Blondes or brunettes?

A,B,C, (D) - cup?

Post a picture of the most attractive woman in the world.

It depends.

If the table is full of fish, you can play tighter because you're not going to be able to take pots down on the flop a lot because they're gonna peel with queen high, so there's no reason to be playing 25/21 and cbetting all the time.

If the table is full of grinder regulars that are 18/16, that's the table you wanna play 25/21 and just constantly be aggressive in position and abusing them because they're generally playing too many tables and don't care if they have to fold a marginal hand in the blinds.

I guess if I had to say... optimal stats would be around 20/16/4.. but I hate putting a number on such a broad question like this because of all the different table types you'll find at nl25.

What areas of your game were helped most by coaching?
Knowing the benefits coaching has had on your game, do you now wish you had gotten it earlier?
Can you compare coaching vs video subscriptions in terms of value to a player?
And how much, if any, do you think the player's making these videos are holding back?

Brunettes

34Cs are perfect

Your mom wouldn't like that.

Why do you suck at PLO?

What do you think of posters who have 4.5k posts but are still in uNL?

Lols

What 5 things helped you the most when you were a struggling 25 or 50 nl'er?

i.e. when to bet river for value, stop spending so much money on hookers and blow, etc.

Coaching definitely helps plug leaks a lot better than if you were to PT review your week results, because you get more blunt answers and more subjective answers, and it also gives you a fresh viewpoint on things because every coach thinks differently and there will occasionally be a spot come up where you could make a certain move that you haven't before just because you weren't aware of it or didn't know if it'd work.

100% I wish I would've gotten a great coach and gotten 5+ hours with him when I was struggling with SSNL and back to uNL.

Coaching is more personalized and focuses on much more in-depth things that aren't discussed in videos just because a spot doesn't come up often or it just gets overlooked. With coaching you're able to ask ANYTHING you want, so if there's something you want to know, it can get answered. I'd say coaching > training sites for sure but it all comes down to where you're at as a player (if you're stuck at a certain level, no amount of videos you watch are gonna give you the "aha!" moment that you need) and if you can afford the chunk of money that coaching costs.

I have no idea and I'd like to say that people aren't holding anything back but I assume that's a lie.. for now I'll just say that I think people try their best but a lot of people don't articulate their thoughts well.

just wanted to thank you for everything you've done for me lately =)

ill come back w/ a ? soon

My two biggest problems.

All my "what helped you out the most" questions were already asked, so... Do you just openshove .01/.02 NLHE when you're drunk/bored or something?

Because I never hit a draw and everyone else does!

They should find a way to block BBV, NVG and BBV4L from their browsers.

I already kinda answered this but..

1. Learning to bet/fold as opposed to check/call when you have a marginal hand (ex - tp on a board that is kinda scary, c/c doesn't give you any information as opposed to if you bet and get called it's likely you're ahead and if you get raised, it's likely you're not).

2. Realizing that people aren't out to get you. If someone makes a move on you, they probably just have a hand. Learn that people can have air (see a showdown) before you re-bluff someone or call off a stack with a marginal hand.

3. Game selection, I stated this above but sitting with the same 5 regs just isn't gonna be your most profitable situation even if you CAN exploit them.

4. Quitting your session when things aren't going well. I've had 2 buyin losses turn into 6 just due to thinking that things would turn around and it'd be okay and then I'd end up getting coolered again and starting to tilt and lose more buyins.

5. Dropping your number of tables. Cool, you can make another buyin per hour by adding your number of tables to 12. You're also going to not improve your game and you're going to be more susceptible to tilt -- which means you're gonna LOSE another buyin per hour than if you were playing 4 tables.

i heard you just picked up a new monitor amirite? if so, would you want to sell the old one

You're welcome, thanks for all the life talks.

I used to, now I just wait until the 'brew starts a homegame and I go crazy in those. Nowadays, if I tilt I just go watch a movie or go outside.

what is your biggest degen moment?

how many hours a week do you try to log. (play & study)

It doesn't work that well (flickers a lot), and I don't wanna sell anything ****ty to a uNLer. I'll probably give it to a cousin or something.

Degen moment - sitting at 5/10 with my $850 roll back when I was first starting to see SNG success and busting it AA v KK. Never again.

I try to play 2-3 hours a day and PT review for an hour, and then I usually watch a video each day, so I'd say 5 hours. I don't include forum time as study even though it partially is.

Would you squeeze 87o, or J3s?

Oh yeah and how do you review?

dangit.

lol a poker related question: how much did u run ur BR up on a big heater in the past?

edit: and what does the u in UNL mean? haha

Glad i'm around uNL to see this, thanks for doing it.

1. Do you think poker will still be as big in 5 years time?
2. What are your plans outside of poker (You mentioned college?)
3. How come you and Gelford do all the work ?

J3s, but only IP against a loose reg, I'd rather fold 87o than 3bet it, but I don't mind calling with it IP.

I review generally with a friend and I go over all pots where I put in ~20bb or more to see if anything could've been done differently or if I could've avoided something. If friend and I can't come to a conclusion, post it somewhere. (This is something for you guys to mimic, don't post EVERY big hand you play.. discuss it with friends first, they'll usually know the answer or you can both figure it out together)

I didn't make much, like no more than $1.4k (although I did win a MTT for I think $2k in early 2006, I cashed out $1500 of it and blew it all on electronics.

The u in uNL stands for a German letter meaning micro I believe.

Session reviews: How do you do them? Which hands do you look for, just the biggest winners/losers? Obviously we can't post every single hand on these forums (and some threads don't get many replies).

Also, what exactly do you get out of coaching? Like what has Greg taught you that you didn't know say, a month ago? Why is it so much better than the training sites? Can you tell us about an idea/concept/ect that you've gotten that's seriously added to your WR? Thanks.

Well you've already made a video covering preflop play (3-betting etc), and flop play (floating/bluffraising etc).

So make a video covering turn play / river play (esp. with one-pair hands). Anything about deepstacked (200BB+ play) would be good. You play on stars so that might be a problem.

You can further elaborate on your 3-betting video by going deeper into postflop play on 3-bet pots (especially c-betting and 2-barreling).

Last but not least, talk about how to exploit those very tough regulars with the intellipoker avatars .

The first two were very good; make one soon. Make like ten this year. Just put everything about how you play out there, don't hold back .

Oh yeah the obligatory question; do you follow bball and who do you have winning the finals.

1 - Sure, fish love to gamble and fish always have jobs... poker will still be thriving - at least at casinos. Online, maybe not so much because of the government.

2 - Build up enough bank to move out west, find a small college and bust out a degree. If that doesn't work, possibly getting into a few small business ventures (storefront in the mall or small business or something similar) to help diversify my funds while I continue to make a moderate amount of poker money.

3 - Because y'all scared EMc and ama away!

are you voting for obama?

I answered the session review question in the post above yours (we posted at the same time).

I mean there's really no "one" idea I can say that Greg has helped me out with, it's just been a combination of small ideas and different viewpoints and different lines to take and small things that help me think about poker in a way I haven't before and keep my mind fresh.

Good ideas, I'll try to remember these, it'd mostly be theoretical since there's no way of getting to turns/rivers with any decent frequency in a 45 minute video.

Also, lol intellipoker.