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I’m curious. Poker has a lot of strong strategies and what not, but if a new player comes in, how do those strategies prevail? You may be confident with two Ace

• chordalkeyboard 6y ago
  Most poker players do not read books and drink while playing. As the stakes get higher then the meaning of a fish changes. Strategies that worked at lower stakes become blunders at higher stakes and so each time players move up those new players are the fish.
• albedoa 6y ago
  I know what you are trying to say here, but the example is funny to us veterans. That player's extreme confidence has won us a lot of money with our aces. New strategies have to be pretty extraordinary to disrupt a game as mature as poker. There is a lot of innovation to be tapped, but that usually isn't happening at the low- and mid-stakes games in your home room. For the most part, my skill is being able to adapt to you faster than you can adapt to me. I am relying on you playing your kings like a straight. (Also, it's a well-known phenomenon that recreational players will hear about and mis-apply contemporary strategies with the same confidence. Somebody like Doug Polk professing about "GTO" on his hugely popular YouTube channel is often creating many more fish than he is sharks.)