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Message: [QUOTE="SavagePenguin, post: 1969870, member: 22087"] Reading others is glamorous and people are quick to want to jump to it. One needs to work on their own head first. Without a solid foundation, anything you build is apt to get washed away. (medeiros13 and I discuss this some in thread #2) Sure. PM me whatever you want. I'm not looking to take on a student but I'll give advice when asked. Besides psychology you need a solid understanding of what's going on in the game. I went from a losing player to a winning player by studying Harrington on Hold'em Volume 1 and Volume 2. By studying I mean I would read a section and if I caught myself not paying attention I made myself re-read the section over again. At the end of each section was a quiz, and if I got one wrong (or not right enough, I had to be confident and know exactly why and in detail) I would force myself to re-read the entire section. Some of the advice was outdated even when I read it years ago, but it teaches you how to think of the game and explores aspects I never would have though of without many years of experience. Then I read the books again, using the same rules, an I learned even more. (A couple years later I read them a third time, but didn't pick up much) Harrington doesn't cover much psychology stuff. I picked up a lot of that in the forums from people like ChuckTs and others. A lot of it is learning from my own mistakes, but even more was by learning from other people's mistakes. If you can learn from other people's mistakes then it'll save you a lot of grief in the future. The big thing about psychology is that while you can learn to play well and accumulate chips/money/bankroll, without a solid mindset you are apt going to blow it all away. As I said in the aformentioned threads, "You are not 'good' until you can keep your few mistakes from overshadowing your usually-correct plays." [/QUOTE]

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