Great New Player Advice From a New Player

[fimbulwinter]

I was helping a new player out with a series of small stakes NL hands and had noticed overall that he was playing too passively. I explained to the best of my abilities why raising or folding is in general superior to calling, then he said this, which I thought was very profound:

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Ok, I think i get it. In holdem everyone gets the same hands long term and against any other player at the table they'll be better about half the time and worse the other half. When i have a better hand, i want to play a bigger pot, so i should raise, and when i have a worse hand, i don't want to pay him off, so i should fold. If i make bigger pots when I'm ahead, i take his money long term. Calling just doesn't make sense if you think about it.

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woah.

fim