Be my poker discussion partnet.by TheHuHu3, June 20
AIM : Fookage
Just had an awful session where I think I was tilted like a monkey but I would like to start going over hand analysis and other shit with some people if you guys would like... I'm always on.
Hi everyone, I'm trying to formalize and set up a good coaching program for everyone's benefit.
I want to offer coaching for nl5-nl50, but mainly for nl25 and nl50 players struggling to win monies because they have been stuck at the rut where they become rakeback pros or just want to improve so that they can get the guidance they need to beat these games.
My background is that I started poker October 2008, and until January 2010, I never had a coach in poker. I achieved SN status in 2009 and played over 600k hands of poker. I just got my lifetime graph, and it seems that I earned $3000 in poker earnings before 2010 and $13000 in rakeback. So, in essence, before I received coaching, I was a rakeback pro who played 12-16 tables of 6 max and had huge swings and was literally getting nowhere. I would win at like 2 BB/100 for a while and then somehow go on tilt and/or DS and lose it all over and over. My redline was horrible.
I decided to enter a staking-coaching deal starting 2010 and I really wanted to step up my game. I restarted from nl50 and took the grind to go back up from there and my graphs and stats below show that it's been a positive experience. I want to share my experiences, the things I learned from all this and things I continue to learn from poker with my students.
Do you need coaching? Maybe, maybe not. The biggest thing I got from the coaching was not how to play, but rather how to think. I used to go over hands with mikeymoo and talk a lot about hands, but one of the most fundamental problems I had was I didn't approach poker in the right way. Coaching for me really helped me understand where I was approaching the game from the wrong perspectives and how to break down the problems and reach a logical conclusion.
For me, coaching was really helpful and I think it really opened my eyes to playing thinking the right way. As you can see from the results, it's been really effective and I think I can help my students with the same.
As for the charge, I remain adamant that $35/hr and $150/5 hours is a fair price. If you are interested in the coaching but have financial troubles, I guess PM me and we can work something out. I will be taking 4 students max, and if we get 4 students I think we can have group lessons (for much cheaper or free). We will also have a skype chat so we can talk about hands all the time.
The format of my lessons will consist of live-sweating and then hand review. Hand history reviews, database breakdowns and mock-play/live-play will also be included. (Given the needs of the student)
Given my history as a rakeback pro, and my improvement from coaching I think that I have a lot to offer the up and coming players. Also, this is not a jib, I mainly play and am not expecting to turn into a full time or even part time coach. I just want to teach the lessons I think are important to me and pass them down to those who could use it at a cheaper price (I paid a significant amount more than what I am offering).
So, if you are interested shoot me a PM and hopefully you can gain as much from coaching as I have. Thanks for reading through all of this =)
[edit] more hands from PS indicate that I was less of a rakeback pro than I thought, but still a rakeback pro
GF annasky also had a 25 buyin downswing at nl100. Pretty fucking annoying to have the 'family' collectively losing badly.
Calculus 2 final also coming up in a few days, ugh. Definitely bad times right now, but hopefully things will look up soon.
Moving pretty soon, going from Taipei back to Hsinchu, which could turn out for the win, as it's a much larger apartment and we're planning to buy a lot of stuff etc.
That being said, LP is very critical of coaching in general. I think that's because coaching doesn't help a lot of people. In fact, I was talking this over with my old coach groupies the other day and apparently I'm the only one that got anything out of the coaching deal. My other groupies said that their game got worse because of the coaching (lol), but I still attribute that to them not being as open to it as others. But in general, coaching is not for everyone.
And with that being said, yeah... coaching is still open to anyone who wants it. I'll post graphs later I'm going to e-mail Pstars and FTP to get lifetime graphs.
I'm getting sick of the Republican political strategy of "Block anything Obama wants, go against anything Obama says, and hope that Obama fails and looks bad so people choose Republicans in the next election." I mean these fuckers aren't even allowing a vote on legislation to remove the $75 million cap for the amount oil companies have to pay when there's a spill. Think about that - when things are good these companies get to take all the profit they can suck out of us, but when they fuck up and spill the oil, we are only allowed to get $75 million out of them... even if they cause 1 billion in damages.
So who gets stuck with the other $925 million? Either the taxpayers get stuck with it as the government helps people, or the poor business owners and workers and families get fucked over... despite doing NOTHING wrong. How can anyone see that and not say that it is total BS? How can any of these republicans really believe that if their oyster company was put out of business because an oil spill destroyed all of their oyster beds, that THEY should have to just lose all their money and move on? How can someone say that the oil company isn't liable and responsible to cover the damages?
Glad to see Obama finally speaking out on this Republican stall tactic directly:
I was thinking about it for a while and I think I want to coach people. Mainly not for money, but for my own benefit in thinking out my own poker process.
That being said, I think I can offer anyone from 5nl-50nl some really solid advice on how to improve from those stakes and have the right poker mindset to climb mount robusto.
Given that it's my first teaching lessons ever, I guess I should charge like ~$35/hr and $150 for 5 hours. So give me a PM if you're interested.
I dunno, that seems to be really cheap haha, but I guess I should start somewhere. XD
nl200 is going well for me, up ~900, but most of that has been run good and crushing fish. I spewed $200 playing the 7-game, which really made me realize that I'm terribad at stud games other than razz.
