The 80/20
Posted by Chris Pimmer
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Thanks! Gonna start setting an alarm for my sessions and taking breaks when alarm go off. Get some fresh air for 10 minutes or so every couple hours. Do some stretching or breathing techniques during my breaks.
What do you think about studying before your session vs after your session or a different time of the day? Usually i'll watch a video every morning, but feel a lot of my sessions start off with being stuck. I am not sure what is causing this. Not sure if i'm losing energy from studying and maybe not as focused when my session starts. However, I always viewed study as a warm up for my session.
Thank you for the comment RunItTw1ce ,
I'd say, experiment with studying before or after and see what works better for you.
And don't make your losing in the beginning of a session out to you having studied or not... There is a lot of variance in poker. It is possible that in the beginning of a session you are maybe rusty and making plays you should not make. You could see if that is true, but reviewing starts of sessions of yours and compare.
Overall, if you are shooting for volume, maybe keep the study before a session small and short or potentially leave it out completely, so long as you are ready to play, either by warming up or by living a certain way and already being in the zone all the time (not too many are like that thought). If you are looking for improving as your main area, then maybe you will want to do some study then play and then study again or get 1 long study in and put play either before or after.
You could try and watch the video after and maybe just go into a few notes you take either on players or on what you want to learn and then see if that helps you get your mind ready to play. A warm up is really not so much about doing something very exact that everyone has to do the same way... it is about getting your mind ready to think poker.
I got a video about warm ups, if you are looking for some ideas about and around that.
Hope this helps
Great video Chris.
How to identify those 20% which give us 80% of something. If we get for example studies, pretty sure 80% of study time is not impactful or ''that useful'.
Sometimes I browse PIO and get idea(aha monent) after looking solution, sometimes don't at all. That sentence just to illustrate even if I'm aware that those percentage existing will still struggle to use them. It is not clear that some kind of studies will boost me much further than others (except high price material or pretty high efforts ones)
Whats your thoughts?
Hey Jeff,
thanks a lot ! When you study, make it count. As you said, there are different types of study, but usually you want to struggle a little and use your brain.
Some things require reps and slightly less effort, but in general, it is better to do a shorter amount of high level study than long periods of just browsing.
When you do PIO for example, as why really often and try to identify things you think either others don't do well or that maybe even you are missing. Run not just 1 sim for 1 hand, run 3-5 with slightly adjusted ranges, maybe adjusted pot sizes, look at more extreme examples, like what if buddy ONLY has XY and never AB.... give them completely different ranges and compare what changes.
Just a few ideas. Let me know if it was helpful
Great video Chris! Thx a lot
You are welcome and thanks for letting me know Nakamator !!
Very much appreciated
great video chris thank you
i think, having my phone charging right beside my computed is a distraction in that im losing focus, im pretty good when i play live not checking it so often, but i think having it away from me while i play is a really good and should help me keep focused while i play
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