[Fallen Hero]

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To those who are disagreeing with the idea in general:

You try not to put yourself in difficult situations because this opens you up to making mistakes. Hopefully you can see why making mistakes to avoid difficult situations isn't consistent with this idea.

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the problem is that we don't play poker alone. That's why the analogy doesn't work, because when you make your decisions easier you usually (and usually is an important word here, it's obvious that there are situations where you can make your life easier with no drawback and you should take advantage of those) make your opponents decisions easier too.