Serg77 said:
Doyle Brunson, lane Flack, and some other great players were intuitive geniuses, a kind of "artists at the poker table." They have the same natural sense of play and extraordinary ability to read their opponents that Stu Ungar had
(Alan Schoonmaker, YourWorstPoker Enemy).
It seems that you can study rules, strategies, money management and everything except intuition. It's something like a gift from nature.
Is it possible to play successfully with strategy and statistics skills while not having intuition? And how can you develop your intuition?
I think it is possible to play successfully with, as you say, strategies and statistics. But takes a lot of study and practice and coaching. Which is why the vast majority of players struggle to build a
bankroll...it's hard work and requires constant tuning to plug any leaks in your game. Most players who do well in poker, though, combine poker logic with intuition.
Intuition is one of those 'extras' packaged with your brain and body when you were born. You don't develop your intuition...it's already there in full bloom. What you need to develop is an awareness that you have it. Have you ever sat thru a string of unplayable hands where you just keep folding and then voila, the next hand appears and there;s a tiny little voice, so quiet you can't really hear it, that says play this hand. But then your logic brains no...my position sucks or the hand just won't work and you fold. And then you watch the board play out and realize you would have won a big pile of chips.
That's intuition giving you a wake up call. It doesn't ring often but when it calls...listen.
