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Originally Posted by lagdonk
But I thought the point of this particular game (AA vs ATC) and others like it (where interesting conditions or constraints are imposed on HU NLHE) is to figure out if the altered structure gives a potentially insurmountable edge to one side or the other. So poker intelligence comes into play if the difference between the two opponents is large enough to negate such an edge. Otherwise, the player on the side that benefits from said edge, if he's not sufficiently less intelligent than his opponent, will ultimately prevail.
Well then, I don't think anyone has an edge due to the altered structured game, if this answers your query. This is because, imo, of the following:
Let's say you have a strategy which you think will give you an advantage over villain. You win the first 20 hands and this is the point villain knows, almost for certain, your strategy.
However, since play is ongoing, let's say that it takes 60 hands for villain to adjust his strategy to beating yours.
Now, given that you have the same poker intelligence as villain, it takes about 60 hands to adjust to villain's strategy. Etc.
There is no argument against it.
If you were to say:
"you could plan ahead so that if villain adjusts to our strategy by doing a, then we do b. If he does x, we do y. If then, he adjusts to our 2nd strategy, b or y, then we have 2 new options for his response to both b and y (not necessarily 2, this is an example). Then we can plan so far ahead that surely we are GARUNTEED to win."
But this goes against the idea that we are as intelligent as villain.
Any head's-up match involves adjusting to strategy and if you and your opponent are = intelligence, you only lose rake.
What I'm basically trying to say is that unless the problem involves every hand fixed e.g. AA vs 72o with both players knowing each other's cards, which involves very little strategy, then it is impossible to have a winning strategy.
Even if it were 72o vs ATC, given same intelligence, villain and hero would lose only to rake imo.
Last edited by jewbinson; 09-10-2009 at 06:20 PM.