Quote Originally Posted by Ripptyde
I get the impression you are implying that I am an unwise , reckless player....perhaps. But I assure you that my style has served me well. My losses are because I elected to play high dollar tourneys with hundreds of players....not because I was playing poorly against a handful of players.
I'm digging into how successful you are and why and how I can absorb some of it into my game. Like I said I've tried to get my A up at cash games and it usually turns out bad unless I'm really selective. Everyone is good at some stuff and poor at others. Style is huge as the optimal strategy against one player can be suicide against another.

Quote Originally Posted by Ripptyde
I understand your loyalty to 'the odds'...but in my humble opinion...your ability to play the player and his stack is far more important than understanding how many outs you have pre flop against a certain hand. It all comes down to the player and how big his balls are. I forced a KK to fold tonight with 7-10 suited with A/2/7 on thr flop...why ? because I played his fear of the Ace.

I dont claim to be Johnny Chan but I am trying to see ALL aspects of the game here...not just memorize odds charts.
How did you know he had KK and not AK? How much did you call pre-flop and why even bother with T7s? How do you pick your targets? What flops are great to stab at and which ones to you avoid like the plague? How do you steal a multi-pot? What do you do when the blinds are small relative to stacks? etc....

Also, the odds aren't irrelevent to what you're doing. You're playing the odds they have something, their own hand against them. I have a few ideas on how to crunch those numbers. My table 'o domination was a first stab there.