[Still the Spank E]

My question is already stated in the subject, but, to amplify: it seems that, when it gets right down to it, the REALLY successful players are distinguished by how well they remember how their opponents have played previous hands. Is this wrong? Should I be working to strengthen this capacity for remembering? I'm asking this because it occurs to me that everyone can (and largely HAS) read poker books to learn what you need to open an unraised pot from early position, and other, learnable things like that, but that, when you hear, say, T.J. Cloutier say "I may not remember your name if I meet you again ten years from now, but I'll remember your face and how you play poker," that he is, intentionally or otherwise, spouting the ultimate cosmic poker wisdom the way the oracle at Delphi did when Socrates and others made the pilgrammage there in search of true knowledge. Does memory separate the great from the merely good?

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