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>His study of more than a billion hands of online Texas Hold’em found that 85.2 percent of the hands were decided without a show of cards. In other words, play
by ronaldx 12y ago
>His study of more than a billion hands of online Texas Hold’em found that 85.2 percent of the hands were decided without a show of cards. In other words, players’ betting decisions were of overwhelming importance in determining the outcome.
It is worth noting that the other 14.8% of hands, where a showdown is reached, are typically the ones where (much) larger amounts of money are exchanged.
So, betting decisions might decide the outcome of a majority of hands, but it's unlikely this corresponds to a majority of the money flow.
- Sambdala 12y agoThis is a very complicated question, and while I understand why they would use that percentage figure, I think it confuses the issue if you look into it more deeply for exactly the reason you stated. It is true that most of the money changes in hands where you get farther in the hand because pots grow geometrically as you continue on in the hand. However, the importance of decisions becomes more important as well, and most of the edge a skilled player will have over a weaker player comes about from those larger pots based on decisions made later in the hand.