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Math is definitely an important part of the decision making process in each move we make in poker; esp starting hands, pot odds and chances of cards showing up on the board. Without a basic understanding of odds I doubt you can ever become a break even player let alone a winning player.

But as others said, instinct is important too because sometimes an opponent will not care about odds (which you want to exploit) or they will exploit you by betting based on the board to try to deceive you (by denying your draws with big bets or by repping big made draws against what they think you hold).

Implied odds often comes up when considering instinct and while we can debate the validity of implied odds for days, i think as they say "it depends." If I think my opponent will make a call or pay me off more times than not when I hit a strong hand on turn or river with slightly less than pot odds, I'll often go with it and take the stacks. But of course again it depends and I think implied odds and instinct should not take too much importance over the realities of basic odds and math.
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