[DMBFan23]

hmm, I would think that 16/8 would require less postflop skill - your postflop errors are compensated for by your larger preflop edge when you do play.

with a looser style, you're in more marginal situations that you can play skillfully into a higher winrate, or you can bury yourself. for those people who can play that extra X% profitably, then you gotta play them. I certainly wasn't arguing that people should forego +EV situations to preserve variance. those arguments are all BS anyway [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]. I was just saying that those situations are +EV for fewer players than we might think, and for those players they gotta be 16-17/7-8 while you learn the basics.

I personally was still working on fundamental postflop concepts at micros, and didn't really have the comfort level to work on that and expanding preflop at the same time, especially given the marginal situations that would tend to put one in. for the posters who have played many many hands of micros, and the basics of postflop are more familiar, then sure start to push the envelope. but for those posters, it's probably time to move up in limits anyway - don't you want to be beating 3/6 instead of crushing .5/1? for me the 'enlightenment' didn't really start to happen till midway through 2/4, but everyone's mileage may vary.

I think we're saying the same thing, but I still wanted to clarify.