Quote Originally Posted by trilerian
Seen the results orientated mentioned twice now towards me. Could you please elaborate a bit on this.
Quote Originally Posted by trilerian
Yes, position is a scary place for me, I can't count the number of times that I have placed a position bet, got called, flopped top two pair, checked around to me, bet the pot on the flop and turn, then get blasted on the river by a set, straight or flush.
This is being results oriented. The thing with poker is this.. You can make a correct decision and be punished for it. I can get AA all in preflop and lose. Does that mean it's incorrect?? Absolutely not. Same goes for bad decisions. You can make them and be rewarded. I shove all in preflop with 23o from UTG the first hand of a SNG, and get called by 2 players and I hit quad 2's on the flop and win. Does that mean it's the right play?? Absolutely not.

It's because of the above that in poker you can't look at the results to determine whether your decisions in the hand were correct. You must look at the current situation and take the information you are being currently given (from this hand, and past hands) and make the best decision possible. If you make a decision that over the long run (because poker is a shitty game in the short run) will net you a profit, then you have made a +ev (positive expected value) decision. If you have made a decision that will cost you money in the long run, you have made a -ev (negative expected value) decision.

Poker is a sum of all your decisions. Make more +ev decisions and you will show a profit in the long run. Make more -ev decisions and you will lose money.

So instead of evaluating your play of a hand by looking at the results and determining if it was correct, you must look at your decisions on every street and determine if those decisions, given the information you had, were correct (based on reads/stats, hand ranges, etc).