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Message: [QUOTE="PokerDev, post: 4756521, member: 337813"] [COLOR=#444444]At the beginning of my journey…like a month ago…I started reading a little bit online about “how to play poker”.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]I almost wish now I hadn’t. It poisoned me, much of it.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]They started talking about multi-tabling. Which I promptly tried and lost a lot of money on.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444][FONT=inherit][I]I promise you that there is more than I could ever pay attention to on one poker table![/I][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]I play so much better in just one cash game at a time.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]If there were an algorithm you could use to play poker, we’d let the machines fight it out for us and save us all the time and worry.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]And, indeed, many many people are trying this approach.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444][I]But how do you think you really get better?[/I] How do you ascend up the ranks and work on higher and higher tables with greater and greater stakes safely?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]It’s by [I]thinking [/I]and [I]learning[/I].[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]If we are on 8 tables at once, are we really [I]observing?[/I] We are not watching for what actually happens. We are thinking about the theory the poker teacher is putting into your head.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]Unfortunately, poker instruction is like most instruction in the US…teaching you [I]what[/I] to think instead of [I]how [/I]to think.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]I’m talking to myself constantly when I’m playing online. Why is this happening? Why is that happening? What happened there? Why?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]What are the ‘streams of communication’? Who is saying what (via bets, raises, folds, calls, and all-ins) to whom? About what? Who is believing it? Who is ignoring whom? What is it costing them?[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]How long are people thinking about decisions? Or are they just[I] pretending[/I] to think? (Hollywooding)[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]How good are my cards? What if the cut-off goes all in? What do I do then? [/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]There’s an infinite amount of information in any given poker hand to process. I am trying, rather than trying to maximize the number of hands I to play, maximize my learning from each hand. Think about what went wrong when you get beat on a hand. Think about all the things you could have done differently.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]If there is a coach who teaches this way, I always learn and kick ass much faster.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]--[/COLOR] [COLOR=#444444]What do you think? Should you multi-table? When?[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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