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Originally Posted by Citi
I have never been so satisfied...to find out that this book and others mentioned frequently here are considered the bar. To find out that others are learning from these books. You all (authors) have only communicated the basics. I am absolutely thrilled about the level of contentment with these books.
JL you have a poker mind, but you are an infant in the game. Unfortunately (or fortunately...depending on how you look at it) for you, you had many huge leaks plugged early on and that allowed you to soar in the game and not constantly go back to the drawing board and re-evaluate everything over and over and over. You have completely missed the true poker train.
I am here to tell you that your book wins, and your book's "players" can win...but they suck. balls.
If no one has ever told you to up your game, well here it is for free. UP YOUR GAME SON!
added for edit and unrelated: doc, i'm going to crush your soul.
I have no clue what any of this rant means. Welcome to 2+2 I suppose.
Fwiw, I started off not knowing how to play at all. I was naturally a super nit. I had to have almost the nuts in order to put a chip in the pot. I eventually figured out that being a nit doesn't work. My "natural" strategy certainly was not ideal.
Also, I have had a few fairly large downswings throughout my career. I overcame these downswings by dropping down in stakes and spending a ton of time studying the winning players in my games. Once, I was down to my last $10,000 as a 19 year old (not counting the money I just put down on a condo, which was probably a bad decision) and dropped down from the $200 sngs to the $10 sngs. I decided that I would win 100 buy-ins at each level before moving up to the next level. After a few months of hard grinding, I found myself doing well in the $1,000 games.
While lots of big name pros start off their careers with a big tournament score, I never had that. I started with $50 and ground it up playing limit holdem and then sngs. It took around 4.5 years before I had my first big score for $320,000 in a WPT event. I think I was lucky to win later in my career. If you have it easy, you don't really know how bad things can get.