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Message: [QUOTE="GIRFIED, post: 5442526, member: 414519"] [B][COLOR=Blue][SIZE=4]High Stakes Players: Very smart people? Or Very hardworking people?[/SIZE][/COLOR][/B][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] I am surprised to see the players of High Limits, playing NL5,000, NL10,000, NL20,000 or even higher, something so far from reality for most poker players that it makes me wonder if it is really possible to reach at that level. They are the elite, the best of the best, but what differentiates them from most players? [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=4] They are not aliens, nor the poker gods, they are people like you, but they differ mainly by two factors:[/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*][SIZE=4] - Some reached those levels thanks to their exceptional intelligence, people with a prodigious mind that allowed them to understand the game at an enviable depth, we could say that they were born with that capacity, which they developed to get where they are.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=4]- The others, who are the majority, are people who, not having the intellectual capacity as the first ones, took the road to work very hard; Hours, weeks, months, years of dedication, cultivating his game to reach these levels, is the fruit of all his work.[/SIZE] [/LIST][SIZE=4]Now good, the poker is a very abstract game, it is difficult to find a direction to follow, that is, it is a game with so many possible strategies that it is extremely easy to be distracted by paths or ideas that do not take anywhere or at least not they lead to the place we want to go, but we must understand that this is part of the reality of poker.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]This allows us to question what path to follow? What should we understand and overcome? Broadly speaking, what a player must understand and overcome to become a HightStakes player are: 1) Structure, 2) Balance and 3) Technical Knowledge.[/SIZE] [I][COLOR=blue][SIZE=4]Structure[/SIZE][/COLOR][/I] [SIZE=4]HightStakes players structure their game, that is, when they play a situation, they always try to understand how they will play all the hands that make up their rank in that situation and in all the situations they have been able to study.[/SIZE] [SIZE=4]Obviously poker is an abstract game with many possible situations and even in HightStakes, not there is a player who has all the correct answers to a given situation;[/SIZE] [I][COLOR=blue][SIZE=4]Balance[/SIZE][/COLOR][/I] [SIZE=4]HightStakes players take care not to leave exposed sides in their game, they try to ensure that each decision they make leads to a balance, that is, an optimal game approach, an understanding of what they are doing with all parts of their range, of such a way so that the rival cannot take advantage of a deficiency in the structure of his own strategy; and[/SIZE] [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4][COLOR=Blue][I]Technical Knowledge[/I][/COLOR] [/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=4]HightStakes players know very well how they have reached each situation, with what rank, what rank the opponent has and in what place their rank is in relation to the rank of the rival.[/SIZE][FONT=Arial][SIZE=4] [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4]As we see[/SIZE][SIZE=4], wanting to be a high level player is a difficult path, but that only [/SIZE][SIZE=4]generates me respect for the people who have put so much dedication to become[/SIZE][SIZE=4]the best, this only makes me admire them and inspire me to be a better Player,[/SIZE][SIZE=4] to exceed my limits.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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