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[QUOTE="PhilGalfond, post: 4782059, member: 360431"]
Awesome to be here :)

I think that basic math knowledge and proficiency is very important, but anything beyond that isn't all that relevant if you have other skills you can lean on.

Being very logical, which is often correlated with strong math skills, is definitely more important.

These days, with all of the learning tools out there, plenty of different types of minds can get good at poker through different means.

As for how much I rely on math when I play:  I do actual math very rarely, but I rely heavily on very rough approximations.  Examples are things like: how much more often will he have a missed draw in this spot than the hands he's representing, how often would he have played each hand type differently on each of the previous streets, and how likely is he to play each hand type this way now?

That would be an impossible calculation to make in one's head, but I get a sense of whether the numbers are large or small, and a sense of how the different frequencies affect each other (multiplication), to reach conclusions that are hopefully somewhere in the ballpark of the true answers.
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