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speaking about hands make you play worse? speaking about hands make you play worse?

09-09-2015 , 08:57 PM
always when i argue with people how to play hands it somehow makes me unsure that i play them right.

i feel like it hurts my game to consider to many opinions about spots.

i made alot of 2+2 accounts already, i always stop posting again because i think hearing so many diffrent oppinios somehow makes me play worse.
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09-10-2015 , 03:03 AM
Stop worrying about playing every hand right, every time. No one plays every hand perfectly, and your opponents are entitled to outplay you, and/or out-luck you.

Instead, concentrate of getting the majority of your decisions right, the majority of the time.

Plus, a lot of players get hung up about one hand they played badly out of maybe a hundred, and only analyse losing hands. In order to adopt a balanced approach, reflect or review not only hands where you made a mistake, but also hands you played well. One of the worst things anyone can do is constantly focus on the mistakes they make, while ignoring all the positive things they do, in life as with poker.
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09-10-2015 , 07:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Elrazor
Stop worrying about playing every hand right, every time. No one plays every hand perfectly, and your opponents are entitled to outplay you, and/or out-luck you.

Instead, concentrate of getting the majority of your decisions right, the majority of the time.

Plus, a lot of players get hung up about one hand they played badly out of maybe a hundred, and only analyse losing hands. In order to adopt a balanced approach, reflect or review not only hands where you made a mistake, but also hands you played well. One of the worst things anyone can do is constantly focus on the mistakes they make, while ignoring all the positive things they do, in life as with poker.
thing is i think i prefer diffrent lines than the majority of posters on 2+2.

for instance i c/c hands other people would b/f or i c/r in spots other people wouldnt.

discussing with the people here somehow make me doubt if my approach to the game is right.

as soon as i start discussing my hands here i start playing worse than befor, as im always unsure with my decisions.
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09-10-2015 , 09:54 AM
This is common, partly because most of the comments are just drivel and vary in quality, and partly perhaps because you don't have the confidence in your decisions/ability yet?

IMHO, there is no right or wrong answer. The only "right" answer is the one that makes sense to you. Rather then asking for an "answer" and believing it, ask yourself does this "answer" make sense to me? Why or Why not? There is nothing wrong with doubt as it drives investigation and thinking, but don't let it overwhelm you. Just be disciplined and stick to one thing only, for some time.

I'd get any but only one Poker book covering fundamentals for the game you are playing and read it and stare at the fundamental concepts outlined until they make sense to you. I would then try out only those concepts outlined in the book for a few months and see how I go. I would try not to do anything else, believe anything else or change anything else, but only play-by-the-book during this time. A sort of a controlled experiment. Then get another book, and repeat.

I'd also look up "Critical thinking" and "Scientific thinking".

GL.

Last edited by a12; 09-10-2015 at 10:04 AM.
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09-10-2015 , 10:29 AM
i think alot of pokerbooks describe a losing style.

i have "gotten" the fundamentals, ty anyway.

i think a majority of posters are to overzealus in b/f, and i think it is the main mistake of a lot of losing regs. so discussing here will make you make the same mistakes as all the losing regs.
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09-10-2015 , 11:24 AM
discussing here will make you make the same mistakes as all the losing regs.
I don't agree with this. If you know a losing reg line, why would you take the same line? I mean do you b/f because a poster says so, a book says so, or because you think is the right move because of x y z?

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09-10-2015 , 11:30 AM
well if everybody shouts at you and says "c/c is horrendous" etc you could start to believe it, especially if the guy has 1000 posts.

its easy to get tricked in the internet
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