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Originally Posted by NMcNasty
No it doesn’t because I’m not advocating actually making the mistake...
Regardless of not advocating it; by trivialising it as a small mistake, OP WILL make the same mistake hundreds of more times.
Everyone is guilty of this in various aspects of life - we will do something if we think its only a small mistake if we are not 100% in the right mindset. Some people drink + drive because they think it's only a small mistake - they think the chance of anything bad happening is so small that the convenience outweighs the risk. If you get them to think it's a huge mistake by advertising the dangers of it etc... then they are far less likely to do it.
In poker if you are playing your A game you will fold. But if you are below your A game you might think "it's OK, I can outplay these guys post-flop, small mistake is irrelevant" Or if you are even tilting ever so slightly you might just think w/e it's fine despite you knowing/thinking it's only a small mistake.
But if you know that it's actually a big mistake and not small then you can avoid making these mistakes even if you feel a bit on tilt or you are just not playing your A game.
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Originally Posted by NMcNasty
No, flop is an entirely different decision point. We can avoid these types of flops more by of course just folding pre more but that’s just cutting down on variance not saving ourself EV.
My point was that pre-flop mistakes get compounded by post-flop mistakes if a hand is difficult to play. If a GTO perfect bot played the hand post-flop he might lose the minimum expected (ie. the amount we lost pre-flop) - or a couple of $. But an average (or even a good) PLO player is going to compound the mistakes of pf just because of how incredibly difficult it will be to play OOP AND V DEEP.
ie. It's a lot more than a couple of $ev lost.
If a post-flop decision is close then the ev is likely to be similar. So whilst it seems more interesting, it's not the part you should be focused on in terms of improving.