griffinlord Message Board Junkie
Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 2459 Location: The Great Plains of South Dakota
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Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| craigo6x wrote: |
| I don't want to build a pot with a hand I can't get away from. |
You need to learn to get away from the hand if the flop is bad for you.
| craigo6x wrote: |
| This is my point. with Aces against 4 other opponents you are a 40% favorite to win the hand. That is less than 1/2 the time you will win. |
Winning the most pots isn't important--winning the most money is. Let's say that you and all opponents go to the river no matter what..let's just look at the preflop bets:
EV with 4 opponents = .4 * 4 - .6 * 1 = 1.6 - .6 = +1 betting unit per bet you place in the pot preflop.
EV heads up = .8 * 1 - .2 * 1 = +.6 betting units per bet you place preflop.
Since 1.0 > .6 you should prefer four callers to one. |
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