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Originally Posted by WarPix
So, absolutely no offense, but you are a pro for 3+ years now (right?) and struggle to beat NL10/25. Are you sure that Poker is the right way for you?
Haha yes I know how this looks. But I already beat NL50 with a big sample (860k hands 0,6bb EV last year). I had some really bad spending behaviours, so I won way less then I paid for all that stuff.
And I´m full time player for about 4 years, but I started by playing 180s and it took me a long time to be good at it. But I was the top 3 winner in 2014 with $50k in winnings.
The transition to cashgame 1 3/4 years ago was a complete new beginning. 180s and 6max zoom is like you are going from playing soccer to play basketball. Both are games played with a ball, but thats all. It´s really like learning a new game from the beginning.
I lost about $12k in the first 4-5 months just to learn how to play even. I should had start with NL5 and not with NL50, but I had a BR of idk like $22k or so, when I moved to cashgame.
I had a close friend for about 3,5 years with I was playing 180s and moved to cashgame. He played a lot of cashgame before, so he tried to help me getting better in it. And that was my exact problem I had over the last 1,5 years at cashgame. He is a good winner at NL100 right now and I always tried to copy his style and didn´t think enough by my own, because he that do this and do that and I did it.
I would say for everyone who starts with poker, get a good coach. Not just a guy who is good at the thing he is doing. If he is not able to teach proberly it´s like getting coached by a -Ev player.
And if you don´t have money for a coach do it all by your own and forget this stupid gto bull****. Start thinking how to play each hand the best way. Play a big amount of hands and review all your stats to identify leaks and work on it, by thinking how to do it better. What works and what works not.
As you read, I still make a lot of mistakes at NL10 right now and as a wrote ist 90% bad calls, 5% missed valuebets/missed bluffbets and 5% bad bluffs.
I learned it the hard way and had to rewrite my complete game in the first quarter of this year, but finally for the really first time since I started cashgame, I believe I´m on the right track.
I´v found a brilliant grind and study partner about two weeks ago. We made literally every day 1-4h of content and motivate each other to grind the hell out of it.
We will show you this month how to play a ****ing big amount of hands while studying for hours to move from NL10 to NL50.
I hope this long post could answer your question fully.