Hypothetical question that will blow your mind.

[gobboboy]

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Just because your hand is better preflop does not mean you can force some of these fish off hands that simply beat you.

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I, for one, would be playing post-flop poker as much as possible if I always knew exactly what everyone held. Not to say I would be unwilling to play PF, far from it, but you see what I'm saying (hopefully).

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I'm not saying that I wouldn't play postflop. I'm just saying that you WOULD be folding a lot more hands preflop just because someone has you dominated, etc. AQ doesn't look quite as good in LP if the BB has AK. Limit players suck out quite a lot, even if they are very good. It's part of the game. Being able to see just how much you're taking the worst of it lets you get out soon. You're just playing less hands.

You say that I talk about preflop advantage, and isn't that what being tight is all about? If you enter a hand where you are dominated, that is -EV for sure. So if you only enter hands where you are a significant leader in pot equity, you are not playing very many hands at all. Someone may suck out on you 30% of the time. If your opponent catches bottom pair heads up and you've been betting like a madman, sometimes you just can't push them off. Preflop is where the only pure decision is made simply because you don't have to predict what your opponent is going to do. Your preflop decisions will be 100% correct at all times.