I'm also a huge fish at PLO, but don't tell anyone. I randomly splash around nl25 and nl50 PLO games sometimes for fun. Apparently I'm a lifetime winner at PLO.
Run good guys. (i'm mostly recovered from my deathly illness)
This month is weird poker wise. I'm ok with it though, making a smallish profit so far.
I went jogging with an old friend of mine today. She used to be kind of chubby but now she looked really good in that aspect. Reminded me of something some guy on some forum I used to post on years ago said. Something like; "My favourite kind of girl is the kind with who's really skinny but still has fairly big boobs. Because they'll look huge!". Oh, and it was actually nice to run a little bit. Haven't been doing that in probably like 2 years so that was a bit surprising. I'll try to do it 2-3 times a week for the rest of the summer I guess.
Also "The Wind", Warren Zevon's last album (he wrote the songs and recorded it while dying from cancer) just came out on Spotify (in Sweden at least). It's a really nice bunch of songs. The guy might be one of my favourite song writers. Some geems from this album:
From dirty life and times
Gets a little lonely, folks,
you know what I mean
I'm looking for a woman with low self-esteem
To lay me out and ease my worried mind
While I'm winding down my dirty life and times
From Numb As A Statue
I'm gonna beg, borrow or steal
Some feelings from you
I'm gonna beg, borrow or steal
So I can have some feelings too
I don't care if it's superficial
You don't have to dig down deep
Just bring enough for the ritual
Get here before I fall asleep
There are also other songs from the album that I like a lot. The beautiful "She's too good for me"[b], Zevon's last try to write a song about, ehh, a girl that's too good for him comes to mind. It's a bit like Dylan's "All I really want to do" except it's softer and in my opinion actually better written (which says a lot, Dylan is a great song writer). Yea, sure it's overly sentimental and everything, but what the hell. I can live with that once in a while. [b]Prison Grove sounds a lot like some Johnny Cash cover, in a good way, and it has all the feeling in the world. Lastly Rub Me Raw is some fairly cool blues.
Overall the CD is obviously his last goodbye to family, friends, fans and loved ones and I feel that this fact makes it ok that much of the lyrics are, despite retardedly good, really sentimental.
Oh, and he's version of "knocking on heaven's door" is one of the best I've ever heard.
Hey
I'm rato and I was reading the forum since few months but never posted anything. I'm going to post hands over here and hopefully get some advices from you guys to get better.
Currently taking a shot at nl25. See you soon.
I smell the odor of mendacity. The average American refuses to accept that republicans are at war against the working-class, which is why they vehemently oppose reform (financial and healthcare), unions, public education, government oversight, wage hikes, worker rights, access to higher education, middleclass tax relief, and, in general, any legislation that would jeopardize the continuation of a credit-dependent, employer exploited, unhealthy, downtrodden, marginalized, underpaid, debt-laden, undereducated and permanent class of laborers. Similar to sharecroppers, it’s in republican’s best interest to keep the working-class hopeless, oppressed, and undereducated. Republicans staunchly supported the Wall Street bailout to protect their own assets, but opposed the automobile industry bailout, which employs thousands of middleclass Americans
The republican aristocracy opposes any kind of governmental oversight that will interfere with their pursuit of exploitive capitalism, which is why they want to abolish or privatize the EPA, FAA, FDA, SSA and Departments of Agriculture, Transportation, Interior, Health and Human Services, and Education. Just like feudal lords, Republicans require a formidable army to protect their financial interests, which is why they defend unrestrained military spending. The Iraq War will cost well over $9 trillion, while health insurance for every American would cost $1 trillion. Republicans want to keep America angrily divided by class and race, which is why they vehemently oppose any legislative action that would eliminate the status quo and elevate the standard of living for average Americans.
Obama saves America from economic obliteration, and conservatives demonize him. Republicans deregulate Wall Street, oil companies, and other financial and mortgage instruments, leading to economic and ecological disaster, and conservatives are quiet, blame Obama, and call Obama’s efforts to save America “misguided.” Republican disgust for working-class Americans (and their unwavering support for big business) is patently obvious. Recently, lock-step republicans: 1) voted to allow Wall Street banks trading in risky sub-prime derivatives to retain FDIC liability insurance at taxpayer expense, 2) voted against adding tougher home-mortgage standards to the Truth-in-Lending Act (which would have outlawed the no-documentation “liar loans” that played a major role in the sub-prime mortgage meltdown), 3) voted against underwriting standards aimed at banning loan originators from steering borrowers toward mortgages they cannot afford after teaser and adjustable-interest rates expire, 4) voted against increasing the liability cap for oil companies from $75 million to $10 billion, opting instead to have taxpayers pay for oil spills, and 4) voted against the creation of the Clean Energy Consortium, an initiative designed to focus on developing private sector renewable energy sources. Republicans also voted against restricting debit-card transaction fees, a move that would have helped small, “mom and pop” merchants, not Wall Street fat-cats. Republicans: Protectors of Big Business.
(These are comments made by Bronxdude on this article.
And a bit more on Joe Barton and his BS apology to BP, this time from the Daily Show:
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