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Message: [QUOTE="IntenseHeat, post: 2124058, member: 92488"] It does seem like a somewhat odd concept. However, it's not that hard for me to imagine it being true. Because it's often hard to put them on a hand, unorthodox players present a special difficulty, especially when they have a strategy. In fact when I first started playing online, I used to play the type of hands that you see bingo players limp in with. But unlike bingo players, I was not content to limp in and see a flop with half the table and hope to get lucky. I actually had a strategy based on the concept of isolation. Basically, I would try to isolate a single player and see the flop heads up. If I could see the flop heads up, I would play any two against anyone, then try to outplay them after the flop. People would throw fits. But you couldn't convince me that I played bad when I just took half your stack. You could tell me that A-J was a much better hand that 8-5. I would say "It's a better starting hand". The thing to me was that I had started reading poker books and watching training videos, as well as visiting strategy forums. Everyone seemed to be suggesting the same things. It didn't make sense to me that we should all play the same way. It would be to easy to figure me out, the way I was able to figure other players out. I would tell people that just because I didn't play by the book didn't mean that I hadn't read it. But the one thing that someone did convince me of was that it was a good strategy to play tight early in a tourney, then to loosen up in the middle, and then play tighter as the bubble approached. So I started playing tight/aggressive early on, and then switching to my iso strategy. Over time I came to realize that while a lot of people claim to play tight/aggressive, most of them had a wider playing range than me, but a tighter raising range, whereas my range is my range. If it's in my range, then I'm raising with it. It's not like I would win every pot I played. But the only time I ever seemed to lose a significant pot was when someone hit some crazy two or three outer or turned over something completely unexpected. I started doing so good in tourneys playing this way, that I would forget to switch up as the tourney went on. Now it's just the way I play. [/QUOTE]

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