Revelation When we encounter new ideas in poker

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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. That’s how revelation works: One day you’re Paul on the road to Da-mascus and the next day you’re just looking at slides from the trip.
Consider this: You come across a concept like the any ace line. This line divides hold’em games into two types, those where they’ll generally play any ace with any kicker, and those where they generally need high kickers to com¬pete. Powered by the force of this concept, you resolve not to sink beneath the any ace line. You vow to play only good aces, especially in games where the play of bad aces runs rampant. That works for a while, but eventually you forget what got you so excited about being tight with Your aces. You see (or think you see) weak aces holding up and win¬ning big pots. You see (or think you see) suited aces flopping nut flushes all the time. You forget all the times Your weak aces got outkicked. The power of the concept starts to fade. You go back to doing what you were doing before, and Your game suffers as a result.

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