Re: Genius losers?
Barry Greenstein gave a lecture at UIUC that I attended w/other 2+2ers in which he addressed this topic. He told stories about games with brilliant math professors that he destroyed in poker. I believe he attributed it to brilliant math minds not seeing the big picture.
He told a story about raising pot on the river against a player he knew he just outdrew. The player sat there and computed the odds of Barry having the few hands that beat him and came up with some 1000/1 number and called. The thing he didn't account for was that Barry would only raise him with that hand since Barry knew what he had.
I believe he addresses this in his book as well.
-Craig
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