Everything is anathema

This is a blog post of 2 parts.

Part 1:

I'm not really a huge fan of post graphs, whether to drum up business or just to brag. I just don't really care/see why anyone else would care. In this day and age however potential students want to see some kind of evidence that you can beat what you're teaching them, and I understand this. As such, here are all the hands in my database played below 2/4. Not that many hands, since 2/4+ is my meat and drink, but enough, I would think, to answer any questions. All hands are at 6max, as you can tell from the stats. I tend not to accept new students who play the same limits as me, but I do have some students playing 2/4, mainly ones I've been able to help reach that point. If any of those within that sphere wish to see my 2/4 stats, just get in touch with me.

The interlude in this blog post will contain a haiku:

Location: Tallinn Estonia
F23B of no percent
My red-line soars

(I have no idea how one properly constructs a haiku. If you are a haiku master and I have murdered your art form, please don't get your panties in a bunch).

Part 2:

I listened to Foxfoodfiend's Blueprint today and I can't emphasis enough how much I agree with, well, all of it. I would like to echo how important it is for people to not quit college to play poker. By all means quit your shitty job to play poker (assuming no one but you is relying on the income from that job), but having that degree on your resume could not only turn out to be a literal benefit but it will be a huge psychological benefit if you do decide to play poker professionally, just knowing that you have it to fall back on. I didn't get started with poker until I'd finished with college, but I was sports betting all throughout college (successfully and without feeling the need to drop out) and if I did not have the proceeds from that I never would have attempted to start playing poker professionally when I did. Unless you're about to be invited onto HSP, stay in school. Poker will be there when you have finished. It will probably be a more attractive arena that it is right now.

The other truth that resonated strongly was the bankroll management advice. Namely, if you're just in this for yourself - you can and should take more risks. People are often very self-limiting once they find a high enough limit they can beat, they just stick with it and robot it out when with a little application they could be playing much higher. If you are not in it just for yourself, if you have a wife and/or kids, you need to be a huge bankroll nit and that often does mean doing exactly what those self-limiting players are doing. It's what I do. It's why I only play 2/4 and 3/6 online rather than regging it up at 5/10+ and why I wouldn't play higher than 10/20 live. I am extremely over-rolled for my limits, but a huge % of that roll is squirreled away as college funds for both my kids and my wife and I's retirement. Why play higher?

Watch the Blueprint episode, you'll get a lot out of it.

There were no flaming stealth bananas in this blog, but if you got that reference then you are in the awesome quadrant of the universe.

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