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Originally Posted by StarGrinder
Also, let me offer a few suggestions when posting hands so you can get the most out of it. Along with HH, go ahead provide any stats you have on villain along with any reads. If you have PT4 or HEM2, you can use Gyazo to screenshot the entire table with HUDs to save time. In addition to that, you should really try asking at least one specific question about the hand, if not more. Then, tell us what YOU think the answer(s) is/are. It doesn't matter how right or wrong you are. Doing this will spark more relevant discussion, and more importantly, get you to start thinking deeply about your own game.
This is learning aka science.
You accelerate your rate of understanding when you formulate hypotheses.
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Here's an important observation about learning.
Being right and being wrong feel the same. You are probably right about a bunch of stuff you think and wrong about a bunch of stuff you think. Broadly, we all know this about ourselves. Specifically, though... what are you wrong about? Hard to say, right. After all, if you knew you were wrong about something, you'd change your mind and be right about it, wouldn't you? It's just that being wrong and being right feel the same.
In order to shed ourselves of wrong thoughts, we must studiously explore what we think we understand. It is only in the moments that we change from wrong to right that we feel "bad" about being wrong.
How does that make sense, brain? You lazy POS!
Anyway: The point is that you have to be willing to feel wrong, all the damn time, if you want to have any hope of being right.
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So commit to putting reads on your opponents. You'll suck at it at first, but probably way less than they would at putting reads on you, and that's ultimately all that matters.
You don't have to be good at poker to win. You just have to be better than your opponents.
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