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Originally Posted by Tejas_Escorpion
Willing to put in the work. Just Wanna know what needs to be done.
That's the curious thing about poker. A lot of ego, a lot of talk, a lot of posturing, but very little actual real advice on how to improve your game. Sample sizes of 50k hands are almost meaningless. Luck is a huge factor (bigger than most want to admit) in poker and you will find yourself on a normal bell curve for luck even in the sample size of a lifetime unless you're playing a million hands a year for 20 years sorta thing. In the sample size of a lifetime there will be a certain few players who run extremely good a certain few who run extremely bad and a lot who run slightly bad and slightly good.
No player will ever actually reach the long run in this game despite every decision being made towards that end. It's also extremely fuzzy guesswork making decisions a lot of the time which further blurs the line between luck and skill. A lot of variance is hidden and imperceptible which yet further makes it a difficult game to analyze.
There are some very real things you can do to improve your game (exploiting player types, preflop card selection, position and relative position, mindset and tilt control etc) but never forget you're always doing a little gambling and even playing near perfect to maximize expected value can lose over millions of hands (years of playing).
Last edited by DoOrDoNot; 09-26-2017 at 04:52 PM.