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Originally Posted by Slugant
man i hate that running sims is the best way to get better at poker nowadays. and if you dont like piostuff youre just falling behind
Agreed but it's the natural progression of things I guess. In all aspects of my life I've always preferred just doing things and figuring it out as I go along and adapting as opposed to intense study. I've been using pio more lately and doing more study than I ever have in the past, but I'll never go the route of just locking myself in a room with pio and studying it super hard. Think as long as you are game selecting properly and being honest with yourself about your place in the games you can still be totally fine not working with sims. If game quality gets so bad that the only games available are regs studying hard with pio beating up on regs not studying with pio than the time investment won't even be worth it imo.
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Originally Posted by Rapidesh123
Why? Sims are so fun. Or do you prefer everyone grinding pokerstove like in the old days? Haha.
It's more democratic too, the average guy with weak networking skills that has 0 crushers as friends can learn a lot on his own. While back in the day, poker knowledge would stay inside a circle and would never go out.
I think the way it is today is way better(obv not for the guys at the top)
I find aspects of working with PIO interesting and I guess sort of fun in certain ways, but for the most part I don't find studying very fun. Personally I find it way more fun when it's everyone using their own brain in real time to make their best approximation. Think it comes down to personality. Some people love to study and break down and learn all the little aspects of things. And some people love to just do things and adapt as you go.
Def agree with you that it's more attainable to anyone with the work ethic to put in the hours studying these days. Although money will still give people access to tools/advancements that aren't publicly available yet imo.