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Originally Posted by LeaksSuck
So what's your alternative to finding the best play? Voodoo?
I hope you realize that starting hand EV is merely the summation of a large sample of hands and their relative profits from different positions around the table. It is a somewhat basic number. It doesn't take into account any particular conditions or board textures, but lumps all of them into one huge pile. It doesn't take into account player skill, whether the hand is likely to make it showdown, how many times the blinds have folded to a raise, the tightness or looseness of a table, the history of the hands played, and on and on and on. Unfortunately, like ICM, people don't understand the flaws of such numbers. It does help you establish a baseline for preflop choices, but you can figure that out without EV.