Study Poker?
Study Poker?
If it is true, it is somewhat overwhelming to realize how much detail a hand of poker takes, but also as it is pleasant and exciting to discover how many ways there are to achieve victory and that not many know.
You must take it easy like any other game, be it physical or mental, just think, let's say baseball, how long does it take to learn to be a good player? Know how to throw the ball, catch it, hit well, run the bases, play a certain position. Understand the signals of your coach (not all will be good signals), it is a learning process, it takes time! So what do you think happens in poker? It is the same, it is as extremely complex as any other sport, it takes time of study, of practice and analysis and again back to the game.
You are right to comment that you should know this and that and that but you must be patient.
Self-evaluate, how much you know about the game, but be frank with yourself, write that you know well and what you think you are failing or do not know.
Poker is not only about primers or diagrams, do not get carried away by the advertising of schools or famous players saying that with this or that tool you will be a winner, definitely tools help are necessary, but they are only that, a tool in your arsenal of game.
Come on be frank, you know in depth the fundamentals of poker, you can tell yourself easily, without so much conceptualization? How to say "The Lord's Prayer"?
You have learned to play each street and determined what to do if a player bets you, or raises you or goes all-in, what options do you have for each of them? You can internalize and tell yourself how you are going to play in a tournament in each one of its phases? Do you know how to play each position, what range of hands to carry in each position and figure out the range of your opponent, how to play preflop, postflop, what do I do on the turn if I am out or in position? How do I play the river? ? Do I polarize my action or not?
For all of the above, everyone has their own opinion or experience and not all of us know how to play them optimally, nobody can say that they have the best strategy, they have their strategies that work well for them and they are fine-tuning it every day and we all start from scratch, like you for fun and with friends on the weekend.
Many of us are fascinated by poker as a game, it is fantastic and frustrating at the same time, but it has that egoistic, overwhelming but fascinating element that is the bet and for that reason it attracts us more, we are there because we have the opportunity to make a lot of money with little, only Depending on our skills and knowledge, with the strength of our character and the right decisions we defeat those who have been screwing us for a long time and we rise proud of our achievement, that taste of victory is clearly brutal.
But for this you have to study a lot, practice and reflect on your results.
Sit down review your game, divide it into parts, go in and look for all the videos of Collin Moshman they are very successful in that you will find a lot of knowledge, experience and that comes from a successful player who at the time demonstrated the correctness of his knowledge, I do not intend to advertise He does not know me, nor does he know that I write here, he already has it without anyone's help, but what I want to tell you is do not despair, do not get carried away by the advertising of supposed magic potions to be an instant winner that does not exist , do not get carried away by expensive learning courses, we must be humble to accept that we know little or nothing, we must sit down and enjoy discovering new things. Look at the time that I have been playing, and a while after several years, I realized that I was still playing mediocre and I started and reflect on my game, I made an effort to accept that I did not know many things and I felt defeated, but I did not give up keep learning, I took up the action again and began little by little to discover my failures, I began to try to understand how others play how they can get to ITM, to enter the final table and I began to build a strategy in a simple way and I was incorporating ways to play every street eye, it is a process of trial and error, patience, I got to play
freerolls as many as I could to learn more, avoid putting my money in danger, never in my years of playing poker I have put aside my economic or family responsibilities, I have never taken money from my family budget, that is, only a couple of times I took from my savings for my
bankroll, I lost it and in my reflection I swore that if I was successful it would be starting from scratch, by my own efforts.
I consider myself a poker player, not a mediocre ludopath, that for me does not exist, it belongs to people who have other more serious problems and they surface playing poker or in another form of
gambling.
We must be fair, accept our mistakes, improve, build a strategy, a plan, put it into practice, improve it until we achieve our purposes.
Do not be discouraged, dedicate the necessary time or what you can to study and understand the game little by little, every day a good time, enjoy it, discover new ways to make them bite the dust and you will see in time how your efforts, sacrifices will be rewarded .
Cheers
