Originally Posted by regnis View Post
Skip the double talk. What can I do with the accumulated EV. My odds of winning the next hand haven't changed at all. So what can I do with it? What good is it? Or does it just mean I played a lot of hands? I played a lot of hands so I accumulated a lot of EV. OK---now what? What do I do with it? How does it help me on the next hand or the 10,000th hand to come? That is what I don't understand. The fact that you lost $8,000 or won $8,000 doesn't matter to me. I understand there are wins and losses. But tell me what I can do with that accumulated EV.
I think an example of "using accumulated EV" from the casino's point of view would be when they are establishing player comps based on play and the player's theoretical loss.

From a player's perspective?

I suppose after tracking a sufficiently large number of sessions and the "EV accumulated", one could compare it to their actual results and perhaps make a determination if one indeed DOES have a +EV situation.

The only other use I can see for it is to comfort yourself when you run below expectation or suffer a bad beat.