Hello everyone.
I'm not really good at math, and it's not at my age that I want to get back into it.
So, without math can we hope to achieve some good results in poker ?
Basic poker math is simple! And essential!!
If you want to become a decent Tournament player for example, how can we hope to be doing our best when we will be put in spots where we won't even know if the situation has a positive expectation for us to be making a call?
imo, you need to learn basic poker math... AND then you need to practise it. One way is by marking 'trouble' hands you had & then running calcs in something like Pokerstove until it becomes automatic in your head.
Then.... you'll want to add ICM into your calculations.
ie. in a tournament you open raise 2.3bb's in EP off a 28bb stack with AJs... MP (a tight player on 16bb's shoves allin). It's folded back to you... Do you call? or fold?? (just from a + or -cEV perspective... not including ICM considersations)
What range do we put Villain on?
What hand do we need to make the call?
Now think of the gazillion different scenarios that you could (can) run (not just +cEV spots where we're calling off vs. allins). And the work begins (IF we want to get GOOD).
I'm sure there's some articles on CC regarding basic poker math. Try them out.