Operation Make Money

Money well spent to me.

Not sure what your hatred is for that stuff. The guy was beating the game I play for a far better winrate (actually the biggest overall winner in the games) so he obviously had tips to fix some leaks/learn new "tricks". 10NL is a lot different than 25NL from my experience. At least 6max wise, and I don't need to spend money for coaching there. If you view my graph from last month you'll see when the green line started going up. That's when he stepped in.

The programs are CardrunnersEV (expensive) and NoteCaddy (meh...but doing the microstakes plan). I feel like I've already fixed a few leaks with CRev and NoteCaddy can only help.

This post isn't to prove you wrong but more so prove myself right. Money is tight with a long distance gf so I don't want to buy anything not useful for the long run.

Originally Posted by kmind

Money well spent to me.

only thing that matters!
I wasn't trying to be offensive, but i admit that i was prodding a little and you're right, i do have some kind of innate objection to paying/training/etc at things that i love doing. Take climbing, it occupied all my time for some years and i've reached ok levels, but i refuse to 'train'.

an overlooked value of coaching is that there's this funny psychological thing where paying for something often makes it more effective - i use my approach to learning spanish as an example. When i'm paying for something i'm far more likely to maximise my gain from it - if i'm studying for free, i'll easily justify not giving it 100%. Weakness? sure. Common? yep. so, what am i trying to say? Well, living in chile and paying a bunch (don't remember - US$200/week?) for lessons got me moving way faster than almost everything else i'd bothered with (one exception = living at a surf beach with almost exclusively non-english speakers -> spanish was the lingua franca/gringa/whateva)

i think that coaching isn't 'necessary' because, in theory, you could gain the same info required to beat the same stakes in the same number of hours - for free. But, if you're anything like me, it's likely that you'll gain a lot more from paying for those hours. Kinda perverse huh, human nature is weird.

re 10nl being different from 25nl, it definitely applies in FR too - maybe cos you can make a decent salary there if your salary context is eastern europe/asia.

Originally Posted by kmind

This post isn't to prove you wrong but more so prove myself right. Money is tight with a long distance gf so I don't want to buy anything not useful for the long run.

no problem dude!

also, go read bjs's post in the poker book thread in the high stakes forum

oh, and if anything i wrote reeks of some strange mid-afternoon borneo cocktail of redbull-isotonic soft drink-local brandy, well, that's hardly a coincidence

I'm proud of all your studying kmizzle, hope it pays off!

If you're using this EV program a lot, I'd say try to focus on mid-sized spots that occur often, as opposed to bigger spots that happen rarely.

Just a simple situation, like you have JJ on Kd6s8d board and you bet and he c/c flop, and turn is a 2h or something. I think this spot, and choosing the right decision between betting for value again and checking is prob more valuable than what to do when facing some big c/r on a dry board on the turn.