Posted by: Royal Flush Just for a bit of background, Lloyd decided to give up on the PHA board today because he felt his time is wasted, i would probably be better off doing the same thing but i find it amusing so stay around. Mantis is a losing tournament player.
sharkscope says I'm a winning tournament player and I trust them more than Jim.
I'm better live though.
Either way I still think I'm learning the game...but I'm not paying for that education. So this is a good thing. I think the bulk of that education is learning how different types of people think and thus how you can read and manipulate them. I think the PHA Board is an invaluable resource in this respect because it gives you direct access to that information....and it's free.
The best way to take the board is like this from I KNOW IT....
You take what you want from peoples perception on how to play a hand and hope it may help to improve your own game. Its your own decision in the end.
There is no obligation to take anything away. You may disagree with almost everything someone has to say but you may stumble across one sentence from that person that improves you as a player by 1%. It's down to each individual player to filter out what makes sense to them and what they want to use. But there really HAS to be a wide diversity of opinion to make it worthwhile. If you found that everyone thinks the same there really would be no point and no education on offer. So it really surprises when difference of opinion is met with hostility on the board.
I think one of the fundamentals of a GOOD poker player is an immunity to emotion. So if you get a big hand you aren't nervous, if you take a bad beat you don't tilt....and importantly you don't let other players get on your tits and affect what you're trying to achieve. So when discussing a hand of poker why would you have an emotional outburst and threaten not to post on the board because people are frustrating you? Your strat and your character are two different, but equally important things, and people should be working on improving both if they want to improve their play.
The thing is that most people really do worry about their status and where they stand in the grand scheme of things and this is a weakness. On the PHA Board if agreement is not forthcoming some people will throw their toys out of the pram. But we've already said that your education wont benefit from agreement so it makes no sense to think like this. Learning how to cope with and understand a different mentality to yours is as important as learning how to play Jacks UTG imo. It is all poker. I would suggest to those that don't want to post not to. Posting that you're not going to post is a diet starting tomorrow. Those that want to get something from the board should learn to welcome difference, take away what you want, and stop allowing people to offend you.
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