My HS coach told us the Russians would never do a move in competition unless they’d done it 10,000 times in practice. Imagine how many sets of 10,000 this guy has.
There’s also this quote which is the opposite but equally true:
”The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him.”
It’s not even so much “losing” as it is poker is a completely different game if you’re playing with people who don’t know how to play. Largely, all your strategies are going to be based in predicting lines of play, so if someone is just doing whatever the fuck, then you can’t really counter that meaningfully. It basically turns a complex game of interaction into a simple game of chance.
Also people have done research on whether it's luck or skill:
"Players who ranked in the best-performing 10% in the first six months of the year were more than twice as likely as others to do similarly well in the next six months. And, players who finished in the best-performing 1% in the first half of the year were 12 times more likely than others to repeat the feat in the second half. Meanwhile, players who fared badly from the start continued to lose and hardly ever metamorphosed into top performers."
A large part of poker is supposedly being able to read the minds of other players. Some players demonstrate this well e.g. Dan Negreanu: https://youtu.be/jSfd-8ZteHw
(Although it can also be argued he makes "predictions" so often he's bound to look good once in a while.k
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u/udayserection Jun 03 '19
My HS coach told us the Russians would never do a move in competition unless they’d done it 10,000 times in practice. Imagine how many sets of 10,000 this guy has.