Jack,

With all due respect, not everyone can fly by the seat of their pants and try this and experiment with that. Not and keep their sanity, anyway. I applaud you because you seem like a creative, right brained kind of person. I wish I was more like that sometimes. But I think it is downright foolish not be constantly evaluating your play to see whether or not you are playing lucky or playing well. Luck will catch up with you, playing well wins in the long run. I thought I was crushing the game when I first started and got on a huge roll. One day I looked at a hand where I reraised J8 offsuit and bluffed a guy off the river by pushing. In isolation, that may seem like a great play. The problem wasn't that particular play. The problem was I thought J8 was a raising hand. Hell, I could make a straight with those two cards! I can push ANYONE off a hand!! I am BULLETPROOF! It wasn't until after the fact, when I was down to my last 3 or 4 buyins, that I really evaluated what got me there in the first place. I got lucky. I needed to get good. I still have a long way to go.

Damn, I wish I had checked the oil earlier.....