respondents to questions

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To the OP: Just believe whoever has the highest post count.

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Unless I happen to be arguing with somebody who has a higher post count than me, in which case you should believe me.

[NateDog]

Ok seriously, am I that bad?

My advice usually comes from a 'what would I do in this situation?'. I'm still learning (as we all are) but I have some experience in the games we discuss here. When I first started here, back in the Entity, Shillx, Droolie, et al days, I gave way too much credit to post count. It wasn't until I started actually responding to posts, getting it really wrong, and having it explained to me why it was wrong that I figured out who was giving sound advice. I learn more when I try to figure it out myself, as I believe most players would. There is no instruction manual for proper post flop play. There are only options, and applying the best option to a specific scenario is the goal. The problem lies in the variables. A significant volume of hands will give you a broader range of scenarios and variables to those scenarios. Over time, an observant and thinking player will be able to recall a similar situation, and apply the 'most correct' option. (I think the xxxx and it's not close or xxxx do you see why? posts are useless). Gleaming that knowledge from an experienced, thinking, and observant player is what we are after. Post count has nothing to do with it. You have to learn where you can.

But really, am I that bad?

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But really, am I that bad?

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[detruncate]

I've never seen this as a top down place. There are always a few posters floating around that everyone likes to see, but most of the every day work is done by people of roughly similar levels of experience working through things together and providing perspective for each other.

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My advice usually comes from a 'what would I do in this situation?'.

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I have moved away from these kinds of posts. Formerly, a post would often look like:

"I would do xxxxx, but I'm not sure if that is correct"

I think when we do this, we don't intend it to be advice. In situations where I am unure like this, I have started actually taking some time and trying to analyze wat's correct. I feel it as improved the average quality of my posts dramatically.

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If you are noticing so much wrong advice, then you should be making a fuss about it.

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im not qualified to be making a fuss, im usually the one giving the bad advice haha. im not saying there is a lot of wrong advice or that it is a significant problem..... rather suggesting it as a way to further improve that which is good already

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Red is actually reserved for Admins. There was some talk in MTT and the mod forum to give good posters a special color, but it was decided that there shall be no colors. It's mostly that people don't want an aristocracy, nor do they want the eyesore of lots of colors floating around.

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oh, yep red was just an arbitrary idea, any colour would do. if its already been brought up then i guess the arguments have already been made and were disagreed with. fair enough, i guess i would just be on the side that would find it more helpful....

the post was http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...rt=all&vc=1 (its actually a scotty34 post, but ur name is in the title which is why i remembered it. if ur interested, i dont agree with it all any more as ive improved since, but the bit i really took from that was my reasoning for why the Q slowdown more likely indicated KK than JJ)

Edit: and if your interested the vil had JK

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"I would do xxxxx, but I'm not sure if that is correct"

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I still find myself making these posts. I like your suggestion about spending more time thinking and actually giving a solid opinion - "solid" in that you feel it is the right play, not that is is necessarily good advice.

[MrWookie47]

OK, I remember that thread now. Thanks for bringing it up. It was a good one.

You could do what I do.... Hang around here, read a lot of posts, stick your head in some books, play some poker, review your sessions, think about the way you played, come back here, use the search function to find lots of threads about the topic you're thinking about, realise you suck and repeat the cycle trying to improve. Improving your game is hard work. There isn't some Mystical Guru 2+2 Poster who's going to hand you your game on a plate. There's more to be learnt from trying to understand than there is by some kind of rote learning, and hearing different perspectives is a big part of that I think. I don't think grading posters is a good idea, if you hang around and read enough you'll soon figure out whose opinion resonates with you more anyway.

Anyway, just my 2c.
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