Quote:
Originally Posted by ThrowingRocks
Trooper needs to wake the hell up. He blames his losing on Variance, it's his crutch. It's laughable he said " Wonder why people who made a bunch of money in 2006 online poker don't make any anymore" well dude a winning 25c/50c player today would be a top 5 cash player in the world back in 2006".
Games get tougher as time go's on you can blame variance as a crutch but your only fooling yourself amigo. It is not variance you just suck at poker it's that freaking simple, you should be able to run bad at 1/2 forever and still win because your winrate in soft games like that is massive assuming your good.
You refused coaching from Squid and others people that have been winning for years playing higher stakes than you ever do. Why Did you decline those "free" offers? .......Here's a hint your massive ego!!
You approach the game with a old school mentality that it's about psychological warfare to you. All while the game has transitioned to a more fundamental/theory based game which you neither have the fundamentals or the knowledge of the theory to be fundamentally sound. What you really should do is take those math skills you showed and start thinking in ranges and understanding how many combos of X or Y are in that range and how you should build your range. Hundreds of videos I have seen and you always seem to put them on 1 exact hand..... nobody good does this anymore....
You can sit there and change nothing but eventually if you do that you will be forced out of the game. You can blame it on variance than and continue to stay delusional but trust me nobody will believe you and hopefully not yourself. This is the problem with society/social media/FB/TWITTER everyone wants to look good, present the best part of them or their lives but it's so fake. People go through struggles and pain in life it's ok to look weak and vulnerable, the ability to show that is actually sign of strength and most of all a sign of character. You need to wake up and fix your mentality of blaming variance, it's not variance... Variance is your crutch.
most of what you say is true.
as many of us said years ago trooper is hot garbage at poker.
he has a huge poker ego for no reason and is basically delusional as far as poker goes.
listen just to the conversations in low stakes games, be it poker related or just life related and even the winning players in those games are generally a lot dumber and have much worse poker logic than the winning players in high stakes games.it's not a coincidence.and he's dumber than those winning low limit players.
however what you're wrong about is LIVE poker is mostly not about theory or any of that crap.
it's about playing at fun tables,being able to handle long streaks of run bad, making games fun, making sure the donks like you and give you action as well as massive live tells where people literally tell you their hands and do things that make it obvious they are going to fold behind you.
gto nerds on their headphones and tablet don't make close to what they could in live games if all they're worried about is hand ranges and fundamentals.don't get me wrong you need to be somewhat fundamentally sound (which trooper isn't) but it's not as important as a lot of people think.