Re: THE book (Theory of Poker)
It's the bible. When you hear pros discuss hand analysis, they use phrases and words like "positive expectation/negative expectation," and "good decisions/bad decisions," and "correct play," and "long run"
In other words they're discussing specific, real-life hands in a theoretical sense because that is how good and bad poker is evaluated. Fishes make their mistakes because they think winning a pot equates success, it is if they won the pot by making good decisions, i.e. theoretically correct, but if they made bad decisions and still ended up winning, they actually lost money.
Good poker is evaluated over 100 hands, 500 hands, 1,000 hands or throughout a year, 5 years or 10 years - you get my point. This book teaches how to think in those terms.
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