Is online poker coming full circle?
I think that the next line of winning players will again be nits. The evolution of the most common winning players since the beginning of online poker is in constant flux. It started with the nits playing premium hands and taking all the loose passives money. Then came the TAGs. They took all the fishes money before the nits could get to it. Then came the LAGs, who killed both the TAGs and got the fishes money before the TAGs could get it. Then came the TAGs counter to the LAGs, light 3betting. The TAGs forced the LAGs to tighten up by 3betting them. Now everyone is 3betting, and the LAGs are becoming SLAGs. And now the nits are 3betting light and forcing everyone to tighten up. I have seen countless 15/10 light 3bettors in the past few weeks. I seen a lot of these players at 2/4 as well. They are 3betting like crazy and are blowing all the fish out of the pot. You can't 3bet them light 'cause they only open 8-10% UTG and limp their small PPs, then it seems they 3bet their entire UTG opening range and call their small PPs in the other positions. Non of these players are 'big' winners, but they are becoming the most common reg.
I think that even more players will pick up this type of game, and the nits will dominate most tables. Their game is easy to play. I feel that I need positions on these players, but in the past I would have loved to give position to a 15/12 player.
Is this what we have to look forward to in the future? Or are the player types just evolving on their own, with no change in the amount of each type? Will there be a next generation of player? If so what will that player be?
