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Yes, at first, when just copy the game style of the best players, we don't understand why it works most of the time. But, trust me, with a lot of practice, and I mean practice on the battlefield with real players, not with bots, not with your friends, but with real online players, who want to beat you, eventually you will start to understand why the style of the best in the business works.
I agree that the best experience is that experience you`ve got by yourself, but it this way you spend your time and money to level up your skills. I think that it is true for everything but in such situation the price can be to big for studying. And
if you`ll play low-level competitions you can`t see the true skilled players.Firstly, true skilled players do play low stakes online, it's a known fact. But I agree that the probability of meeting them at the tables is extremely low when it's not a $1,000+ buy-in.
But do you actually need to play with them to level up your skills? Imo, it's better to watch them playing with each other, the best with the best, in recently uploaded videos on YouTube.