Hello Cardschat,

First post ever. I am a 24 year old looking to start improving at poker. I have heard of expected value, watched videos, and even read a stareter guide about it but I still can't wrap my head around it.

How do you factor in the profit->odds ratio into your gameplay? I have heard of players going entirely off of expected value. I guess this is similar to RoI in business?

If there was some kind of exercise list that I could review step-by-step, or if a poster was willing to sit and continually answer my endless follow-up questions.. I would really aprpeciate it.

Go to the upswing lab site also bectpokercoaching.com site and read some about it they have charts on how to play +ev and what to play and what seat to play it from and under what conditions such as first in pot or calling c-bet and such. you'll learn a lot if you got to either site and take the time to look at their free content. Take the time to brose there free sections.