why the disparity between knowledge and results?

Why, in your opinion can literally hundreds of thousands of players buy proven how to poker books and not translate the knowledge into consistent cash results?

[Etric]

They apply the concepts at the wrong time / play too loose preflop.

Playing winning poker is boring.

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Playing winning poker is boring.

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Yeah I second that. I have been playing a lot of SNGs lately and people play great for the first say 2 levels then something bad happens they let there emotions get involved and next thing you know they are calling to the river with only top pair.

Knowing what to do is one thing. Having the discipline to do it is another.

you think it is mostly discipline versus the hard to explain intangibles ? Like "know your player" and 'it's all situational"?

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Playing winning poker is boring.

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Yeah I second that. I have been playing a lot of SNGs lately and people play great for the first say 2 levels then something bad happens they let there emotions get involved and next thing you know they are calling to the river with only top pair.

Knowing what to do is one thing. Having the discipline to do it is another.

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I think the best poker I've ever played was live when I went up 10 times the buy in with no cards: playing ultra aggressively and reading every opponent all the time, the exact opposite of boring, I got burnt out quickly. But for online i'd have to agree, I counter by multi tabling. But then again i suck, so take my advice with reservations.

[jj_frap]

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Playing winning poker is boring.

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Yeah I second that. I have been playing a lot of SNGs lately and people play great for the first say 2 levels then something bad happens they let there emotions get involved and next thing you know they are calling to the river with only top pair.

Knowing what to do is one thing. Having the discipline to do it is another.

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Hahaha...While I was playing the middle stages of a PokerStars $3 MTT yesterday, some dunce took a bit of a bad beat right after being moved to my table but still had a reasonable stack.

For the next few hands, he played like a complete donkey and ended up -- while still having a reasonably middling stack -- calling AA's raise with K7o and pushing against flopped quad aces on the turn.

[Niediam]

1) They are stupid. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Talking to people who have an 'average' intelligence sometimes frustrates me. And then to think that half the people are even less intelligent...

2) They do not work at their game. They might read a book once but they don't study it and truely take the time to think about their game.

Truly Niediam? You think the "average" person is just lazy?

[Niediam]

That wasn't quite what I meant... even though perhaps in today's world it's atleast somewhat true.

Most people probably just don't want to put in the work needed to become a good poker player because they would rather use the time at work, with family, cleaning out the basement, etc.

in context to the discussion... do you play professionally?