You know, I'm finding it very eerie that nobody has had any insight into my comment yet
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Anyhow, it is because of the fish that I decided to start bonus-whoring. It is actually proper to play loose when there are more fish at the table, but I have never been able to get myself into that type of mindset. For example, last night I was playing that MTT, and I was at the table with the eventual chip leader the entire time. While I was seeing close to 25% of the flops, I believe he was seeing upwards of 80%. This guy was winning with some of the crappiest cards I have ever seen. Seeing people like this have so much success has really turned me off of the 10-handed tables in the past, and it may very well put me back at 6-max where I think I had most of my success, even if only on a short-term basis.
With online poker comes online luck, simple as that. You have AA UTG and push a significant raise, and have 6-7 fish behind you, you will be a dog if these goofs decide to call. IMO luck is the single biggest factor in online poker, as reads are hard. How do you read a guy who could be whacking off to a porno and playing poker at the same time? You can't physically see him sitting at his monitor so how do you read facials and other things? Maybe he is a good poker player who just happened to get excited at the same time he was dealt 7-2o
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