[Shaun]

I think your fears are unfounded. The best poker players in the world know poker math (not the pi thing), but that isn't what makes them the best. You should understand all the common situations you will face in a a given game, but the pi thing is certainly not neccessary. Are Paul Phillips and Matt Matros the best players in the world? Probably not. What about Brunson or Ivey or Greenstein? More likely. Out of those three only one is a "math guy", and I doubt that is what makes him a top player.

Math guys overstate the role of math in poker and non-math guys understate it. The truth is probably somewhere in between.