Posted by Dr Fro 5:50 PM
I think that one of the first things that happens when one steps up from being a complete newbie is to become sceptical of claims as the importance of gut feelings. You quickly become a sheer numbers guy, especially if you play a lot of limit holdem, where there is no room for outplaying people. You should drop reliance on gut feelings at this point, but unfortunately, some people never pick it back up.

I think that there comes a point in your game where you know 99% of what you'll ever know about the quantitative aspect of the game. In order to continue to improve, you just need to spend a lot of time around a table and develop some gut instincts.

Doyle Brunson talks about this in the NL section of Super System and also in the Intro to SS. This guy mentions it too in this book review.

I personally havent spent much time thinking about this, but if Doyle says it is important, then it is. All I know is that I have most of the quantitative aspects of the game down. I may stray from a by the book game from time to time, but that is not because I don't know better. Anyway, I might get the book and see what there is to learn.

0 Comment(s):

Post a Comment