Preflop Aggression: More or Less Luck?

[Noo Yawk]

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"This is especially crucial as one move up in stakes and a larger percentage of the pots are won not by having the best hand on the river but by having the only hand before the river."

maybe it was a misperception on my part, but it seemed like there was a dip in the number of showdowns around the 20-40/40-80 level but then that table showdown percentage went back up as i played higher. does that make sense?

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I actually have a theory about this. I found that the 20-40 to 40-80 level games are the first level of pyschololgical barrier games, where people can lose thousands, rather than hundreds fairly easy, causing them to play weak-tight. The ones that get used to it, take advantage and beat the crud out of these players. When they move up, they refuse to fold as they believe everyone's trying to bully them the same way. Just an opinion I've formed while I was bored. Maybe it has some merit, maybe not.