Re: Is math all there is to poker?
on any one hand if you call a bet on the end your odds to win are either 100% or 0%. even in these cases there is math involved in determining the probability that you are a winner. if you want to say its all math because over the long run whether you are a winner or loser it's simply a combination of hands won/lost and amount won/lost that's fine but at least consider this:
there are a lot of hands you don't see that you still take information away from. this information you don't get from math but you must still impute it into your future decisions on how to play a hand.
You may or may not be intentionally making mathematical calculations on decisions while playing a hand, but you also may or may not be making "reads" (non-mathematical conclusions) which enter into this same decision process.
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