State of the games

I thought I'd just my 2c in for the state of the games right now. I hear all the time comments about No Limit being stale, and that PLO is the way of the future with more action and more money for good players at it. So people are learning there. MTT tournaments also seem to be getting tougher, with most players now understanding stealing, restealing, and small ball concepts, so playing that 20-40BB game is getting tougher to do profitably. SNG's also have plenty of people willing study up push fold concepts, or at least understand a bit about bubble play and not going broke early with bluffs.

So it's a fairly educated age. Can games be beaten? Of course. Poker is a game of many skills, and those that have all or most of those skills are still favourites. One of those skills are understanding the game and their opponents better than the other way around. I think I fail here. My understanding of poker is decent, but I don't read every book or forum thread. And I can tell a loose spewy player from a nit, but if I play 1 hour with a player, I couldn't tell you how they played top pair weak kicker, and how they played a set. I see them take a line against me and put a general read on it, when he turned over a hand with a very similar line just 20 hands ago if I could be bothered watching.

Basically, if I was losing money (which I am right now) and couldn't find anything I could do better, I'd say the games are too tough, play for fun only. But the truth is, you can never state the games are too tough until you put everything in and still fail.