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Caw’s Law of Loose Hiring
“If choices are not clearly connected to their benefits,
people usually interact in ways that make outcomes
unpredictable. If choices are clearly connected to their
benefits, people sometimes act in ways that make
outcomes unpredictable.”
You see, your poker opponents are volatile beings. They can be impressionable, irritable, playful, capricious, and more. You don’t know when they’re going to short out, cross-circuit, or do the silliest or the most brilliant things. This goes for all poker players, from the weakest beginners to the most seasoned pros.
The deal is that even when opponents are playing a disciplined game of online poker, so many of their decisions are borderline that what they’re going to do is anybody’s guess. In the example hands, we not only ended up with a different group of main players, we ended up with a different winner. And we ended up with one pot almost $4,000 and one pot under $1,000. And it all makes perfect sense, when you think about it.
One more thing, just so I can really drive home the importance of Caro s Law of Loose Wiring. These were all the same players in the same environment feeling the same emotions up until the moment they acted! All I did was wipe the first pot from their memories and have them play it over again.
