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Message: [QUOTE="IADaveMark, post: 6427182, member: 490208"] What you are talking about touches on a couple of things. If you are familiar with the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he talks a lot about how experts can actually detect things in their area of expertise but can't explain exactly why. That's along the lines of what you are talking about where you have internalized so much information that it becomes intuition beyond even what you might be able to understand. A bit more along the lines of what you were talking about is something that is referred to as the adult stages of learning. Those come into play when we are approaching something that we aren't familiar with. The first one is unconscious incompetence. We suck and we don't know it. The second one is conscious incompetence. we suck and we realized that we do but we don't know how to fix it. Number three is conscious competence. If we are thinking about what we are doing we can actually do it. However, we have to concentrate on it at all times. The fourth one, and is really the one you are after, is unconscious competence. We can do it without thinking about it. An interesting problem with this is that sometimes complacency kicks in add people wrap back around from unconscious competence back to step 1 of unconscious incompetence. We get so complacent that we start making mistakes and don't realize that we are doing so. So yes, obviously the first thing that people need to do is become competent when they are thinking about it and eventually stuff starts sliding into unconscious competence. There are repeating patterns that we have seen enough that we just instinctively know how to deal with it. Not only does that come with regards to how to handle particular hands and board textures but can also apply to the psychology of dealing with the other players. [/QUOTE]

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