Truly words of a wisdom from a passive "hopefully I can squeak into the money" type of player.
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I'm not saying that your strategy is HORRIBLE or anything like that, Brian.. But reading through it, it sounds an awful lot like the very basic old school, tight/passive strategy that is better suited for big multi-day B&M toruenys, and not online tourneys or anything with a somewhat aggressive blind structure. If I didn't know better (and I don't), I'd say you picked up an old Sklansky book (something like "Tourney Hold'Em for Beginners," if such a book exists), picked out a few points to change into your own words, and then gave some not so good examples to go with them. This strategy is fine, especially for beginners, but if you look at who is taking down tourneys these days - both live and online - it is NOT the players who play like this.
And like I said, I certainly don't disagree with everything you wrote. I mean, yeah, blinding off is bad and raising is better than calling. Glad to see you've finally put that together!
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