[Hielko]

Great post Bob T, I agree with almost everything except your conclusion :P.

Altough playing your opponent is important I think it's even more important to fix fundamental flaws in your game. And this is hard because you will probably not realize that you have them and finding them is even harder.

For example:

- Are you defending with the right range against different players?
- Are you stealing with the right range against different players?
- Are you c-betting enough?
- Are you (semi)-bluffing enough?
- Are you isolating with the right range
- Are you calling enough turn C/R, but not to much?
- Are you calling enough rivers?

This is of course related to playing the player, but I think that a lot of reasonable decent players have major flaws in their game, and a lot of them blind play related. You start with loose games where the above isn't really important to make money. Then the games are getting harder and harder and you try to make adjustments.

I think that most players will be making a lot of small errors in adjusting to thougher games and that these errors prevent people from winning.