[Stevo]

JoJo,

Nice article. I wish I had read it before I read Mega's, I would have felt better about how people play.

I think (and you know) you are being much kinder to a looser style (read loser style) of play Mega apparently utilizes. How have you both done since writing the article?

I have to tell you. I'm in a weekly game and I play pretty much the way you describe. We usually play 10-14 guys, pay the top 3 and I almost without fail make the money. I even once essentially folded my way to 3rd picking up only three decent pots.

The thing about tight play is - at least for me thusfar - people will call. People will call, Ray... I have played for weeks in and out and sat at the same table with the same guys and folded 30 hands in a row and then come in for a raise in early position and get 2 callers. It's incredible.

While I have seen some folks play Mega's way and have some success - I also see them have huge fluctuations in chips over a tourney. I don't have the discipline to play that way. So you come in with Q9 and the flop is Q/8/2. Guy in front of you bets... you... ? I don't know, raise to see where you are? Ok, he calls. Then what? Or say you bet and he raises... you??? Really, the preflop action doesn't even matter at this point. If you both limped - what do you do? If you raised and he called - what do you do? If he raised - lord knows you should not call, but if you did, what do you do?

Playing what I would generously describe as marginal hands preflop makes you have to make too many difficult decisions after the flop. At least too difficult for me.