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i see your point, but it assumes that people understand that you need a better hand to call with than you do to open

this brings me to a point that ive been meaning to make,
i have a difficult time employing advanced strategies like this in a chaotic environment. i play the $10/1 and $5/1 SNG's and I usually see people calling huge raises with questionable hands and I try to adapt by playing tighter.
another example of this is blind stealing at lower levels which wont always work when people are super loose. Ive played a few $30 tables and find that its a completely different game.

so im in this spot where i have to consider whether the advice that i find out here is applcable to the games im playing.

im going to have to think about this one for a bit...