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You don't think making a decision for all your chips is critical? All I know is that guys like Harrington, Lederer, and Fossilman have given countless examples of putting people on a range of hands during play. Like I said, I guess you're the exceptional exception.

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If your decision is whether or not to call an allin preflop with AA, would that be critical too? Would it be critical to call an allin with top set on the flop?

The decision has to be a relatively close one before it becomes critical. In this type of tournament, in this spot, this would not be a close decision to me.

Also I suspect that plenty of the hands these above mentioned players have put forth in their book, are not close or difficult decisions for them either, however they go over all the ranges for the novice players who need to learn to think in this manner.

Of course sometimes you have to try your best to put your opponent on a range of possible hands. However the way it's done on here I find is not very effective. People just seem to give a list of possible hands without taking into effect the frequency in which their opponents will have one set of hands over the other.

People also often seem to forget that there is always a decent % chance that your opponent is a moron,that these hand rages are way way off, and your opponent could have some random nonsense.

I see too many attempts on 2+2 to put some random player from a $11 rebuy tournament on very narrow/specific range of hands.

Anyway I'm not making my point very well, I just think that the whole hand range thing is overdone/overemphasized. Sometimes you will come up with a range where every logical hand your opponent could have would lead you to fold. However it's rare that I see people on 2+2 take into account that their opponent may be completely illogical or insane, as is the case with many MTT opponents that we will face online.