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Message: [QUOTE="dmorris68, post: 1575083, member: 40397"] The whole purpose of exercises like this is to reinforce the importance of position and the action before you. It's nothing new and has been promoted before. As mentioned, Annette O won a 180-player (IIRC) MTT being blind to her hole cards for all but one hand. Arnold Snyder in his Poker Tournament Formula Vol I suggests you use a post-it note to cover your cards for a tourney or two, to drive home his rock-paper-scissors approach to tournament strategy (position being scissors). None of them are suggesting you should play this way regularly. [U]It's an exercise.[/U] And it's pretty darn effective if you've never done it before. Even if you "know" that position is important, it can be difficult to isolate position from other playing factors in such a way as to fully appreciate it. Essentially, Snyder's approach is this (I'm going from memory so maybe not exactly right, and hopefully I don't run afoul of copyright, lol):[LIST] [*]cover your hole cards [*]from UTG through MP2 (or the seat before hijack), fold everything preflop [*]if folded to you in the hijack, open with a standard raise, otherwise fold. [*]if folded or limped to you in the cutoff, open raise, otherwise fold. [*]if folded or limped to you on the button, SB, or BB, open with a standard raise. If you're facing a single standard raise on the button, call. Otherwise fold. (I'm not positive on the blind action here but I think that's right, I don't have the book in front of me). [*]I don't recall his exact strategy once short-stacked, but I would assume it's a standard open-shove once you reach 8-10bb. [*]You will find that much of the time, just aggressing from position is enough to take down the pot preflop. [*]If you get to a flop in position (nobody behind you), cbet every street that is check/called to you, all the way to showdown. If facing a bet or raise, fold. [*]See how deep you can go.[/LIST]Obviously it can be a bit uncomfortable to try this. Everyone's a bit embarrassed to get to showdown after betting every street with 72o, lol. But it really can be an eye-opening experience on just how much influence position alone has over your results. Obviously if you try this in a public freeroll or at the micro's, there will probably be enough fish and calling stations to call you down all the way, but generally if you'll set aside a 5 or 10 buck buy-in for this experiment, it will almost certainly be enlightening. It was for me, and I understood the value of position beforehand. This little experiment just demonstrates it in a dramatic fashion. [/QUOTE]

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