NT's own won the PokerStars Main Event today ($2.3 MILLION)

Winning one tournament, especially a hyper turbo tournament, means nothing, so it probably was a fluke. Dedicate some time to watching videos, learn the strategy and tactics behind the game, and work on improving
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Honestly, can you get by in today's game with not being too keen on the math, and go mainly by feel/reads, or are there so many advanced players nowadays where the math is a vital part of the game?
 
Honestly, can you get by in today's game with not being too keen on the math, and go mainly by feel/reads, or are there so many advanced players nowadays where the math is a vital part of the game?
 
Originally Posted by franchise3

Honestly, can you get by in today's game with not being too keen on the math, and go mainly by feel/reads, or are there so many advanced players nowadays where the math is a vital part of the game?
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Poker is a game of math and experience, plain and simple. You can study the math and learn how to play in a really advanced, aggressive, difficult to exploit manner with lots of balance, which is important for cash games, but experience is also important for tournaments. Tournaments are less about balance and inexploitability and more about quickly figuring out the leaks of the much weaker players that play mtts and playing to exploit those with a number of tools at your disposal.

A common mistake though, is that when people hear "math" on poker they think people are talking about calculating pot odds or implied odds or probabilities and stuff. That isn't the "math" of poker, that's arithmetic. If you can't do that stuff in your head really quickly, then you pretty much have no shot.

The "math" of tournament poker is calculating equities against certain ranges, being able to figure out how freqeuntly a particular play needs to work in order to be successful, and what your equity is against a calling range, being able to do basic combinatorics (which really doesn't require much more than algebra), figuring out what the mixed game solutions to particular situations are, and really being able to cosntantly reevaluate new data and being able to adapt to rapidly changing dynamics.
 
Originally Posted by franchise3

Honestly, can you get by in today's game with not being too keen on the math, and go mainly by feel/reads, or are there so many advanced players nowadays where the math is a vital part of the game?
Click to expand...




Poker is a game of math and experience, plain and simple. You can study the math and learn how to play in a really advanced, aggressive, difficult to exploit manner with lots of balance, which is important for cash games, but experience is also important for tournaments. Tournaments are less about balance and inexploitability and more about quickly figuring out the leaks of the much weaker players that play mtts and playing to exploit those with a number of tools at your disposal.

A common mistake though, is that when people hear "math" on poker they think people are talking about calculating pot odds or implied odds or probabilities and stuff. That isn't the "math" of poker, that's arithmetic. If you can't do that stuff in your head really quickly, then you pretty much have no shot.

The "math" of tournament poker is calculating equities against certain ranges, being able to figure out how freqeuntly a particular play needs to work in order to be successful, and what your equity is against a calling range, being able to do basic combinatorics (which really doesn't require much more than algebra), figuring out what the mixed game solutions to particular situations are, and really being able to cosntantly reevaluate new data and being able to adapt to rapidly changing dynamics.
 
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