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Originally Posted by venice10
If you've played over 10,000 hours and struggle to beat the lowest stakes, you've got some massive leaks in your game that reading Chen's book isn't going to fix. Obviously without knowing more about how you play, it is impossible to identify what they are.
The difficulty you will have is that after 10,000 hours is that you have committed those bad habits to memory and will be nearly impossible to break. I don't normally suggest a coach to low stakes players, but you need someone to review your game and start fixing the mistakes you are making. It isn't going to be a matter of meeting once or twice. You're going to need continual review to make sure you don't slip back into what are now comfortable bad habits.
Good luck.
Thanks. I'm ambivalent about receiving coaching despite it being helpful in the past. I'm a former .50/1 24-tabler (.5bb/100 FTW), which I left out of the OP because it qualifies for nothing today. The sweat sessions + followup reports were the most useful things I've learned and they showed immediate profit. But I'm aware of how useless many coaches are, can't afford ongoing lessons at the moment, and have no idea how live-poker coaching works but it seems dubious. Solving NLHE isn't a real goal, but being a good 2/5 player and having the money to play it is.
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Originally Posted by sixfour
chen's book has little to no practical applications to anything
That's okay. I'm of the opinion that the journey is basically more important than the destination. If his book gets me thinking about poker math in a better way, or gives me the confidence to Google "GTO+Poker", or helps me improve as a thinker, it could be useful in a way that most poker books aren't.
Happy to hear more prudent approaches. 'Play a lot + think a lot + talk to people' helped me make money years ago, but the game is tougher, and I need a more solidified base.