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 Originally Posted by Weissr
I heard "Poker Math That Matters - By Owen Gaines" is a pretty solid book for learning the math. I have it but haven't got around to reading it yet. I hear ya on percentages seeming to be easier, but I think you need to learn to use odds which will end up being easier to use on-the-fly in the end. Congrats on the wins so far.
I'd rather watch a bunch of videos and take notes while watching and pausing them and stuff rather than read a book and take notes tbh. I feel like it's more like I'm attending a class that way and I think I'll learn better that way. There's a video series called ''mathematics of NL Hold'em'' that I intend to watch intensely and take notes throughout once I'm done watching ''the blueprint'', ''what would tommy do'', and ''the eightfold path to enlightment'' video series. I wanna watch the general poker philosophy and dedication and stories of how people got to the top because I think that's the easiest and fastest thing to learn and get under control as well as to set general realistic expectations and realize it's not all glamour for those guys who got to the top and realize just how hard they worked to get there etc. If I get more serious about poker and start playing more hours and stuff in the future I don't see any reason why I should ever get tilted and that I should be able to completely control it eventually. Whilst math and other things are more technical and I think before I get technical I just need to make sure to have a good plan of attack as I already mentioned earlier and although I obviously want to improve my theorycraft and technical side of poker and maths and all I obviously need to make sure I got the basics down first.
Before I start watching the mathematics of poker videos (that I'm hoping will not only be general math of poker but also some slightly intermediate or more advanced maths) I'm making sure to memorize odds and get used to using them as opposed to percentages etc.
Here's an example of my pot odds chart lol, I know it's super basic, but I think it's important if I know most of the important odds by heart, still learning a lot of the very elementary math of this game through other poker sites and forums that show odd and basic math and taking notes of those too.
Originally Posted by jaxpaboo
Don't see how hand #2 would tilt you. You should never get mad if another player plays his hand bad. That is the whole point in poker, you want to have the player play bad. Make the right decisions and win or lose in a hand, you are a winner long term.
Hand #3 is standard. Villian played the flop really weird. I like your check three handed on flop last to act to induce bluffs on turn.
I think hand 2 just tilted me in a different way. I mean it didn't make me mad or anything but it sure surprised me at how someone can be so bad. I haven't really been super tilted as of yet even when i've gotten bad beat and stuff like that so I think I'm managing my tilt issues pretty well in general.
Anyways, as I said, I had an extra session last night, it lasted 4 hours until 1 AM lol and today I played 3 hours. Quite mentally exhausted right now lol. All I've been doing this saturday/sunday is pretty much playing and studying poker (and I managed to read 2 chapters for school in between somehow lol). I'm up another $60, bankroll is now almost $500 which is double what I started with last week... Wow that's kind of fast lol. I definitely ran well at 10NL but at 16NL I think I've just been playing solid poker and not gone on a heater or anything (my winrate at 10NL is like double that of 16NL lol). Averaging 40 PTBB/100! But the way things are going I may be able to make it to 25NL in the next 2 weeks! Hopefully by then I'll be done watching the inspirational stories/tilt issue and general poker and life balance vids and can get started watching some theory videos and poker math that I think can bring me to the next level and hopefully let me keep crushing the stakes!
I'll stick to 2 hours max during the weekdays but I think Fri-Sun I may add some time into poker and poker study since I got a lot of extra time during the weekends.
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