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Originally Posted by andees10
Wowww. Congrats on the month keep it going
Cheers brudda <3
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Originally Posted by QuiteBadTBH
Wow this is insanely impressive Meale. Followed you a couple of years ago but missed out on how far you've come. Im sure you're proud as hell of your achievement what a boss.
What helped you the most to get to where you are, would you say?
Anything specific, a course or so, to study?
Big congrats man. Truly fascinating.
Hey mate, appreciate the kind words.
To answer your question, the answer is very specific and twofold. Obviously game selection should be a given - if you're just swinging your dick around vs regs in tough games, you're not somehow righteous or superior for doing so, especially if you have access to softer games. IMO it's an extremely bad approach if you call yourself a professional.
To answer your question, I invested in a coach at the start of the year and since that point have done sessions at least once a week and recently we've been doing longer and more frequent sessions. The second part of my answer is that I've been spending a good hour every single day, 7 days a week (excluding when I'm drunk obviously) studying. I started a workbook at the start of the year basically logging all my findings from study sessions and it's now over 500 pages in length. I'd also say less than 5% of the time I've spent studying this year has been in Piosolver.
The point I want to make is that hiring a coach alone isn't going to cut it really. I know guys who have the same coach who think just doing coaching sessions is enough, but they don't progress very far/fast. It's basically a symbiosis of getting coached regularly as well as studying/going after it yourself that is where I think the money is. I've had coaches in the past and I've studied in the past but never really got anywhere til I married them together in the way I have lately.
I'd also say my study methodology is pretty unique compared to most. When a poker player says they're 'studying' what does that even mean? It could mean all sorts of different things. Most of what I do is analysing my thoughts. Thoughts control behaviours and behaviours control which buttons you click. When you see a flop or get a particular turn card, a bunch of thoughts appear very quickly in your mind and they all fight for your attention. What most of my study is about is examining these thoughts, figuring out which ones to prioritise, which ones are just plain wrong, and looking at the order that they appear etc. I basically prune my thoughts, rearrange them, and try to teach my brain to think the revised, efficient and accurate series of thoughts the next time I see that flop or turn spot or whatever.
So yeah tl;dr get a really really good coach and then work really hard.