Psychic Reads?

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I started playing poker again after a long time off. Since I started again there have been three times where I got a strange feeling like "I know this hand will win" or "I know this will lose" because I just feel it. But, this is online poker I'm playing, so there couldn't be much a basis for that. Yet, so far almost all of those feelings have been dead on. I'm thinking in the long-run, these feelings will average out to be right 50% of the time? I'm the kind of guy who likes very consistent play, so I sort of ignore those feelings, but so far just regret it!

I did end up folding one premium hand without even a min. call and then someone else had an even better premium hand.

Does anyone else go like this on pure gut instinct, and if so how does it go for you?
 
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You know, it does sound like you are a very consistent player. My advice to you is, to stay true to your game, but to cure your curiosity keep track of your psychic readings. Make sure you keep track of a good sample, and I think you will find that our memories, tend to trick us, but numbers never lie.
 
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There is another way to look at this. Once one has enough experience to reach what Jared Tendler calls "Unconscious Competence" a lot of plays will seem to be physic or gut instinct based. The key is to get the experience first.

Poker/Chess professional Jennifer Shahade did a TED talk on the subject of playing more or less automatically based on experience until a difficult decision is reached. Look it up, it's worth your time.


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There is another way to look at this. Once one has enough experience to reach what Jared Tendler calls "Unconscious Competence" a lot of plays will seem to be physic or gut instinct based. The key is to get the experience first.

Exactly this
 
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I think that instincts in poker is very important. I'am trying often to do what my feelings say. Sometimes I win, sometimes lose. But it's seems to me better than making moves with math only. Creativyty in poker help to make game more unpredictable and get you a chance to take unexpected results.
 
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I often have the same feelings. I believe that here in this situation work experience obtained in the game. Yesterday, the 888 poker cash game, I suddenly wanted me to use the card 67 cross. I made a call on a big raise. The result was a pair on the flop. The river had a full house. And pick up stacks of two players.Well, where is the logic? That's like something pushed to such an act.
 
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If it happens to me too, sometimes quite I hit my intuitions, but I suspect also risked and lost almost always, despite that the villain had better hand. bad for me. not to follow my intuition.
 
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Imho a poker player with sixth sense is very dangerous opponent.
 
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I get the feeling I am going to lose a hand ALL THE TIME. It usually happens in an online MTT when I get someone all-in preflop and have them dominated. I love online poker ;)
 
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You know, it does sound like you are a very consistent player. My advice to you is, to stay true to your game, but to cure your curiosity keep track of your psychic readings. Make sure you keep track of a good sample, and I think you will find that our memories, tend to trick us, but numbers never lie.
You're right. The only way to see just how "psychic" my reads are would be to carefully track when I get a "good feeling" or "bad feeling" pre-flop and then see how I do on those hands. And, the hands that make to show-down would be the more important of those to tell how my feeling really was. I think I'll start doing that, and possibly updating on this thread every once in a while.

One interesting distinction between poker sites that may relate to this, is that in pokerstars the hands are shuffled once at the start of each hand, while other sites re-shuffle after each card is set. So of course a "psychic read" could be possibly more difficult on other sites.
 
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Sometimes you just have to go with that feeling. I wouldn't recommend it all the time like in cash games. Although I have found my self in those situations in tourneys where I decided to go with it and took a shot and ended up winning the turning on something I typically wouldn't do. Not saying to always go with it. But there's those times. U just know :) good luck.
 
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Sometimes you just have to go with that feeling. I wouldn't recommend it all the time like in cash games. Although I have found my self in those situations in tourneys where I decided to go with it and took a shot and ended up winning the turning on something I typically wouldn't do. Not saying to always go with it. But there's those times. U just know :) good luck.

I agree that testing in cash games wouldn't be the best idea lol. I do usually know at the start of my hand if im gonna win or lose.
 
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