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Rock Star
Silver Level
Like with everything, with practice comes experience. Some of us are naturally or predisposed to play like a nit, some are predisposed to play like a maniac. IMO, I thing the artistry comes to play when these playing characteristics become fluid.
It seems to me the easiest observable triggers to mindfully switch from a nit to maniac and back again is stack size, followed by position. But everyone can see the stack size, and thus everyone has a chance to correlate the subsequent play.
But when your in that middle just right zone, now it gets interesting. I find it's the interesting spot, the opportunity to play as a nit/maniac - call it schizophrenic. In one hand, a nit would often raise pre-flop AA-77, AQ-AK and never think about raising 56s or the like, but a for a maniac at the limits, almost every hand is game for a raise.
So do you practice switching gears, more or less to learn to become more efficient/successful? For the experience's sake with the objective of expanding your range, improving reads, and thus to create uncertainty in your table image?
It seems to me the easiest observable triggers to mindfully switch from a nit to maniac and back again is stack size, followed by position. But everyone can see the stack size, and thus everyone has a chance to correlate the subsequent play.
But when your in that middle just right zone, now it gets interesting. I find it's the interesting spot, the opportunity to play as a nit/maniac - call it schizophrenic. In one hand, a nit would often raise pre-flop AA-77, AQ-AK and never think about raising 56s or the like, but a for a maniac at the limits, almost every hand is game for a raise.
So do you practice switching gears, more or less to learn to become more efficient/successful? For the experience's sake with the objective of expanding your range, improving reads, and thus to create uncertainty in your table image?