Most of us have heard the saying "we learn from our mistakes". But is that true for you in poker? Have you learned some of your weaknesses and fixed them or do you find your self in a rut making the same bad mistakes! I am my own worst enemy, I need to stop fighting myself.
If you have learned from your mistakes, give me some tips on what you were doing wrong and how you fixed it, please!

I think I learn form my mistakes as long as they happen to me min 2-3 times. if sth happens 1 time it does not make me learn anything new

I think everyone will improve small mistakes. For example who raise a suites connector from utg, they will learn hat is better to fold it from this position when they realise that in long run this move has bad equity. But there are some bigger mistakes that are difficult to disappear. My main problem is tilt and I think is the most important mistake in poker, you cant upgrade levels if you tilt, you have to improve this mistake in order to success!

I think no one can play plus until they learn to correct their mistakes, even the most obvious, gross ones. Nobody is perfect, but we all need to work on our game and try to improve it, because if other players do it, we will lose the race.

If we do not learn from our mistakes, we will never move forward. At one time I thought I was studying alone, no one needed help. And I couldn't go any further, after one level I couldn't develop further. Now I'm with my poker companions. Let's watch twitch games of the best players, educational videos. I see a positive change in results....

I think, first of all, they need to be analyzed, to determine at what stage you could minimize it. And with regards to the sayings, there is one more: "Live your life, learn your life"

I learned that when I get AA will go ALLin preflop, a lot of not good cases..

I should hope so.. If not, please come and sit down at my table!

First, lets complicate the matter.. how do you define a mistake? Is a mistake a losing play? or is a mistake something that GTO doesn't predict? Or is a mistake a misread of an opponent? I can't say for sure..
But I can say that learning from your mistakes can be difficult on average and in poker it's especially so, because you sometimes get paid by those mistakes. Does it even stick out that you made one? I guess what makes learning from mistakes so difficult is figuring out when you've made on.

In general I find that tracking my hands and whenever I feel I've made bad play, to go over that hand a few times and see how I could have played it differently, works well in helping me become a better player.

Also I've recently started tracking tournament finishes and percentiles. That graph really opened my eyes to how much I was really losing/winning, and what stakes I should be playing.


When all said and done though, sometimes a bad outcome is just that.

it is always important to analyze the hands of the day, regardless of whether you won that hand or lost it, there are always very interesting hands and when you analyze it you learn a lot

Hi mate.Yes ,we do! When I started playing poker everytime I got an Ax I was all in..I realized I was making a terrible mistake that those aces were overrated..Nowadays,I am more patient and carefull in those situations.

if I usually once a week review the hands I have played and try to learn from them I think it is the most efficient method of learning in poker

Usually, I try to analyze my game and my decisions. If I make a mistake, I have to understand why and how it happened to prevent this in the future.

Above, I published a post talking about this topic because I find it interesting to know how to act in the face of failures in the game. Throughout my life playing poker I have never been critical of my way of playing. I make mistakes like everyone else, but the important thing about those mistakes is that we all have the ability to correct them. I believe that mistakes serve to learn. Before, I used to play and make mistakes that I left out, without studying or evaluating why they happened. Today, I evaluate my mistakes to perfect my game and make fewer mistakes. It is in one, to give the importance that each error deserves.

Naturally we learn. The strategy is changing and improving. The longer you play, the more skills you have. Even if you don 't notice. Then the opponents will definitely see the difference.

I think every man is wrong in life but I always try to learn from my mistakes to perfect myself with every tournament I play.

I try to learn from my mistakes. When i am not sure how to act in certain hand i mark it for review and later after the game i analyze it to see if i took the correct decision (no matter if i won or lost the hand).

There is also a saying, “Smart learn from the mistakes of others, and fools from their own.” Usually, practice shows that a lot is learned from personal experience. Well, when at the right time you were told what and how to do or act. You always make mistakes when you are self-confident or overestimate your strength. Work on mistakes is simple, think a few times and then just do it. If you don’t know something, then ask for advice. )))

If you don't learn from your mistakes you keep doing the same things over and over again, and that my friend is the definition of Insanity .

