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[QUOTE="glworden, post: 897384, member: 35332"]
No real disagreement.  All valid points.  Mixing it up has its merits.  Confusing table image is important.  My only problem was the 20% and the notion that consistently playing this way is statistically valid, because it's just not.

I'd still be interested in knowing how your e-mailer worded things so that he convinced you while all of us couldn't.

By the way, most of my early posts were similar theories where I WAS WRONG and it took me a little gumption to get over that and adopt a more analytical approach.  That's not to say that you can't be creative, because there's lots of room for creativity in poker.  And it's also not to say that I'm not happy when my screwball moves pan out because of a miracle board.   In the short term, I'll take luck over skill any day.  But in the long term, skill prevails.

Which is why I don't really see poker as gambling.  It's simply applied statistics.   Over the long run, probability is very predictable and statistically correct play is bound to be profitable.  That's not the ONLY element.  You also have to have the skills to be able to win with the worst hand occasionally.  But CALLING when the stats are against you is a hopeless strategy.
Gary
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