Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by Bill Yung View Post
Didn't poker player David Sklansky write if you lose then you weren't playing optimally?.
No, he wrote that if you aren't taking a lot of variance, both positive and negative, you aren't playing optimally.
I believe it was in his relatively short, thirty pages or so, soft cover book on Razz poker, but he may have mentioned it in others. And that he meant it strictly in the context of actually knowing the others' cards. How ones strategy ultimately differs from that. To play perfect poker would be to know the others' cards. Ie, optimal strategy. Sort of like "running through the finish line". Trying to do the impossible.