Sauce on improving

thanks

Your vocabulary shouldn't even include words like "improving". Playing <50nl for years and years and years. You may write as many blogposts or deceive yourself or even blow smoke into some lowstakes players arses but the reality you can't escape is results. Which you have nothing to show for. So go ahead, keep improving, the longer it goes on the more value the word loses coming from you.

Not that I don't try not to care about results, but I have pretty okay results relative to the skill level you assign me

You must overestimate the skill level i assign you.

Why thank you for complimenting my results

Also thank you for your kindness, but I have not written any of the blog - I assumed I made it clear enough

Haters gonna hate. Keep it up man, whatever makes u happy

interesting reading, thanks for bringing it here.

very good article. So much of this applies to life as well. SO much stuff we practice in theory but are not able to in real time

good article

that beard

btw why bash lemon. u guys gotta realize, over the years i've met tons of players, and some players, even though they are very solid, have problems at higher stakes because of "gambling with more monies" - this seems to be lemons case, as his thinking process seems solid etc.

if he never did any cashouts, he should be at least crushing nl100+++

the guy just needs to stop cashing out poker funds for 6 months minimum to build up.

i believe in him tbh.

GL Lemon.
Ryan

that beard.......always a bridesmaid..

Although it's true that without cashouts I'd have a NL500 roll now

In advanced mechanics even though I understand like 90% concepts, I am pretty much in kindergarten when it comes to practical application.
Thing is it doesn't matter how many videos you watch, how many posts you read or write. To get the advanced mechanics and apply them in your game there is no shortcut unless you are mad talented like nanonoko or isildur(I'm not)- you have to drill drill drill work out your own game and your own ranges on and off the table to force yourself to eventually think entirely in ranges and distributions.
Shit's hard, and tedious, and a reason why I doubt even NLHE cash games are anywhere near to drying up in the next years. I work harder than most and am still a lazy fuck that's done fuck all in this aspect. I still break down like what, 2 hands per week on average with math and range break down, neither of them entirely on all streets even, and I'm being generous? 5 a day, lol wtf Sauce

Cause first of all our ranges are different cause of different styles and different player pools compared to people making videos.

And second, video makers almost never reveal their ranges because of laziness or they purposefully hold them back as Sauce has openly admitted.

have you ever tried programming lemon? i think it fits a lot of the same concepts you like about poker (encourages/rewards analytically-minded ppl, potentially provides a level of autonomy, can make a lot of money if you get really good at it, if not can still be fun and a little profitable as a hobby). there's also way more quality free programming material available compared to poker training material.

enjoyed the blogpost btw

On June 09 2014 17:56 LemOn[5thF] wrote: Although it's true that without cashouts I'd have a NL500 roll now

It's cool how you analyze hands, and give details and opinions, I too always wondered why you have over 13k post and provide really advanced comments and feedback but still play in the micros. Not bashing you, I like what you do in forums, how you help others and comment on hands.

Please post lifetime graph.

On June 09 2014 20:26 bigredhoss wrote: have you ever tried programming lemon? i think it fits a lot of the same concepts you like about poker (encourages/rewards analytically-minded ppl, potentially provides a level of autonomy, can make a lot of money if you get really good at it, if not can still be fun and a little profitable as a hobby). there's also way more quality free programming material available compared to poker training material. enjoyed the blogpost btw

nah lemon would be best off as a postdoc/assistantprofessor track and most practically a high school teacher or something like that.

Yeah I actually considered doing being a research student few years back.

I like the flexibility and theory crafting of poker while keeping it competitive though - academia you have freedom the study's very similar to poker but it I kinda enjoy the competitiveness you won't find there.

Besides. as long as I have money for food I'm a happy camper I'm spending loads of time reading and got caught in science now too. It's just more fun when you can study whatever the hell you like with no pressure. Hell there's positive pressure as reading what's fun and engaging takes my mind off poker and makes me play better

Maybe lemons problem is that teachers teach because they can't do what they teach.

I think knowing one's weaknesses and strengths should be a mechanic. Are you a better live player or a better online player? Is math your strong suit or are people skills your thing? Not even that, but in live games, I think having a range of tells is a mechanic all on it's own. Though, I guess you could call that exploitative play?

So, you might go about translating your conscious, analytic, effortful work on poker theory into an instinctual mechanic by taking five or so hands a day and first writing down in a stream of consciousness your best guess at your range in a given spot.

The thing with this is that I already know what I was thinking and what my range is because with all the previous hands for that sessions, I'm crafting a range for the other people to see. Then again, I guess that falls under exploitative play.