Re: To the New, Aspiring Player
QTip,
This may be one of the most important posts that I've read here. After playing about 35,000 hands I've really started to think that putting the hours in and getting "experience" is what I needed to do. The past month I would berate myself for not playing enough hours, or playing the MLL games (which although I new wasn't a waste of time, don't contribute any $$$ directly). Your post made me realize something very elementary. I don't need the money. However, if I want to be a serious player, I do need the education. I've been trying to play the tables like it's a job and to some extent I think that's good to get an idea of what the "pro" life would be like, but as far as learning goes it's not helping me much.
In many of the books they talk about the value of "experience" in HE. However, I'm realizing that 2000 hands of multitabling/surfing 2+2 doesn't necessarily constitute "experience". To be honest, I kind of looked down on guys that had a ton of posts and not very many hands because I thought if they just dedicated half there time to playing instead of posting they'd be that much better off. Well, I did dedicate that much more time to playing and I'm not that much better off. Yes I have read the books alot but I now know not enough. I have a ton of favorite posts that I "just haven't gotten around to". In my October goals, all the reading goals are down the toilet, but my hands played goal isn't that far off. I'm starting to think that my priorities are askew.
In short, thanks for waking me up.
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