Stop the weak-tight madness.

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serious? I remember when I used to make stating the obvious posts like this.

A good way to detect pedantic threads like this is the use of that damn Ed Miller quote: "Save pots, not bets." Such a platitude.

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Yeah man, but the OP is very right. I suck at poker but I know I'm not going to get any better following some of the advice here. A lot of it has the undertone "Be afraid of the rest of the table". We're always putting villains on monster hands when the whole point is the idiots will call you down with nothing. Thanks to Preytar for the excellent post, and, dude, the Miller quote might be a platitude, but it's a mantra that's going to make me money. You come up with better.

[drzen]

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This is a stage. Don't worry, we all go through it and it indicates the right of passage through the micros. Just put your LAG style on the backboard when you play at higher limits.

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Dude, you're in the wrong forum. This is the micro forum. Here we want advice that will help us crush the micros. When we're ready to step up to the higher limits, we'll be experienced enough to know to become weak-tight like poppa.

[drzen]

Voracious, you have to give us some credit! We don't just read advice and think "I'll do that because that guy's made a lot of posts here". I have no idea who are the best players here and who aren't, and I don't care. I read the advice, weigh it up and see whether it's shone a light on the game for me. When a big name says "we're putting villain on X, Y and Z", noobs have to be saying "are we? Why?", not just nodding along. Isn't that what it's all about? How can I become a good player in a situational game if all I'm willing to do is follow advice slavishly without understanding it?