SNOWBALL138
09-29-2005, 10:25 PM
I can't seem to pay any attention to poker books at the moment. I just picked up King Yao's book, and I was pretty disappointed by it. A lot of the conclusions he comes to in the book using math are sort of intuitive or automatic to me.
I'm not saying I'm a great player or anything, but after playing so many hours during the last year I've been serious about poker, decisions come to me in a natural and intuitive way, and its more rare for me to have to spend time making a decision.
Its not that I play on autopilot, because I focus intensely, its just that my thinking process is becoming less and less concious. I know I'm still using information and basing my decisions on the size of the pot, and the quality of my opposition, and such things.
Sure, I can beat party 3/6, and have done good at 5/10, but haven't played it for that long, but I am not an amazing player or anything like that. I feel strongly that I have an immense amount more to learn about poker, but somehow learning King Yao's DIPO method of pot odds doesn't really seem that much better to me than what I already use. I'm feeling more and more that the way to get good at poker mostly happens with playing experience, and developing good habits.
Is this healthy or am I just getting lazy?
I'm not saying I'm a great player or anything, but after playing so many hours during the last year I've been serious about poker, decisions come to me in a natural and intuitive way, and its more rare for me to have to spend time making a decision.
Its not that I play on autopilot, because I focus intensely, its just that my thinking process is becoming less and less concious. I know I'm still using information and basing my decisions on the size of the pot, and the quality of my opposition, and such things.
Sure, I can beat party 3/6, and have done good at 5/10, but haven't played it for that long, but I am not an amazing player or anything like that. I feel strongly that I have an immense amount more to learn about poker, but somehow learning King Yao's DIPO method of pot odds doesn't really seem that much better to me than what I already use. I'm feeling more and more that the way to get good at poker mostly happens with playing experience, and developing good habits.
Is this healthy or am I just getting lazy?