You know what I think the deal is? It’s like, you got all these pieces and parts. Like it’s one of those old school tubs of Tinkertoys. And the long straight stick bit is UTG pre-flop, and the short stick with the notch in it is, like, c-betting, and the wheelie thing with all those holes around the edge of it is a double barrel. And you dump all this sh!t on your rug and you’re like, damn, I’m going to build me something sweet. Now some of these pieces don’t go into other pieces, and some pieces don’t do anything at all like that crappy @ss green fan type piece that don’t do sh!t, like, wtf is up with that piece.

But anyway, so you take like a long stick piece and one of those joining pieces, that could be position or “attempt to steal,” and then mash it into a third piece and that’s, like, an amalgamation of basicness that gives you an approach. Now, if you put the wrong pieces together, even if they kind fit, you look at it and go that’s not sweet. So like if you figure out I got to be really tight UTG and I got to be aggressive and cbet but miss the what does a calling station look like or do piece then you go dude, I just donked off my stack and that is definitely not sweet.

And this gets more complicated as you build your thing and get more pieces in there. And you can be applying your creativity, thinking all out of the box and originizing, so when you finished you got something that is sweet and unique. BUT – it’s still made up of the same pieces that are tried and true… it’s just the way you put them together that is where you have flexibility, and also where you got opportunity for leaks.

So, study your parts – the fundamentals is the fundamentals and ain’t no reason to reinvent 150 options for that round wheelie piece when best and highest damn use is as a wheel which your dumbass could have figured out from the picture on the box if you’d paid attention, studied a little and had the humility to say “damn, people that been building sweet things for years think this piece is best used as a wheel – so even tho I think it would make a damn fine afro for my tinker stick man, maybe I’ll put it aside and use it for when I build his sweet ride.”