Re: How are you going to deal with tougher games in the future?
I'm going to deal with the tougher games in the future the same way I dealt with tougher games when I was learning to play: develop my edge.
I started playing in 1997, in Northern California. California's poker boom had long since peaked and stabilized. The games weren't the happy hunting ground they had been shortly after the introduction of hold'em in '87, but they weren't the least bit bad.
Rounders brought some soft new money to the game. So did the World Poker Tour, and the explosion of online poker. The games are rather softer than they were when I learned how to play.
This won't last forever; but I was a winner before the boom, and I expect that I'll be a winner after the boom peaks and tails off into a new steady state.
It's also my opinion that the new steady state will offer softer, better games than were available when I started playing. They just won't be as good as they are now, that's all.
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