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Originally Posted by 420legalize420
To succeed in poker you need to know exactly what you are doing. If you can't explain your thought process/reasoning in a hand, you are probably a fish or someone with a strange cognitive disorder that is able to play within logic but is unable to express it in words.
I've never played HS, and I'm almost sure that any 5bb/100 winner in HS would be capable of seeing the leaks on my game and helping me. Things I do that they don't do and so on.
I thought about this topic a lot 2 months ago and my conclusion is that anyone that plays better than me is capable of teaching me something.
It's easy to spot what a losing/breakeven/not so profitable player is doing wrong when you are a crusher.
The thing is: Is the approach of this specific coach good enough to make me understand my leaks and correct them? Sometimes what doesn't fits you, fits someone else. The coach you dislike might be the best coach in the world to someone else.
Being able to explain your reasoning about a hand or poker concepts is not analagous to being a good coach. Yes, it stands to reason barring some language barrier, most (if not all) HS / high level poker players would be able to explain and breakdown their thought processes when going through a hand.
That is fundamentally separate from being able to distill that down to coaching someone or explaining concepts like someone is five years old in a way that is digestable.
Someone who does research in physics and has a PhD can surely explain every concept in physics but distilling it down to a format where a layperson can understand is completely different.
A good coach understand where their students are coming from and where the knowledge gaps lie.
Last edited by daxile; 01-31-2024 at 01:45 PM.