Best poker advice I have heard

[Dani_California]

What do you think about these advice? Makes any sense?

I kind of mostly disagree here even though it seems to be working for him. I think that not needing to study is a dangerous advice for beginners. You should always study especially in the beginning and learn as much as possible about the game and everything in it. Not studying might easily ruin someone's potential of becoming good if they just play but doesn't really understand their leaks and weaknesses, or strengths either. Plus, I truly believe that even Patrik has studied in the beginning so keep in mind that he says this after he is already a pro and has already found a winning formula for himself.

However, studying doesn't mean you should play exactly by the book after that and like you said yourself, it's all about finding your own style. I recently watched a lot of videos on YouTube from a winning poker pro, took some of his advice, changed my game according to that and got myself into a huge losing streak. That doesn't mean that his advice was bad, but his style just wasn't for me. I then got back to my own style (that I have mostly learned from Daniel Negreanu's books) and got back up again. It's so important to take your study into practice but let it go if it doesn't work for you and truly profit from those studies that do work.

You said that you used to study two hours each morning. To me that sound A LOT. So no wonder you are a bit overwhelmed by all that information. I play almost every day but I definitely don't study every day, not even every week. I also try to find different ways to study other than just reading that boring theory. I listen poker podcasts and watch YouTube videos, interviews etc. so it doesn't have to be boring or last long.

It's great if someone doesn't need to study anymore to be a good and a winning player but I still think that studying is important part of self-development at least for anyone who is not a professional player. I agree with you 100% that mental game shouldn't be forgotten either but I consider that side as studying as well

 

[Dejange]

Pity that he is not playing poker any more, but I learned a lot of good advises from him: https://www.pokernews.com/strategy/advice-on-what-not-to-do-miikka-anttonen-once-a-gambler-25266.htm

 

[Ltech]

Nice tip

This is a great advice, Mental game is the only thing you have to play poker because for me the game involves calm and well made good decisions. Sleep and eat are the first need, but mental health helps you do not enter in tilt mode.:top:

 

[SrWesleiNF]

I believe so! I often lose hours studying, reviewing hand and is very annoying, but study is part of the logic game that has to be something good for people. Know where you are wrong and correct this in your game and a way to be well with yourself, thus more reliably the game becomes more pleasurable

 

[kowrip]

I partially agree and partially disagree with him. It's true that players can get too caught up in the very minor details that rarely come into play during a real game. However, there are so many basic concepts that you need to understand and put into practice. It's also absolutely crucial that you review your play to fix big mistakes. To give an example, the first few times I played a tournament at the local casino, I was making a couple of mistakes consistently. First off, I wasn't paying close enough attention to my stack size. So, I would end up 3-betting pre-flop when it was the worst of my options. A shove or a flat call both would have been better. The other mistake I made consistently was getting too attached to AK. I was raising and c-betting with it, but I was having a hard time folding it when there was aggression back at me. I finally learned from these mistakes and the last time I played I got my first tournament cash. Reviewing my play afterwards, I couldn't recall any huge mistakes like that. So, I would say that you need to focus like a laser on certain key concepts and fixing your bigger mistakes, but don't overload your brain with concepts that aren't going to be needed that often. You can always learn the more obscure concepts later.

 

[manolo salazar]

The best poker advice that I have received was from my sister.
There was a time that I was desperate because I couldn't win any tournament , I had badbeats, I thought that I was a unlucky guy , my self-esteem was very low and I wanted to leave poker anyway my sister saw me really bad and told me.... You are always saying you don't want to play anymore but you are not working hard in your game, if you want to be a professional one you have to work really hard. I will tell you something I don't know anything about this game but if you have to be a winner you have to enjoy it , take it like a hobby maybe you can not become a professional but at least try to be the best in what you are doing.
Finish your studies maybe you are desperate because you don't have enough money to play or you have lost a lot but if you have a plan B you get money for playing. Start a Business, safe money and when you have enough money you will return to play without any pressure.
If your dream is going to Las Vegas and play The wsop start for working right now!
Now I am living in Australia studying English and I have improved my game a lot .
I have invested in my game Saving money and buying some good material about poker .
This advice was given to me 6 years ago and the last week I won a nice tournament which gave me 1300 AUD.
Doesn't matter how slow you can walk the most important thing is never stop.

 

[manolo salazar]

The best poker advice that I have received was from my sister.
There was a time that I was desperate because I couldn't win any tournament , I had badbeats, I thought that I was a unlucky guy , my self-esteem was very low and I wanted to leave poker anyway my sister saw me really bad and told me.... You are always saying you don't want to play anymore but you are not working hard in your game, if you want to be a professional one you have to work really hard. I will tell you something I don't know anything about this game but if you have to be a winner you have to enjoy it , take it like a hobby maybe you can not become a professional but at least try to be the best in what you are doing.
Finish your studies maybe you are desperate because you don't have enough money to play or you have lost a lot but if you have a plan B you get money for playing. Start a Business, safe money and when you have enough money you will return to play without any pressure.
If your dream is going to Las Vegas and play The WSOP start for working right now!
Now I am living in Australia studying English and I have improved my game a lot .
I have invested in my game Saving money and buying some good material about poker .
This advice was given to me 6 years ago and the last week I won a nice tournament which gave me 1300 AUD.
Doesn't matter how slow you can walk the most important thing is never stop.

