Re: playing yourself in poker for practice...
What I like to do is step up a table with the players that I usually play with. Just deal every person's hand face up and make decisions as if you are actually them.
I think this improved my game against these certain opponents significantly, but my over all play was only helped slightly.
Being an overly tight player this "drill" helped me realized that players can bet with a wider range of hands than I would give them credit for. Just knowing that Player A would bet the turn with bottom pair is a lot differnet then seeing it done to me in my game. I finally relized some mistakes I was making that I thought I had fixed or was working on. Seeing makes a difference for me.
It might not be playing myself, but it is similar if you were trying a LAG style verses a TAG style or what not.
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