I'll add to what I said earlier, I started playing last year and I built up a nice BR (2.5k) just through luckboxing it and having some ok intuition (ZeeWhyZeeZee 888), then my luck ran out and eventually I tilted it away.
I invested in training programs like Upswing, RYE and all the free content I could find, so in the fall of last year I started after getting rekt in the summer. You can look up ZeeWhyZeeZee on Stars and Party, it was going ok, but not as fast as I wanted it to, see this thread I made:
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...37/index2.html
Just basically me whining for a few pages, but in fairness I was running bad, however it was relatively standard.
Since then, I went on to build up my BR on Party and and Stars, crushing $5 Omaha due to solid preflop fundamentals and doing well at the low stakes. I took some time off again to start this year as I was going through a bit of a downswing when I decided to transition to 50nl HU for a bit and boy did that do wonders for formulating good strategies around different flops, frequencies and sizings.
I started playing more HU tournies and was lucky to bink one of the PKOs I played for 1k, but it was not smooth sailing after that, in the 100+ games that followed although I was still winning, I had
16 straight top 10s without taking it down, obviously complete PKOs are a bit different, but the point stands about how bad I was running late, that doesn't count the 10-15 other times I finished in the 1% without big scores.
Basically, at one point I was up around 1k for 2-2.5 months, but the upper end if I won 100% of those super late spots was like 30k, so with slightly better run it could've easily been 5-6k nevermind anything ridiculous like winning 100%.
Yesterday I managed to run like God and take advantage of some pretty poor play:
And while I did sun run in that tournament a few times (winning 2 flips in a row and 2 75/25s in a row on the FT, winning a 75/25 before that and 1 two outer on the river), I also got rekt a few times (aces cracked, 20/80d once, lost 3 flips in a row, running into a bigger flush draw when I had fd and 2 overs as well), the sun run wasn't really ridic per se
Last bit is tournament.
So yeah, I started NOT being able to beat $10-15 ABI (getting crushed at $20s), not being able to beat 25nl and now I beat $20 ABI without any problem and 50 NL without much issue either. Why? Because I studied and invested in the best training material, just that simple
It's obviously a dumb debate, but real, living and personal examples do seem to work better for people than hard data which can be manipulated.