Quote Originally Posted by Chopper
spoon, i didnt think that QJs hand was "tricky" at all.

the 9Ts hand was much trickier from UTG. but, once i saw the philosophy behind it, i didnt mind it so much, either.

when you are popping 18 tables, how tight do you run? well, how loose can you be with any thought process would be the better question?
lol, the QJ hand wasn't tricky, that was the point , and the T9s hand seems fairly standard vs that villain.

When 18-tabling full ring, I average about 14.5-15 VP$IP and 13-13.5 PFR. I'll be posting a stats thread in the full ring forum today probably since I'm about to break 50k hands of 200nl for the year. I'm not totally sure I understand the second question but I'll try to answer it anyway.

Edit: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...st-t65966.html is the stats post referred to above

At any given time, I'm only involved in 2-3, rarely 4-5 hands that "matter". By "hands that matter" I mean there's something about them that's going to take some sort of thought.

For an example of a hand that "doesn't matter", say you raise AQs in EP, get a 20/5 caller from the blinds who folds to a c-bet 89% of the time over a large sample. The flop comes K95 giving you a flush draw and you're checked to. You c-bet. So far this hand hasn't taken much thought and is pretty much played automatically.

Villain calls. The turn is a Q and villain checks. Now it's starting to become a "hand that matters" because you have to think a little to decide what your play is going to be, but I probably check here depending on the villain.

The river comes a 5 that misses our flush draw. Villain leads with a near-PSB. Now I've got to think more specifically about what hands he could hold. I don't know what I would do here because it would depend mostly on the individual villain.

I guess the point is that all of my decisions are sort of on this sliding scale of whether I have to think much about them or not. Big pots, later streets, villains I have been pushing and been getting pushed back against, and non-standard lines tend to involve more thought.