Learning One Step at a Time

I'm still a beginner, and every session teaches me something new. Right now, I'm focusing on playing fewer hands, being more patient, and learning from my mistakes instead of worrying about the results. I believe improving my decisions is more important than winning every game.

The decisions-over-results part is the piece most players take years to actually believe, so you are ahead of the curve. The books back it hard: short-run results are mostly variance, so decision quality at the moment you acted is the only thing worth grading yourself on.



One way to make "learning from my mistakes" concrete instead of a mood: pick one focus before each session, just one, like folding the junk hands you already know you should not open. During play, mark any hand that confused you and keep moving, no table analysis. Afterward, replay the marked hands to the decision point, commit out loud to what you would do, then check what you actually did. One focus per week sticks where six at once do not, and the fewer-hands, more-patience goals you listed will fall out of that loop on their own.

That's a great mindset to have as a beginner. One thing I'd add is to review a few interesting hands after each session, especially the ones where you weren't sure if your decision was correct. Those spots usually teach you a lot more than the hands you won or lost without much thought. If you keep focusing on making better decisions instead of chasing short-term results, the wins will take care of themselves over time.

Joujou113 said:

I'm still a beginner, and every session teaches me something new. Right now, I'm focusing on playing fewer hands, being more patient, and learning from my mistakes instead of worrying about the results. I believe improving my decisions is more important than winning every game.

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If you want to turbo charge your growth, get GTO WIZARD and look at what preflop ranges look like. Winning poker is not about playing overly tight ranges it is about playing the correct range in the correct spots. It will take you years to learn correct ranges by just estimating what hands to play and hoping experience will refine ranges for you.
Playing too few hands is not winning poker either.

You think great for a beginner, I believe that you will master this game well.