I think one of the most important skills in poker is the skill of simplifying. When you're studying, you have unlimited time. You can look at outputs, compare sizings, study frequencies and understand exactly why a strategy looks the way it does. Then Sunday comes. You have 20 seconds, 12 tables and somebody has done something slightly different from what you studied. In that moment, your job isn't to remember the strategy. Your job is to create a strategy. I think of poker strategy a little bit like painting. You have different colours and textures available to you. Your value hands, your bluffs, your sizings, your frequencies, your blockers, your opponent's tendencies. Your job is to take what's in front of you and paint a picture that makes sense. Maybe I decide this spot wants a big bet. Okay, what are my strongest value hands? What worse hands am I actually trying to get called by? If those are my value bets, which bluffs naturally go alongside them? Which hands don't want to bet? Suddenly I've created a strategy. It might not be the perfect strategy. If I put the spot into a solver afterwards, maybe it uses 67% instead of 100%. Maybe one bluff I chose prefers checking. Maybe I've missed an entire category of hands. That's okay. Because the alternative is trying to recreate somebody else's painting from memory. You vaguely remember what it looked like. There was some red over here, some blue over there, this hand bet 70% of the time, that hand mixed, this combo checked... But you'll never recreate the whole painting. And when one part of the spot changes, stack size, position, sizing, opponent, suddenly the picture you're trying to remember doesn't even exist anymore. This is where I think some players get lost studying poker. They become incredibly good at remembering solutions and not necessarily good at building strategies. I'd much rather somebody understand why we're betting and construct a simple, logical strategy themselves than perfectly remember 15 frequencies from a sim they studied three weeks ago. The best simplification isn't making poker less sophisticated. It's understanding something complicated well enough that you can rebuild it simply. Don't try to remember the painting. Learn what the colours do, then paint your own.