Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree calls out the cop-out in poker players and others posting "Trust your gut" on the internet with a new video on BigThink.com advising to refer to logic instead.
"I think that's often the lazy way out when we're faced with a really tough decision in life," Boeree explained. "Our brains love to simplify... to do things in black and white, but we live in a really complex world and that's not always the best route to take."
Instead, Boeree calls on poker players to construct a mathematically optimal strategy for each situation, trusting the logical, "slow brain" — a.