For the most part I play my cards. But you can usually tell pretty quickly who will lay down hands easily, calls a lot, etc. So you can raise with some marginal hands if you're up against those who are too weak.
Unless you're playing with a bunch of world class players, there really isn't a reason to do much more than play your cards - there are too many calling stations out there, too many people pushing their own razor thin edges and then losing. You can outlast a large portion of a tourney field by just being patient. The FTP guarantee tournies routinely loose 1/2 the field by the break, sometimes sooner. It's insane.
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Whether he likes it or not, a man’s character is stripped at the poker table; if the other players read him better than he does, he has only himself to blame. Unless he is both able and prepared to see himself as others do, flaws and all, he will be a loser in cards, as in life. ~Anthony Holden
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