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Message: [QUOTE="doops, post: 1292226, member: 59356"] Yes, it is certainly possible to study too much. Most of the problems come in cramming too many new concepts, poorly understood concepts, into your play. Of course you feel off-balance. I find that the FTP poker academy challenges are a good way to incorporate discrete bits into your play -- and to see what those particular bits accomplish in the long haul. Once you see what certain specific techniques do, how they make others act and react, and evaluate your own comfort level with each particular tidbit/tool, then you can try your own twist on that tool. It's like learning anything. You can't really take off (successfully) on your own way of doing whatever it is until you have the basics under your belt. And, nowadays, the poker "basics" are a good deal more sophisticated, thanks to books and other learning tools. Just take it one step at a time. [/QUOTE]