califantasy
Rock Star
Silver Level
So I was just in Vegas for a few days, and came across a grinder, and we got to talking about different ways that people try to improve their game.
We discussed some books that we had read, and found that we both concluded after reading T.J. Cloutier's Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em, that our games immediately suffered.
We talked about how we thought that many of the ideas in his book were out-of-date, and based on playing fields that are a lot more passive than the average modern player. He went so far as to add "that is why TJ will never win another tournament." I'm sure TJ is an excellent player, and this thread isn't intended as a slight to him; I only used it as an example of how implementing ideas learned from a book in an effort to improve my game seemed to make it suffer.
I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences, where you tried to change your game to emulate someone else, and you ended up hurting your game instead of improving it?
We discussed some books that we had read, and found that we both concluded after reading T.J. Cloutier's Championship No-Limit and Pot-Limit Hold'em, that our games immediately suffered.
We talked about how we thought that many of the ideas in his book were out-of-date, and based on playing fields that are a lot more passive than the average modern player. He went so far as to add "that is why TJ will never win another tournament." I'm sure TJ is an excellent player, and this thread isn't intended as a slight to him; I only used it as an example of how implementing ideas learned from a book in an effort to improve my game seemed to make it suffer.
I was wondering if anyone else had similar experiences, where you tried to change your game to emulate someone else, and you ended up hurting your game instead of improving it?