6 thoughts on “Profitable ‘Mistakes’”

  1. Hi Andrew,

    Happy New Year

    You dont get too much feedback on the blog but I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy it. I’m 31, from London and have been playing poker for 13 years and generally soak up a lot of poker content to help with my game and to avoid boredom at work!

    Your blog is one of perhaps only 2 or 3 that have held my attention for any length of time. A great mix of hand histories, non poker content, general poker stuff and my persoanl favourite your trip reports on tournies/cash games. If any publishers are reading, I for one would buy your book (not the hardback version though!).

    Anyway, keep up the good work.

    Kind Regards,

    Nick

  2. Thanks, Nick, I’m flattered that you took the time to comment. Would you be willing to buy 100,000 copies of my book? I can start writing tonight 🙂

    May I ask how you first found the blog?

    Happy New Year to you as well.

    Andrew

  3. Haha good effort, perhaps I could pay you with these magic beans of mine ;-D

    From memory I think I googled ‘wsop trip report’ a few years ago and chanced upon this blog. I enjoyed what you wrote and went back through the archives. As you know, you write a lot better than the vast majority of poker players, so it makes for a refreshing read.

    Despite the market getting swamped with poker books I actually think there are still quite a few areas yet to be exploited. When you look at chess or even more mainstream sports there are lots of areas where a similar book could be applied to poker.

    Cheers,

    Nick

  4. Hi Andrew,
    I would like to second Nick’s comments. I think your articles are always very well thought out and well presented.
    I really enjoyed the profitable mistakes article.
    One of the things I have been thinking about lately is whether I use arguments similar to those used in your article to justify bad paly.. I think the theory is pretty sound though.

  5. Andrew,

    If you can swing it, you should link to this blog from your byline in the 2+2 internet articles. That should drive some traffic here.

  6. Thanks, Ash. That’s definitely a tricky point, and something I tried to hint at in the article. For the most part, we know not to be results oriented about KK losing to AK if you get all the money in pre-flop or something, but the truth is that no ‘outcome’ of any kind is a 100% reliable predictor of whether you made a good decision: not getting all the money in with the best of it, not winning, etc. This makes it very hard to evaluate your own play and makes study and conversation with other intelligent players tremendously important.

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