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FWIW, I'm not here looking for any advanced secrets nor do I expect to find any.

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El D, I don't think otherwise and was being facetious to a degree to make a point. But perhaps the problem is that dividing the forums by stakes isn't really the best way, but that dividing them into beginner/intermediate/advanced is, because the stakes one plays at doesn't necessarily indicate same. Even lower stakes players who are very good must adapt their play to situations with other such players, which is I agree, what most threads here should be about.

The thing that to me separates advanced or expert play from that which is not, is not only knowing the basic or "advanced" principles, but using that as part of a thought process to think about the right things in the right order for every situation, and know which principles are the most important for that situation on every street. Also a lot of it is being a very good hand reader, and knowing how such hands can either typically or atypically (through bad play usually but sometimes very good play) be played by others.

That type of analysis is what I find lacking a majority of threads here by a majority of posters, who might understand all the basic or even advanced principles, but just can't recognize which are most important for a given situation. If every poster here were required to give a reply based on a standard "situational analysis" format, similar to a law school brief or scientific analysis (or HOH's SHAL), then there would certainly be fewer posts, and more posters could figure things out for themselves if they knew all the priciples involved.