Joined: Feb '08
Location: Australia
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 312
Mistakes are made all day long.. But Aknowledging mistakes ,well, thats the hard part.
I read this article... about Aknowledging mistakes and I think that I agree the most with the advice of Howard Lederer.
"Chris Ferguson noted that humility is vital to winning poker. "To improve, you have to know you're making mistakes," Ferguson said. "There are a lot of hands I don't know how to play. There are a lot of situations I don't know how to handle. If I thought I knew everything, I'd never improve." How often do the pros make mistakes? D'Agostino says, "[We] make mistakes almost every single hand. They're small mistakes, but maybe I could have gotten paid off a little more on a given hand or avoided a bluff." Howard Lederer says, "To become a pro or a really good player, you have to become brutally objective about your game. If you aren't, you won't make the changes and improvements you need." While Lederer believes in the need for tough self-assessment, he notes that there's no need to dwell on past errors. "You have to be honest with yourself and you can't gloss over mistakes," he says, "but there's no need to beat yourself up. You need to learn from the mistakes and move on.""
Yeah, its very interesting article. Professians also humans, so they do mistakes sometimes. No 1 player not play in ideal poker (more often in offline cash or tournament, reading opponents etc), but need learn play our best poker and we raise our skill soon.
Joined: Feb '08
Location: Germany
Age: 41 (F)
Posts: 17
Indeed its hard work but u have to learn it! and in fact the difficultiest is to look clear on ur own mistakes. Sometimes u make big mistakes and win a pot. But u should even learn from this situations! Winning doesnt mean that u made the best!
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 1788
I don´t recall who said this but I agree, "It takes one day to learn how to play poker, and a lifetime to master it." Basically, poker is a constant learning experience. Play as much as you can, read as much as you can, learn as much as you can. That´s my vote.
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 273
Good article, knowing your mistake is really a good way to get better and better everywhere not only poker. Good post thanks a lot I hope to start writing something like this for here hehehe
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Brazil
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 273
HEHE thats why i will never like or buy one book from phill helmuth hehe, He is soooooo dumb he needs every1 to for him. Hope all of u ermember bankrollmob when u eran the WSOP and say I Started with bankrollmob and for KozaKBR to rember EHEHEH
Joined: Feb '08
Location: United States
Age: 51 (F)
Posts: 581
Good post, I think that playing and getting exp that way is much better than reading a book. A book will only take you so far, after that its all instincts I believe.