[paddymcg21]

So your opponent in the pot is an irrelevant factor? Apart from if it's your brother?? OK then Jake. So say there is a player you know likes to raise pre flop but is very quick to slow down on a missed flop (Loose passive) and next to him is Gus Hansen who will raise with a wide range of hands and who is extremely skilled with his reads and post flop instinctive play (Loose aggressive). Now are you telling me that you dont mind which of these players you go to the flop with? That's rubbish. It's nothing to be ashamed of to favour playing pots with weaker players. If I know I can push a weak player off the flop when he's missed (and I have a rough idea when he's missed) then id want to play pots with him all day long. Against Gus more often than not he would outplay me on the flop and personally i'd rather make money than lose it. Now obviously if i have a big hand it doesnt matter who im in the pot with but you get my point. So like I said, I'd rather have 67 against a fish than AQ against a shark. Now this does not mean that I have no confidence in my play, it simply means that I am good enough to realise that playing more pots with weak players will prove more profitable in the long run and I'm not sure you can deny this. Now if I was in a hand with Gus id play the hand how i best see fit but in an ideal world id go head to head with the fish more often. Do you see what I mean?