Learning to study poker for a maniac clown fish
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Learning to study poker for a maniac clown fish
So I'm making this post because I'd appreciate suggestions and criticism. I'm trying to improve while playing and not just multi-table and try to take the fishes money while auto piloting. I saw a training video that was talking about how making a higher racio for studying will improve my poker schema and I won't fall into the cycle of just playing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 369 and then watching a training video once in a while. I have spent some time reading different books and looking into the style that I want to play and I am open to whatever is going to make me the most money. I don't know if I want to learn a GTO approach or exploitative. I basically just want to get the $$$ so I can get some attractive women who want to get jiggy.
Recently I saw a post that said:
"The top guys (whether dwan is included or not), are just better at defining villain's ranges, understanding what their own range looks like, counting combo's, have a better idea of what villain will call/fold/raise in each spot, are better at estimating how well each range hits certain flops/turn/rivers. They are also more confident in their game which allows them to make what seem crazy bluffs/calldowns etc...
They're better at adjusting vs different strategies, and do this more in depth than your average guy. Rather than thinking "This guy 3b 25% in SB vs BTN, So i need to 4b bluff more and open less OTB", they think "A 25% 3b range looks like XYZ, Therefore I should play B part of my range this way, and C part of my range that way, on different flops/turns/rivers, because a 25% range hits this flop that well etc..." They also take more into account how the fact that he 3b's 25% changes his flatting range, which in turn makes them more aware of how often they have nutted hands/air on certain board textures etc...
These are all things that everyone does, they just do everything better. There isn't some secret thing these guys do that others don't, they are just a little bit better than everyone.
Guys like Sauce, Kanu and Ike who take a more GTO approach, are just better at knowing how wide of a % of their range they have to defend/bet/raise/call/fold etc... in different spots and different board textures. They work a ton off the tables to construct ranges in different spots.
Again, that's something that a lot of people do, they just do it a lot better.
Bottom line is, they work harder than other people."
When i read that, I was like damn son, well i have all the time in the world and I am just trying to move up and improve and think about hands logically better then the other 25nl guys. One of my big questions is how do these top bros start from the bottom and look at ranges? What sort of studying do you do? What sort of studying do the other people in the mid stakes do and how can I improve my game. I feel that these questions are pretty general but hopefully someone has some advise.Also I started to sit down with flopzilla and just type in peoples flatting ranges and see how their ranges interact w/ board textures when I'm trying to continuation bet and I'm doing that for many different ranges right now and I feel that it's taking a while because I"m just typing each section of their range out and looking at how much equity some bottom pairs have compared to other ones like a bottom pair w/ a gutter or whatever. I'm just trying to get paid to get laid.
Thanks much
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Hello, nobody answer, so I make some traffic for you.
I'm the same guy - try to make it better on NL25 - and I popped up the same question as you.
I always got similar answers:
- watching videos every day (somebody told me, Phil Galfond watches every video on this site)
- posting hand histories every day
- I always mining my database
- I always thinking about poker.
I am convinced that if I do this I will be better. Sure.
So now I believe in a mix about 4 thing, and do it every weak, and I check what I done on sunday:
- watch 2 videos every weak / make notes
- post minimum once on RIO
- every morning I mine my a database by a coffee
- I write my most important thoughts, ideas, statistic in a Google spreadsheet, and I regularly review it.
I hope I helped to you.
Best regards, GL: T79
What makes a long term winner is not reading villains hands perfectly at any given time and pinpoint exactly what they have and making the right move 100% of the time.
Its much more about discipline, making the same "boring" laydowns over and over again, tilt resistence and accumulating a high volume while still be relaxed and have a good gambling-life balance.
Poker is about making better decisions than the other players and the ones who are able to do that will end up winning eventually.
f**k bitches
get money
lmao
I think this is the million dollar question. Poker is such an abstract game, which is why it's so hard to figure out for so many people.
Study and try to improve one concept or leak at the time, if you try to fix to much leaks at the same time you will f* up your game most of the time.
Remember, if you want to win and play seriously you should get your daily dosis of action and adrenaline elsewhere. Poker seems so exciting and rushing at times but actually most of it is anticlimactic.
Really interesting point and I kind I agree. The problem is that it's kind of hard to get the dosis of action and adrenaline if you're living somewhat standard life in today's society, I think.
What suggestions of things to do to get these daily dosis of action and adrenaline?
For me it is doing heavy lifting and practicing martial arts, in my case it is Muay Thay.
I can only speak for myself, but i've been between September 2014 and the end of January without training, due to a muscular rupture, and it really afected me on poker, because i could not get relief from stress as easy.
For you it might be something else, like playing action video games or something like that, it varies a lot from person to person
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