Do you know this guy?

I had a fairly plain couple of nights, with the exception of playing a little while drunk... that was interesting, but still not worth blogging about. All up I think I'm playing well, but also running fairly well right now I guess. In the last week I can only remember two spots where I lost big pots to suckouts, and I seem to be on the dishing side of coolers in big pots I get into.

I subscribed to a few more CR blogs based on highest CR ratings, and read through a bit of good content. One in particular that opened my eyes to important poker concepts was elletse. His latest 2 blogs goes into good detail about what it takes to be a NL1000 regular. He explains the NL1000 regular TAG as a technically unexploitable player. Like, all their stats are too tight to exploit like their 3 bet %, cbet %, fold to cbet, etc etc. That is, if you were to profile the player, you'd find no easy money spots, so realistically a bad player to play against.

Firstly, thinking about this at NL25, I'd say every player has problems with their basic stats, probably still true at NL100. It really is worth thinking of every player as someone with a lot of leaks, and making it a mission to find those leaks, and of course exploit them. Also understand what they do well, as that can help you get paid too. On the other hand, the most frustrating players I face now tend to be those that balance up quite well. I can't easily cbet them, or float them or even 3 bet them, as they have solid enough answers to those easy attempts to make money without a hand. It's not that they always react to being 3 bet, it's that they react just enough to make it uncomfortable to 3 bet them light.

He went on to saying that this shouldn't be the ultimate answer, but knowing the perfect mix of everything and being able to play that way is important.

The more and more I uncover recently, the more I think that poker is all about those that you choose to sit with, and knowing how they operate.