Why Tournament Poker Edge? A Look At Real-Life Leaks

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As a poker player – whether a recreational or serious one – there are as many different paths to take with your development as there are decisions to consider over the course of a hand.  You can learn on your own as you go, read some books and strategy on the forums, or even listen to the old guys at live cash tables (I don’t recommend this one).  So why should you spend money on a training site with all this free information out there?  

Consider for a moment that your poker game is actually a house’s foundation (bear with me here). I came up with this analogy while cleaning up wet carpet in my basement.  My basement doesn’t really leak all that often and it rarely (if ever) completely floods.  It usually takes three or four days in a row of rain before you’d notice any problems.  As such, I’ve never really bothered to go through all that work – tearing up carpet, ripping up drywall and taking the time to find and seal the crack in the foundation – nor have I even seriously considered paying an expert to do it.  It doesn’t really happen that often and I’ve gotten by all this time with it, why bother with it now?  

One of the fundamentals of pedagogy – the science of learning – is that students, even advanced ones, learn more slowly as they progress because they become less aware of things they’ve yet to master. That is to say, they don’t know “what they don’t know.” In my experience this is especially true of poker players.  When they progress as players, they often start to think they’ve got the hang of it and they don’t have much more to learn – and they’re almost always wrong. Sometimes it’s an ego thing – “I don’t need to learn, I’m already so much better than everyone I play with.” The other times are a player’s failure to be proactive – picture once again me in my basement, dry-vacuuming up water instead of fixing a crack because “it’s not THAT huge of a deal.”

You and your poker game are not unlike me and my basement.  As a poker player, you’ve probably learned enough to lay a pretty good foundation and hold out a lot of water.  You might even be good enough by now that the leaks in your foundation wouldn’t even be exposed by a week’s worth of thunderstorms.  But over the course of an entire tournament, the littlest of cracks can ultimately ruin your entire house. Whether you’re a good or great player – everybody’s game has leaks and every so often, floods happen.  The difference between a good and great player is that the latter have identified problem areas in their game and sought solutions to permanently fix them. 

TournamentPokerEdge has quickly become the premier authority on fixing cracks and plugging leaks.  I am more than confident that in no time you will look back at your game before TPE and not even recognize it.  As I write this, I’ve been a pro at TPE for less than a week and I’ve already been blown away by some of the things I’ve learned just casually perusing the site.  Know it or not, everybody’s game has leaks that need to be sealed. Every day that you’re not learning from some of the game’s best at TPE, you’re setting yourself up for a wet basement.