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September 3, 2018
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This is mostly meant for newer members of TPE. Veterans will be like, “Well, duh, of course that’s what you do.” But for me this was a recent epiphany that took me a while to realize.
I am near the end of stage 3 of TPE University and in a series by Andrew he emphasized, “hit the pause button.”
Up until then I had just been watching the videos straight through. Ever since then I have been hitting pause in interesting spots, and perhaps more importantly going back and watching the entire hand a few times sometimes, checking shove charts, going to Hold’em odds calculator, assigning ranges, etc. Videos are taking twice as long for me to get through as a result, but I also feel I am now getting twice as much out of them.
The other benefit of hitting the pause button frequently is it is making me focus more on the hands. When you just watch the video straight through your mind might wander a bit at times or you just take a hand at face value rather than go back and do a deeper dive into it. It is the difference between watching and studying.
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December 6, 2012
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Very well said, thanks for taking the time to write this, and glad to hear that it’s working for you!
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April 6, 2010
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Great advice! This is something I wrote a long time ago, but I think it still holds true. I’m not as gifted a writer as some here, but I think you’ll get something out of this! 🙂
September 3, 2018
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Killingbird said
Great advice! This is something I wrote a long time ago, but I think it still holds true. I’m not as gifted a writer as some here, but I think you’ll get something out of this! 🙂
Hey, KB, if this article is not part of Stage 1 or Stage 2 in TPE University, I think it should be. I wish I had heeded this advice from Day One. Really useful article for people just starting out.
October 4, 2017
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Yup!
Pause, pause, pause and than pause some more! That goes for the podcasts as well. First one shouldn’t be just trying to grind through the videos etc. to pass the quizzes. What’s the point of that right? When I FINALLY 😉 finished my last elective becoming a Certified TPE Graduate it was truly a great feeling. When I first started the courses I would jump to the areas where you were told you would find the info needed to answer the questions in the quizzes. The great thing is whether on purpose or not (I would imagine it’s on purpose) most time stamps aren’t exact so you REALLY have to listen/watch or listen AND watch in many cases multiple times. The advantage of this ends up being that you not only get the answer needed for a related quiz question but you also pick up a ton of additional information, such as other options rather than the “right” answer as well as tangential thoughts and ideas about hands/info and how to play them / use the info. My final recipe for success AND as much retention as possible was:
1. Quickly jump to the quiz and print it out.
2. Work though the quiz in a linear fashion jumping to the spots where you will find your answers (trust me you will quickly realize only about 25/30% of the timestamps bring you directly to an answer so forget about “cheating” it) and really listen. So say the answer to a specific question starts at 5:04 you will find it super helpful to start well before 5:04 (say 4:40) and listen/watch the example hand/problem/topic a number of times until you feel you have the answer down.
3. Use the search function in your browser to jump directly to keywords in the articles and quickly jump to said topic from quiz. Get the concept down. Than read and re-read the FULL article.
4. Finally when you have completed the course (or even the class/elective) watch/listen/read EVERY podcast/video/article that you skimmed FULLY. Does it take time? Damn right it does. But as the old saying goes “nothing worth doing well is easy”!!!
Just a quick study guide from someone who recently completed TPE U (I am now going to finish ALL the electives).
Run Good,
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