PS $27 turbo: Defending blinds

[rbear]

The language we use to describe things gives clues to conscious and subconscious representations. Just a thought [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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It looks like everyone is saying that the players vary a lot, so the question as to what a typical player will do is not helpful.

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You are not the first to suggest to me that I am not paying enough attention to reads. But, I don't see why saying that this player hasn't stood out as unusually agrressive or passive, that he's typical, isn't something of a read in itself. Nor do I understand with the emphasis on sample sizes in this forum, why anyone puts great stock in any reads acquired in a handful of deals that have taken place to this point in the SNG (this was the 26th deal of the SNG).

Nor do I think, especially for multi-tablers, that understanding what is typical is a bad thing.

[tigerite]

Well, I think typically, if I didn't have reads (which is almost never), to push from the BB here I'd want usually a Tier 1 hand to push. If I'd noticed him being a little active, I'd go down to a Tier 2 one. It'd be rare indeed for me to push any two. I think the risk/reward is too high to do that.