Thin value article I read, lets discuss

I read this article and im unsure what I think about it.
http://www.notedpokerauthority.com/a...hin-value.html
I understand what hes trying to say im just stuck on how this scenario would equate with winning poker. Im the one leaving the confused comments at the end of the article. Just wanted to see what others thought . His final reply to me so far is a good point, just begs the question if you should be playing this differently altogher. Its almost like hes describing how to make unprofitable play a little less unprofitable.

This is what we're looking at?


The point in his last comment is that on the river your options are calling or folding and calling is more proffitable than folding. $180 to win $580, if you're ahead about 25% of the time then calling is more proffitable than folding.


What you're looking at is all of the money you've invested throughout the hand. However that money is already in the pot, it's gone, it's not yours anymore, forget about it.


In this hand the money invested before the river call was invested because at the time it was presumably proffitable to do so.


Consider if you've got AK pre-flop, 3bet to 12bb and get called. You put the money in because it's highly +EV to do so, you're ahead of a lot of hands, you've got the benefit of card removal against AA/KK, you've got fold equity.
But you miss the flop, and cbet 16bb into 24bb, you're not still thinking about the 12bb you invested pre-flop, most of the equity you had then has dissapeared this time (they didn't fold and you didn't hit the flop) but it was still proffitable. That money is lost now, but the decision will in the long term prove proffitable. Now you're only betting 16bb, hoping to win 24bb.

I hope that maybe made it a bit more clear..

Just consider any money that you put into the pot before showdown to be lost by the next street, gone, dissapeared. You invested it to improve your equity in the hand in one way or another (fold equity, improving implied odds or just because you think you have the best hand, whatever).