Uconventional Aesthetics and Experimental Tournament Poker
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It is often said of posthumously successful artists who were underappreciated in their lifetime that they were somehow ahead of their time. Their contribution to their craft could not be appreciated at the time because of its deviation from commonly accepted notions. Moby Dick is considered by many authorities and readers alike to be a brilliant work of fiction. However, looking at the reviews upon its release, one might think it was doomed to obscurity and failure.
Experimental poker players have a comparable advantage over artists in terms of the potential reward their risk entails. The avant-garde of the poker world may be blasted by their tablemates for their unorthodox play, but these players ultimately are having the last laugh. Their willingness to experiment is the key to their success. Try and imagine what people must have thought of the first squeeze play gone wrong.
Blind-stealing. The squeeze play. The resteal. These plays represent just some of the ways winning tournament players have stayed ahead of the field by employing strategies that vary from traditional card dependent methodologies. Today these plays are common knowledge, though they did not always exist. We have a handful of enterprising…. read rest of article at PocketFives.com
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