Studying / Playing Ratio

[Wada]

What is your amount of time or percentage that you spend to studying vs playing? Some would rather study alot more rather than play while others believe that actual play experience would be more important over studying. (Studying to include reading books, rereading books, just watching, reviewing hands...computer simulations..etc)

Thoughts?

[SaintAces]

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[joker122]

Whenever I'm playing I'm studying because I'm always reading 2+2 when I'm playing. So 1:1.

[Blarg]

I don't think you'll get any useful answers here, because everyone absorbs both the lessons of experience and studies at different rates, and some people simply don't have as much time to visit a casino, but can study more easily. Some some have to study more, some have no choice but to study more -- and heck some just like to study more.

Playing kind of IS studying, if you stay alert, but you can learn the wrong lessons, too, and really mess yourself up. I'm playing more recreationally now so I study a lot less than I used to for hold'em, which I've just started to play, but I was dead serious when I used to play stud, and I studied much, much more. Obsessively, even. And for quite a while before I even sat down at a table in a casino for the first time. I also got much better at stud, much quicker. Seems fair to me. Now, recreationally playing hold'em here and there instead of every day like I played stud, I'm waiting for Ed Miller's book before really taking up a ferocious bout of crazy studying again. Winning is just important to me now, not critical, but that's probably about to change up again.

[stir]

My ratio of study relative to play will also increase once NPA's new book is out.

Then the ratio will shift back toward play as I work to apply the concepts, skills and tactics learned.

[Sponger15SB]

i'd say about 10:1, but it could be a little higher, although like someone said, i am always reading poker forums while playing.

[surfdoc]

I am not so sure that reading 2+2 while playing is +EV. I have been noticing lately that I am overextending by multitabling 4 Party games and reading 2+2 at the same time. Tough enough to get reads as it is. Some fish or maniac sits and it takes you 3 orbits to realize it...not good.

[Schneids]

I have no idea on an actual ratio but I know I study significantly more often than I play and it's been this way for over a year straight now, even with the fact I play 80-90% of all days.