Poker is a game of accidents

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i like when you make these posts

[shaniac]

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I think poker is all about smoking pot and saying yeah that makes sense.

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Are you mocking my approach?

[AK87]

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I think poker is all about smoking pot and saying yeah that makes sense.

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Sounds about right

[FoxwoodsFiend]

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w/e ur a tourney donk.

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better than being a sit-and-go donk no? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[PartyGirlUK]

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meh, I thought op was somewhat long-winded and masturbatory.

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I agree. There is a tendency on 2p2 to declare any verbose 'meaning of life/poker'esque post by a super respected player as genius. Saw similar with Gigabet.

[fukkeneh]

I think OP is making a point that the Prahlad Lag style has run its course. He made it profitable playing a style no one understood,comprehended or played for that matter at that time.

If you remember Phil Gordon in his Little Green Book coined the phrase "BOW" or Biggest Online Winner to Prahlad at the time. Saying the his style was simply "un-beatable"

Now that everyone is employing this style, it makes most sense that the players that have great hand reading ability who use a tighter style will more and more exploit their opponents who play looser weaker holdings.

[Isura]

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I think OP is making a point that the Prahlad Lag style has run its course. He made it profitable playing a style no one understood,comprehended or played for that matter at that time.

If you remember Phil Gordon in his Little Green Book coined the phrase "BOW" or Biggest Online Winner to Prahlad at the time. Saying the his style was simply "un-beatable"

Now that everyone is employing this style, it makes most sense that the players that have great hand reading ability who use a tighter style will more and more exploit their opponents who play looser weaker holdings.

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Has anyone really re-applied prahlads style? Guys like aba, jman, gog seem to play a more controlled and tag style. Are are other great examples besides prahlad in online play?

[shaniac]

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Has anyone really re-applied prahlads style? Guys like aba, jman, gog seem to play a more controlled and tag style.

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they're all practicing avoidance

[KRANTZ]

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I think in the current state of online poker, you are able to get an opponent to be further off guessing your range/frequencies starting from a tight image. Prahlad (back in his online poker prime) was the example of the opposite approach.

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i actually believe the opposite - that successfully controlling a Prahlad-like style is going to be the most profitable approach. some reasons being it's more prone to tilt people, opponents are unfamiliar with how to outthink a hyper aggro gameplan, you can pick up stacks in unorthodox spots that you wouldn't normally, and so on. curious as to why you believe this won't produce more profit (albeit more difficult to play it perfectly) than a seamlessly shifting TAG style.

[KRANTZ]

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Now that everyone is employing this style, it makes most sense that the players that have great hand reading ability who use a tighter style will more and more exploit their opponents who play looser weaker holdings.

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actually, almost no one is employing the style as well as mahatma did when he wasn't tilting. simply being a 30/20 is not what he was doing.