Gold from mid/hi

[PokerPadawan]

Since everyone here likes reading hand posts so much, why not treat your sessions as live hand posts? I'm on a dry run of cards right now, so I look at it as value bet school. Since all I ever have are marginal hands, I get lots of practice picking out value bets. Plus, when I do have a monster cracked (my boats are winning only 2/3 of the time), I see it as a challenge to lose the least. Since in the long run we have to encounter all these situations eventually, your goal should be to maximize your advantage in every one, no matter how hopeless. If you can get away from a flopped nut flush without losing too much when someone hits a runner runner boat with 72o on you, you can feel really good about yourself, even though you lost a huge pot.

You can be as results-oriented as you want, as long as you see results as being your delta(EV) in each decision. A pot lost where you saved a bet is positive delta(EV), while a value bet missed when you won is negative delta(EV). If your decisions are better than random, you are beating the average every time you play, whether you win or lose.

In the short term, I think to myself, had I had their hand and they had mine, would I have made more money from them? Usually, I know I would, so I feel good.