There are a lot of poker axioms, and they generally have interesting corollaries. The title of this post is my latest poker axiom, illustrated by my results in last night's session. I wasn't able to raise a single time, and missed the money by a country mile. Here's the corollary:
You can't win by raising for no good reason.
Since I had no good reason to raise last night, I didn't. Since I didn't raise, I didn't make the money. Conclusion: I played as well as the cards would allow me to.
Just for fun, I scraped my poker data for other MTT NLHE tournaments where I was unable to raise a single time. Here are the numbers:
125 total number of no raise tournaments
18 total number of no raise tournaments where I made the money
style flavor buy_in entry players hands entries paid place winnings
MTT NLHE 174000 26000 6 65 75 21 38 0
delta: $-200,000
MTT NLHE balance: $4,486,668
2019 balance: $19,395,150
balance: $65,979,410
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You are only playing half the game if you never bluff. There's an axiom for ya
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