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Originally posted by Avatarenand there is a difference between the most solid and the best. I actually think after having a few talks and seen a few chats here and there would think TPir is not only being humble when he says others are better than him. For sure TPirahna is the most solid 6max high stakes reg there is and I don't think anyone objects to that of the other lhe regs.

i use the terms 'most solid' and 'best' interchangeably. what's the difference in your opinion?

i'd definitely agree that Zzeig is also up there, probably in the top 5 or so.

in my mind most solid and best are 2 different things and most solid i mean the guy who in this case plays close to his best game which lets say from 1 to 100 where 100 is ihumanly the best game ever. hes always for hours at end doing his 80% which is his top A game.

while the best is or can be someone who can reach even higher on that score though only for 1 hour at a time then they clearly get worse.

so someone who's game is better than TPirahna's though not as big a grinder and solid as he is i suppose i mean.

@Boomer

Yup, I fully believe what you say. This is also the reason I put quotation marks around 'standard', and used the term 'approximation' in the phrase [... "standard" GTO approximation... ] used in my post.

Another observation I've made is that the high stakes players really take their time. The games play a lot slower than at lower stakes. I interpret this as if they actually either actually do think (rarely) or pretend to think, or else, (most commonly,) just lag to try to avoid giving away timing tells those times when they actually have to think for a while.

/Johan

I have one of TPirahna's early videos where he actually specifically address that issue you are talking about Yohan.. hes saying he at least takes 3 - 5 seconds everytime its his turn. no matter what, so he does not have a timing tell plus gives him time to think when hes facing a hard decision. something we all should adopt i think. theres only good things about that small detail. imo.

Yes, there's only good things with it. If the decision is easy, you can spend the 3-5 seconds planning ahead for the next street and what to do if this or that happens. Also, I personally have a problem with "misthinks", pretty similar to misclicks. A couple of times each session I'm desperately looking for the undo button a split second after my instantaneous decision.

/Johan