ill only timebank or anything if i making a particularly tough decision or makng it look like im doing the opposite of what i have.

As for Durr, thats true, i meant in general you wont see players of any standard calling an all in from the BB with 23 because of "software tendancies". They do it with odds.