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Originally Posted by Dunbar
Disagree pretty strongly with both you and Scavs (who I hope is at least partly joking). Experience is very important, but it is not "everything in gambling". You are very unlikely to learn how to beat any game by experience alone.
I very seriously doubt there is a current successful blackjack player in the entire world who is self-taught. You have to either have read a good book or have the benefit of a good mentor, or both.
I'm confident that the vast majority of successful poker players have read good books.
There is no substitute for experience, but trying to be successful from the ground up with experience alone in any area of gambling is a foolish undertaking, IMO.
--Dunbar
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Come on Dunbar, ESPECIALLY in poker, books don't tell you the guy is holding the nuts or is full of crap, gut feeling and experience tells you that. Combine that experience with some math skills and people skills and you can make alot of money in poker.
I agree with horse racing though to an extent. My handicapping has improved twenty fold over the years because I have soaked in everything and I anaylze my wagers/handicapping angles.
I take my tickets and when I get home I look them over with the program and see if it was a worthwhile wager.
The thing about this is that this self taught...I figured if I anaylze these patterns, these instances, I could only get better.