Is poker just statistical or is it also intuitive?

Longbow · Oct 28, 2023

Do you believe that intuition is part of poker or is it just a game based on statistics?

pescaofish · Oct 28, 2023

is Poker, you do need the statistics but intuition in always a must!

venycyos · Oct 28, 2023

I think it's very much a game of intuition, but math shouldn't be overlooked. Intuition and luck ruin you in the short term, but math will give you the best result in the long term.

CataRouillet · Oct 28, 2023

I think that professionals have a lot of both. I don't think it's based on one option or the other.

Luvepoker · Oct 28, 2023

Poker is about the math. While intuition is great in a moment of time it really does not help in the long term.

Ogma · Oct 28, 2023

Intuition is huge in poker but get too intuitive and you'll end up beating yourself.

Longbow · Oct 28, 2023

Luvepoker said:
Poker is about the math. While intuition is great in a moment of time it really does not help in the long term.

I agree, we have to have a balance between intuition and skill.

jcxmendes · Oct 28, 2023

In the static and mathematical conclusion, intuition is not something assertive!

Falai_san · Oct 28, 2023

Making the right decision at the right time is one of the basic things in the game of poker.

Mag_P1e · Oct 29, 2023

It seems to me that intuition can play a bad joke on us. When we make a call not according to the pot odds, but as a result we collect our "treasured" combination - we begin to think that we played correctly, but at a distance this will definitely have a negative impact on our winrate - we will lose more and more, because “our feeling” should someday it will work.

alabos · Oct 29, 2023

Both of them......i think intuitive is more important but dosen't guarantee anything

Leandro6803 · Oct 29, 2023

Yes, it is a statistics game, but we must adapt our activity to the opponents we face, especially against very aggressive players.

Rachidao · Oct 29, 2023

Statistics online, intuition ( opponent read) live.

takinitSLEAZEE · Oct 29, 2023

ZenonBR said:
Do you believe that intuition is part of poker or is it just a game based on statistics?

Yes, I think intuition eventually supersedes statistics since being in the know is a much better station than making a statistical evaluation. In other words, trusting your gut is the "mental nuts", imo. It seems there's always a hand or two or three etc., that I tell myself I should have "gone w/my gut" on that, whether it's a pf raise, a call on the turn, or a shove on the river, my intuition was right... In hindsight. Isn't that always how it is? Or so it seems.

But yeah, gut over stats.

MathMDI · Oct 29, 2023

When you've been playing for a long time, you notice that the statistics start to turn into intuition.

Dasha_21 · Oct 29, 2023

There's a part of intuition and a part of the statistics. And of course it's good luck

NightStalker · Oct 29, 2023

I believe it's a mix of them.

ztibor72 · Oct 29, 2023

Of course, intuition is also needed in online poker, but poker is based on mathematics, so statistics are more important, at least for me.
In live poker, intuition plays a much bigger role.

Longbow · Oct 30, 2023

NightStalker said:
I believe it's a mix of them.

That's what I think too.

German629 · Oct 30, 2023

By my opinion, Intuition, of course, important part of Poker... Especially, I think, this important in Alive Game,
when no the opportunities to use different statistics...

Gavincwb · Oct 30, 2023

I always say that poker is 80% statistics and 20% luck

Pityesz1974 · Oct 30, 2023

It is clearly a game based on mathematics, but intuition also comes into play, especially when catching a bluff.

airxlns · Oct 30, 2023

Well, if it was purely statistical it would have died a long time ago. Statistics are part of it but intuition and luck are present too.

Ataman911 · Oct 30, 2023

Just a game that requires a lot of luck

markdias · Oct 30, 2023

Intuition combines with emotion, and if you go that way, it won't work in the long term, better follow the statistics!

Is poker just statistical or is it also intuitive?

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