I think one way or another, we all learn from our mistakes, just someone does it faster, someone very slowly !!!

Of course, I constantly learn from my mistakes. After each losing hand, I analyze my actions, and try not to repeat the mistake that led to the loss in this hand. In order to advise you something, I need to study how you play, then it will be possible to eliminate many of your mistakes. Or I can advise you to watch streams of professional players and try to play like that. It will take a lot of time, but the result is worth it.

Originally Posted by kidrock1211

Most of us have heard the saying "we learn from our mistakes". But is that true for you in poker? Have you learned some of your weaknesses and fixed them or do you find your self in a rut making the same bad mistakes! I am my own worst enemy, I need to stop fighting myself.
If you have learned from your mistakes, give me some tips on what you were doing wrong and how you fixed it, please!

I learn from my mistakes playing poker, one of them I can not win, I do not have enough patience and I constantly play a lot of hands, not only good but also bad, I can not help myself

sometimes.

When I'm playing, I learn from mistakes done over say the previous 2 or 3 days. It's all a cycle, I'll make that mistake again to relearn from it. My most often mistake is misreading the board where the player could have a gut shot straight draw only while there's flush draw opportunities out there or high cards that make this player a donk to continue playing the hand trying for the case 7, 8, or 9 for a gutter river. The non flush 7,8,9 comes making me think they missed their flush, over-bet and lose to that player. (Congrats I had QQ and trips)

The other mistake I'll learn from in a cycle, is just playing with 2 or 3 tables, and accidentally calling when I meant to fold. So shrink the screen a little more, spread them further apart, or just rage bet out of all the tables and be done for the day.

It's hard to ever completely fix a leak but the first thing that comes to mind is stopping putting so much equity into ak. When I first started using a hud and had a decent amount of hands recorded I looked back to see what hands I was losing with the most and AK soared over the rest especially when talking pure chip loss.I started treating it like aq or aj instead of something special. Many times since I have had the urge to call a huge raise when holding ako and remembered this and folded saving myself numerous times.

Not so long ago, I played at a table with a player who was very lucky (he reached the river in 2-3 outs) and at the same time played ugly - limped 100% of the hands. I went under 3 beta with small pockets and created full game! So I realized that you never need to move away from the right strategy, even if sometimes it does not work!

It so hard. Keep your head up and keep trying to learn.

The bigger the mistake, the bigger the experience.

Yes, I always review my hands after the game. What I did wrong, what I should have done instead and it helps me improve a lot.

Hey, we're human. That means we're prone to making mistakes. Regarding poker it usually means the loss of some money or a game. In the rest of the animal kingdom making a mistake often means death.

I tend to take a few minutes after each game, win or lose, and not only analyze my plays, with good or bad outcomes, but the other players plays as well.

You mentioned about referencing a particular mistake and how we corrected the problem.

That's interesting, because recently through analysis I discovered a mistake I'd been making for years. I'm an aggressive player. When I'm on the button or before the button I used to go all in with moderate pocket pairs when everyone folded ahead of me. Either the remainder of the players would fold, giving me a mediocre pot, or someone with two over cards would invariably call which meant a coin toss. I'd only win on average half the hands. Nice when I did, but sucked when I didn't.

Because of my analysis, I changed my play. Now when I experience those circumstances, I bet about a third of my chips. Usually one, maybe two players call. The odds of someone hitting one of their cards on the flop is one in three. If they check or one makes a weak bet, because they're usually the blinds, I go all in at that time especially if there is a face card dealt. They don't know that I don't have that face card, probably with a hell of a kicker because of the raise I made before the flop, or flopped a set, or have an over pair.

I've kept records. On average, actually more than the two out of three times that I expected, the other player or players fold, giving me a much bigger pot than I used to end up with when I went all-in before the flop.

