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[QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 2017434, member: 40397"]
Well first of all, as Hamm said, you're seeing a very selective portion of hands played, and the ones typically picked for television because of the "drama" of the play.

Next, you're talking about the top 1% (or less) of the players.  For the other 99% of us, starting with the fundamentals and putting in the hours applying them allows us to gain enough experience to know when unconventional moves can work, but trying before you're to that point is typically disastrous.

It's like any other skill-based endeavor, be it golf or baseball or billiards.  A lot of top pro golfers have unconventional techniques that you'd never try to teach someone new to the game.  Same goes for billiards, a lot of top pros have unconventional strokes that would totally screw up a beginner trying to imitate them.  These guys have put in years and years of practice to overcome the flaws in technique.

Top players also, more often than not, just have a lot of natural talent and can use it to overcome those flaws that the rest of us cannot.
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