Why charts don't suck, or: Jeet Kune Do and poker

I like your post if you keep in mind that most micro-limit players are really bad at poker. Find the best available method to let them make -EV decisions and you will benefit over the long run.

[Greg J]

This is a damn good post. I am adding it to my favorites to link to newbs when discussion of this comes up (which it does often).

Sw: thanks for a valuable contribution. I have thought in my own mind something along these lines, and tried to explain it, but I never manged to do so either so consicely or articulately. Again, damn fine post.

Greg

[Greg J]

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Should beginners avoid HUD products for a while? What do other people think?

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I think one or two tabling combined with using a HUD will not harm beginning players. I don't think new players should (generally) play more than two tables either way. I'm agnostic about new players using HUDs or not. I didn't use them when I first started, but HUDs did not exist then.

So, while I don't think yr argument is stupid or anything, I'm not sure I agree. I do think new players should be congizant of trying to isolate true tendencies, and not overly rely on stats.

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Bruce Lee never played a 72o from EP. Thats what the charts help me with . . . . . sometimes.

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yeah but 7,3o HU is teh pwn

[Songwind]

I find stats to be useful in the micros because of the very high turnaround in opponents. Dozens of different players, played with for a couple score hands at a time, spread out over months would be hard to remember. At least with stats I can see that last time we played together, this guy was playing tight, or that guy was spewing chips like Mardi Gras beads, or whathaveyou.

Players I encounter often enough to remember myself, I generally don't NEED the stats. Though I do like the PT function of exporting known raising hands.

[Greg J]

This is a great post. You guys should read it.

[benkath1]

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Though I do like the PT function of exporting known raising hands.


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What is this you speak of?

[Songwind]

When you export your notes, you can configure it in "advanced export" to export a bunch of different stats.