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[QUOTE="SYWTWAF, post: 1745732, member: 77923"]
When you say that internet poker has popularized a "macho approach" to  the game, are you referring to a tendency toward increased aggression?  I'd argue that, if anything, this has increased the skill factor in  poker. The aggression that has developed is for the most part cool-headed and calculated, and not so much of the rash, brutish (read: macho) kind, as you imply. Employing rational aggression when the line between a winning  hand and a losing hand is much more blurred than it used to be seems  more skillful to me than doing so when the disparities between hand  strengths were more clearly defined.

It's true that if everyone were to go all-in every hand, all skill in poker  would be negated and it would be nothing more than a lottery, but that  is not what's happening. What [I]is[/I] happening is that people are getting more and more clued into the right times to go all-in, and perhaps are doing so with greater frequency because their theoretical understanding of the game dictates that in certain situations, it's the right thing to do. There's a lot of theory and skill that underpins the seemingly reckless direction in which poker playing style has evolved.
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