Clearly not all pots have the same value but any poker player already knows this going forward. Quite often you will be involved in pots where opponents are simply not going to make mistakes or they are not going to make mistakes all that often. In games where the skill level of your opponents are different then you need to be aware that your opponents are going to offer you value in different ways.
The money that you make in a poker game does not all come from the same sources or the same players. So the money that you make against the weaker players will essentially be your profit so to speak. This means that there is a strange quirk of strategy at work here because you need to be aware of where your profits are coming from in poker. They essentially come from weaker players but it is these weaker players who you develop your strategy around.
This is no different to financial traders, sports bettors and blackjack players. The edges that come from the small counts and the smaller prices don’t’ really provide for all that much profit. But they do pay their way in terms of providing profits until the big pay day comes along. In this essence then it is no different to tournament poker in so much that you are treading water for a long time before the big result comes along. But to get the big result means handling variance and the wider the variance then the bigger the results are when they arrive.
