In Jack Sawyer's OP, he quoted Patrik Antonius as saying:

Quote Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
Antonius:

"No one has ever taught me a single thing about poker. I have never read a book of poker, not a single page. I never got a lesson from anyone. So its very good way to figure out yourself how to play, cuz then you have to use your own ... imagination and think all the situations through and what would be the best options and you'd have to learn from your mistakes ... when you do mistakes you try to remember those to not make the same mistakes again.
Basically, I enjoy playing high stakes poker or any kind of poker where I play with people I have played a lot before, cause I have long history with them and I have my piece of mind there."

But his wiki page says he was mentored. Whatever, he's obviously my new hero.
I responded with this: this quote from High Stakes Poker was wild. It blew my mind. I'm doing all this work and here, Antonius, didn't do a damn thing (of course he practiced). It's rather interesting. Does this mean PokerStove, HEM, and studying is overrated as compared to practice, practice, practice? Who knows? But maybe I'll start something in the BC and see what everyone else thinks. Nice post.

I then went on to comment about the slammin' hottie as Jack Sawyer's icon. But seriously, what does everybody think about this? Do we kill ourselves with studying, ranges, books, and PokerStove when practicing is the real key? I'm not taking any sides (yet)...just wanted to start a good (non-technical) discussion.