Live beat

Just thought I'd share this one with you all to feel my pain.

I've played Live twice this year. The first time my KK gets done by AQ on the FT with many a thousand up for grabs, see the Dream Team thread, then this:

Spoiler used incase you read this before my report in the reports section - please read that first.

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Just to add to this conversation, and the whole conversation about poker really,

Take a look at this (sorry for linking elsewhere it's just a typical example):

The Don wins

I see stuff like this all the time where someone basically gets a load of praise and money when they run like an absolute god, muff their way through all sorts of hands into all sorts and take down a tournament. At no point in my games I've talked about did I take down a far superior hand all in. In fact, I only got them all in twice!

Am I missing something here? Is poker about waiting for a premium, shoving and hoping to run into another. If it's better, so be it, I may run like a god and crack KK twice and AA once to win, if it's worse, oh how unlucky I am if I lose but wow I expect to win every one of them.

This may sound like a rant but it's really not. I'd like to know why this standard of poker, this ABC hit 'em all in, is wining $ after £ after $ and a type of play that can use hands that aren't in this range, wins not a lot. Is it really a case of you need both hands and skill but skill is 1% and hands is 99%?

It seems that way to me...




Just to add to this after reading my own post, I don't care who the player is, that's not the point, this post is not about his or her skill it's about the types of situations. I'd really appreciate comments from everyone on this forum as I look to improve my game. Any and all help is appreciated.