I recently had the opportunity as aways to play in an online tournament on Poker Stars and i was amazed at the level of stupidity in the majority of players in the tournament. One guy played every hand and was the chip leader with 250k in chips. it was just amazing that luck played such a factor in his game. I began to wonder if this player along with many others actually know how to play the game? Becasue it was obvious that without the luck most of these players would never survive in any real poker game.
Should a player that know hoe to play tournaments and cash games get discouraged by this or should they hammer down and play stronger poker? It makes me very angry when i see players just playing stupid and calling every hand because good players that know the math and the game theory often get knocked out to stupid players who are drawing to 4 outs in a tournament and put there whole tourny life on the line for 4 outs and they hit the 95% on the river not thinking that they are dominated.
Now i realize that when playing online tournamnets and the blind structure is 5 or 10 min that you have to play a wider range of hands to try and build up a chip stack vs playing a live tournamnet with blinds 20-30or 40 min in some cases they are 1 hour so you can fold off four flush draws while on line a four flush draw is an auto all in ( or so it seems) but you are still only 36% to hit.
I guess overall it is frustrating that TV has really brought out the fish to the game in a cash game they would die off real fast but i guess in a cheap $2 + $0.20 re-buy tournament ATC are ok to play and Luck is the real player here not the actual players.
As i have always said, i do not luck my skills are good enough, i just don't want bad luck!!
See u at the tables or on the rail...
