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Alex Foxen on why folding is a weapon in poker:👇
“When we're making big folds over and over, this is generally because we're able to make these +EV decisions that maybe [GTO] theory or other people would be losing more money on.
And this is the ‘folding is a weapon’ mindset that can be very helpful.
And this is something that I have forever struggled with, to really see the scoreboard in terms of EV and ‘folding isn't losing’.
This is why I think theory is such a limiting perspective because if you deal a hand and PIO [solver] is playing in every seat (other than the randomization factor of different decisions from an EV perspective), we could directly calculate exactly a predetermined EV for each person's hand and our job as a player is to manipulate that EV in our favor.
So, it's to win more when we have the best hand, to lose less when we have the worst hand, and to do our best to maximize both sides of that equation”.
@WAFoxen
“When we're making big folds over and over, this is generally because we're able to make these +EV decisions that maybe [GTO] theory or other people would be losing more money on.
And this is the ‘folding is a weapon’ mindset that can be very helpful.
And this is something that I have forever struggled with, to really see the scoreboard in terms of EV and ‘folding isn't losing’.
This is why I think theory is such a limiting perspective because if you deal a hand and PIO [solver] is playing in every seat (other than the randomization factor of different decisions from an EV perspective), we could directly calculate exactly a predetermined EV for each person's hand and our job as a player is to manipulate that EV in our favor.
So, it's to win more when we have the best hand, to lose less when we have the worst hand, and to do our best to maximize both sides of that equation”.
@WAFoxen
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