[Robertie]

Danny wouldn't maintain that his play was correct or incorrect, only that there were two different ways to play the hand and on this occasion he picked the call for the reasons he gave. Throughout Volume 1 we tried to emphasize that you can vary your play in many situations (especially pre-flop) on a semi-random basis to throw off your opponents.

The point of the "what if ..." section was not to gloat about how the play turned out, but to give readers a feel for the enormous swings incurred by different, but basically equivalent, plays.