Quote Originally Posted by oskar
The only purpose of those graphs is to put you on tilt. And they don't say much. They don't tell you how many times you got a set vs. overpair instead of the other way around, or if you made a -EV call before the money went in and sucked out.

[insert generic poker wisdom here]
Well, I need to do some more research on these graphs- but my first thought is that I disagree with you.

1. The number of times you get set under set, AA lose versus KK etc, evens out in the long run. That is why these graphs probably do not mean as much with small sample sizes. But with 50K hands it should even out pretty much.

If u lose with AA versus KK when all money went into pot preflop:

EDIT: OOPS

Pot: 200 USD, E: 80%, EV: 80 USD

If we have this situation occurring thousands of times our profit will get close to 80 USD on average.

2. The same concept is true for EV- decisions. Over a large sample size they will prove unprofitable.

My point is that short term variance does not negate the meaning of these graphs and that the more hands we play the more they mean to us.