“What does a winning poker player really do?”

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Is it discipline, strategy, patience, or experience?

Share what skills you think differentiate an average player from a winner.
 
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A winning player takes advantage of average or losing players . Easy to describe , hard to accomplish long term .
 
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1) bankroll management
2) Mental toughness/tilt control
3) Patience
4) Game/table selection
5) Discipline

^Not any kinda of order because they'll all equally as important as one other and if one isn't at least decent at them all long term they'll never be a winning a player. This is why only 10% to maybe 15% of the total players are winning players long term. I'm a perfect example I play a simple 15+ year old TAG+exploitive strategy and haven't opened a solver or studied to advance my game for more then 2 mins total. I do hand reviews so I don't pickup any bad habits and to keep my game on track nothing more. Yet I'm winning a 20+ year player at the stakes I play. I'm just a rec/hobby playing dummy who does them 5-6 listed things above really well.

A lot of skills needed to manage and run your own business are the same skills required to be a winning poker player long term.

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It depends on what level the player is at and how much they are winning by. For example, the "discipline" of a winner in microstakes might be very different than the winner of major poker tournament. In broad strokes, what @hardongear said is spot on. That top 5 list is good. I'd put bankroll management and game/table selection as the two most important and the others as extensions of those two. Patience and discipline are both related to the other two. As is mental toughness and tilt control as well.
 
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Travel around the world, meet new people, network and etc
 
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i think they all go hand in hand. From a personal standpoint, discipline or the lack of -is the most difficult 1 for me
 
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Phoenix Wright said:
It depends on what level the player is at and how much they are winning by. For example, the "discipline" of a winner in microstakes might be very different than the winner of major poker tournament. In broad strokes, what @hardongear said is spot on. That top 5 list is good. I'd put bankroll management and game/table selection as the two most important and the others as extensions of those two. Patience and discipline are both related to the other two. As is mental toughness and tilt control as well.
100% agree completely on everything you said. It matters what level a player is at. The higher up in stakes one plays the better they have to be at the things listed. And yeah the things listed are related like you said.

Cheers!!!
 
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Experience is a big part...those "well-known" players play loads of hands..
 
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Everything you mentioned. Like in any other sport or competition. Pros work harder, practice harder, balance themselfs out better, study more, think more.
 
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