F Paulsson
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Silver Level
The premise is simple. No one wants to make mistakes playing poker, and everyone does. So, for one session, I want you to try to make it through without making a single mistake. You can make the session as long or short as you like, but bragging about playing four mistake-less hands is obviously not going to be very impressive. Or, for that matter, useful.
Defining "mistake" is the tricky part, here. Obviously we all make mistakes all the time, according to Sklansky's definition. No, I'm talking about a situation where we know better. It can be anything from making a call that we immediately regret to a misclick. Or from knowing that we should be raising in this spot but chicken out to raising someone out of spite. Or misreading a stack. Or any of a dozen different mistakes we're all liable to make.
And here comes the useful part: For every mistake that you make, mark that hand immediately in HEM or PT (or however you want). Once you've made five mistakes, you're out. This session is over. Then take the five mistake-hands, convert them, and post a thread called "My Mistakes Thread" where you paste them and explain in detail what your exact mistakes were. The usefulness of this is trivial to understand: You don't learn from mistakes unless you notice them and take them to heart. "Oh, I should have raised" is not enough. That fleeting thought is out of your head and forgotten long before the next hand is even dealt. Own up to your mistakes, record them, analyze them, and you're much less likely to make them again.
You man (or woman) enough to own up to your mistakes? We'll see.
Defining "mistake" is the tricky part, here. Obviously we all make mistakes all the time, according to Sklansky's definition. No, I'm talking about a situation where we know better. It can be anything from making a call that we immediately regret to a misclick. Or from knowing that we should be raising in this spot but chicken out to raising someone out of spite. Or misreading a stack. Or any of a dozen different mistakes we're all liable to make.
And here comes the useful part: For every mistake that you make, mark that hand immediately in HEM or PT (or however you want). Once you've made five mistakes, you're out. This session is over. Then take the five mistake-hands, convert them, and post a thread called "My Mistakes Thread" where you paste them and explain in detail what your exact mistakes were. The usefulness of this is trivial to understand: You don't learn from mistakes unless you notice them and take them to heart. "Oh, I should have raised" is not enough. That fleeting thought is out of your head and forgotten long before the next hand is even dealt. Own up to your mistakes, record them, analyze them, and you're much less likely to make them again.
You man (or woman) enough to own up to your mistakes? We'll see.