Buying Kane's Hand History Database

[VanVeen]

He's probably lying about his winrate, but that didn't stop everyone from having a discussion about it.

This is pretty simple stuff. The higher you go the more complicated strategies players are using. They start taking different lines with the same hands on the same boards facing the same action. The % of the time they attempt a check-raise with X vs. Y on a board of ABC vs. a specific opponent will change depending on the prior 40-60 hands, which could have furcated countless different ways for the same exact reason. Hand ranges are constantly in flux, but the players are smart enough that the hand ranges rarely interact in such a way as to give one player an enormous edge. Edges are small. They go back and forth. It takes a long, long time to see who's a better player. Low buyin NL games are a little different. I'll let you figure out why.

One more thing. If the conceptual framework isn't there to take in and digest Kane's database it is entirely useless to you. But if the conceptual framework is there you'd already be capable of cleaning up the lower buyin games (you'd just need grist (hands) for the mill (your brain)) and you wouldn't need his database in the first place. Every decision in poker requires nothing more than some deductive reasoning and a little bit of mathematical intuition. You check half the time in certain spots for a reason, and the reason is easily seen if you understand how to exploit the tendencies of a random opponent (or avoid being exploited yourself). But hey, give the rich man more money!