Micro Limit Math Thread

[Aaron W.]

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There's some truth to Shadow's comments about not doing math, however that really applies to playing at the table and only in the earlier stages of your development. When analyzing hands, you need to be able to pull out the numbers to show more decisively the values of each play.


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Surely you mean "later stages of development"?

Anyway, I was sure to put a qualifier in there: "at table play". When analysing hands here, math is pretty essential. (I pretty much neglect it though [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img])

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No, I think the math becomes more important as you get better. Not necessarily math in the sense of recalculating the odds every single time, but I really believe that you need to be able to make quick and definite estimates when you sit on tough decisions.

My perspective has been undeniably altered by this old post which was recently revived in SS. Read everything GoT has to say. I think he's got it 100% correct when he talks about needing to put concrete numbers on things. Also read where The Dude quotes Mason's essay.

But this comes in at the later, because you can't put concrete numbers on a situation until you have enough experience to have the hand reading ability to start counting out the situations. Granted, in looser games, where villains tend to have huge hand ranges, this is more difficult. But even still, you'll find that if you pay attention you can put any player on a decent range of hands and compute your expectation from it. With experience, this comes faster and feels more natural. I don't do it very naturally just yet, but it's slowly coming along.