playing good theoretical poker is very complicated.
People spend thousands of hours trying to grasp it.
In a 100BB 6-max game in a single raised pot BTN vs loose player on Bb, who called your raise: is the J83r a good flop for a small bet? Maybe a bigger bet is the proper size?
This is a simple question that has often a correct answer and the question is different for each flop, for each preflop spot and potentially for different opponents.
Now once you have figured out betsizes on the flop - go figure out which actual hands you are supposed to bet. Hmm, you should play most hands with mixed strategy of check and bet, but with different probability distribution so that your distribution of good hands / bad hands on the future streets after called is right on a variety of turn cards.
You can spend all life mastering that part alone and we are talking only about the first decision on the flop in single raised pot.
Tldr; poker theory is not something easy and quick to master.
Definitely. And this isn't even bringing in what can be perceived as the "fuzzy math" of who has the range advantage, combinatorics, and consideration on how to proceed down the game tree on different streets (when the board changes texture).
There's certainly a part of me that wants to go thru this curriculum just to say that there's no way it could help someone to be better than an 'average player'.
Perhaps if the population on which the average is based is...the world?
People spend thousands of hours trying to grasp it.
In a 100BB 6-max game in a single raised pot BTN vs loose player on Bb, who called your raise: is the J83r a good flop for a small bet? Maybe a bigger bet is the proper size? This is a simple question that has often a correct answer and the question is different for each flop, for each preflop spot and potentially for different opponents.
Now once you have figured out betsizes on the flop - go figure out which actual hands you are supposed to bet. Hmm, you should play most hands with mixed strategy of check and bet, but with different probability distribution so that your distribution of good hands / bad hands on the future streets after called is right on a variety of turn cards.
You can spend all life mastering that part alone and we are talking only about the first decision on the flop in single raised pot.
Tldr; poker theory is not something easy and quick to master.