Quote Originally Posted by paulwright
It seems both you & your brother surged in knowledge and confidence as you began kicking ass in HU play. Was this the missing ingredient after slogging away for so long in ring games?

It seems to me, as a very casual observer, that it vastly improved your overall game and made you see ring game play in a different light... I have done well in full and then 6max up to 100NL for 100k hands - but feel like I am still lacking the information and thought processes that other players have. Would learning to win HU change that? (note I am just a casual player doing it for the challenge, fun and 'pocket money')

FWIW - major congratulations on your success. It is quite an accomplish to have broken through to the "other side" of the poker world...
I think that you're right and that HU helped my improve my ring play a lot. I think one of the reasons is to win HU you have to develop certain skills that don't come from multitabling ring games. But there are definitely many ways to "breakthrough", it can be as little as some advice that you just suddenly get.

Recently i was reading a book on right brain vs left brain and it said something really interesting. The left brain is responsible for motor skills, memory, and things like that while the Right Brain is the creative side. In this book the author said that the left brain usually dominates, but there is a way to "quiet it down." By walking on a path or some other place where it's easy to walk without having to do much, your left brain settles down and your right brain starts working more. I like going on walks like this and thinking about poker, i find that's a great way to improve my game.

But bottom line: yeah learn HU it will probably help you.