How can we develop an Consistent decision process?
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How can we develop an Consistent decision process?
Hey guys, how are you?
How can we develop consistency in our routine of grind?
How exactly can we astonish ourselves with a solid approach that allows us to enjoy the routine of playing (being more and more stable/confident) and at the same time allow us to make great decisions?
I was hearing an interview of Cal Newport in a course called The Finisher's Formula (if you are like me who has the same chronic starting disease, haha, I strongly recommend the course) and the main thesis was that if you're doing a shallow work you won't be able to bring huge value to the world.
This thesis made me rethink my approach while I'm grind online MTTs and I recognize that, inspite the fact that I know a lot of strategy, I don't have a solid decision system.
So, I've started developing my decision making process and on the meanwhile a clear light of idea came through my head and I believe that it is the gateway to the consistency and, therefore, to great future results.
As every light is composed electromagnetic waves that one who came through me was made by eletrorobbinsmagnetic waves (haha).
Let me explain: tony always argue that if someone has better results than you is because the difference between your avaliation system and theirs.
So, what if we share our decision process and build an abundant, superior and consistent decision process?
What if a simple change in the sequence of the questions that we ask ourselves change dramatically the quality of our decisions?
What if during the process of sharing the structure of our behavior we transcend them into a greater version?
Based on that vision I invite you to dig deep and dare to know your best response to 3 questions:
When you're analyzing a situation on sitX what's important to you?
What you need to know to feel satisfied and make the betting decision (bet, check, fold, raise or call) on sitX?
Supposing that you're going to holidays and your friend will substitute you on the grind, if you have to draw a checklist/script that allow him make consistent decisions, how the script to play on sitX look likes?
*When: sitX is situation X. Here's a menu that make sense to me: open raise, facing oR, OTF as PFA and OTF as PFC *
I love a quote from Buddha that say "in the end only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of things that don't meant to you" and I dare to include a fourth element: how much you act on your dream, because "people are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.” (George B. Shaw)
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I think that, to answer your question, you have to start with the macro and work your way to the micro. In other words, what is the goal of your decision making process? The goal is to arrive at the most profitable play possible or in other words to maximize EV. What do you need to know that? You need to have a vision of your opponent's range at different decision points and you also need to have a basic understanding of equity. Then you break it down even further. Being able to narrow down villain's range is a function of what? There are many clues, many subtleties, many variables that give us insight into villain's range: his overall strategy, bet size, texture, game flow/past hands, our perceived image, etc. Or you can use heuristics to help you decide. What does the population do in this spot? Things like that. The thing is, there are so any variables to integrate that trying to devise a systematic approach in-game may stunt your intuition and cause you to miss some of those subtleties. I've tried to make a mental blueprint to use during my sessions and while it did help me to focus on those particular things, it induced a rigidity that led to me missing more pertinent info. I think the way to do it is integrate certain things to your decision-making process when you review your sessions by building repetition and that should help you incorporate those things into your intuitive process while playing. Its just like shooting a basketball. You work on thinking about the details when you practice but in the game you just let it fly. If you try to think your way through every motion you'll always be one thought away from the moment.
Hey Pitsquared. I appreciate your thinking about that.
Two questions have arrived and the dare to fill the initial intention had passed though one question: how specifically can we do that?
1) Based on your experience as a poker player, if you have to advice your younger self (yourself when start taking the game seriously) how exactly should you work to develop a vision of your opponent's range at different decision points?
2) Which are the major mistakes around the proccess of assigning ranges to your opponents, when we're doing that in and off-game?
They at first could look dumb, but I ask you to look them closer because thel when you do that they'll enrich our talk.
The reason I say that is: based on the initial question of the thread and picking and thinking about your question I've asked myself: how can we go around and beyond that?
Let me explain: have you ever heard a concept called holon? It's a concept that explain the function of something when something is at the same time the part and the whole.
I think the way to think it dialectically is the apth of dig deep into the parts and then come back to the whole to finally develop a solid answer to the thread.
Thank you for giving the time to develop your answer.
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