Building a dream study plan
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Building a dream study plan
I realized I love poker and I wanted to be great so I committed myself to between 45-120 minutes a night of study in the evenings. But I want to study right, I don't want to be the guy at the YMCA shooting hoops all day, because at the end of the day he's still awful.
So what are the best ways to study? And I like to study/practice, so there really are no wrong ideas. Even when I was playing soccer, I preferred practice to playing because that's where my favourite art is: building your strategy and ability to showcase it when you later perform.
To be honest I ended up watching a lot of discussion training videos while taking notes, because it was so easy and fun. Since I was taking notes I still felt it was active enough to justify doing. I hadn't set any limitations on my schedule other than time, so I think I just never really tried my other ideas because I didn't already like them because I hadn't tried them long enough to like them. That logic sounds ridiculous out loud, but I think it's pretty common.
I'd love perspective of things to try while I build my dream study-style. Right now my vision looks something like this:
Assumption: I'm playing a lot of poker at the time so I'm not overloading the information before I get a chance to test it in the field
Tuesday: Training Video with notes
-emphasis on condensing the knowledge into a point I can review in my warmup and apply to my game to make my best even better OR a correction to one of my common mistakes.
Wednesday: Opponent analysis
- The player pool is getting pretty thin, and I see the same faces every day. It makes sense to spend the time to disect my opponets, and learn to destroy them.
-Right now I just filter through the hands that go to showdown, specifically vs regs of similar playstyles to mine, run through them with general notes, look for common themes and try to understand what he's thinking. Make sure I put this into note form I can quickly and accurately adapt my play with.
-I would love further insight into how to breakdown an opponent and analyze them.
Thursday: Live Sweat Session/Sweat recording/Commentating a done sweat
-To gain new perspectives from my own, and other insights. Basically to find out stuff I don't even know I don't know.
Friday: HH Reviews with extensive poker stoving
-Become comfortable with how equities are affected by different variables, and practice developing accurate range construction based on my reads of the situation.
Saturday: Card Runners EV work
-Haven't used this yet, but it seems like a really powerful tool for understanding how altering one part of your range affects the rest and get a general idea of the overall situation.
-Seems like a generally bad ass tool to have some skill in.
Sunday: Free-Choice
NOTE: Monday is my regular holiday but can swap out for any other day if there's a daytime event that week
A good post I read on study options http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/101/coaching-advice/systematic-training-drills-nlhe-1107105/
Other possible ideas to develop:
The hand reading game from the above post
Driling pokerstove/math based stuff
Discussion of general theory groups - maybe pick a particular topic in advance and just develop the idea ie. building your opening range reactive to the table, what to look for and how much weight to give to what etc.
Forum time: Right I just do it that when I've got some time, or I'm just particularly into it (this is the first forum I've felt that way about 4 years into poker)
Really looking forward to hearing how people got good, or better yet great!
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I will not go into detail of what kind of activities you can do, but how to approach all activities. Firstly, you have dedicated yourself a time frame, kind of like a work routine. This shouldn't be work, allot of people don't study hard at school, because they feel like they need to be there. You don't need to be here, and you have to remind yourself of that everyday, every second that you study you are missing out on play time and play time = money.
Obviously you sound like a very good learner, and also poker player (at least going to be) if you follow the outlines that you have done above.
Sometime its easier todo these things with another person, I know personally I have a few groups where allot of us are all getting together quiet regularly and discussing things, not always about poker. but its productive every time we open our mouths. Kind of like a focus group.
Obviously as said before I can't tell you what to learn, because I don't know you well enough to be able to decide what you need to learn. But a way to learn more and more information and be able to store that information is allot todo with diet, and nutrition and the general health of your body. Make your body fit, and your mind will follow. Poker players are very drained when you are constantly put under pressure in tough spots all the time, and you need to be mentally fit to keep up your A game all the time.
Do some memory tests, things completely not todo with poker, that will adapt your brain alittle. Get out your comfort zone, go for a jog, play a sport, (you said you play football (to you, 'soccer')) So I'm guessing you are pretty fit already. So this is a great starting platform.
One thing I like todo is sit infront of your previous session, get 3 hands that were misplayed, or needed replaying. Take them all in, and then go for a 20/30minute jog, on that jog focus purely on the hands.. 10minutes on each. Do every possible street/action you could of done, and then come back to the computer after the run and see how you would now play the hand. The fact that you have nothing else to focus on apart from those hands, means you think about them allot more. Start with 1 hand if memory isnt great, or if you are unfit, or if you just want to develop that hand allot more..
To add onto that previous idea, write down what you did at the time, what you would do different, then come back and write down what you thought of. Remember even the most fishiest line may be the best for a certain spot.
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