Re: I am still confused
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The PTF is no more formulaic than HOH.
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In some way it's actually LESS formulaic. Snyder talks about playing without cards. What could be formulaic about that?
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I've only read this thread, not the book, but Snyder seems to be advocating a strategy that de-emphasizes watching and analyzing the tendencies and psychological makeup of the other players.
Instead what is emphasized is cards, M, M', M'', position and stack sizes and their inter-relationship (e.g. your stack size vs a limper's or raiser's stack size; your stack size vs the sizes of the spots behind you w.r.t fold-equity; etc.)
This is formulaic in that you can devise and refine a strategy and apply it in any tourney you decide it's EV+ for you to play. You can spend all of your thought-energies analyzing how your present scenario ranks probabalistically within the range of (similar in one or more respects) scenarios you are likely to face over many similar tournies and act accordingly.
Snyder's is really an inet tourney strategy. In live tournies you give up way too much, except maybe in low buyin donkaments where most of the players play the same way (but b/c of TV I'm not really sure those exist anymore).
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