I don't normally take the time to respond or care about LA, all I will say is that the distinctions I make are that:
1. BW's poker video was good, which tells me he is actually thinking about hand ranges instead of simply narrating the action, if you haven't seen it you can't comment on that.
2. LA, as far as everyone who has played with him is concerned, is excruciatingly mind-bogglingly tight, such a tightness that is not good for the games, I do not believe that BW is nearly that nitty.
3. LA used to mutli-table and purely shortstack, as far as I know BW has never just loaded up 12 tables with 20 bbs and jammed over opens.
4. As far as I know BW does not sit out the EXACT hand that the fish does, which I know LA does (or did for a relevant period of time in his poker career).
Additionally, BW told me that 6 months ago or a year ago or whatever when he started playing he had no idea about game selecting and would just play all tables against all regs (this was prior to him even using a HUD). I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I can't imagine you can win at the rate that he does while not having an edge over the regs. I would think LA's winrate in his last 500k hands is 1/3 that or less, which would suggest that his advantage over the regs is nonexistent. I don't have a lot to go with on BW's game except results, his ability to explain himself in his video(s) that I've seen, and one person's comment who was an ipoker reg and had a note on him that said he was "very smart and creative." The first two things are enough for me to decide he's an asset to my training site.
I retract the statement I made about 50k hands a month, that is clearly wrong, I just have NO idea about volume-- last month I think I played 20k hands and that was probably my highest volume month in the last 2 years!
I'm not really sure what LA is trying to get from me. We are clearly completely different people, but he attacks me personally frequently and doesn't attack my poker game. I attack his poker game and never him personally since he could fly to Vegas on a private jet and attend exclusive parties with the hottest women in the world on a moment's notice, and I'm more comfortable discussing poker on a poker forum.
Since this will be my only post in the thread (unless there is a blatant fact that needs correcting), I will just say that I'm hardly known as a hypocrite and I stick by my guns. Additionally I
am out to do what is best for my poker training website: That is first that I think BW is an asset to it because of his current and future ability to teach poker and second that while I do not personally do the things that he does, I have judged them to be less detrimental to the game than what LA does.
If you guys cannot see the differences, I guess we are just on different sides of a very gray line.
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Originally Posted by LearnedfromTV
A little common sense says that either extreme is bad. Giving action to get action, being willing to start games and keep games going, and playing in tough games to improve are all good things to do, in moderation. Snapping up the seat next to the fish, having a fish list, sitting out of game you're a dog in, refusing action to some people are all good poker skills as well.
Obviously when the answer is a shade of gray and everyone feels the need to make it black or white people will end up yelling past each other.
This is clearly the best post in the thread.