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These charts are nothing more than starting hand strengths. There's no mention of 'bidding process' on any street.

I'm not even sure how you could extrapolate a betting strategy from the post. It doesn't even mention money, let alone stack sizes, position, or any of the thousands of variables you might factor into an entire strategy.



The post talks about "which hand is more likely to win". All I'm saying is that you don't care about how many hands you win, you care about how much money you win. It would be like measuring programmer productivity using number of lines of code written. This is obviously not an issue for someone who already understands poker, but if you didn't and you tried to use this table to scale your bets according to your overall likelihood of winning with a particular hand, then you wouldn't do well.


I think you're in violent agreement with defen. You're probably so entrenched in Texas Hold'em thinking that it didn't even occur to you that a naive player may see this and think, "This hand is great! I'm going to bet it all!" defen is just pointing out that is a terrible idea, which I think you agree with, but it probably didn't occur to you that anyone could be so naive to even try.


I am in violent agreement with defen, however I'm not with you.

Given a very naive player with a hand they've seen on the chart is great, I'd advise them to bet it all (early/preflop) rather than try to play a hand out. I think they'll be more profitable on average, particularly against a solid player, which defen mentioned.




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