I thought this was OK, as it was discussing play against a fish. I am not expert at play between top regs. I got into enough trouble posting in the wrong threads before and don't want to repeat it. My expertise is mainly in short stack situations and midstakes play.

I wasn't expecting there to be such a big problem. I had played HSMTT a few years earlier and didn't understand how much the high stakes games had changed. Apparently, I messed up some discussions of really esoteric stuff between big name players.

Apparently, everyone assumed that since I had a coaching listing, that meant that I hadn't played at all in a few years and just coached and scammed people, rather than I had really high recent stats in something to be a coach. I guess that is partly why they were so nasty to me. I did not understand the attacks on my being a coach, as I was not aware that there were many coaches who did not play and relied on old stats and scamming skills.

I felt that coaching helped me get my game to a higher level. There were a small number of MTTSNG regs, and I felt a little weird about giving out information. However, seeing HHs and hearing reasoning for plays from people in the same or similar games maybe a step down in stakes really helped me understand my opponents.

I have post traumatic stress syndrome from being picked on in school and other things. I just interpreted attacks as being picked on and didn't hear what people were saying to me.

Then SM took the ball and ran with it, and implied since I was a coach I couldn't beat anything, and knew nothing even about ICM and other short stack issues that were my specialty. I did not understand the general perception that many coaches were scammers who did not play, or I could have answered better.

I wasn't in a good state of mind at that point for various reasons, and I apologize for posting in the wrong threads and messing up discussions between top players.