[Matty H]

I await a barrage of abuse for this thread, but that's kind of the point really. I am slightly playing devils advocate, although I do have a genuine query. Anyway:

I have to confess to being 'slightly' unsure as to the point of hand analysis threads as regards what you can take away from them to help your game.

With anyone hand you can post the statistics and analyze it to pieces, but the fact is you are unlikely to ever come across the hand again with the same betting patterns, the same type of players involved in the hand in the same table positions, the same chip stacks, the same blind levels etc etc etc, the list is endless. There are thousands of combined variables involved with every individual hand.
You then factor into it that everybody generally has a slightly different opinion of how you should or shouldn't have played the hand. Yet more variables.

All this adds up to me being throughly confused as to the point of analysing any one particular hand. I could understand analysis of a persons play over an entire tourney as you are taking a much broader scope of a persons play.

So given the thousands of variables involved in every hand you play and the fact that you will probably never find yourself in that exact situation again, and even if you do you probably wont remember what was discussed on here, and then add to that the confusion that everyone has their own opinion of how to play any particular hand, and you have to question what you can actually take away from these threads of any benefit???

Be gentle. I am somewhat hoping for a certain response here. Lets see if it occurs