Sure but I believe he plays for a living.
I stay in my lane and don’t try to be something I’m not.
I take it you haven’t seen his PLO HHs.
NBZ doesn’t seem particularly interested in optimal strategy to beat live PLO. And I don’t think he could beat most live 2/5+ PLO games outside his region.
I do fine in Florida PLO games.
What does this even mean? Poker isn’t some inherited ability. You learn it. You can simply change strategy.
I don’t widen my preflop range because I don’t overestimate my ability to outplay people preflop, for example. I don’t act like a dick-swinging alpha male and try to run over the table because it’s not natural for me to act that way. I don’t fellate the whales.
What I do is provide a friendly table for people who want to have a social time and leak away money slowly while they talk and maybe have a few drinks. I’m targeting different fish than the people who think poker is all about playing for stacks and putting people to the test.
Even the majority of the best players don’t try and “run over the table.” It’s knowing who the worst player(s) at the table are and taking their money.
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I don’t play weak holdings so I can play more pots with bad players and I don’t really iso much.
I can’t even imagine playing poker for a living without ever trying to change seats or tables. If I get stuck in a couple nitty games in a row I just leave and find something better to do. Grinding nitfests is so soul sucking.
This sentence makes absolutely no sense.
Honestly nbz sounds a lot like how I play. Not a pro though.
Legit fucking loling
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Saving this for later so I can go back to a few HHs I remember
And there is nothing wrong with sometimes playing non optimally, playing weaker games etc. I haven’t played live in two years. I’ll want to break myself in a bit. But you can’t say that’s the best way to play
I’d say poker skill is the most important skill for a pro.
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Yeah, but that’s kind of the whole kitten kaboodle if you’re going for high volume. There isn’t always a lot of options to switch to better games in a casino that may spread two of them with the same 50 players.
Hard disagree. Discipline, game selection are far more important. You can play very basic poker with little skill and be consistently profitable. The brilliant poker player ever who is a drunk cokehead doing random shit all the time rarely turns out well.
Okay, the discipline is part of the skill imo just like almost any other competitive sport someone would play. Some dude who can swiftly gauge optimal bet sizes against his population of opponents but can only do so if he’s rested but not too bored and hasn’t started drinking or hasn’t been given a line coke isn’t some badass poker player when he’s in that perfect window but just ended up being a unfortunate tragedy. He’d be in the realm of the your average addicted poker player.
Almost none of those players who have a shiity B game at best but never player their D game would beat anything reasonable online game in today’s games and would get crushed by a better live player who understood the game at a deeper level.
But I do agree with you that a lot players focus too much time on how to play 66s from EP if they end up running over to the Pai Gow table every time they take a serious beat.