{"id":1373860,"date":"2021-12-27T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.pokercoaching.com\/?p=1373860"},"modified":"2025-12-29T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T14:28:52","slug":"invest-in-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pokercoaching.com\/blog\/invest-in-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest in Poker Management, YOU Are The Poker Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My friends in the business world have an adage they repeat often: \u201cOverinvest in management.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One employee screwing up negatively impacts that employee\u2019s tasks. A bad manager, however, will affect all the employees on his watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Your Poker Manager<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As a poker player, when you wake up in the morning, you are your own manager. You have to decide what your employee (read: you) is going to do that day. What are you going to focus on? What are you going to try and improve upon? What are you going to try not to do? What games are you going to play in relation to your bankroll<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you invest nothing in personal management, you will be like every other poker player on Earth. What am I working on? Who knows? \u201cWinning!\u201d is not an answer. What games are you going to play to responsibly build your bankroll?<\/a> \u201cWhatever looks good to me\u201d is not an answer. Be deliberate in your decision-making, and then spend the rest of the day or night executing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is where everybody fails in poker. They want to play poker because playing poker is fun. Breaking down plays on the computer, studying poker strategy, and researching new poker strategies is not fun. Sitting on the felt, slinging chips is fun. So, they focus on slinging chips and having fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Jonathan<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Build a winning strategy by adopting Jonathan Little’s Best Poker Habits.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Are You Actually Studying Poker Strategy?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some will even humor themselves and say, \u201cno, I study a lot.\u201d But what they really mean is they leave training videos<\/a> on at home while they\u2019re doing other things, but they\u2019re not paying attention. Sometimes they\u2019ll read poker books, but they skim and don\u2019t take notes. Imagine this in any other industry. Imagine you wanted to be a general contractor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, you pick up Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods. You skim it. You don\u2019t take notes. Imagine you did just that and then announced, \u201cWell, I guess I\u2019m ready to own my own construction business now!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That would sound absolutely insane. You\u2019re telling me 17 months from now you\u2019re going to remember everything that was in that book about reinforced concrete construction? WHEN YOU SKIMMED THE DAMN THING?! Of course, you know that\u2019s preposterous. That\u2019s why we have to work hard to not do the same thing in poker. If we were learning construction work, we\u2019d likely go work under a guy for a few years and focus on learning a new discipline each day. It\u2019s the same thing with cards, except we can substitute a mentor with all the great training materials now available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion: Only You Can Make It Happen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In poker, you want to study one play <\/em>every day. One concept. One. <\/em>No more. Then, create a poker challenge for yourself<\/a> each time you step up to the table. So you can execute and learn about that concept you were applying. Then you want to go home, review your work, set a new goal, and do it all over again the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the path to mastery, and the road we want to be on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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