compuease;321375 wrote I know you think you can always assign a range to any player in any situation but it just doesn't work that way, especially live.....
This shows a slight a slight misunderstanding in what it means to assign an opponent range imo. We can
always assign a range, whether live or online. If we can't define the range well then we'll assign a wide range because we can't narrow it. I'm sure you mostly understand how that all works, but your wording is suspect.
I think when others refer to "gut feel" it does have a valid place in poker decisions... again, especially live...
no you cannot win any game based on gut decision. We don't have that in real life, thats a jedi thing. We have not proved that scientifically, yet poker players feel they can do it.
You might have felt you did it or someone else did it but the sample size is suspect. Few player ever have a clue whether their 'gut' is right or not compared to a 3,000 event sample. And I can assure you, they aren't winning that bet.
What you are suggesting is that given the video picture identifying game that the Jedi council tested Anakin with, some poker players would consistently score higher because of gut instinct.
it is not magic but rather intuition and psychology...
Now the word intuition can run this discussion into trouble because it can be greyed but I can explain using psychology....
the psychological aspects translate to math, even a computer can read facial expressions etc. You might say this guy is tilted I can tell, but so could a computer, it could tell by the math, I under poker is a psyche game but none of that comes from 'feelings'.
Its not important that you prove me wrong I think, its important to know that the people who know this make money off the people that don't. And once you fully accept that you can't Jedi anything in poker, then you can zero in on the proper parts of the strategy....of course I don't have the record to support that, but I'm willing to throw it out there.
I think its very important at least until the very champion levels of this sport to understand and agree with my view.
