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Originally Posted by boc4life
We'll just have to agree to disagree on the fact that you completely mangled the hand. Hope your downswing ends soon, my best advice would be to play better.
It's pretty clear I didn't mangle that hand. Of course I can play better -- so can you, so can all of us. Even world class players could play better -- but in that spot against that guy, my line (or my line + folding the river) are so far and away more profitable than anything else that it is isn't worth serious discussion and it's why this was in the LC thread.
Something that might be worthy of the LC thread though is a more general lesson this hand can teach -- especially to you online guys being forced to play more live poker (for, hopefully, just the time being). I sympathize with the desire to put your headphones on, bury your head in the sand, and click buttons with your chips as if you were in front of a computer.
But if you took the headphones off and listened to the painfully inane blather that your live opponents emit between hands, you hear all sorts of clues to how their pea brains think, and what lines they want to take under all sorts of conditions. It also helps you pick up on tells that at first seem subtle but after years of experience are giant alarm bells. These tells drastically reduce the number of hands they can have in their range and not only turn close decisions into easy ones, but can turn standard folds into easy raises and standard checks into easy bets.
The underlying fundamentals are still math-oriented, but instead of doing that math based on wide ranges, you can now do it based on a range heavily weighted towards one end or the other if the opponent gives you this extra valuable information.