Has anyone read both Part I and Part II of this article ("Sklansky Ate my Brain"):

http://www.pokersavvy.com/article/wildholdemii.html

Well written and some excellent food for thought. (Just as an example, I like what he said about (not automatically) folding KQo pre-flop to a raise and re-raise in every game situation ... that really would be brain-dead if you ask me)

To me, the bottom line messages are:

- develop your own style (but you'd be crazy to not ride of the back of collective poker knowledge),

- everything is situational,

- don't follow what you read in a book like a dumb automaton (understand the concepts at work in each hand quiz for example, but don't necessarily play the hand the exact same way all the time ... a bot can do that better and more consistently than you and I ever will),

- you can't play poker by hard and fast rules rules like "if given this and that, then you MUST do this"

Don't get me and the author of the article wrong, Sklansky has rather brilliantly, IMHO, laid it all out for us. You can't ignore the theoretical underpinnings of the game; you have to understand the concepts well. Fundamental Theorem, EV, pot-equity, odds. etc. BUT, if you never play AJo in early position just because Sklansky, or Warren, or Miller, or Harrington wrote that some where, you are just plain missing out.