[siegfriedandroy]

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ok briefly, I see playing poker at a high level as a combination of two things. Strategy and tactics.

Strategy is the things you do away front he table.

-Choosing the right site
-Choosing to play when you're mentally sharpest
-Spending as much time as you can learning about the game and reviewing your play
-Taking care of the other things in your life like your physical and mental health.

Tactics is how you play at the table. It's those individual decisions that make you money or lose you money.

You get better at strategy from thinking about those factors that allow you to be most successful, which often involves self examination. A good place to start would be with Barry Greenstein's book Ace on the River.

Tactics is a different story. You get better at tactics first by playing. Poker theory can only take you so far. You need experience. Secondarily, you improve your tactical game by discussion. This should help hone your instincts and exposes you to other good players ways of thinking. In the end, understanding the tactics of poker is about assimilating concepts into your game not memorizing how to play in individual situations. There are simply to many different events that can occur in poker for you to understand them all. So you must understand reasons behind your plays so that you can apply those reasons broadly to all similar spots.

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great post. thanks for the response. i like the strategy/tactics parallel [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]