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Originally Posted by Minatorr
Hate to burst your bubble, but if you're playing this way after you have been playing online for years and years, I seriously doubt you'll get to 200NL anytime soon, if ever. Your ranging of other players/3b frequencies/squeezing frequencies/cbetting tendencies are way off, among many other things.
The fact that you think you can just keep playing/studying loosely and get to 200NL "eventually" is pretty delusional and arrogant. Very few people can ever get there, no matter how hard they study or try. In a way, nowadays you have to be born for online poker. For the most part, midstakes online players are not only hard-working, but extremely gifted (top 0.3% or higher of poker players). And I can guarantee you are not top 0.3% of poker players, especially when you factor in your mental game. Why do you think so many people get stuck at micros for years and years despite working so hard and playing/studying all the time? Ask yourself. Why are you at 25NL even though you've been playing online for what. 3-4+ years?
It's like saying anyone can get into an Ivy League school as long as they push through, and study and study and study. That's not true. You have to be extremely intelligent, and ALSO work your ass off. Posting hand histories here and there on 2+2, and getting coached by a friend does not constitute working your ass off either.
You're getting golden advice to ignore online games. But you're just too hard-headed. Not to mention, as Dluo said, there is an opportunity cost to you playing online, especially in the short-run. You could be using that time to study live poker and/or making a better hourly. If anything, you playing online reduces your EV at a live table since it seems like you can't properly adjust. You play way too ******edly aggro in both games, and that'll just fuel each other, especially online to live. I mean, if torching stacks upon stacks doesn't bother you, just keep doing you.
It's actually not as hard as people make it out to be to get into a good university, including the Ivy League schools in the USA. I think that any reasonable intelligent teenager who attends all their classes and studies for 1-2 hours a day after school could do it. You're acting as if only Albert Einstein and Magnus Carlsen could get into Harvard, and anyone with an IQ below 140 is doomed. That's not the case at all.
Fwiw, I got accepted into the top university in my country (ranked 32 globally) and the only thing it took was for me to attend all my classes and do a few hours of study per week. I eventually got kicked out for failing too many subjects though... do you know why? Because I stopped attending class. I skipped about 70% of my classes at the uni and did almost no study outside of class. To me, that indicates that raw intelligence isn't a very big factor in academic success: attending class and working hard is a much bigger factor. People with average intelligence can get high distinctions in all their classes if they work hard. I've seen it.
I've only properly played online for a few months. For the most part, I've been playing primarily live for the past 4 years.
Whether or not I'm currently in the top 0.3% of poker players is irrelevant; what matters is whether I
could be in the top 0.3% after some hard work studying population tendencies and learning how to correctly exploit them.
Honestly, the way you're talking sounds very bitter. It sounds as if you're struggling to beat mid stakes online yourself, and you couldn't bear the thought of some new guy coming in and beating the games you've been struggling with for years. That's why you're getting so defensive about how difficult the games are. You don't want to see me succeed at something you fail at, because it will make you feel inadequate in comparison. The same goes for all the other people who blab on about how difficult small stakes online poker is. If it's too difficult for you then fine, feel free to give up, but don't expect me to do the same.
