Revelation When we encounter new ideas in poker

They often strike us with the force of revelation. There are two things worth noting about revelation. One is that it’s the nature of reve-lation to propel us through the paradigm shift, to change the way we think. The other is that it’s the nature of revelation to fade, and unless we keep refreshing our thinking with new revelations even revelations that illuminate the exact same idea-we become stale in our thinking and habituated in our play. A concept that once lent great clarity to our game eventually becomes only a memory of that concept, and its usefulness weakens accordingly. Read more

ICT AFCOA -Increasing Commitment To A Failing Course Of Action

It’s a terribly powerful concept in poker because it explains so well how we go so wrong.
You’re playing Omaha/8, and you pick up a big drawing low like A-2-3-4. Against a table full of Cally Wallies, you feel justified in making a raise, and so you do. Nothing wrong with that; at this point a raise is a rising course of action. However, when the flop cornes T-9-8 in suits you don’t…, your course of action turns and mns downhill. Sure you still have a chance (about 24 percent) of catching two cards to a low, but unless there’s a table full of players chasing high, your expectation is negative-your course of action is failling. Yet you call anyway!

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