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Originally Posted by Bob148
I say forget balance. The very definition of the term is hazy, while it's application is spreading like an airborne disease, the likes of which has infected the masses with the sickness of disinformation and complacency.
what a maroon.
understanding balance is about understanding cause and effect:
cause: different hands contribute to the ev of a strategy in different ways and the three major hand groups: draws, showdownable hands, and junk, these groups overlap each other like this:
effect: the hand groups(and individual combos that comprise the groups), help each other earn ev. the showdownable hands allow some draws and junk to bet(without value hands there would be no bluffs). the draws add value to the value hands, and aid in keeping the junk safe(without draws in the checking range, there would be too much folding). junk represents hands that never reached potential because junk misses the board by definition. junk doesn't benefit us on this board, but instead junk benefits our strategy on different boards by hitting flops turns and rivers when other hands cant.
result: ev is maximized when your strategy can't improve the way the different hand groups help each other. this is true balance imo.