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The prevalence of e4/d4

I'm seeing quite a lot of d4. I would guess that it's even more popular than e4?

At least in bullet games, more than half of the time it's d4 (it seems).

I greatly prefer e4, but alas....
Many players avoid e4, especially in faster games, because there are many trap lines that come relatively quickly out of e4 games and you can get stuck trying to remember how to properly counter and waste all your time. d4 generally leads to Queen's Gambit/Indian sort of territory and is more straight forward to play and allows players to get creative with their own tactical lines. This isn't to say there are no trap lines out of d4, but Black generally has less responses out of d4, imo, so therefore less highly theoretical traps to have to memorize.
That makes sense..

The only trap that I am aware of/use with d4 is the Lasker trap in the Queens gambit counter gambit( 1.d4 d5 2. c4 e5). It's a nice trap for black to win a queen, rook, or superior position. But if they don't play the trap, I don't like queen pawn games.
If you want something a bit more sharp out of an opponent's d4 opening, you could always try Benoni. It will also throw off a lot of d4 players who are expecting a Queen's Gambit or Indian style game. Or if you want to stick with an Indian defense, the Grunfeld is pretty popular at high levels, so there's lots of great games to study.
King's Gambit for life! I find e4 a lot more enjoyable in faster time controls because it forces you to think tactically and makes for real exciting games. Maybe I need to branch out a bit? Maybe not. I don't see why one would even consider shying away from riding the tactical lightning to victory but mayhap it's no more than a question of styles influenced by a Kramnikian - Carlsen era of play.
e4 is so much more fun imo. More dangerous for sure. Look at the elephant gambit (1.e4 e5 2. nf3 d5). Very dangerous for both sides. (Unless white plays defensively and accurately). Exciting for bullets!
BS #6, d4 is as dangerous and fun as e4 a well. Look at queens gambit variations (especialy at Marshall gambit variations with fast atacks at d line, or a Stauton gambit vs Dutch). But d4 is usually a bit more slow than e4. Also e4 is still more popular than d4, its just a matter of taste what to choose.
Well queens gambit counter gambit has a wonderful Lasker trap that I love to play. But other than that d4 is too positional and e4 is more tactical. That's just a fact.
Albin Counter Gambit sucks against prepared players, it's a fact, if opponent knows Lasker trap than he will just have an extra pawn, so its a bad idea to try this stuff against high rated players.
While I would never play the Albin, and agree it gives white a bigger advantage than "sound" openings, it's not quite so simple as White just gets an extra pawn.

I know a guy who's 2050 or so FIDE and plays it religiously as black, so all his local opponents know he plays it and prepare it, and he still does fine with it.

It also sees some traffic even at the GM level, where as expected it scores worse than "sound" openings, but is far from just losing.

Morozevich has even played it with good success against other top GMs, albeit usually in rapid/blindfold/blitz events.

I'm a big fan of playing soundly and not giving away pawns for speculative reasons, so I really wish the Albin just lost, but black gets decent compensation, unfortunately :)

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