My first ring and trophy!

 

[finaltable1]

Poker is not my hobby. It's my job. And still, all kind of theory is boring for me. I prefer to take action

Really? Some time ago, for several years, I was also thinking that poker is my job.
now
What is that useful product that you create for yourself and for the society using the time that you're spending at the poker tables(or better to say at your chair infront of the monitor), what do you create for the payment you're getting? Oh my, it's not a per hourly payment, it's just a chance to win money for being a rake generating mule.

So far I see that you've got one product, it's the link in your signature. You must be having a partnership agreement and receive a share of payments from users signed with your promo-code and link.

In the reality 100 year life is 24*365*100= 876.000 hours, will you live 100 years? 30% is sleep time, you also have to eat, take shower or bath, have sex, study, make excersises, meet people and so on and you've already lived several years, right? So let's say you have 100-200K hours left of time that you can spend doing something useful. What will it be? 200K hours chip stack you've got, and you're paying ante every second. Will you throw it all-in into sitting in a chair and playing poker all of your life? What will you say to your grandkids when you'll be old? "I hit a full house vs flush at the final table of 500K grtd and that's why I've decided to buy a house" Really? Are you sure about such bright perspectives of your future?
You see. Negreany, Helmuth and others - they all have a job, they are media persons and they're well paid for advertising things, for commentaries and even for their visits. Most of their opponents at poker tables are rich businessmans. They've got a stable source of income and they're doing something useful for the society...

Now, what you're saying is like "I've got my chipstack of 200K effective hours left in my life, and I'm going to wash this stack into the toilet of wasted time" The problem is - you can't wast the time, unlike the air, time is not something that you can touch. At the same time, the ugly truth is while you're wasting your time, in the reality your time is wasting you. You can't kill the time, but time will kill you. 2 hours of studying poker per day? Playing for 6+ hours per day? I know it, have passed it and felt it with my skin. In the reality you're hunting for increase of serotonin and adrenaline, and you're digging for logical and mathematical explanations of your actions and such explanations have been proudly presented to you by poker community. But objectively we're just hormonal junkees, who create nothing useful for the society, we're just spending the time observing the same 52 cards into different combinations. Squirell running inside a wheel.

Get a real job, or better find a hobby that you like and make it your job or business, make something useful for this world, something that helps people, and helps you to progress and quit playing poker each day like a junkee, it's a permanent state of tilt.:idea:

Just wanted to help you.

 

[AKQ]

When you think about the ending to learning poker its gto and gto doesnt rely any of your own stats, to a fault. Patrick reads well and is aggressive and willing to go with it even if it does turn out bad. He is often top ten in chips.
It also just happend to coincide with the overall strictly mathematical view of poker boom that was too knitty. The tightness gave away more equity for free than it could gain. but promised to be the pro strategy.
They didnt air Phill Hellmuth on TV bluffing the guy 3 times HARD with nothing before he takes a stand with q9 and busts only the chips Phill took from him.Hundreds of bluffs in each wsop. If you didnt give him cards he still woulda been there.
Poker has alot to do with table composition, if there is anything you can do to influence it to your advantage, you better. People would fold to him just so he wouldnt call them a fkin idiot on national tv(thnx Doyle brunson/Brian forester).

Imagine getting AA every single hand of the WSOP. Due to variance youd still bust. He has more than a bakers dozen bracelets and won the main event back to back. like why didn't they call the fraud committee? what R the odds on that statistically?
But hidden deep within his limit holdem book were the cornerstones of GTO
Phill Hellmuth put his balls on that WSOP chopping block and said I'm all in on a read holding air. More than anyone will ever admit. In a way winning that way to me has much more merit. Tony G can talk all the shit he wants. PHILL HELLMUTH HAS THE GREATEST HEART! who else would call your all in with aq and you lied about the AK. he lost you won it was funny but you didn't give him credit for calling, when most the time its a lie, so the call was sportsmanship in a way. And he didnt even blow up at you that day.And look how great Phill looks while eating a whopper!
The whole world was watching and wanting to learn to play like phill and they would get books filled with the strategy that was blatantly garbage easily exploitable and revealing your hand strength by doing repeating functions of a variable.
just shows how exploitative and GTO Did crush those archaic strategy guides and the possible conspiracy to skin the fish. Daniel said he was a true vegan, but he only gave us small ball lite version no updates and little upgrades. And it was still good but not comparable to what we have now, and yet i still see people stuck right on the verge of being able to do what hellmuth did. I don't even think Phill could do it anymore. That level of Heart for years.. let the man rest a legend and go read a 30 year old book to learn the newest concepts lol