Balancing Ranges or Exploitable because people don't adjust

[PShabi]

I'm playing the NL100 game on FTP and the type of play described above is something I rarely, if ever, see.

Sadly, I BARELY play poker anymore. I've been trying to get back into it lately, but lack of great results (i.e. breakeven since last June) and my career taking on a greater meaning have made me lose desire to play. Forcing myself to play for the money was a bad, bad idea.

Anyway, like BL said, the games are just not like that anymore. I agree. I've found a need to be MUCH more creative.

However, in examining my own play recently, I started to wonder if the fact the I seemed to be "contesting every pot" was my downfall. Now, I'm just confused.

WTF?

[melioris]

if you are playing a 6-max game I think the skill lays in understanding how the board on flops and turns play against hand ranges of standard TAGs. My understanding of the OP is that the AG of TAG is particularly important postflop and a lot of advice here is not geared to working that part of the game. The problem with this type of thinking is that is requires more complete HH posting, like recent history as well as stats on villains when posting in the HH section.

[Talking Poker]

*Official request for new video illustrating the style of play you are advocating, Storm*

Thank you.

[Reel Deal]

I second that because, and we can write this off as me being slow, I'm having a hard time grasping all of what BL wrote (for example how do you reconcile paragraph 2 with paragraph 5?). No intent whatsoever of being critical, just would really like to have a complete understanding of what you're saying because I think you're posting some very ++EV (and ++$) advice that is very important. These "playing the player" concepts are what makes this game interesting and is an area I'm trying to focus on more and more.