Kind of a shower thought. I feel there is a difference in actually understanding the game of poker and understanding the current meta. Obviously poker is evolving day by day and when new meta is created there will be players who understand it better than others.

I believe this may be a reason why it is so difficult for people to perfect their understanding of the game. We are all trying to understand the current meta instead.

What if I understand one meta, but not another?

i dont think they are mutually exclusive. i think great players are both fundamentally sound and understand the current meta

That's what we call having leaks. :P

Of course great players are. My point is that I think that there may be a good portion of good, respected players that excel in one or another and make money by excelling in that particular part of poker.

This is what you think of in the shower ?

Seriously, you could stop at "poker is evolving" .....not sure what you mean by "current meta" versus "understanding of the game", if the game is evolving ?

Is "current meta" valid this hand, but not the next one ?

No I didn't literally think of this in the shower -.-

Imo there is a perfect way to play poker that will result in making 0 mistakes (which nobody has figured out how to do and is what I mean by understanding the game).

We have developed solutions to some spots in which we deem "standard" because we believe at this time that this is the best way to make the least mistakes and the most money. Those who understand our current concepts of "standard" spots make a good, consistent winrate because they understand the meta better than their opponents. This doesn't mean they understand the game enough to make 0 mistakes and these "standard" spots that they know better than others may not be the most optimal options.

what are you babbling about

Sounds like just "being good at poker" to me.

Did anyone else read OP and think it was written by one of those automated content bots?

I think this is too vague a description to describe good players.

Let's say there was a perfect player who made 0 mistakes and was essentially meta incarnate. Now recall the famous hand from the One Drop where the gentleman folded quads face up. If that fold is only correct to make one out of a million times, would you say that Mr. Meta would find that fold given one million identical spots.

One million is a lot of spots but if each one is identical with identical information I see no reason he would. Which just proves my point that knowing current meta =\= knowing the game at its core to the point of making 0 mistakes.

Are you saying you think that mr meta would randomly decide to fold one of those instances even though information is identical?

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r/showerpokerthoughts?

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wATS A META WITH YOU

Meta World peace

I meta nice girl the other day...

Why do people purpusly use words that others might not understand and then don't say what it means? What does meta mean? It's awvious the majoraty of people won't know what it means. It's like those smart people that purpusly use the most smartest and uncommon words just to look smarter to others.

I apologize. Meta = metagame. It is basically the term for the general strategy in playing poker (specifically no limit holdem ITT). Everything that is considered "standard" (i.e. Raising AA UTG/ folding 72o UTG) is part of the current "meta". It is whatever we as a community have deemed optimal strategy in hands.

Meta = how good they play

In Poker there are # of levels that players get to in skill wise as they play and learn about the game.

Players being able to pick up on the "Meta" of that player at the table.
The ability to profit on the weakness that the certain players skill level is at has and all levels are different.

The levels they are on are just how well they understand current meta/what level of meta they put their opponents on. Metagame itself is the strategy that we see as standard or optimal

Nvg gets worse everyday

well you failed at dictionary

nah its a pretty steady pile of ****