This is an excellent post Natedogg. I am not an experienced no-limit player and can't comment on specific techniques or whatever, but what I took from your post applies to all forms of poker and in some ways to any complex endeavor. I think anytime an expert at anything does something it can look simple to an under-appreciative outsider. By under-appreciative I mean someone who lacks full knowledge and skill. Thus, the observer takes away only part of an idea that they then misapply. I don't play poker for a living, but I do notice that in my field, many new or inexperienced people can misconstrue what it is someone who is good at it does in a particular situation. They say, "Well all there is to it is..." when there is a whole lot more to it. Some are not educable, but the smart ones figure out that there is more to it than first appears.