How Much Do You Study Compared to How Much You Play?

Do you spend more time actually playing, or more time studying?
What ratio works best for you, and how did you figure it out?

20+ year winning rec/hobby player. I play more than I study as I only do hand reviews when I study but then like some players I don't study to improve my game. I studied hard and long building my game 15_ years and for the first 5 years I played poker and before I started playing. How I figure it out? I leave Monday and Tuesday for hand reviews. So I play till I figure I have enough hands to keep me busying studying for a 2-3 hours on Monday. Sometimes I end up with more hands than I can get done in that time. That's where extending it to Tuesday comes in. Why Monday and Tuesday for study days? In my experience those are the least busiest days for online poker it's that simple. I wanna be playing when it's busy and the most players are online and that's Thursday(pay day for most) thru Sunday.

Cheers!!!

hardongear said:

20+ year winning rec/hobby player. I play more than I study as I only do hand reviews when I study but then like some players I don't study to improve my game. I studied hard and long building my game 15_ years and for the first 5 years I played poker and before I started playing. How I figure it out? I leave Monday and Tuesday for hand reviews. So I play till I figure I have enough hands to keep me busying studying for a 2-3 hours on Monday. Sometimes I end up with more hands than I can get done in that time. That's where extending it to Tuesday comes in. Why Monday and Tuesday for study days? In my experience those are the least busiest days for online poker it's that simple. I wanna be playing when it's busy and the most players are online and that's Thursday(pay day for most) thru Sunday.

Cheers!!!

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Haha, you’re a pirate for real!

Houbi37 said:

Haha, you’re a pirate for real!

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Hahaha yeah I'm bit unique in a few ways from the avg rec/hobby player no doubt. I know what I'm good at, know what games/stakes I'm good at and I stick to them. I posted them things many times if you care to go look at my past comments. Which I would if I was you because the 4-5 things I do really well a lot of players aren't good at and they're hard to be good at. But if one isn't good at them they'll never be a winning player long.

Not bragging because there are many players in this forum more knowledgeable, more recently studied and just overall smarter in poker strategy then me. The hardest part about being a winning poker player in my opinion/experience isn't how much recent poker strategy one knows specially if one is only a rec/hobby player who plays mainly micro-low stakes and doesn't want to be become a poker pro who plays for living. To make a living playing online one has to be very very good at poker and really well studied and has to keep up with recent changes.

Cheers!!!

Honestly, I probably play way more than I study, which I know isn’t ideal. Grinding feels easier than sitting down with solvers or reviewing hands, but the truth is the biggest leaps in my game have come from study sessions. Right now I’d say it’s like 80% play, 20% study — trying to flip that balance a bit because the long-term edge comes from putting in the work off the felt.