The driver for wishing to examine numerous hands in 2024 was a particular leakage I had, which had to do with my working memory. I was discovering it difficult to psychologically manage a lot of possible hands when thinking about my challenger’s variety. I discovered myself putting gamers on extremely narrow varieties since I was having a hard time to think about that, for instance, on a A72r flop, my challenger may have AA, 77, 22, AKs, AKo, AQs, AQo, AJs, AJo, ATs, ATo, A9s-A2s, KK-99 … you understand.
I felt that from large effort evaluating hands, I would enhance my working memory when playing hands. When decreasing the knowing bunny hole, I was advised of an idea we took a look at in The Mental Game of Poker 2 – chunking.
Break things down into significant pieces
Think about the following string of random numbers: 582917463. Attempting to bear in mind this series as a whole can be tough. By chunking the numbers into smaller sized groups, such as 58, 29, 17, and 46, the info ends up being more absorbable and simpler to keep in mind. Rather of keeping in mind 9 private digits, you just require to remember 4 pieces, making it more workable for your working memory.
In daily life, chunking is typically utilized when keeping in mind telephone number, addresses, or charge card numbers. By breaking down longer sequences into significant pieces, people can improve their memory and recall capabilities, eventually enhancing their cognitive performance.
A streamlined method to think about poker hands
I when again have Gareth James to thank for how I had the ability to incorporate chunking into my research study and play, though he was pointing out Michael Acevedo:
@GTOpoker, in his fantastic book ‘Modern Poker Theory’, utilizes the concept of Ace, High, Medium and Low cards.
– A = Ace
– H is any card K, Q, J, T
– M is any card 9,8,7,6
– L is any card 5,4,3,2I utilize this in my aggregate reports, along with a somewhat various technique pic.twitter.com/Ptq6ZsdPur
— Gareth James (@gazelligpoker) December 10, 2023
This streamlined technique for breaking down hands alleviated a substantial cognitive problem for me. Whenever I study or play now, rather of attempting to consider every possible hand combination, I rather believe things like “I am the UTG opener and will have variety benefit on A & & H flops, the BB protector will most likely have the benefit on M & & L flops. When we get to the turn or river, when things get a bit more intricate, just then do I begin believing about private hands that may be in each variety.
I believed that enhancing my working memory would have to do with having the ability to hold lots more info in my head at the same time, when in reality it had to do with holding less info in my head (till it ends up being required to enter into more depth).
Do you do this when you study poker? Let us understand in the remarks:
