Great post spoon.

I would like to add that all of this stuff comes together very nicely if you table select well. Always have nits to your left and lags to your right. Seriously, this is so huge. If you sit down on a fr table and one of the two guys to your left is like 23/18/4.0 with a 3-bet of 6% and a raise steal of 10%+, get the hell outta there next time the bb gets to you. You want people running like 9/7 with a fold to steal of 80%+ and a 1% 3-bet. Short stacks are great candidates to have to your left.

If I find a seat with two nits to my left and two lags to my right with ATS of 30%+ and fold to 3-bet of 70%+, its seriously like viagra.

And by the way, there is no such thing as defending the blinds or stealing blinds.. its all rubbish and will get you in trouble. That stuff as well as all situations in poker boil down to finding +ev spots. Not necessary +ev for that spot, but +ev for your shania as a whole. Being aware of such spots and the totality of their game in a long term perspective is what makes good players great.