too much time is spent thinking crap, too little time playing instead.


people do not understand the type of beast poker is. they seem to think that you can somehow miraculously start winning every pot every time, and all of a sudden get like 100 bb/100 over a 100,000 hand sample, and be like davinci or picasso or tiger woods or roger federer, only instead on a poker table.

this is wrong, misguided, and flat out laughable thinking.

all there really is to poker is keep getting your money in good, figuring out when others are full of shit, how to win the pot, knowing who to avoid etc.

stop thinking about "being more original and creative than the next guy, i'm the next Phil Ivey, i'm god's gift to poker, i have devised the perfect strategy, nobody will ever beat me" etc etc. while its a fun thing to do, and wishful thinking, but you are only wasting cycles.