Beginner Limit Hold'em : No Money Headsup Everybodys hehe (March LC/NC

allstarrt: "the reason we post on the forums in not to validate our past plays but rather to help us with our future. Thats why when you are posting a hh do not ask how did I play this hand. Ask how should I play this hand in all its combinations and permuatations. Change hand histories. Change the villain. Ask questions in a big picture sense rather than keeping it to a specific player".

I look at it this way. There's one big question, "how should i play all hands for all types of poker". But that question is too broad to be answered. So we post a hand history. This limits the question down to a certain hand on a certain board texture. It makes it a much easier question to frame and you are more likely to get responses.

You might feel this question is also too broad. So perhaps you give reads and ask for your play against an opponent with that read. Perhaps you give history too and HUD stats to further that read. Or perhaps you give no reads but ask for responders' "standard line". This all goes towards narrowing the question. The responses will have less use in extrapolating in future situations, but it also increases the likelihood of getting specific and accurate responses because the question range is narrow, the game tree is perhaps short enough to give an exact mathematical answer if we make assumptions of villain ranges. I wouldn't just say this is "validating your own play". The answer will have less use but you may learn a certain new way of looking at the situation, or calculating the answer, and be able to apply that in a broader sense.

And every hand history can be widened. You could ask "how do you play on certain turns". Or "how does my range of hands play here". Or "how do you play based on different opponent reads". Or "how do you play vs a different stack size". Or "how do you play if villain had checkraised the flop".

All these questions broaden the field of answers. Responses have the potential for improving your game much more than a narrower question, but if you pose the question as too broad, you may not get any responses.

Yes I agree but the reason for making the post is I see a general trend where people are just for validation rather than information. I am not saying this is the fact with you or any specific posters(I think you understand that you are a good poster) but as some of the responses have said in the past the community as a whole could do a whole lot better. We are trying to get better as players so we should be asking the questions to make us better.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18/high-stakes-limit/super-standard-river-tree-right-731896/

This imo is a perfect example. The hand does not make him a better poker player he just wants validation for his play after losing the hands.

But the original point of my post was I think people should be asking questions that make the hand in question apply to a broader range of hands. Yes specifics help out a ton but only when we are extrapolating it to other situations