Hi Boss player,
you have a very legit concern/question, so i'm gonna answer a bit longer than usual, so i can quote this post in the future in case a similar question occurs.
I probably have not even played more than 500k hands 6max lifetime. Before crushing poker i was breakeven at NL50 for 100k hands. Then i woke up, found my love in HU. After beating it, i played 6max games, but 90% of the time because a weak player was on the 6max table.
What i then realized is that 6max is no different from HU in regards to the fundamental way of thinking. I use the same "system" and it made me a winner. Would i have the best winrate in 6max reg only battle on NL1k/2k ? No, i don't think so. It would be disrespectful/untrue to claim this, because on 6max i was only playing when a fish on the table.
I would view myself in my playing time as better than most, but the top 6max players (regs, not those who bumhunt) had an edge on me for sure. I have no problem saying this as understanding reality is crucial to success.
I understand that you want a graph, and can only refer you to the discussion earlier about this. It is incredibly lame, but i did loose all of my data (and laptop and lots of cash) when my apartment got robbed end of 2011 (they did leave me my underwear lol). I'm lucky that pokerstrategy.com knows screen names and had a copy at least of HU hands to verify that what i claim is true.
In any case, if you want to judge my ability as a coach, i don't only have insane HU results like imachampion among others, but also 6max players, quite a few.
Call me cocky or whatever, but give me any student that is half way motivated and willing to do some work and we achieve insane results that the poker world hasn't seen. So i do think(and have proven many times) that i bring the best results and help people achieve more than they ever thought they were capable of despite not having been the "only" a good 6max player.
Here an email i just received like a week ago from a 6max student:
(He posted earlier in the thread, making over 30k on NL200 and some NL400 in a MONTH. The graph below is in addition to that. You can only imagine Rakeback etc... the guy has likely made way over 100k already.
Before my coaching he was loosing over 100k hand sample iirc. )
Hello Gordon,
how have you been doing? It has been a while and poker is going great! I am still very thankfull for your help. I have attached an image with my results since the begining of May. During this period I took one month off for holidays.
Currently I am slowely starting to play some good 5/10nl tables. There are two trouble areas tough:
1. I find it hard to xxxxxxx. It is still tough for me to get used to that, but in order to play higher I need to xxxxxxxxxxx
2. I am still a little bit affraid to play big pots, but I will get used to that eventually. It was the same when I started to play 2/4.
Are there many any things you still think you could teach me in order to made this transition go smooth?
The last key thing I did after our last session to produce these results was that I made a rule sheet for myself. It currently consists of 17 rules and as long as I stick to these everything goes very well.
Btw, remember that I told you I went xxxxxx Take a look at what I caught
http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cya
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(Before the conspiracy theorists come out, if people wish a MOD of choice comes i will ask the student to verify with him etc... in any case, he's one of many students with good before-after graphs as regular readers here will know)
Last edited by ThinkItThrough; 08-30-2013 at 01:15 PM.