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Originally Posted by SammyR
That's right, you leave the dirty work ( flaming in the thread ) for your 2nd account or on your friends.
I order and pay for a Rolex and I get a watch from a kinder surprise. Was I scammed or not? Eh..
Using hyperbolic metaphors doesn't help your case, its simply a manifestation of your polarising character/behaviour.
1) What you're looking for (cheat sheet) "does" exist in the some sense of creating heuristics for different spots BUT it is quite useless if you don't know how or why you are taking a certain action or using a certain sizing - i.e. if you don't know how and when to apply them and when to deviate.
This imo is VERY common. I've seen a 500z streamer (that I will not name bc I have nothing against him) who plays up to NL20k+ online + live making mistakes of this nature.
In a SRP mpvbb, on some monotone Qxxttt flop, he range bets and gets called. Turns [Atttt], so 4f. Now, its common in on 4 flushes for the PFR to overbet (leveraging nut flush advantage - assumption that both players have lose to equilibrium pre) BUT it almost never overbet on 4f ott if the A is on the board but he misapplied this concept by overbetting [AQ] as semi-bluff. Now he would not have made this mistake if he actually understood WHY you overbet instead of just blindly following heuristics. You would also NEVER do this against a someone who doesn't know how to defend appropriately (as they will overdefend their middling-strong flushes which generally folds and def more of 2p/sets) and you're going to own yourself. Hope this helps you understand why silver bullet or magic pill DOESN'T exist in this game.
2) What you're asking for takes a hell lot more than 1h or 2h or 5h to teach. For example, teaching a spot, say srp btnvbb, to teach you the concepts and heuristics for flop can be somewhat taught within a few hours, BUT once you start adding turns, good luck lol. Just a FYI, it takes me >30m to nodelock, try to learn a concept, test it and make notes IN ONE SPOT - probably bc I'm slow but whatever lol
3) There are 3areas of knowledge imo - things you know you know, things you know you don't know, and things you don't know that you don't know. The last one is the TOUGHEST leak to resolve - this is why you get a coach and talk to others - TO COVER YOUR BLIND SPOTS. Trying to put constraints on your coach by telling them - focus here and here is fine, but to be so ignorant as to tell them, NO I'M GOOD, PLS DON'T SPEND TIME HERE BC I PLAY WELL is beyond me. Its one thing to tell your coach, okay I looked through my db and identified that I struggle on playing 9h- boards in particular in 4bet pots AFTER either you or he recognises that its a major leak, BUT its another to tell them, NAH I'M GOOD HERE after he tells you that you are leaking a lot of $ here.
My input re: Knaxis's character and ability as a poker player.
- I've only had few sessions with him so my input re: his coaching ability specifically will be rather limited
- BUT I talk to him QUITE A LOT. Despite his schedule, he always helps a brother out when I need it (free of charge), interpreting outputs or understanding a spot etc.
- His ability to understand a bunch of spots, theory, adjustments etc. IS VERY GOOD IMO. Evidence of this? He basically won't be able to grind the volume he does, winning leaderboards on a site with arguably the toughest pool, whilst retaining a WR.
- I've also played a bunch with him, not a ton but enough to get a good gauge of his competence - he is good imo, but that is only my opinion.
Frankly, I'm not sure I would not have had the same degree of patience that he's had with you, but to come on here to try and sabotage his business is quite disgusting imo. I'm not saying don't provide negative feedback, but there is a right way and a wrong way to go about doing it. I'll keep it at that.