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Originally Posted by streityboy
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However, no one has explained in detail the benefit of knowing this stat and how knowing it has directly improved their win rate. ...
1. Lose a bunch of similar all-ins. Let's say naked top set hands on a drawy flop, like Q
K
Q
K
on a 4
5
K
board.
2. Think to yourself, "Wow I'm running really bad here!"
3. Look at allin line on graph and discover you weren't running nearly as bad as you thought, and were even an underdog in some of them.
4. Vow to yourself to play top set more, uh, delicately in the future in similar spots.
5. ????
6. Profit?
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It's like this: we all probably agree the worst mistake for a player to make is to blame bad play on bad luck, but IMHO the 2nd biggest mistake is the opposite, to blame bad luck on bad play. Then you change things up and start actually playing bad. It's like that old trope, of the noob NLHE player saying, "well I lost with AA the last 42 times I raised it pre so now I'm just gonna limp it behind 17 limpers from now on!" And this really happens all the time (the numbers 17 and 42 might be exaggerations.)