Re: Too much SPR
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there is no question that stack to pot ratio is important. however, it is one of MANY things that are very important during the play of a hand.
the book spends way to much time focusing on SPR.
i suggest that players use the concept, but not reley on it nearly as much as this book recommends.
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Amulet:
Assume you have JTs or A5s. Everyone has 500 in a 5-5 NL game. You are in middle position. UTG limps. UTG+1 limps. You decide to limp.
The player behind you makes it 30 to go. The button calls. The BB calls. The 2 early limpers call. There is 160 in the pot, and it is 25 to call. A call by you closes the action.
What do you do?
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So you type in an example of a hand where pot/implied odds dominate the problem to prove what?
Amulet is saying that besides odds, be it pot odds, implied odds, or stack to pot ratios (which is really nothing but a combined version of the previous 2), that there are other important factors in each poker problem.
Some of these include position, hand reading, initiative, yada-yada.
With all due respect to the authors, they do have a chapter on adjusting your target SPRs to these other factors; which is kind of the same concept as 'discounting outs' if you will. But I think they could have spent more time discussing these areas and their effects than they did.
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