Most of the money you'll win at poker comes not from the brilliance of your own play, but from the ineptitude of your opponents. ~Lou Krieger

Thinking over last night’s mistakes at uni has made me come to the conclusion:

As long as I can severely limit, or more preferably remove, all of my shockingly bad tendencies, then I will be a winning player quite easily at the limits at which I am playing, period.

Of my major flaws, there are two which I wish to work on straight away, as they are ones that can be immediately addressed rather than those solved through experience.

1. Not taking time to reach key decisions within a hand. From the outside, it probably looks like I rush to make my decisions, and it often leads me to instacall with overpairs against sets, and to misread the board, not noticing it was flushing and that the opponent was obviously on a draw. These types of bad decisions can be prevented by simply taking my time to come to decisions and replaying the hand mentally up until that point.

2. Overplaying. Simply put, I need to stop overplaying big pairs especially. I read today that sure, aces are the best hand, but they tend to win small pots and lose large ones.