Below is @damienvince blogging about his experience 24 hours later. He has thoughts which I have answered below his questions....
The Next Day
Bennett suggested that I blog today about the experience last night to see if I was still capable of rattling off the 20 cards.
I'm not really surprised that I can.
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Below is @damienvince telling about his experience 24 hours later. He can instantly recall the 20 cards I gave him to memorize in sequence 24 hours later.
Now he had some thoughts in his blog which I will answer after you read it below....
The first thing that came to mind after going back through the 20 cards today, was that I wonder if remembering these 20 cards, will affect my ability to go through the next excersize of remembering 52 cards before Sunday night.
The second wonder I have is this: I have no doubt in my mind that I'll be able to learn new things, and use this memory technique to my advantage, but will it help poker. I have tools in my poker toolbox, those given to me by friends, those that I've figured out, and those that I've learned through error... how will this teach me to play better tournament poker, or cash game poker? I still follow blindly under the impression that it will all come together much as it did for Danielsan. I trust Bennet and his Miyagi ways, so time will tell.
Thanks again
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Mind still blown
Well I am glad your mind is still blown considering the fact that a week ago you had a massive amount of trouble retaining the information and I sensed you felt it was impossible.
To answer your first question, yes. The memory techniques I give you are so powerful that you have to wait at least 48 hours when you first start in order to forget what you have committed to memory. When I first started these techniques I did them every day and found I got confused from the night before.
In short to answer your second question, right now you do not know it yet, but your image centers in your brain are rapidly forming new connections between neurons. We are in a very real sense putting your brain through a "workout". If you watch the video with Ron White, you will notice he gets a brain scan in the middle of the video and the doctor points out he is using a vast amount of his brain in remembering the information. Ron did not always use that much of his brain, it was developed over many days of training. In the coming months you will start to notice your general recall become even better. Your friend might ask what you did with a certain item and you will think about it and it will appear in your mind's eye.
You will need every connection you have when we embark on the next part of our journey. I am slowly training you to be able to put an online type poker tracker in your head for a live game of poker. VPIP, one of the hallmarks of poker tracking software stands for Volutarily put money into a pot. We will be teaching you how to keep track of all 9 other players at a live poker game giving you an exact range of their hands. We will also be training you on how to keep a mental database of hands played by your opponents in any position at the table. In 5 steps how to derive your exact mathematical win rate of your hole cards vs any two random hole cards within a 100% range, and what hands will give you a minimum 60% win rate against all ranges from 5 to 80 %. Entire volumes of poker books on tells, mathematics, strategies, moves, whatever you need so that when you are in that major tournament, and you really need that extra piece of information that may save you from a disastrous call, or call that bluff, you will have it.
You will no longer be the man guessing wildly based on 7 pieces of information. You will be the extraordinary player that knows exactly the range, math, and variance of the strength of your hand against any opponent.
A human poker tracking machine.
Only with mnemonics can the online statistical world of poker be married to the live world of poker.
That is my goal for you @damienvince.
You are an excellent trainee...soon to be master.
Take tonight off, and time how long it takes you to memorize a full deck on Sunday. I think you will do it in under 20 minutes for sure.
Bennett Onika
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