I started my coaching with Rapid Evolution today, having our first sweat with another to follow tomorrow. I managed to accrue around 2 buy in’s (sadly whisked away in later sessions) over the hour, which wasn’t so bad. Even during the sweat I did feel a little off though, I timed out way more then I normally do on non turbo tables, and I guess it felt like there was something missing. My final session of the day despite running like crap, didn’t have the same lingering feelings, so I think I can put it down to feeling a bit rusty after a week out of my usual grind, and feeling unaccustomed to 25nl, having been so long since I played bellow 50nl. The day didn’t end well, I finished around 2 buy in’s down. At first I was annoyed and frustrated, but I’m not going to let it affect me. I have another session with RE tomorrow to look forward to and I start my coaching with my other coach from Team Moshman on the 14th.
Myself, I’ve been doing pretty terrible since before the start of this year, and my biggest concern is in recovering the discipline and motivation to continue playing, as I think as leaky as it may be my current game should be enough to “win” at 50nl, and clearly its barely been doing that at best over these past 6 months or so. So for me personally a key component of my upcoming coaching will be regaining some confidence and for the coaching to support me in avoiding my own tilt and bad habits that have helped me fall into my present situation. Coaches can of course help you in all the standard way’s, by improving your techniques and general ability, as well as encouraging you to see things in a different light, and inspire you to aim higher.
Just as there are more then one approaches you can use with a coach to improve your game, there are also several coaching options to choose from. Coaching sites are really popular atm, most of the people in the community I know have a subscription to at least one of them, and this is a great cost effective method of coaching, many sites also include listings of coaches either the people who run the site, or coaches they have recruited, my own coach Rapid Evolution is listed on the popular coaching site Deuces Cracked.
I’ve had a few coaches myself, and a coach doesn’t even have to be someone who teaches for a living, it can be anyone, a friend who plays a little higher, someone in the community, a sweat partner, anyone can help. A few friends of mine have made some beneficial suggestions to me recently, concerning big out of game changes which could help me turn things aorund at a quicker pace. Things that I’ve been ignoring or putting off for some time, such as site change, as my main site has been getting worse and worse lately, especially after the recent changes. There are loads and loads of sites available to me, being that I live outside the US, and nearlly all will have attractive deposit bonuses, rake back or kick back incentives going for them. My main game is still by far online texas holdem, though that is another piont that coaches have brought up in the past. A good friend of mine is a big omaha fan, though I’m only just getting into it myself. I will definitely be paying more attention to the online poker tournament circuit when I break out of my BE run.
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June 14th, 2010
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Yup, I’m starting to coach 2nl through 10nl players. For the time being I’m offering 2 free introductory sessions, either a live sweat or hh review, please get in touch via e-mail or skype / aim if your interested, rates are currently $10 /hr for all stakes 2nl through 10nl.
July 24th, 2010
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I really need to make way more of an effort to stop looking at my results and graphs, bad enough I have to do it every week anyway for team moshman, I feel like I’ve been rather sucky tight atm, with big hands vs fish I’m not betting nowhere near enough on early streets, a hand was so obviously misplayed by me earlier, I more or less bet 1/2 pot on the turn vs a fish with TP with a FD possible… lol
Off out shortly, though the games look really good, so hopefully I’ll get some play in tonight, gl everyone.
July 21st, 2010
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I’m wanting to sweat some people between 2nl and 10nl, to prepare for offering some coaching for these stakes so if you play these stakes, on any site please get in touch so we can set something up. Just to clarify, I’m not looking for paying students at this time, I just want to sweat people on these levels to get used to the play and get some practice offer advise for these games.
Thanks.
July 15th, 2010
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The last two weeks have been pretty frustrating, I’m about BE this month, and apart from one epid day was BE last month IIRC, its so draining to keep playing for no results, but I have to keep pushing myself forward. I’m really pleased with how I’ve been playing, true I’ve made some mistakes today, and a few more yesterday, but mistakes happen, I need to put them behind me and move forward. I’m running a bit crap lately, nothing disastrous, just typical gross turn and river bet / fold spots and loads of kill my action type spots.
I’m going to try and start a new routine tomorrow, as I’m not happy with my <3k hands per day average, so from tomorrow I’m going to try doing 2 sessions of 1.5k hands per day, hopefully that’ll help improve my volume. My volume hasn’t been terrible, I just think it can be better, especially as I need the boost to help make sure I will make SN this year, I still have 60k vpp’s to go, and the longer I stay at 25nl the harder it will be to achieve.
If things go well for the rest of the month, I will be moving back up to 50nl at the start of next month.
Good luck everyone xxx
July 14th, 2010
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I thought I was praying for value from 7x or trying to induce a bluff, burst out laughing at showdown lol.
He had what…?
July 10th, 2010
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Another session down, another 1+ BI’s of total spew, I’m really struggling with this, more then I ever thought I would, and its really really holding me back. I heard Aeron Jones talk about how music and certain types of mucic and make you play to fast so I’m going to leave the music alone for my next few sessions and see if that can have a positive impact.
Generally I think I’m playing well lately, its just doing obviously stupid stuff like making terrible 4b/calls and very thin bluffs vs villains with very little information.
July 10th, 2010
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1. Stop looking at my cashier, session results and graphs.
2. Evaulte / post more hands.
3. Do more focussed sweats, i.e concentrating on specific areas rather then just general sweats
July 3rd, 2010
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My operating system went a bit crazy on me a few day’s back, so I made the upgrade to Windows 7. I have Windows 7 on my laptop so I thought I’d be used to it, but hell no, it really threw me, and I’ve been mega tilted for the past few day’s, especially when HEM was driving me crazy. I’m really not used to the desktop layout and how the windows look and feel and I can’t wait to either theme it like XP or get used to it, so it doesn’t bug me so much. Worse still is that there appears to be a problem with my graphics drivers as now I can’t do basic stuff like setup a screen save, despite having a pretty good card that worked perfectly on XP.
So I haven’t done much poker for the last few day’s, I had a session with my team moshman coach earlier, which went okay and we’ve highlighted a few areas that I’m going to work on over this next week. I’m still pretty annoyed about my poor performance this month, mostly I’m just getting coolered and running into the top end of ranges, though I’m excited about improving my play and negating some varriance with an improved win rate.
June 29th, 2010
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Would I be insane to think that I can just rip my thumb out of my butt and make 2k out of 25nl over the next month, going to try and aim for $500 a week, maybe 75k hands a month, a couple of months of that and my roll will be back to a point where I feel happy to move back up to 50nl, and hopefully 100nl won’t be too long after that.
Sadly I’m too tired to grind now, probably a good thing after how I ended my last session but I’m really keen to get stuck into the grind tommorow. Gl at the tables everyone.
June 20th, 2010
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