[vulturesrow]

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The starting point to optimal play is correctly putting your opponent on a range of hands.

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You put the opponent on a range of hands because poker is a game of incomplete information and thus your starting point can almost never be "I know exactly what his hand is".

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From there you chose the course of action that maximizes your EV. I'd bet that's what you try to do when you play.

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Of course. How does this contradict the point that I make money when I make my opponents play differently than they would if I flipped my cards over every time before we started a hand?


We are basically talking theory and how it relates to practice here. I wish I had the book in front of me right now because I know Sklansky does address these points, at least indirectly.