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Originally Posted by theorangeone
Watching, reading, listening etc should be like 20% of the time you put into study. You can get better much faster by a combination of playing and reviewing and doing your own calculations.
If reading/watching is the only study you do you might as well not do it.
I wouldn't go that far.
Yes, if you're not learning or using the information that you've been given, it won't do you a lot of good. That said, just watching a video can introduce you to new concepts, which of course you have follow up on your own.
I'm always learning new things from books and from videos. Until I read
Bluffs a few months ago, I didn't know that most bluffs are in fact some sort of semibluff. When I hear the word "bluff" I remember watching Vanessa Selbst 4-bet shove with T2o.
I've been playing poker for about ten years, but I've only been watching coaching videos for about a year. I watched one a few days ago that used Flopzilla to talk about knowing your equity and knowing how likely your opponent was to fold.
I have never used Flopzilla. It had never occurred to me that I could combine my equity with the chance that villain would fold, then decide where I stood in a hand.
If you're a new player, you can learn a lot from watching a coaching video, even before you act on that information. I would say that a book or video can point you in the right direction. What you do with that information determines how good a player you will be.
EDIT: On a video I watched a few days ago, Jonathan Little said that as part of his study he subscribes to five coaching sites.