Stop looking at your cards!

Originally Posted by Outlaw

Your cards only matter as blockers unless you get to showdown.

This is completely untrue. Your equity on each street greatly impacts how you play, regardless of how often you expect to get to showdown.

Originally Posted by spoonitnow

This is completely untrue. Your equity on each street greatly impacts how you play, regardless of how often you expect to get to showdown.

If we don't know our cards we can't play based on our own equity which is what the OP is talking about. It would be nice to know our blockers though, so that we could more accurately talk about our opponents ranges.

Based on OPs exercise, you still have to play as if you don't know your cards.. but only have a perceived range that the villain is using... and he never knows your exact holding.

Just make sure if you use this exercise, that your opponent is at least on level 2.. otherwise you are leveling yourself.

BTW, I really like this thread.