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My Training

djberckd
djberck
edited March 2018 in APT Questions

I just did a session of 100 hands where I was dealt "small pocket pairs" only. Preflop, I followed the advice of the advisor exclusively. Despite this, my report said I only did better than 4% of players.

How is this possible?

Thanks.

Comments

  • AllenBlay
    AllenBlay

    In sessions with a pre-determined type of hand, those numbers are meaningless because they compare against all sessions. I would expect small pocket pairs to be more difficult to play on average. Further, the advisors are computers, so using the advice of the advisors is just computer vs computer. So it falls down to a comparison of hands (and small pocket pairs are not great hands relative to most playable hands). Ratings, IQ scores, etc. are only useful in very long sessions of random hands - other than that they are entirely for fun and we only have them there because a bunch of people find them fun and asked us to put them there even though they really don't mean anything in non-random hands sessions or small samples.

    Also, I strongly recommend against using the advice of the advisor when you are training - that will make your training plans based on the advisor instead of based on your play. The advisor should be used as something to think about, but always do what you were planning to do because that will give you a much more accurate training plan.

    There are a bunch of other threads in the forum that talk more about the advisors, IQ scores, etc. If you are curious, look around in this specific forum (APT Questions) and you'll find some.

    Thanks for the question.

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