Whats in a Range

[Cablelessray]

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so, is there any starting strategy that is more correct than any other? short of folding the nuts throught 20th nuts, and only raising hands that don't play on the board, can't any realistic starting strategy be viable assuming one is able to adjust to his/her oponent?


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very nice, and an important concept to get at. The answer is, theoretically speaking, there is a strategy which you oculd employ (if anybody could figure it out) that would be unexploitable by your opponent. That is, you would be doing things with a frequency that would make the EV of all your opponents decisions exactly the same. If you and your opponent both played perfectly then this would be the optimal strategy for you to employ. However, nobody plays perfectly and everybody is exploitable to some degree. So, the result is we all try to adjust our frequencies to take exploit our opponents. If our opponents were static, never changing, individuals then there would be a frequency mix that we could find that would exploit him to the max. However, such a person doesnt exist so we go on playing and adjusting to our opponents, and they go on playing and adjusting to us, and whoever adjusts the best wins the most money.

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see now i believe i must disagree on this. if you are aware of game theory implicatons in rock paper scissors, you will imidiately see a correlation, and why what your saying is questionable. in rock paper scissors, randomizing play is a sure fire way of always giving your oponant the same odds, 50%. but when applying game theory, and psychological dentancies, one can produce for him or herself an edge. i believe the same is true at the poker tables in casinos or online in the comfort of your lazy boy. they will be a way in which one can make their oponants make the worse EV decision. making all their choices the same EV is giving your oponent too much credit. your implying you can't produce an edge for yourself, and if you can't do that, you shouldn't be worrying about this thread.. you have other issues to deal with!(not intended towards anyone, just putting it out there.)