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The mantra says one thing. The database says another.

Every post starts with a piece of table wisdom — a habit, a rule of thumb, a thing your coach said once — then runs it against real hand history to see if it survives contact with the data.

I Checked Whether I Actually 'Claim the Orphaned Pots' — The Data Said Something Different

August 23, 2026

I ran my own hand database against the poker mantra 'claim the orphaned pots' and found the wins were coming from a different skill than I thought.

The mantra says one thing. The database says another.

I Checked Whether I Actually 'Claim the Orphaned Pots' — The Data Said Something Different