Everyone should learn from their mistakes. But there is a problem with some people, like me.I am a very stubborn person. When I started playing poker, I thought I just needed to know the rules of poker. And that's all I need to know. I was convinced that was enough. And then I realized that it was necessary to learn strategies as well. Funny, isn't it ?! So I recommend everyone to deal with strategies.

it's crazy to do the same thing while waiting for a different result.

you can ignore mistakes and remain a positive player, but this is not a serious attitude to poker.

Thanks for posting.

As a beginner, I made loads of mistakes purely because of a lack of understanding. I would play almost every hand, I was a calling station and almost never raised, I had no comprehension of position and had absolutely no idea what a 3-bet was!

Through playing more I figured a number of things out for myself, but it was really only when I bought a couple of books that I really got some solid theory behind my game.

Now I think I have a solid foundation of how to play, it is about picking "spots" where I am making losing plays.

I've learned a great many things over the years but some lessons are painful and very expensive. I could write a book.

I think you mostly learn from mistakes. To keep that in mind helps to think light about some faults

I learn from my mistakes in everything except poker. In poker, you need to maneuver and adapt to the game at the table.
Better learn from others' mistakes.

i would like to say yes, but the fact i keep donk calling with 2 pair with signs of at least a set or higher from villian tells me i haven't. the only way to learn is to loose.

It costs me a lot haha. Many times I had the opportunity to correct mistakes that usually happen to me, but I get carried away by emotions and end up acting the same way. Although in other cases I learned and improved, and that makes me happy haha. I hope the good thing happens more often ahah

Tbh I keep making the same ugly mistakes, but after a while I'm able to correct them. The problem is that I need to screw up a lot of times before getting better. A lot more times than I wished, lol

No. Only way to learn is to read all the poker books and copy from them. Never play based on your own will.

yes, i believe that phrase makes sense in our lives and in the game of poker, but the problem is that sometimes we don´t have many opportunities to make mistakes.

I think that the game of poker is built on the mistakes of some and the luck of others.

We're definitely learning from our mistakes into poker, I'm not going to do the same thing again, bad calls, bad raise, bad bluffs, and that's how my game has improved.

Yes, but definitely too slowly

I make mistakes during the game even though I know I should stay away, because I like to try the game.

I always learn from my mistakes ..... I keep learning constantly

I believe that we are all here to evolve through getting it right and wrong. We all have the same internal difficulties as impatience, laziness, lack of emotional control, but in this school called Planet Earth it is just for this, to overcome ourselves daily and this includes learning from our mistakes and next time doing the right choice. And it always seems that by making the right choices, the Universe rewards us with feelings of satisfaction, happiness, pride, etc; for example in poker, when you know you want to play a bad hand but you know you have to fold, and when you fold or another example, when you are on a bad day losing a lot of tournaments and you know you have to stop playing for a day or two , when you choose to overcome your "ego" and fold your hand or decide to wait, there is a feeling inside of you of satisfaction, of joy, you feel more disciplined and confident towards life, because inside you know that you have overcome yourself by making the right choices, you have stepped up your personal evolution. And when you play poker again, it seems that things are flowing to you, a new energy is present in your being, you are more aware, more calm, confident of the future and of each hand that you play, you even star to get more good hands when you are playing ( it happens to me hehe ). It is as if the Universe is rewarding you with positive feelings and emotions when you "learn from your mistakes or weaknesses". That's how I feel.

I agree with branimir84 , I learn but unfortunatelly too slow , lol . Also , when I lose , I might get frustrated and close instantly the table , without checking the hand , or taking notes on the player , not good at all . Need more patience on this , if you do not learn from your mistakes , then you cannot progress and evolve your game to the next level

Yes ,we do

I wish I could say yes, I have learned. But there are certain game situations where I consciously make a recurring mistake, which I know shouldn't. The day I stop doing this I will become a better player. Regards.