"One Hand Per Thread"

F Paulsson

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I don't mean to be stepping on anyone's toes, but I really, really prefer if we can keep the hand analysis threads to one hand per new thread. I understand that it's convenient to get all the hands from a session and throw them into the same post, but it has two distinct disadvantages:

It's more cumbersome to read and respond to and it discourages discussion.

Discourages discussion? Yes. Because if you post just one hand, then in the case where that hand illustrates an interesting problem, you often get widespread discussion about that concept. If you post 10 hands, and one of them happen to have an interesting problem, you're much less likely to get to dive deep into it, because less people are likely to notice it first of all, and secondly posting deeper analysis of one hand out of ten feels a little bit like hijacking the thread.
 
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Well, no. Adding a second hand farther into the thread for clarification or comparison is fine (it's better than fine - it's awesome). What I think spoils it is when you see "how did I do?" and then someone posts seven completely unrelated hand histories in the first post.
 
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Or, er. It depends on what you mean by "like this." If you meant that those are good examples of what you should do, then yes, like that. If you meant that those would be examples of what NOT to do, then no. :)
 
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Yeah, some threads have a whole sit n go hand history posted and it's very exhausting to read, let alone analyze.
 
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