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Originally Posted by Kentucky Buddha
I am a three standard deviant guy, it was hard for me too. Simple thing that may help. The Neurology/Cognitive Psychology of the matter is counter-intuitive. The book "Blink" has a red deck blue deck anecdote that will help with the idea that the amazing neo-cortical alacrity that you have is in this exercise secondary in importance much of the time in poker. The low road is what you use when making "gut" plays. You must have already had encyclopedic exposure to truly similar spots before it can work though. Then and only then when you have an amygdalic response, you go with it. If you don't have a low road response, then and only then, reason it out. Then you will have a huge advantage, because of properly using your brain and because of your intellectual super-powers. LOL On average this will take 2-3 years, three deviants that are wounded critter focused on the game, maybe a year is possible if you play and then THINK quite a bit.
As Jaconda suggests, even then ABC is the basis, and you learn when to break the rules, but most of the time you don't. There is no substitute for fundamentals no matter how good you are. I have a picture of Roy Jones Jr. getting KO'd on my desk to remind me of that EVERY day!!
Great Post..Really good stuff.
Just please clarify that this is correct:
A "low road" response is essentially a "gut" response. An intelligent person has better low road recall once they absorb the intricacies of a certain poker situation and the decision becomes internalized.
However, when faced with a poker situation that you havent come across, raw intelligence is fruitless and a different part of the brain is at work?