A lot of poker players focus so strongly on their own games, and their own strengths and weaknesses, that they miss the forest for the trees. While improving your own game is always important, the most successful way to make money at poker is by finding a game where your opponents are worse.
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That's not major news-the concept has been around for a long time-but there are some layers of subtlety and complexity to the "weak opponents concept" that you might not have considered. One of these was recently made quite obvious to me when I participated in the Tournament of Champions.

In live ring games, I probably play hold 'em 90% of the time. That's not because I like it so much better than the other games, but just because my home club, Bay 101 in San Jose, doesn't spread a lot of other games. The only Omaha 8-or-better to be found there is usually "no fold'em" 4-8, and the only 7-stud is usually also 4-8. There's no stud 8-or-better at all. Because I usually play at higher limits, I rarely get to play these games when I'm home.

I do play them in tournaments, used to play them a lot in private games, and do play them when I'm in clubs in other parts of the state or country, so I'm not a piece of ripe fruit ready to be plucked when I sit down in these other games. I'm just not as good as I am at hold 'em, because I play so much more hold 'em.

At the TOC, I had to play stud, Omaha 8-or-better, and hold 'em in alternating rounds, and I expected that the hold 'em rounds would be my most favorable ones, because it was my best game. I quickly found out that I was wrong: while hold 'em was indeed my best game, it was also the best game for the vast majority of players in the field, especially the weaker ones.

There were a LOT of TOC entrants who, when it came to 7-stud or Omaha 8-or-better, couldn't play dead in a cemetery (a nice line, but it's not mine; I overheard a World Series of Poker player mutter it as he exited after a bad beat put on by an opponent who went on to win the tournament). As a result, even though I was not as skilled in these games, I made most of my profits there, and got into the money almost exclusively because of money more or less handed to me by players who were out of their element.