Decision Making: Unsolvable Decisions in Poker (Crosspost)

[AntonSirius]

Just to follow up on Aaron's excellent post... for me, 'ratios' are just a way of making sure I don't fall into unconscious habits. If I've decided to raise 60%, call 20% and fold 20% with a specific hand preflop, that doesn't mean every five times I get that hand I'm going to call once and drop it once. It just reminds me to mix up my play, skewed towards raising.

Using 'crowd response' to determine those ratios seems neither a good nor a bad idea to me, in that light, just an unnecessary complication. I doubt your 'crowd' of post responses would be big enough to qualify as a proper sample anyway, though.