[Buzz]

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As to Buzz's article, great to see & nice job.

[/ QUOTE ]Fish - Thank you.

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Personally, I think that it will help most bad or mediocre players stay that way.

[/ QUOTE ]How will it do that?

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There are no secrets disclosed in it.

[/ QUOTE ]No. But I believe it has fundamental background material for improving one's game. For example, pairs (except for aces and kings) are not included in the top forty two-card combinations found in winning hands. In the starting hand analyzer section, I sorted by win rate (given as a percentage) rather than by $ net per hand) but if sorted by $ net per hand and presented the data that way, no pairs (except aces and kings) are found in the top 40/169 two-card combos found in winning hands either.

I presented Painless Potter data. (Painless Potter is a special no bet, no fold Wilson character used in running no-fold-'em simulations). However in other simulations with a mix of Wilson characters, aggressive or passive, tight or loose, tenacious or irresolute - for any character chosen and in any mix of characters I used (and I tried dozens of mixes) pairs did not fare well. And the same group of two-card combinations (AA, A2s, A2n, A3s, A3n, A4s, A4n) kept cropping up in the top ten regardless of the way the groups were sorted and regardless of the characters used in the sims.

Where were queen pairs? Well... mostly they're losers. Did you know that already?

If so, good for you, but most people wouldn't. I didn't myself before I ran the series of simulations. And what do you think that means for jacks and tens? (Do you think they're any better than queens?)

This is not exactly a secret, but it certainly is something I didn't know before I ran the series of sims. And it doesn't matter which Wilson character is playing them, or if I'm playing them myself against a collection of tough Wilson characters.

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It doesn't help with post-flop strategy which is the place where most losers lose most.

[/ QUOTE ]It's probably true that most losers lose most on the three betting rounds after the first betting round. But losing starts with hand selection. Someone sees the flop with a hand that would have been better folded, perhaps a hand with a pair of queens or even kings or aces, and then
gets caught up in the hand.

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These are not criticisms of it at all.

[/ QUOTE ]Thanks, Fish. I felt they needed a direct response from me anyhow.

Buzz