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Originally Posted by pentsuxtube
I agree with the small testes
I hope to grow my testes through experience and the analysis here
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When I was in basic training, there was this kid who could shoot expert as easily as he was breathing. He was an incredible shot. When asked about why he was such a good shot, he replied that he grew up in Louisiana and that 75% of his family's food was based on what he, his brothers, and his father hunted. If he missed, they went hungry that night and in the wild, you only got one shot.
Basically, for everyone else, shooting was just a sport, for him, it meant the difference between eating and not eating.
What the hell does that have to do with poker?
If you learn to take this sort of commitment with your reads and the hands you play, it will drastically improve your reads and ability to play.
If you think someone is weak RAISE THEM.
If you think you can outplay someone post flop, then fine, call them and make moves on them and go to war.
If you think someone is making a move against you then either jam back or call them down.
If you think someone has you beat, then FFS fold.
What will happen is through trial and error and simple Darwinism, you will develop a much better read and ability to play post flop. You will also develop an appreciation for the importance of having correct starting assumptions.
But dgi, isn't being stubborn a bad thing, shouldn't we be paying attention to new information?
Yes and no.
In the beginning, being stubborn will help you develop an appreciation for correct basic strategy. You call enough preflop raises with 93s and lose enough money eventually you will learn to NOT call raises with 93s.
You think you are awesome and can outplay everyone, eventually after enough losses you will figure out that cards matter and that trying to make moves on the OMC or nit who only raises 1 hand per hour isn't profitable.
Once you develop a better sense of "poker reality" THEN you can start being more flexible incorporating new information and adjusting. But in the beginning, you gotta learn some from the school of hard knocks which brings us back to this thread and hand posting.
You make a move with bs preflop, get called, flop the world, then stack it off!
Eventually, you will learn that either A) you can play BS profitably or B) you shouldn't play that BS because even when you hit you lose or C) you can only play BS profitably when you flop the world and in all other cases snap fold or D) some combo of A-C that varies according to the situation...
I guess what I'm saying in my typical long-winded dgi rants is that you shouldn't be afraid of being wrong or looking stupid. If you are going to take a line, don't be half assed about it --- for right or wrong see it through and later off the table do your analysis on the situation. Rinse and repeat enough times and eventually you will develop a very solid framework of when to be awesome, when to not be awesome, when to take standard lines, when to deviate from standard lines, etc etc.