[dobieatwar]

1) I started playing in 1992 in local San Diego Indian reservations. I did not start online regretfully until late 2005. I made most of my money bonus-whoring in 2005, then on UB and OnGame in 2006, and FullTilt in 2007.

2) I developed it because playing 20/10 or 15/7 gets quite boring after a while and one of the main reasons I play is for fun. Although it is no fun to lose, so that is why I try hard to win as well.
Most of the posts here are with overcreative overaggressive plays and bluffing. Alot of my style involves finding out what hand my opponent has and disguising my own.
There is a guy Gmoney2001 on Full Tilt. I don't know if he posts here, but he is the guy I picture when I read alot of the posts here. He is the epitome of a bad TAG player.

3) I never really datamined. However, for about a month in the summer I was dataminging CUURRRSE and 0_Drunkenboxer. I was looking at CUURRRSE because he is a very good dangerous player and 0_Drunkenboxer because I wanted to see how to defeat the computers. I chose the minraising style because IMO 100BB is not really deep enough to play the true LAG style. Even CUURRRSE changed his style near the end because people were adjusting, and it is not sound if people are constantly playing back at you. At one point I printed out the detailed stat page for both of us and compared each stat. and they were remarkably similar. There were 2 major differences which I tried to incorporate into my play. One of which was playing tighter and more aggressively from the blinds. I was limping way too much in the SB.