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By the way, if they always play ABC poker, why would they adapt to your changed gears in the first place? Actually, would a person playing 4-8 tables even notice if a player changed gears? They would just thank god that a fish checkraised their aces with 72os and forget the hand a few minutes later.

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When you get out of microlimits and play midlimits/high limits most pots arent 5way. The best hand doesnt win and things like stealing the blinds become much more important.

When you are playing in these kinds of games it is easy to suddenly loosen up your raising standards and frequently win the blinds.

Some ABC 8 tabler isnt going to notice that you have suddenly been raising more than your fair share from middle to late position. All he sees is that someone raised from middle position he is sitting on the button with AJo so he folds.

Its not just preflop either its the ability to manipulate other players. Someone might be on tilt but the 8 tabler doesnt notice, you can probably get him to fold the best hand with a raise. I'm not talking about monster hands but marginal hands that frequently win 3way pots.