October 30, 2011
October: Coaching, it's good for you
For like a month and a half ago, I posted this thread in the DC microstakes forums, where I ask how I should become better without paying for coaching. I was probably in a massive downswing, and I wasn't paying enough attention to stacksizes and some other important stuff that I do now. I tried for like 2 weeks after this thread, to watch videos, take notes and so on. But still I was paying my monies to the other regs at the tables and sometimes fish to.
I had a few hundred bucks that I didn't know what to do with, what I did knew was that I wouldn't like to give them away to other pokerplayers by playing bad poker. Instead I choosed to hire Inavacuum as my coach once again, after my success last year when I had him as coach and beat 20NL for 16bb/100 over 60-70k hands at iPoker.
Our first session we was watching a video I had recorded, and wow. I really thought I played pretty well, but obv not. I did float to much with bad pocketpairs, I didn't open CO wide enough, I didn't 2 barrel enough vs right players, and I did 3b some hands that I don't like to fold vs a 4b and stuff. These seems like really really standard spots for me today, but it wasn't a month ago. Feels wierd, but very good to have developed my game in the right direction.
Last month was a really disaster at the tables and here are my september graph.

As you can read of the graph I was playing bad and didn't run that good neighter. It developed some sort of tilt that I guess cost monies in the end. Didn't feel the tilt that hard since I was only playing 10nl and some 20nl. Anyhow, not fun to lose money.
So here are the october graph as I have played between our coaching sessions and now like a week and a half after we ended the coaching:

The first days I just didn't apply everything we talked about, because that's pretty hard to do. But after a couple of sessions and we have looked threw some of my hands, I really started to understand what was bad in my game.
So I guess I just didn't know what part of my game I had to improve. And that is something that no video can tell you, but a coach can. Even if this is a pretty small sample, it still can tell us a lot, this month graph is pretty solid, last month didn't lol. It look like a skyline of the norwegian mountains.

4 Comments:
inavacuum posted on October 30, 2011 at 20:55 PM
Glad things are going well. If you feel like you're falling back into bad habits, just let me know.
rapeface2k posted on November 02, 2011 at 19:46 PM
Absolutly, I will for sure! :)
holtomigLAN posted on November 21, 2011 at 13:48 PM
congrats! how many tables r u playin?
rapeface2k posted on November 21, 2011 at 23:07 PM
Thanks :) mostly between 4-6, but sometimes less.
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