thinking through detailed advanced concepts and gto vs unconcious competence of large samples
In mental game of poker there are talks on conscious competence and unconscious competence
after practicing applying alot of advanced concepts and gto over time with large samples, I'm realizing for me the winrate comes alot from adapting to some conscious competence and some unconscious competence
the more you put in a large number of hands on a regular basis the more poker is supposed to be played as mostly unconscious competence- conscious competence mostly detracts from overall sample.
It seems obvious, the more you think through things in smaller samples the more your used to unconscious competence over large samples. However I think I could use more thoughts on progression to unconscious competence over large samples.
I'm used to thinking through advanced concepts and detailed gto, which means only playing with unconscious competence over large amount of hands regularly has alot of lapses/downswings.
What are some thoughts on how to retain advanced concepts when applying larger samples of unconscious competence without detracting the playing style to only thinking through smaller samples.
seems like a dumb question but thinking through hands too much is what I'm overly reliant on and its not about doing the same thing over and over.
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I'm no expert and I'm struggling to follow your questions, but I'll reply since no one else has.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm reading your core question as:
"How do I stay consistent in applying a balanced, GTO strategy over the long term and not reverting to some other strategy (e.g. exploitative?) that would generally apply only to a small sample (or particular villain)?"
Or in other words - how do I play perfect, balanced poker? Phrasing the question this way probably makes it rhetorical. I don't have much to add other than the braindead advice of repetition. If you're spending an hour a day on solvers and charts, maybe try make it 2 hours/day? Take notes on whether you feel that makes a difference?
Applying your last sentence - when you first learn to read, you're overly reliant on pronouncing each letter individually. Until you do it so often, that it's "unconscious competence". What special strategy or hack did you apply to achieve this? Nothing but repetition.
If I misinterpreted your question, sorry.
