EDIT: link fixed

Hi all,

I mostly post in the short handed forum. You may know me from abstract blog posts. You may know me as the guy who I can never make any sense out of.

This concerns me. There is no reason why a new player shouldn't be able to understand the content of my writing. But many of them don't, even though my writing could be 10,000% more beneficial to your game than any single piece of advice.

The knowledge I write can easily be dismissed under the guise of "Advanced Strategy." This issue is that this isn't advanced strategy at all. It is moreso the simplest and the most encompassing concepts in poker, and by knowing them you can unlock, all by yourself, the secrets of poker profit.

Yet many still don't understand. There are a few reasons for this. One is your learning philosophy. This concept I like to call the backwards learning theory of poker. It's the idea that people think that they first need to learn the facts before the theory. In economics, this is like a teacher telling you to memorize 100 economics terms without telling you their actual meaning. But if he actually explained how economics worked, and the concepts behind these ideas, you could learn these terms without memorization. Same with poker. People think that they need to learn whether to raise AA preflop UTG before they learn how to form a range, because forming a range is an advanced concept and a decision is a simple concept. This is backwards. Decisions are built on a plethora of concepts, and without knowing these concepts, you cannot come to a correct decision. Furthermore, when you are told an incorrect decision, you have no ability to correct your error nor do you have the ability to learn about different decisions based on that decision. It is likely then, that a player would be better of leaning how to beat an 1000NL game before he learns how to beat a 2nl game.

I have wrote this same rant in my blog in different words: http://www.flopturnriver.com/blogs/w...sf-theorem-249

Below is a post that talks about one of the most fundamental concepts in poker.

http://archives2.twoplustwo.com/show...fpart=all&vc=1

Read it as long as it takes to understand it.

Now think.

-Danny Steinberg