[TNixon]

Personally, I call AK and JJ, and fold 77.

But I play those three hands the same against all 3 opponents on the first hand.

But, I do see your point. On the first few hands, the only information you have is whether they're a winning or losing player. The thing is, you still don't *really* have any information about what they could be pushing with on the first hand. Opponent #2 has probably sharkscoped you, and could just see an easy 200 chips there, knowing you're going to need a monster to call, and wanting to establish a dominant position in the match.

Which is actually sort of an interesting point. There's no way in hell I'm going to push without a monster against Opp 1 or 3, because I don't know what their mistakes are yet (and calling too much is much more common than folding too much) but I *might* against Opp 2, because you don't get stats that good without the ability to lay down pretty big.

So I guess intuitively I believe that you can make decisions based on good stats, but not bad ones.

Which makes sense, because there are MANY ways to be a losing player, but fewer ways to be a winning player, and there are things that most winning players have in common, no matter what their style differences are.