Saw another training app/chart pack getting pushed around this week and honestly... it's doing my head in a bit. Feels like every bit of poker news lately is the same thing in a different wrapper: solver outputs, perfect ranges, memorise this spot, drill that spot, download a new tool, stare at another grid.
I reckon a lot of players are getting led up the garden path by it too. Not saying the stuff is useless, clearly it matters if you're playing tough games, but heaps of low and mid stakes players would be better off learning how real humans punt money away instead of trying to play like a lab experiment. Bloke limp-calls twice, min-clicks the turn, then rips river on a scary card... good luck finding that in your shiny little chart pack, mate.
What gets me is how the basic stuff keeps getting shoved aside. Table selection, tilt control, bankroll discipline, spotting population leaks, even just folding when some nit finally wakes up — that wins money. Yet every new product acts like the answer is another preflop matrix with 17 mixed frequencies. Bloody exhausting.
Curious where everyone else is at with it. Are these new study tools actually helping your game, or are they just giving people more homework and making them second guess obvious spots? If you've gone hard on solver work and it genuinely moved the needle, chuck in what changed for you.