avoiding tough decisions
I havn't read Professional No-Limit Hold 'em: Volume I
(pretentious titles turn me off) but The Surly Poker Gnome has a quibble with this passage.
You do not make money in poker by being smart. You make money by the other guy not being smart. You simply want to avoid mistakes.
The decisions you want to focus on are the ones with big potential payoffs and small risk, it doesn't matter whether they're easy ones are hard ones, it doesn't matter whether you make most decisions correctly. It matters that you make the important ones correctly.
(pretentious titles turn me off) but The Surly Poker Gnome has a quibble with this passage.Many players think experts win because they make these tough decisions well. They miss the point. Good players plan ahead to avoid tough decisions, and so should you.Here's what The Surly Poker Gnome says about it
Yes, it's true that avoiding tough decisions by planning your hands can help improve your game. But money isn't made by dodging difficult situations. Profits come from making correct decisions, whether they're simple or complicated.They're both wrong.
You do not make money in poker by being smart. You make money by the other guy not being smart. You simply want to avoid mistakes.
The decisions you want to focus on are the ones with big potential payoffs and small risk, it doesn't matter whether they're easy ones are hard ones, it doesn't matter whether you make most decisions correctly. It matters that you make the important ones correctly.
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posted by Gary Carson at 3:01 AM
3 Comments:
The book was orginally to be titled "Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em" I wonder who changed it.
Probably whoever first noticed that rather than being as useful and readable as SSHE, it's as turgid and difficult to use as NLPTAP.
It's odd, because Ed writes some really good stuff on his site, and I think he has lowlimit poker nailed, but PNLHE was horrible. I think the worst of it is that I simply didn't buy the central premise. The whole way through I'm like, how the fuck am I supposed to get everyone to cooperate with building the exactly correct size of pot when the fuckers insist on betting and raising their own hands?
I disagree with your assumption that you make money when others make mistakes. Poker is not a game where you can only profit off of other people's blunders. If that were so then there is no room for improvement once you have mastered the basics! You can play as perfectly as you like, but when you sit down at the table with someone who knows how to act in those "difficult situations" you won't stand a chance if you rely simply on playing properly.
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