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I know there's a lot of arrogance in assuming that if someone is playing hands the way I would that they must be playing optimally, but a lot of sets that I used to see people misplay a year or so back are now routine for decent players. There are still sets that don't seem to have a clearly best line, but most competent players I encounter are setting most of their hands as I would most of the time. Furthermore, the play after the set is much more widely understood. People still overplay hands sometimes (hell, I know I do), but I almost never see anyone take a bad passive line; the overwhelming majority of mistakes I see decent players make are mistakes of aggression, which I'd argue are almost always less damaging than mistakes of passivity. When I first started playing a lot of POFC, there were players whose FL percentages were ridiculously low because they played too passively both on the set and on the draws, but now almost everyone I play against has a good FL %.
I don't think the game is completely solved yet, but I think that the gap between a top POFC player and a merely competent one has shrunk so much that the elite player's edge is much smaller than the edge an elite hold'em or omaha player has against a merely competent player of those games. POFC's big problem is that there is so much information available during the hand that if you have a reasonable understanding of basic strategy it's hard to make big mistakes--you can make smaller mistakes, granted, but those aren't usually catasptrophic. Whereas, in hold'em or omaha, middle-of-the-road players have so much less information available that they can (and do) make big mistakes against top players much more often.
Even players who consider themselves "world class" at poker games of much-less-complete information can make huge mistakes in a way that just never happens in POFC. Consider this hand, one of my favorite hold'em hands of all time, where Tom Dwan uses his knowledge of the other players and of the spot to get both Peter Eastgate and Barry Greenstein to make huge mistakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxo1mAng090
But in POFC everybody always knows where they are and what their opponents are up to, so no one can make a mistake of this nature or this magnitude. It's hard to grind out a profit at any kind of poker, but it seems like it has to be more achievable at a game in which people have to guess what's going on than in a game in which the information is available to everyone.
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