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Do you believe in poker intuition?

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  1. Remen Remen is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 10:24am)

    Br's thread on his hand against Menlo got me thinking harder on this. I remember Doyle Brunson vaguely talking about it but then I saw it again on Poker After Dark. He mentioned great players have this unknown gut/sense that can't be qualified (Not his exact words).

    So do you believe Bax,Sheets, Rizen, BR and Below, Annette have this? Do you believe it is possible in online poker?

    Personally I do believe there is a poker intuition maybe it's years of knowledge that is there. Maybe it's intelligence that works and puts small things like bet patterns, actions, tells together faster then most people.

    Is it just gut feeling? .Just something that's really running thru my head and I wanted others thoughts.

    Is this "Ability" what seperates the good from the great? Is this more viable live vs Online if you believe it?
  2. pariah pariah is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 10:25am) in reply to Remen

    I dunno, let's ask Malcolm Gladwell.
  3. poker_steve poker_steve is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 10:26am) in reply to Remen

    In doyle's book he talks about how you have noticed all this information about players and something just doesn't feel right in the back of your mind so this is where the intuition comes from. It's not just a gut feeling it's more like your subconcious mind processing information about the hand that gives you this "feeling".
  4. lordxixor101 lordxixor101 is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 10:59am) in reply to Remen

    I think intuition plays a fact in every aspect of life. I think everyone at some point, doing something, gets that feeling that something doesn't add up. Either your doing a project at work, and something hits you. Or, you wake up, and something just seems off. Sometimes it's nothing and sometimes, there is really something that is up.

    I think the trick is to not confuse intuition with being scared. You have KK and get repopped and you get that feeling in your stomache that your beat, that's usually just being scared. Listening to that is not good. But, sometimes, you'll be sitting there and something won't add up. The way that he quickly reraised you on a turn that he checked the flop just doesn't feel right (might be a bluff).

    Intuition is mostly built on experience, and your brain processing that something you normally see with the rest of what your seeing is missing.

    But, to be honest, I don't think that the best have some sort of gift that the rest of us don't have. There's may be more honed for the situation, but it's something that, through experience, we can all gain.
  5. Willywoo Willywoo is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 11:02am) in reply to lordxixor101

    It is a semi conscious processing of patterns of the table and of individual players.
  6. SPena SPena is offline

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 11:09am) in reply to pariah

    thin slicing is + EV
  7. FouTight FouTight is offline international super spy

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    Jun 13th, 2007 (6/13/2007 11:13am) in reply to SPena

    Thin Slicing FTW!

    (Blink!)
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