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12-28-2010 , 08:57 AM

_Nit_

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I have a bunch of books to read on NLHE SH. I will be studying for 3 hours per day every day.

Should I read one at a time, or look at the indexes and look at each concept individually?

Like, if I go to read Ryan Fee's 6max guide and start with range, should I browse my other material and read about the other author's recommendations? Or just read them one by one?

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12-28-2010 , 09:05 AM

wafflehouse1

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I would just read them one by one, but if you do want to read a few chapters from a book, then jump online and watch some videos that would be ok in my opinion. If you read too much at once, you start applying parts of all different strategies and you dont know whats working and whats not hindering your development.

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12-28-2010 , 09:40 AM

Masq

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So you're going to study 3 hours every day and how much time will you play?

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12-28-2010 , 09:48 AM

_Nit_

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Originally Posted by Masq

So you're going to study 3 hours every day and how much time will you play?

2-3 hours

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12-28-2010 , 10:02 AM

Masq

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Study less, play more imo. Depending on your current knowledge of the game.

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12-28-2010 , 10:05 AM

_Nit_

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Originally Posted by Masq

Study less, play more imo. Depending on your current knowledge of the game.

Why?

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12-28-2010 , 10:08 AM

Masq

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Because it's all a con and the best way to improve at the game is to play. If you don't get some basic concepts then go ahead and read the books, but the real value is in applying the knowledge which you'll get through experience. As with anything in life.

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12-28-2010 , 10:22 AM

DWarrior

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It might be fruitful to go street by street in all the books and see where they differ. Especially on later streets, if their advice differs, you can go back to earlier streets and try to figure out if the earlier strategy of each book fits with the later strategies to produce diverging results.

And yeah, be careful of just blindly mixing strategies because it might end up worse than any individual one. However, going book by book you might not get a chance to compare the strategies and just go mostly with whatever you read last.

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12-28-2010 , 10:24 AM

DWarrior

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Why?

Part of it is knowing ranges of your opponents. The books are mostly written with certain opponents in mind, or they have advice that depends on knowing your opponents. The only way to know your opponents is to play and then look back at the hands you've played.

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12-28-2010 , 11:05 AM

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_Nit_

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I have already played ~50k hands so I have a rough feel for the player types.

I have been reading bits here and there about different concepts and have definitely been misapplying a lot of concepts.

I will just be reading a section of a book and then going and applying the things I have learnt, until I am satisfied with my understanding of the concept.

Today, I read the first section of Ryan Fee's 6max NLHE Guide and found the information on adjustment wonderful.

Then I sat at two tables and starting figuring things out.

That's the kind of learning process I want to achieve.

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12-28-2010 , 03:09 PM

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Johnston666

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I study 2-4hours a day and play for about 6. the studying really helps your game.

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12-28-2010 , 03:25 PM

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Night Crawler

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Leatherass says that in the beginning of your poker career an 80/20 split between playing and studying is probably the best.Also,once you get better and better,you should lower the time for studying and spend more time at the tables.

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12-28-2010 , 03:55 PM

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DWarrior

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Is that 80 playing to 20 studying?

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