Blogpost, studying poker from two perspectives.

Yesterday and today, I was starting to review some videos about exploitative play in NL holdem. The guy is explaining the GTO angle of it and how to overview the whole situation and his recommendation what to do in general (exploitatively and GTO-wise) in certain situations. I have never been able to follow him 100%, I haven’t even known I have missed so much info in his videos. Now after 10 coaching sessions with a GTO expert I can really follow most of it. Before I just saw one side of the equation.

Besides going over my strategies, this month I am also doing some hypnosis sessions for studying more efficiently. I'm preparing to give my 500k hands challenge a good effort in Sep and a year forward.

It was a long time since I did not play poker for a month, but I feel this is the best thing to do, while I am getting my overall strategy pinpointed. Also I really need to be more patient and calm and relaxed which will take probably a month of hypnosis and then be ongoing. Poker is a lot about mindset and being at some kind of mental peak performance. Mistakes can be costly. Bad mindset and confused strategy means a break is on order I think.

If my challenge can be successful I think this preparation work will be interesting to have documented!