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...Aren't those "feelings" you "just get" essentially an accumulation of knowledge from what you call "reference points"? The intuitive understanding of what spots are profitable/unprofitable that experienced/skilled players get when playing can be understood as a wealth of accumulated/learned knowledge of individually insignificant information, yeah? (Insignificant isn't exactly the right word but you get what I mean, discrete bits of knowledge relating to specific equities of specific hands vs. other specific hands on a specific board texture. This information alone doesn't do much for your poker game).
Honestly I hardly understand my own thoughts and the more back and forth there is the more skewed it gets.
those "feelings" you "just get"
understood as a wealth of accumulated/learned knowledge of individually insignificant information
This is more true when observing a spot that is solved and there is only one possible solution. Because we are looking at incomplete information - where the cards are , what behaviors will occur going forwards... Feelings will change as a spot is calculated. Feelings may even paint the spot. So it is part of the sum. Your question seems to delve into determinism/freewill. The rest of the sum is what you build on the past I guess, or what further light you can shed int he fog of war. And then that model is tested, light is shown by result, and becomes the past. My point here is that there is all this historical reference but then there is the observer of that and also the observer of the fog of war- ie the next street, current dynamic. Has there been change? Change is certainly felt. Feelings are probably comprised of absolute change.
Feelings are used as a measure apparatus and can make people think they are psychic. When it comes to feelings my head is really ****ed up to be honest in a grandiose sense. Like you know which box the 1 milly is in out of 3 random boxes. Knowing which combinations an opponent has and then trying to find the weight pivots within those combinations is also crazy. I try to entertain it though every now and then event though I know I am basically deluded.
So in short I do not use feelings in valuation of hands but I may use them in valuation of myself and my actions, and other peoples. Again, feelings is more akin to 'weight'. I have opted to always choose the easiest and lightest route in my decisions, basically folding when I'm moving uphill but still re raising when it feels easy and that will include snap bluffs and the like.
Feelings can also be the sense of inertia, and momentum (frequency of win cycles) a spot has can also be felt. You use your knowledge of your sense of inertia as a platform to store the variables in a game. (i suspect Dwan used to use this method alot but **** knows) I think that people are bias to use color as a method of valuing opponents. Our minds can use abstract concepts in a representative manner of real terms and values. There are people at poker tables who are trying to see peoples auras but they don't tell people because they know they are crazy.
My game is basically ****ed because I have learned too many methods of decision making that I can't decide which is best. My semantics all change also as soon as I make a mistake which can be from every few minutes to lasting months with a solid game. All I know is linguistic/narrative methods are no good. Too slow. Deciding between graphic and feeling is causing me insane dissonance.
I write stoned by the way, limits my expression to differing amounts and I make no sense in 95% of my ramblings- apologies. I might come back to this topic with fire brain i.e I haven't smoked or relieved my energies in a few days. Just for the contrast.
Last edited by Mt.FishNoob; 10-07-2017 at 06:08 PM.