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Originally Posted by GazzyB123
You can’t disagree with something that is factually correct. If you are +EV you are a winning player. If you are -EV you are a losing player.
An extreme example. Linus Love plays Dan Bilzerian heads up. Dan opens the btn in the first hand. Linus folds. Dan quits the game. Is Dan better than Linus? Is Linus losing to Dan? Of course not.
If Linus goes into this arrangement constantly, then yes, hes a losing player. Thats why its not as simple as + or - EV overall.
If you are a winning player at your local 1/2 casino at 12BB/100 but you also take shots constantly at 5/10 where you lose 5BB/100 then youre a losing player. Its about game selection.
Also you can lose huge at the reg 5/10 game but have some fish 2/5 home game where you win massively. Your EV will be all about how often you get into that home game, not at all about your average EV. We all know how big the edges can be in home games. Personally I have a lower stakes home game right now where people are stacking off in PLO5 constantly with less than nut flush on paired boards, with shitty AA preflop and on the flop with super low equity etc. Those games massively off set whatever winrate I have in the online stakes I play.