Self-Taught Players

If such people exist, they would be as far to the right on the bell curve as you can imagine! Poker is certainly less quantifiable than blackjack or video poker; but it is more complicated, and more is at stake when the correct strategy is counter-intuitive.

In general, people should expect similar results in achieving expertise at poker on their own as they would at chess or calculus. Thank goodness, most people do not know this fact. King is a drawing hand". You just need to figure out what they learned, and what they ignored, to own them.

People who follow advice from the wrong books

Several poker books contain erroneous information. The authors state a piece of evidence in an authoritative manner and often make convincing arguments substantiating their theories. A person must rely upon his own resources to evaluate the validity of these statements.

Too many people just take the author's word as fact and this leads to poor play. What I do not understand is how these people can do exactly what a poor poker book tells them to do, and ignore what a good poker book tells them to do!

It is not necessarily a bad plan to read the worst books available on poker, just to understand where these people come up with their absurd ideas.

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