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Scale of Open/Intermediaate Players

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Wednesday, 29 April 2009, at 10:47 p.m.

In Response To: Scale of Open/Intermediaate Players (Maik Stiebler)

Steering into positions that you know how to play well is part of your overall skill,

No argument there.

and positions with forced decisions are an extreme example of those.

This might be true if a play with a forced decision is a good thing, but many examples of forced decisions that come to mind generally are not a good thing: dancing, trashing your board with some gawdawful double fours, leaving double shots in bearoffs. When your decision is forced, you're entirely at the whim of the dice, which don't think about the quality of your position.

Rolling something for which there are many legal moves means (a) you're going to have a harder time finding the best move, since there are so many options, but (b) there is more likely to be a play that improves your equity from where you were.

So, your premise is true only if on average, rolling a number which has a forced decision improves your equity.

JLee

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