Originally Posted by
A-Tex Devil
If you stick to premium hands in a massive field like in the WSOP, you need to be very fortunate in what you get pre-flop, and you will have to stand up for yourself on occasion with good but not great hands, or you are going to get dwindled down. You'll need to make the occasional 3 flop pre-bet with 67 suited and hope to catch if you get called. The payouts on these tourneys are too flat to make "just making the money" worthwhile.
I 100% agree, although the blind structure in the main event (really slow escalation) allows for more patience than in almost any other event. Still, waiting to only play premium hands is leaving your fate to a lot of luck (in getting the cards). It also makes you predictable, which is the kiss of death for a poker player
My point was that playing a lot of "bad hands" is not a sound poker strategy long-term.
I will say that the most difficult thing to do in poker (at least for me) and the thing that always amazes me when I see it on TV, is--
Player has a bad hand that he plays aggressive
Player gets called and/or raised
Player continues to be aggressive with his hand often re-raising
Player fires at the pot on flop, turn, and river with next to nothing
Dudes who can do that are studs in my mind. I always get a case of too many nerves and ease off the pedal at some point, likely giving away the fact that I don't have squat.
--Jason "I am itching to play me some poker now!!" Evans