Is it too much to ask for people to stick vaguely to the actual topic at hand rather than start pointless whining with no relevant content?
Most players on the internet don't know nothing about odds!!
This is true, and is precisely the reason that playing the
odds is profitable given good game selection.
One of the main flaws in Allsopp's 'plan' is that he is actively seeking TAG players. Now, I am generalising a little, but TAGs tend to be better poker players as a whole than any other group (you don't, for example, see TAGs regularly calling down with King high). Why would you want to play against better players? They are less likely to commit themselves with something like TP decent kicker, and yet Allsopp is claiming that "most of the time when you hit you will win a huge pot". This is simply not true, there will be times that TAGs ranges miss flops and they check-fold, there will be times when they hit a reasonable hand but givie it up in the face of big action and these occurences will hugely outnumber the times when you hit a huge hand and they hit a hand they are willing to go all the way with.
I guess I'm taking such exception to this because to someone not well versed enough to separate the important strategic concepts in your posts from the drivel (there are copious quantities of both), reading your posts could be very dangerous. Yep, sure, there's a time for playing low suited connectors, in MP/LP at a very weak-tight table, in the blinds against a habitual stealer, when a pot is limped 4-ways in front of you etc etc, but to suggest that you can profit so incredibly easily from utilising a much more carefree approach to such
hands is wrong.
If there were no bad players in poker, your ideas would have much more merit. But as the situation stands there are plenty of terrible players out there and you appear to be suggesting that we avoid them and play better players (...or to quote you 'tight agressive ebook players'). Why? Our profit in poker in the long run equates to the sum of our mistakes less the sum of our opponents mistakes - why would we want to play people who know what they're doing?
I think you may also be suffering from somewhat selective memory, given that you don't use PT or equivalent. Many people complain about bad beats constantly occuring to them, when in fact it's just their memory 'forgetting' their wins and 'remembering' the big losses. I believe the reverse applies here, and you're conveniently 'forgetting' the hands where you hit nothing and check-fold, or the hands where you hit something but end up having to throw your hand away in the face of action and 'remembering' all your big wins when you flopped a flush against AA and so on. Hence your incorrect assertion that "most of the time" when you hit a huge hand you will get greatly paid off.
Invest in Pokertracker. If your comp specs are too low to run it effectively, invest in more RAM or whatever you need - you're talking about making lots of money and in another thread you seem to be scoffing at low limit players so why aren't you willing to pay for an upgrade and a utility which will help your online game no end? Anyway, get PT, play lots of hands, and post your stats for 87s etc. The results will probably surprise you.
