I haven't written in awhile and people seem to really enjoy my posts so I decided to write some random thoughts.
When I was in school they emphasized learning the "source" of everything, and in turn, learning everything else. Once I graduated from my high school I realized how right on they are. Yeah you can be told that a supply and demand curve is straight, and you can memorize that it's straight, but if you understand "why" it's straight, you don't have to memorize a thing. Not only that but you can do more than just draw it.
Yeah that example kind of scuks but it you'll understand once I relate it to poker. In poker there are countless number of 100nl and 200nl regs who just can't get past their level. I don't KNOW why they can't but I have a good guess, it's because they don't UNDERSTAND poker. Yeah they may have been told what to do and how to play, but they themselves don't get it.
Do you see the problem here? If you don't understand the game yourself, you relying on not only other people to make you progress, but you're also relying on your results. You can only really learn by two ways.
1. Someone tells you the correct way to play a situation.
2. Something happens to you enough to make you realize that a move is good/bad.
However, those who actually try to understand the game become better on their own. They realize, maybe without playing one hand in a situation, the correct move in that situation. In fact, people who really understand the game understand that there is innovative play you can use at 200nl and 100nl that no one would ever tell you to do.
You wonder why gabe doesn't go to every thread and says the exact thing you should be thinking and doing? It's because of just this. He doesn't want to tell you, he wants you to figure it out on your own, to actually understand why you would want to do something rather than the other, and in turn he not only helped you with the hand you posted, but other hands that apply to the concept.
The point of this whole thing, which I took way too long to say, is that you have to start thinking about the game more deeply. Really figure out how to adjust to the ebb and flow of the game in it's entirety. Figure out how to exploit a 12/10, figure out how to exploit a laggtard maniac. Don't just do what everyone tells you to.
When I was in school they emphasized learning the "source" of everything, and in turn, learning everything else. Once I graduated from my high school I realized how right on they are. Yeah you can be told that a supply and demand curve is straight, and you can memorize that it's straight, but if you understand "why" it's straight, you don't have to memorize a thing. Not only that but you can do more than just draw it.
Yeah that example kind of scuks but it you'll understand once I relate it to poker. In poker there are countless number of 100nl and 200nl regs who just can't get past their level. I don't KNOW why they can't but I have a good guess, it's because they don't UNDERSTAND poker. Yeah they may have been told what to do and how to play, but they themselves don't get it.
Do you see the problem here? If you don't understand the game yourself, you relying on not only other people to make you progress, but you're also relying on your results. You can only really learn by two ways.
1. Someone tells you the correct way to play a situation.
2. Something happens to you enough to make you realize that a move is good/bad.
However, those who actually try to understand the game become better on their own. They realize, maybe without playing one hand in a situation, the correct move in that situation. In fact, people who really understand the game understand that there is innovative play you can use at 200nl and 100nl that no one would ever tell you to do.
You wonder why gabe doesn't go to every thread and says the exact thing you should be thinking and doing? It's because of just this. He doesn't want to tell you, he wants you to figure it out on your own, to actually understand why you would want to do something rather than the other, and in turn he not only helped you with the hand you posted, but other hands that apply to the concept.
The point of this whole thing, which I took way too long to say, is that you have to start thinking about the game more deeply. Really figure out how to adjust to the ebb and flow of the game in it's entirety. Figure out how to exploit a 12/10, figure out how to exploit a laggtard maniac. Don't just do what everyone tells you to.
