Quote Originally Posted by bjsaust
Your strength seems to be your ability to put people on good ranges really quickly. How did you develop that?
Hmm tough question.

Firstly I would say practice makes perfect but having said that most people know I only play like 10k hands at 6max a month. So perhaps its a case of my practices being of a better quality to others. I play no more than 4 tables, I read the forums, post my own hands and advise others even more, Ive had little coaching but do talk to some players at all levels.

I was trying to break 200nl a long time ago when I switch from 100nl full ring, with the level of competition at 200nl right now there was no way I was good enough for that level when I switched about 2-3 years ago. So Id say I slowly improved (i did stop playing to start with 1k in Feb 2008 and grinded 50nl up again). I think I took a big jump in the quality of my game around the time I started playing some HU 2 tables and I also got 1 coaching session from ISF, this forced me to think a hell of alot more about ranges than I ever previously did. Ranges are just so so important in poker that you gotta think real hard about them, I think alot of people put their opponents of too narrow a range and dont include some lesser obvious holdings thus play incorrectly most of the time. I still have to improve my hand reading AND also just as important my conclusions when processing opps hand. So playing HU for about a month at just 50nl sparked my mind to work harder than before.

Those thinking of trying HU should but dont make it your main game since the rake is nasty. Only after 200nl HU does rake become reasonable.

Ok think Ive answered that decently.