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Your question is equivalent of asking: What's more important? An arm or a leg? Yes, there are some pros who are playing blind and yes, as azimut said, Obrestad played blind an entire tournament. But these are exceptions, exceptions made public by the media just because they are different. When 99% of the people plays poker by looking at their cards, that 1% ...

There is this famous story of the poker pro Annette Obrestad, who succeeded in winning an online tournament blind, meaning that she never looked at her hole cards during the whole tournament. (More precisely, she did it once, when she was put all in.) So for expert players, the behavior of the other players, the relative positions and the structure of the ...

Cards are more important if most hands go to a "showdown." That is a situation where the "best hand wins." The kind of poker this represents is sometimes called "no fold 'em" poker. Poor players (that call too much) often play this way. But the reverse is not true; good players may play this way if conditions are right. Ironically, a "reverse" situation ...

You have an interesting point of view about the short stacks, but this point tells me that you lack a few key things about short stack play. As you might know, in cash games, the blinds never increase. As you might know as well, in cash games you can buy in for any amount which is between two fixed amounts, set by the casino. However, in cash games the pots ...

The best way to deal with them in my opinion is to only call them with hands that have a good chance of winning a showdown. So any pair, any connectors, any suited cards preferably with a high kicker. If you act before them and have a decent hand, put in big raises to try and stop them shoving, if they do call then you hopefully chip up nicely :)