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How do you study?

I have taken a break from playing online poker. I just study - its really fun with this course.

Do you guys choose 1 situation. Study that and focus on just on that while you play normally? Or how do you do it?

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bambi99333 4 years, 1 month ago

Hey Stockings,

I'm quite early into my studies of this course but use quite a heavy study/play approach.

My perfect day of study (which happens a lot less often than I would like) goes something like this:

  1. I go through an episode of the course making notes on the topic (currently working through the preflop episodes)

  2. I pick a topic from my notes and focus on just that for 3-4 days, currently I'm building out my RFI ranges. I am picking 1-2 categories of hands a day and working out the minimum hand I should be opening from each position, and composing a cheat sheet of these hands to aid me in spots I'm unsure of.

  3. I plan a play session of around 500 hands on two tables really focusing on the topic I have just studied. I have begun streaming my play sessions as this really really helps me focus, lose all distractions and even though the only people watching are 2 of my friends I am talking through every decision as I'm 'on camera' and it has significantly improved my play and decisions. I would start my session with a 30 minute warm up, using Random.org and ProPoker tools to test myself on my opening ranges which has really helped drill the ranges into my head. I then use the session as a live test, marking any hands I'm unsure of.

  4. Post session I do a hand review on the positions I'm focusing on for that day, usually around 90 hands total, and go through each hand making sure I made the correct decision to raise or fold, and if I did make a mistake really deep diving into the mistake to work out:
    a. Why was it a mistake
    b. Why did I make the mistake
    c. From this hand category what is the correct minimum hand I should be opening.
    d. Note down my conclusions.

    1. I would then Write in a play journal how the session went, any outcomes, and how confident I am in that topic, asking myself if it needs more work or I am confident to move on to the next topic.

This thorough approach has really helped me drill these topics into my head and I am already seeing success over 10k hands. I'd recommend testing out your study in a very focus heavy session at the very lowest stakes as for me it has really helped put the lessons into practice and see the positive effect good focus and good discipline has had on my game which is boosting my morale to stick at the study, something I have really struggled with in the past.

zagarese 3 years, 11 months ago

I study in a very similar way to this but I also, where appropriate, build a google sheet on the numbers on the lesson.

For example, with cold calling in position I looked at the gto baseline as taught, compared it to my actual historical record and found two extremes:

I have called 7.15% MP vs EP which is way more than the GTO baseline of 4%. The sample size is not great but drilling down into the actual hands I've found a lot of QQxx that I should have been folding and a few other things. That becomes a heuristic for me to fold QQxx more often when it's marginal in that spot.

I'm also intending to build a HUD for each lesson and then do a focus session using only that HUD. I haven't tried this yet but I think it might be valuable.

For example, for Cold Calling in position, in that video at minute 13:34 I would build a HUD that shows only RFI by position and VPIP. No 3bet data, etc.

ENEMYfu 4 years ago

Thanks so much for your insights bambi99333

Would you be interested in studying together? I'm starting with the Preflop section aswell, I'd like to share thoughts ideas with you guys :)

bambi99333 4 years ago

Hey ENEMYfu Yea I'd be interested in that, I need some motivation at the minute to get studying, been slacking recently, hit me up on discord. Bambi99333#6870

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