This may sound a little strange, but I am very biased on this one. If I were talking to this type of person who wanted to become better I would send them to CardsChat.
The reason I would do this we here have an opportunity to help each other. We're community of players some are very new and broad and just learning the game but there are also some players who may be very advanced players. I would suggest to this type of person to ask questions and even ask specific members that they respect might be willing to actually help answer a question or two and give them advice. At one time in my poker career I was in your situation where I couldn't do a lot of stuff paid wise what was part of poker school online and became part of a private group within it. How much I've learned in a year and a half span being part of a group like that just asking questions listening to good players talk to good players on hand histories and even just watching each other play and giving each other advice. When I was part of that group I was the weakest link but we also had some very good players who had won which states poker tour championships. What would allow a person in this type of situation to ask questions is they're all so helpful players. How many times are we asked what are they thinking why did they do that well that was how I helped describe it group. We all start from the beginning but we really don't remember what we were thinking of doing when we first started because we're working on trying to become a better player. Once we come a proficient player we start the question why people do things and how they play so we can beat them. This is how good players can even learn from the bad players.
Yes, the environment and atmosphere are very important, and here at cardschat we have that environment. I confess that I have experienced moments in cardschat when the topics seemed more useful, but that must be because I was discovering, and also because what we perceive outside has a lot to do with what we project internally. My fault.
I managed to be in a state of continuous learning, as you mentioned, learning from everything and everyone, and I did it without anything, without a favorable environment, in conditions of very poor quality of life, just taking advantage and extracting the juice, even from where I thought there was none, like extracting juice from rocks.
The only environment I had was cardschat and even then, when your mind is rotten this may not be so advantageous.
The great challenge of poker is: At the same time that you take advantage of past learning experiences, you must rid yourself of the experience of weakness and sometimes ineffectiveness of intellect and logic that occur due to the nature of the game (luck or bad luck). And this is very tricky because it is counterintuitive and seems to make no sense. While everything is screwed up, you keep your wisdom and experience faithful, and also when everything is working as it should, you have to remain calm and skeptical about nature, because even success can be a trap, you can become careless and closed to learning.
I think the interaction here at CC is cool, but I confess that I don't have many questions anymore, I'm not saying that I have nothing to learn. The problem is that the things I learn today are such subtle nuances, they are things that are difficult to explain.
Honestly, I would like to have the opportunity to experience this environment in person, with experienced and open people, and just be silent, observe, learn and execute, just to see how far I can go in this role.
Well, in short, what I would like to emphasize here, and it is something that I have always said, is that mindset is one of the most important things, if not the most important.
Because if you have a good mindset, you can learn poker even by watching birds. But with a bad mindset, not even the best team of players can help you.
