"The System"

[Iceman]

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Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had managed to improve upon Slansky's "System" mentioned in his Tournamant poker for advanced players book. Or if not, has anyone tried it, what were its results?

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I don't think it would work in real life, since you would get called much more often than the System assumes. The System's success depends on your opponents being overly tight relative to your all-in raises, allowing you to slowly build your stack. That may have been the case prior to 1993, but many of the bad players in today's NL holdem tournaments, both online and live, tend to call and raise too easily rather than fold too easily. And if good players are aware that you are playing the System, they can counter it by lowering their calling standards - calling your all-ins with hands that you wouldn't normally call someone's all-in raise with, but that do very well against the System hands. There are many instances where the System play is clearly inferior to other strategies - like going all-in with a drawing hand after other players have limped rather than limping behind them. The bottom line is that a simple all-in or fold strategy doesn't work in a complicated game like no-limit holdem.