A quick note about "rareness" of bets

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Unanswerable question because there's no such thing as an average person.

Also, the possibly psychologically negative outcome of pushing your edges and not having it pay off ties directly to the financially negative results of that happening. Big games or small, the swings are something that probably most people don't handle well because financial setbacks going hand-in-hand with psychological ones makes for a nasty mix. And people really DO care about their 100 or 200 BB lost at 1/2 or 2/4 as well, and for some people that really is a substantial amount of money. So pushing small +EV edges can result in dramatic psychological and financial outcomes.

However, poker is cruel and doesn't give a damn about you or anyone else. You simply have to suck it up if you want to maximize your profit, and the more thin edges you push, the more you have to suck it up when things go bad. However, that's the price you pay for success. If you want to pay less of a price, you have to give up a lot of potential success too.

You have to pay a definite price for being unsually successful in poker. You can't just play the way you want to play; you have to play well.