If complexity means art then poker is as artistic as it gets. Philosophy is a requirement of the arts. Unless you are a robot and get your motivation for passion and achievement from an on-off switch, you will need more than just electricity. You need a philosophy, a credo, or if that makes you nervous, how about calling it imagination or perception?
Everything starts there and to learn to make yourself do what you dislike in order to improve substantially it helps to envision the task from any favorable perspective most convenient to you. For example, you might compare developing communication skills to taking cold showers: these are an unpleasant shock every time when you first begin to take them, but after a month or two (which is not at all much!) of such very brief ablutions twice a week you become, in a sense addicted, because there are definite results and pleasure involved: few things compare with hot water after 30-60 seconds of cold water.
This is true of almost any new skill that is humanly possible to acquire and that is why some people like to learn “new things” even though the initiatory stages are always necessarily stressful to a certain degree.
So with the analogy of the cold shower in mind, take the plunge and dive into those areas of poker that you would really rather not venture into.
The philosophy lessons ends here, and now you might consider several more general and practical tips. Hiring a professional to train you privately is one of the best ways to acquire experience and learn about your weaknesses. A private coach will also teach you to keep an effective track of your mistakes in order to learn from them.
If the cost of a professional trainer is too much for you, the alternative is to acquire poker friends: sincere and frequent arguments even between average players significantly improve logic and perceptiveness. You may also want to be a member of poker forums. Very good players often post and share valuable experience via online forums.
Keep notes. Even during offline games, note down your games so that you can review it later the better to realize where you did wrong and remember it. Notes help you realize that there are often more possibilities that you might first think. They help acquire the keen self-consciousness necessary to learn to ask yourself why you made the move. The same applied to the moves of your opponents. And it is a sign of significant progress to be able to ask yourself those crucial questions before you make the move.
Ask yourself the following questions during the game: What do you expect your opponent’s reaction to be? Did he react in a manner consistent with your perceptions of him in that situation? Did he bet or raise as expected? What cards do you want him to think you are holding in your hand? Under what circumstance do you want him to call or raise?
Constantly asking yourself questions like these is difficult to learn, but after a while it become a habit and then a challenge. And then you are playing poker for real.
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