[Sean Fraley]

I agree, and am surprised at the amount of flak I get in the uNL forum for taking this stance. I think the issue is that many new players have a terrible misconception about the idea of a "non-thinking" player. They seem to labor under the assumption that such a player uses absolutely no criteria or thought process whatsoever when making the decision to call, raise, or fold and therefore use range calculations as a merciful shortcut instead of going through the sometimes agonizing task of discerning the sometimes bizarre and baffling thought processes of bad poker players.