Quote Originally Posted by Jason View Post
I'm not advocating that you not work on your game. You should ALWAYS work on your game. I'm just not sure how you can do that from looking at your red line or blue line because of the complexity of what goes into it. I disagree that the blue line is as cut and dry as that. Your playing style and image has a big effect on that. You could consistently be hand reading and going for thin value and folding out worse hands and help your red line and hurt your blue line. You could have a very nitty image and people are folding sets to you so your blue line is awful. There's so much that goes into BOTH, not just the red line. My philosophy and what I advocate to others is to work on your game by analysis @ the tables, off the tables, studying, coaching, reviewing hand histories, and all those types of things and always trying to make the single best DECISION and let the stats and graphs fall wherever they may.
Obviously, all I am saying is that the only graphs I have ever seen (and i've seen quite a few) where the redline and blue line go in 100% opposite directions are those who are content to be minimally winning rakeback grinders. The only point I am trying to make is that in the long run, there is no reason to lose 80% of your profits to non-showdown if you are playing well. I can see losing maybe 30% or even up to 50% if you are a pretty nitty straight forward player, but having an unvarying redline that takes a path straight to the cellar and never deviates upwards undeniably shows that you are giving up value extremely often.

If you study, put in volume, and play well your redline WILL stop being such a steep downward trend. To put it in equation form.

y = mx+b would be a linear increase or a line that kind of resembles /
y = -mx+b is a linear decrease or a line that resembles \
obviously the larger that m is the steeper the slope of the line and the more optimally you play in the long run I think it is certainly possible to reduce the size of -m to make the slope of the redline much more gradual while still keeping the extreme upward trend of the blue line.