lol american

It does seem a lot of threads veer off into this kinda territory, and it's always so simplistic. America is a huge country, so of course some of it's great, and some of it sucks. That's probably way better than being Canadian - we're just boring.

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LOL at the idea of this "pro" making a blog over not playing anymore. Take a utility player from baseball or a challanger circuit tennis player....Yeah I know I can still play and maybe kill it in the fishbowl of my world. I will use the snappy vernacular of the game, and "travel" the world using those snappy witicisms.

I would harldy click the mouse if Tiger came out with a blog featuring the women I banged blog....this celebrity apprentice wanna be...zzzzzz... When Belande kills you in ability, personality, english, and marketability....its time to just enjoy life and leave the public eye.....

wish him well just levae the world alone

The guy is a massive self-absorbed douche and his writing is hilariously bad. Look at the quotes people pulled from his blog in the other thread.

If you kind of settle on the idea that you have to make money somehow, then, yeah, I think you can take a lot out of various work experiences. Even if your path takes you out of the main stream work force, the great majority of people still have to do something to make money and that's a part of your life's journey.

It took me awhile to admit it to myself, but in my experience I have had jobs that I enjoy more than a high volume grind. OLP is fun for me in small doses but it gets kind of tedious day in and day out. Ofc, even though I've lived off poker winnings for short periods of time, I don't consider myself a pro and I have plenty of work experience so there's nothing especially intimidating about going out and finding a job, the state of the economy notwithstanding.

Does he remind you at all of F. Scott Fitzgerald?

He is still 100000000x better pokerplayer than any of you guys in this thread.

If he want`s to write like that, let him, who gives a **** you don`t have to read it.

Sure, but the average professional poker player probably has far less free-time to pursue hobbies than someone with a 'normal' job, let alone HS players.

So who is this guy and why is he so hated?

Bull****. I highly doubt that a lot of Professionalplayers play > 40h/week. MTT-Players maybe and even then people are way more lazy than you can imagine.

If you talk about HS-Players then compare them to there equivalent in the real world. There are a lot of people who work 60/h day.

I dunno.. I'm pretty lazy, but 40 hours of poker still seems like nothing to me. That's only 2-3 decent sessions :P

why on earth would this guy charge $125/hr for mental game coaching when he spends his entire blog post talking about how he couldn't handle the mental aspect of getting flamed on an internet forum for six months and clearly has no direction in his life?

Good for him that he is able to charge this rate, but this is pretty much the last guy in the world I would go to for mental coaching.

grunch

i signed his email up to receive a **** tonne of spam emails

So you think people study and go into the fields that will make them the most money, or do you think people like to do what they think they'd enjoy?

Not everyone wants to do something simply because it's a lucrative living, believe it or not.

this guy is not capable of writing one single blog post without making it some kind of poem, using leading questions etc. which always make it sound a little unreliable.