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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bavelb" data-source="post: 22072" data-attributes="member: 358">I do actually think the skills transfer apart from learning ruleset, just not to the same degree you THINK it did/should.I think you can let someone play a real table, measure how they do, then let them practice on TPA (even if they are different tables to prevent the "learning the ruleset" effect) for prolongued time, then let them go back to the real thing and they will have improved as TPA helps you recognize patterns, angles , tricks, risks, bounces and likely responses. The thing is, TPA is so realistic in its simulations (much more so than the aforementioned other videogames), you expect these skills to improve much more than they have in the real world so it ends up a bit jarring. When I played some real tables last week I kept thinking " I know what to do here, but I just can't execute it...yet" but also a lot of " hey that shouldnt have happened" when a ball took a weird bounce or its path went crooked.</blockquote>

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