Or you can just say this play is profitable but the other play is more profitable for these 1,2,3 reasons

For example t20 AA.It is profitable to shove but it is more profitable to raise 3-4bbs in order to iduce many worse hands play that in the first case would have folded aka a bad player will not call a shove t20 with KQ but he will definitely play it when you just raise

hey matt

just wanted to say hi, and I disagree that you are a better coach than player. I think your a pretty dam good player as well and a nice guy to boot

If BF hadn't happened would you still be playing (I assume yes) and what games would you play? sngs still, or would you have switched to cahs/mtt by now?

exactly. and then you can extrapolate that concept over thousands of poker scenarios.

aww <3.

I love how you won my life earnings in one game lol!

If I could play, I'd be playing mostly 45/180/mtt (i was doing some mtts before BF) and I'd add 9/18 at night to get more games to load (the rare times I'd play at night).

What would be your $16 9man ultimate 'table of death' ?
If you hadnt ever gotten into poker what would you be doing?
Which player has had the most influence on your poker career and how/why?
Whats the biggest accomplishment of a player you have coached?

What would be your $16 9man ultimate 'table of death' ?
Abarone68, Maveriks777, Juandadi, Bagclip2005, Pessagno, Bernardc, Bigniux, dirty.brasil, and me (cause I guess I have to be there for it to be a death table to me)
If you hadnt ever gotten into poker what would you be doing? no idea
Which player has had the most influence on your poker career and how/why?Probably abarone68 because he taught me a lot of the beginning stuff
Whats the biggest accomplishment of a player you have coached?Two guys have gone on to win over 100k, 1 made sne, and one went from $900 to $30k on sharkscope in less than a year.

Hey Glitlr, ive seen all your coaching vids back when i had my snggrinders account, i actually enjoyed all of them and i always thought u were the best coach the site had.

Ive been coached for a few months now, i started playing 18man 3.5s and right now im winning at the 7s and getting ready to jump into 15s.

I think my biggest leak right now is my lack of mental strenght, 75+ buyins downswings affect my mood and i sometimes lose motivation to play because of that, right now i do not play poker for a living but i would like to do it soon.

My question is: how did you trained yourself to not let big downswings affect you once you started living our of poker?, do you have any tips or recommendations for this?.

Thanks in advance man you were a big inspiration for me to focus on sngs, just wanted you to know that.

Thanks for the compliment about sitngogrinders

I started playing for a living in the very end of April of 2008, and it was not a good start. If you look at my sharkscope break down by month, you will see that I had two great months in March and April of 2008, then in my first 3 months as a "professional" (May, June, July) it didn't exactly go very well. I was easily affected by downswings because I wasn't used to them. Luckily, the small success I had in Feb and March were financial back ups that allowed me to keep playing. I worked my other job until the end of April '08, and had that money to help with living expenses. Thankfully, Feb and March was my back up.

So the two pieces of advice to have downswings not affect you is 1) Have extra money (and the correct minimum amount for you) set aside for whatever reasons you need that money (especially if this is your sole source of income) and 2) When you go through a downswing, recognize that it is not your life finances are not in jeopardy. If you ever feel they are, then you don't have enough in your back up plan.

The next obvious questions is "How much money should I set aside?" And the answer to that is, I have no idea. It depends on you and only you. People are so focused on bankroll management, but a million times more important than that is bank account management.

Hope this helps.

i'd like to replace bernardc with mckrogh.

Replace bag, big and dirty with cneuy3, wavegoobye and sippin_criss imo. And possibly loonatwok instead of mavs.

Interesting but I still disagree slightly, since I think that more of the variables you need to do an EV calculation are known or estimable than in the hypothetical you provided.

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Complete the following statement:

If I was completely confident I could make a minimum of $_____ in 2013 playing online poker playing 40 hours/week I would relocate in 2013.

thats a good one ^_^

no way. bagclip, bigniux, mavs, mckrogh and dirty.brasil know everything about me. bagclip knows more about me than any single player ever.

i've coached maveriks777 for probably like 50hrs lifetime. maybe more. he's the last person i want to play against.

Complete the following statement:

If I was completely confident I could make a minimum of no possible amount in 2013 playing online poker playing 40 hours/week I would relocate in 2013.