Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
i would agree w/ you. but down here in the trenches (25 NL), do you think its more +EV to "mix it up" or simply practice your "discilpline" by trying to stay w/ "abc poker?"

i cant identify very few "thinking" players. most have read a book, or seen a starting hands chart, but very few do anything post-flop other than: bet when their card hits, check/fold when it doesnt, and check-raise/float monsters...thats about it. 3betting, as you know, means AA/KK/maybe AK or QQ, but very seldom is it anything else. and a RR pf to all-in, by a LAG, is either a bluff w/ crap like ATo or KK/AA, and you have about a 50/50 shot at which is which...even with a read of a deeper stack. shorties push w/ just about anything, but not all of them.

so, again, it seems to me, that the proper poker down here is to sit and simply "avoid mistakes" and leave the "fancier plays" to the guys at the higher stakes. do you agree?
my simple answer to anyone playing less than 100nl is 'dont play on stars or full tilt'
There are other sites out there, even for US players, where you should get enough action without having to plod through thousand of hands at stars for a crappy bbs/100 rate playing much better poker than you should need to.
Rakeback + bonus whoring + casino whoring = br for 100nl.

And depending on how much time you have depends on how quickly that will happen.