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[QUOTE="SYWTWAF, post: 1745853, member: 77923"]
Well, the "best" approach in poker is a dynamic thing; it's whatever  best exploits your opponents' tendencies (which are ever-changing, as  they adjust to you as you adjust to them). Indeed, at certain levels and  against many opponents, "ABC poker" works fine. But what happens if all  your opponents are perfectly capable of playing solid, ABC poker? You'd  best come up with a strategy that counters ABC.

These highly skilled internet pros could play ABC poker against each  other all day long if they wished, but it would be pointless. They'd  only be swapping money around, and no one would win anything that way in  the long run. Everyone would lose equally to the rake. (I  imagine this is true for every case that every player, playing against each other, adopts an identical strategy) It would in effect be the same as everyone going all-in every hand; the winner of any given pot would be purely contingent upon the cards dealt. So these pros have to think  far beyond ABC--try to always stay one step ahead of their opponents--which often results in the apparent  displays of overly-aggressive "schooling" you see on TV, but which in reality are  decisions at which they arrived through careful and complex  reasoning.

Frequent all-ins are the norm for high-blind (usually late) stages of a  tournament. An extreme instance of this is STT Super Turbos, where in almost every hand you should either fold or go all-in. Nonetheless, it isn't a lottery; there  are ways to play the all-in game profitably, and being able to do so is a skill in itself.
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