thx for the bday wishes guys

rpm:

if we were playing vs robots then HUDS are all we would ever need. the main reason i don t use a HUD is because I have always found that it gets in the way of adjusting mid-session.

who cares is some guy is 16/13/4? when ppl are affected by your style of play (assuming you are aggro and try to get under ppl's skin) you have to throw stats out the window in dealing with their adjustments and think one move ahead. the number of times i have seen nits play back in terrible spots is really surprising; if i had been relying exclusively on a HUD I think my default would have been "meh he s a nit gotta fold". playing without a HUD forces you to form a dynamic profile based on gameflow and showdowns that - hopefully - is much more relevant than generic stats over a big sample.

a simple example of the danger of relying too heavily on stats is 4-betting. what happens when a nit tilts like a monkey and starts 4-bet jamming 50% of his range for half an hour vs a monkey? your stats for his 4-bet will be skewed for thousands of hands because of that one session. you might say "nits don't do that". well, in my experience, they do.

another reason why overall stats are less important for me than they are for many people is that when i m the one applying lots of pressure (sometimes pre, mostly post-flop), regs tend to change their strategies for fear of being exploited. they c-bet less, makes fewer river bluffs and give up in spots where they re normally not giving up vs a robotagg or a fish. because of that, it actually hurts me if i respect the stats i see on my HUD since i m basically playing a version of the player that is significantly different from the generic version described by a HUD.

I could go on, but I think that's the gist of it. The value of a HUD for preflop decisions (who and when to 3-bet/4-bet) is undeniable. But in my experience, the very last hand you played vs someone can often be much more important than the villain's 3k hands sample in your database.