There are undoubtedly many players in this world better at poker than me but that number will diminish very rapidly to the amount of players who have worked harder than me. There is a tremendous amount of delusion within poker even by players who can be considered good and experienced. I have had several players who were seemingly successful online poker players come to me over the past couple of years and asked me to either stake them or if I would like a piece of them.

They have looked shocked when I have declined. In nearly all cases, the players involved had only been successful online and in my mind, that does not constitute automatic success in live poker games. Streetwise live players will come at you in numerous different ways that online players cannot and this was why I decided to combine online poker and live poker play in my articles.

Don’t expect hand charts or tables or hundreds of hand examples in any of my articles. These articles are about playing poker at an expert level and hopefully will go into areas that few other articles don’t. I expect to get criticism for some of the material are in my articles.

To that I say fine, bring it on. I have used material and strategies because I use them personally and I know that they work and I really have no problem with criticism when I know myself to be dong the right things that work for me personally. But getting back to my all time favourite poker saying, come on now, you remember…… “evolution not revolution”, it would shock the vast number of people just how long that it actually takes a player to totally evolve.

So how long does it take a player to evolve? How long is a piece of string? It all depends on numerous factors just like most things do in poker. It depends on where you received your poker education from, it depends on how current and up to date that education is and how qualified the person giving the advice is.

It depends on how good the author is at imparting what he knows. It depends on just how well the student comprehends what he reads. It depends how much ongoing work the student does on their game. It depends on how pertinent the information is as all good material is not necessarily conducive to winning you money.

I could go on all day quoting obstacles and questions and the more that I think about this subject the more question marks crop up and the more I could mention. But one of the key areas that I have just touched on is regarding information that is “pertinent”.

This is absolutely vital because there are literally thousands upon thousands of poker sources out there that a player can get their education from. There are some great poker books out there but many of them (even strategy books) are not conducive to earning you money.

Carl “The Dean” Sampson
Author – “Winning Cash Game Poker”

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