How much of intuition in your game?

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How often you trust your inner voice more, than your poker knowledge? When you have a hand, that you suppose to raise with, but you have a really bad feeling about it and still fold? Or when you feel like the bottom pair can be still good, even if notes at your opponent say he is tight and cautious?
 
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I have this but with bad hands. I'm going to fold and something tells me to call, but I say nah this is a bad hand like 48os. So I fold, flop comes 4A8, so I'm thinking yeah would have had 2 pair but it would have been beat. Turn comes a Q, so I'm like see, AQ would have took me out. River comes a 4, now I'm like damn full house should have called. Only happens on crap hands, good hands I get nothing lol.
 
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that would be enough to always play zero )
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You can not play by intuition, you can not play well without intuition. This is especially true for tournaments, where the situation changes quickly and statistics do not always reliably reflect the mood of the players.
 
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Intuiation is your subconcious. Its its honed and refined through experience. We should trust our intuition when playing poker as it is like accessing our internal database of thousands/millions of scenarios that we have processed before.
 
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Intuiation is your subconcious. Its its honed and refined through experience. We should trust our intuition when playing poker as it is like accessing our internal database of thousands/millions of scenarios that we have processed before.

bull's-eye. I adhere to the same strategy. It is pleasant that there are many like-minded people on this forum. And then on others, everyone directly relies exclusively on their skills and knowing, then they write that they do not have anything. The mind can not choose from an infinite variety of options, it can only make decisions. And intuition is the voice of the "soul" and she knows exactly by what means
 
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Very few people generally listen to themselves when playing or do not know how to do it
 
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I have this but with bad hands. I'm going to fold and something tells me to call, but I say nah this is a bad hand like 48os. So I fold, flop comes 4A8, so I'm thinking yeah would have had 2 pair but it would have been beat. Turn comes a Q, so I'm like see, AQ would have took me out. River comes a 4, now I'm like damn full house should have called. Only happens on crap hands, good hands I get nothing lol.
Well that wasn't exactly the point i meant, but i know that situation pretty well, when you "feel lucky" with suited crap on late position and figuring out to go out of your range to vary your play, but then slap yourself on the wrist and still fold. And then you see something like that, what you wrote. I was always hating to see that before, but once upon time i have read a book "Harrington on Hold Em", where Dan Harrington wrote a fundamental point of view at such situations, he basically wrote, that your hand exists only, when you have it in play. But since the moment you fold, it is not exist anymore. That's it. It really matters only this moment now and this situation on board and bets. There can be coming anything from the deck, but you suppose to make right decision considering current situation. And if you made a right fold, but later would have make nuts and win a big pot. You still have made a good fold. Cause on a distance, if you be calling with that hand/situation, it is -EV call and will cost you a lot of money. So don't need to feel bad if you notice you could win big at the end of hand. In poker can happen anything.
I got used to that great point of view "forgetting your hole cards after fold instantly" and i recommend the same to everyone! That will keep your emotions calm and preserve you from tilt. :deal:
 
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Really intuition is the ability to not think and allow the answer to come effortlessly via a thought or an emotion. The answer will then arise from the subconscious which in turn has amassed information based on unconscious observation.I do believe there is a poker intuition maybe it's years of knowledge that is there. Maybe it's intelligence that works and puts small things like bet patterns, actions, tells together faster then most people.
 
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Well that wasn't exactly the point i meant, but i know that situation pretty well, when you "feel lucky" with suited crap on late position and figuring out to go out of your range to vary your play, but then slap yourself on the wrist and still fold. And then you see something like that, what you wrote. I was always hating to see that before, but once upon time i have read a book "Harrington on Hold Em", where Dan Harrington wrote a fundamental point of view at such situations, he basically wrote, that your hand exists only, when you have it in play. But since the moment you fold, it is not exist anymore. That's it. It really matters only this moment now and this situation on board and bets. There can be coming anything from the deck, but you suppose to make right decision considering current situation. And if you made a right fold, but later would have make nuts and win a big pot. You still have made a good fold. Cause on a distance, if you be calling with that hand/situation, it is -EV call and will cost you a lot of money. So don't need to feel bad if you notice you could win big at the end of hand. In poker can happen anything.
I got used to that great point of view "forgetting your hole cards after fold instantly" and i recommend the same to everyone! That will keep your emotions calm and preserve you from tilt. :deal:
Sorry misread your post, but thank you for this great reply
 
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When I play poker, I relay on my intuition very much and it helps me to avoid bad hands.
 
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I often use intuition and it helps me in most cases.
 
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think intuition comes from preparation and experience
 
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I agree with the fact that the more you play the better you get at reading the table and the opponents, sometimes it happens that you seem unable to lose with any given cards, that is a combination of skill and intuition.
 
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i dont think its intuition but its just a logic conclusion of ur analysis.
 
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How often you trust your inner voice more, than your poker knowledge? When you have a hand, that you suppose to raise with, but you have a really bad feeling about it and still fold? Or when you feel like the bottom pair can be still good, even if notes at your opponent say he is tight and cautious?

More often than not, I try to analyze the game, but there were moments when something pushed to throw off a pocket pair, and that's something, it was right.
 
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When i'm in the zone, my intuition is quite high, and I find myself playing hands I normally wouldn't, as my intuition tells me I'll win if I can make it to the river. When I'm not in the zone, my intuition is very minimal if not non-existent.
 
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Unfortunately I can't learn to listen to my second self. I often follow logic and reason. Lately you throw off hands that were originally from the position and strength of the cards, you should not play ... but the inner voice insists ..... the flop comes out and you understand your mistake sorry for my English
 
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How often you trust your inner voice more, than your poker knowledge? When you have a hand, that you suppose to raise with, but you have a really bad feeling about it and still fold? Or when you feel like the bottom pair can be still good, even if notes at your opponent say he is tight and cautious?

Intuition in poker is a very interesting aspect of the game. I can not say that in the game it is necessary to rely on it. But the more you play hands in poker, the more you will be impressed in some situations, in a certain hand drawing, that you already know the opponent's hand and it's worth making a move that will absolutely contradict your strategy and the manner of the game. This is due to your subconscious mind, which stores the history of the hands on which you have focused attention ever. This process is not arbitrary and your subconscious mind at that moment tells you the possible outcome. This is perceived as intuition. Should I trust her? ) If you are a player with a huge experience - then sometimes you should not ignore it.
 
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hmm good question. When I am thinking about it, I have to say it happens sometimes. But not against players when I have no info about them. When I have some history with player, and its "close call" then intuition plays some role for sure.
 
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Poker instinct for me is right 90% of the time and when I go against it I get very mad!!!

Go with your gut if you have good results with your inner thinking. If not go by math :)
 
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Usually thats happens with me this way: my inner voice tell me - dont fold this 25o, try to limp with it from CO, its big pot enough.. i limp and got ****ed up by button or blinds. GG WP inner voice
 
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Usually believing in intuition is bad when you have low stacks, in high stakes situations it is good to risk you can decide the tournament if you hit the best hand !!
 
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When i'm in the zone, my intuition is quite high, and I find myself playing hands I normally wouldn't, as my intuition tells me I'll win if I can make it to the river. When I'm not in the zone, my intuition is very minimal if not non-existent.
Perfect,all u need now is to find that mind-set whenever u sit down to play poker,and you will play 4-5 hands and win 3-4 of them,for an hr and a half,,,i know what u mean,it`s hard,but can be achieved,,,sometimes the cards are bad and the occasional bad beat,,,but the Zone exists and can be attained at will if you know where to look:deal:
 
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