Re: Is there value to being able to play multiple styles well?
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It depends on a given player's situation. If you have one style that works well for you in the game you're playing and have no plans to ever change games, you have no reason to play a different style.
If someone wants to be the best overall poker player they can be (independent of financial results), that person should obviously learn every style (as well as every game).
For a player with aspirations of moving up to the biggest games around, being able to play all styles in all mindsets is necessary to beat those games (by that, I mean being able to play well in all styles despite whatever else might be going on in the game; many players will revert to their most comfortable style when something unfamiliar happens at the table).
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This is good overall advice. Can we take it down a notch and apply it to a player who beats NL $50 playing TAG and is considering moving up to NL $100. He has taken shots and there is no bankroll issue.
Does this TAG need to develop a LAG style or will he be able to get by as TAG here as well?
At what level(s) does changing styles really make a difference?
Most importantly, what style will you be employing tonight when play heads up? My strategy is to be a calling station and suckout g00t [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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