bj21abc said:
"Incredibly amused" may be pushing it a little
To be fair "insuring good hands" is indeed a ploppy strategy which has nothing to do with JG's analysis... Do you find it surprising that only a (small?) minority of posters have read JG or gone into depth on these points ? I would say that you have to be fairly serious about AP and/or interested in fine points of the game, some of which are purely theoretical. I myself don't own BC - just borrowed a copy from a friend
To be fair "insuring good hands" is indeed a ploppy strategy which has nothing to do with JG's analysis... Do you find it surprising that only a (small?) minority of posters have read JG or gone into depth on these points ? I would say that you have to be fairly serious about AP and/or interested in fine points of the game, some of which are purely theoretical. I myself don't own BC - just borrowed a copy from a friend
Sure, I'm not really surprised; it is a finer point, but an important one that IMO shouldn't have been dismissed so abruptly. The focus on EV is the natural tendency, and is usually appropriate, but variance is important too - especially when the difference in EV is comparatively small, and/or the stakes are high.