The Life Cycle of a Poker Player (and my thoughts on live vs online)

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Decent article. I like the idea of kids in the future being groomed for poker the way they are for tennis now, or like Tiger was for golf. There really is no "Tiger Woods of poker" right now because nobody was raised from birth and coached their whole life with the goal of beating poker.

I think people underestimate how important technical play is and overvalue the impressive unorthodox plays someone like Kenny makes. Kenny might play the river amazingly well, might be able to make great reads, etc. etc. but if he makes big technical errors he is easy to beat. There are already a lot of people like BT who play very very good technical hold'em, and they will only get better, and so many people just don't understand that balanced/randomized technical play is not exploitable, while on the other hand technical errors against a near-game-theory opponent will definitely lead to long term money loss.