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Originally Posted by Rapala
I remember a blog post of his saying that he was stopping doing videos as he didn't feel it right to be coaching if he was only breaking even. I can only think he must have had terrible game selection skills for that to be have been the case.
A HU beast he was and I still remember being blown away watching his 1k/2k vids vs David Benyamin, both by the amount of money sliding back and forth and by what he was thinking while playing, which might be standard now, but was really ahead of his time back then.
I know that the few HS regs of the time were pretty pissed at him for letting the cat out the bag as far as those advanced concepts go as it opened the floodgates of other HU regs (me included so I'm not complaining). I wonder if he regrets that decision, he likely would have made far more money just playing and keeping his secrets than coaching and spilling the beans.
After watching only a couple of his vids I was struck by how good he was at working thru a problem and figuring it out, so was shocked to hear of his poker demise.
What are some ex. of the advanced HUHU concepts that most weren't aware of at the time? checking back flop? No capping pre?
I still don't understand why he couldn't adjust to non-polarized ranges. The way he seemed to think about the game led me to believe he would always be on top of the latest trend in theory. Could it have been . . . . Variance?