Poker Video: No Limit Hold'Em by WiltOnTilt (Micro/Small Stakes)

i like HU training for 3b pot and oop practice, for translation to 6 max, ill play a bit in anticipation of the new vid. kool. tnx dudes

Nobody here is 'dissing' Alex. What I meant by saying 'this is not 2p2' was that we shouldn't have this sort of fanboy v hater culture here, i.e someone says something critical and immediately someone else thinks he has to denounce that opionion by calling him jealous or something.

This is something I have noticed in discussions of other videos as well.

i like HU training for 3b pot and oop practice, for translation to 6 max, ill play a bit in anticipation of the new vid. kool. tnx dudes

Sign me up as well. HU has always seemed interesting but somewhat intimidating. As i imagine is the case for many ssnl players. But getting out of the comfort zone is definitely the best way to learn so im looking forward to it!

The rest of the drama is just irrelevant to the topic. Putting in the effort is what its all about. Nothing else matters.

This series is great torture and pleasure for us other struggling players who put in a lot of study and work to become better players but are not seeing the results. On the other hand I hate this series and everyone involved in it, on the other hand I love it, lol.

I have a very structured study and play schedule, especially since April/May, I constantly study Baluga's book, Tri's NL Workbook, GC stuff, and lately Improva's audio files, mostly these, then I like bobbofitos and aejones. My PTR graph goes sideways since May. 13k hands in January, I was up $500 up until yesterday at 200nl, then down $500 in one day in 100nl. 10 consecutive months I've had uneventful grinding upward movement, then 1 day down $500-$1,200. Every month a day when everything gets cracked. Not a single day where things are reversed. Not a single month when that one day doesn't come. Because it has so far for 10 months, as sure as turnin' of the earth...

Lately I don't know if I'm coming or going. I fixed my tilt issues in May and have tilted only twice since then when getting frustrated to break-even stretches, but no money lost due to tilt, luckily.

To sum it up, say I call in BB vs LP laggy weak/wide range opener who cbets a ton, with 67s because my strategy is to c/r a lot of flops with some piece of equity. Well, if I have spades, flop is full of hearts and nasty overcards. Ok, let's call with low PP, strategy is to hope for 1 high card 2 low cards flops, call flop, turn check check, hope for cheap SD, if villain doesn't accommodate, c/r river ---this is what slowhabit teaches. Well, I have 44, flop comes AQ7r or T9T without fail.

What I'm try to say I guess is Alex can play poker till he's 65 and there is no statistical guarantee things will get better. I assume that is why Chaostracize packed it in, and he could read hands like no other.

I understand why SSankarAA is frustrated, I am too, and I'm baffled too, Alex comes from a financial background, so do I, I used to trade bonds and fx for 2 major hedge funds, did some risk stuff too, did ok, AND I CAN'T SEEM TO CRACK THIS FRIGGIN' STUPID GAME!!!!!

:-)

Plowing on...

Alex im not saying this as an insult. But have u ever considered grinding FR? I started and its more of an hourly grind w/ alot less variance and u can get alot more perks as far as rakeback or FPPs. Given you are a pro now I think u could put in alot of time and make alot in rakeabck and would help alot w/ your tilt problems given less variance.Also what i do so im not just botting it up is every other day put in a 4 tabling 6 max session for maybe a half hour. I noticed a few changes in my game from this. Since 6 max isnt the only game i play now i dont feel as if i have to win so i end up making better choices. I dont go for the hero bluff shove or thin call down. I just play for a half hour and if i end up or down its all the same as long as i was thinking about hte game well.

U mean you are a poker pro not only an online 6 max pro.

To sum it up, say I call in BB vs LP laggy weak/wide range opener who cbets a ton, with 67s because my strategy is to c/r a lot of flops with some piece of equity.

Sounds like a bad strategy to me.

But have u ever considered grinding FR?

Sounds like bad advice to me. He should improve now that he still can, not lay back and die.

So many posts, so little actual discussion about poker.

I give props to Alex for subjecting himself to the scrutiny of people who, unlike him, can hide behind their anonymity and don't have to back up what they are saying with their own results.

Personally, I love the series and think both Alex and Aaron are doing a great job with it.

I guess they are both at the Aussie Millions right now. Maybe some live and interactive coaching ala 2M2MM bootcamp will help Alex make the breakthrough. Lockdown coaching, IMO!

LOCK DOWN!

*Once one person says it dont we all have to say it?*

Hey Guys/Gals,

I have been thinking about this thread a lot, and what has been said. I think that everyone is entitled to an opinon and have views. Maybe the OP could of said it in a different way....I am not sure. I really appreciate the support that I recieved in this thread. Wether I am a winning player on FTP on PTR is kind of not relevent. As I was able to build a bankroll over a number of different sites to be rolled to play full time. I think this is an achievement in itself. But this is a very small part of what the series is trying to achieve. The series isn't really about how well (or badly) I do, it is not about me. It is all about giving the best poker content to the low stakes guys/gals. I have never hidden from anything, as it has always been about giving a true reflection of what it is 'grind' poker out and deal with variance, tilt, downswings and upswings. It is all about asking the right questions, delivering the best content, and helping everyone improve.

I <3 DC!!!!

the reality is 98% of all pokerplayers arent uber big up high stake ballers, that makes this series even better, bigger lesson to learn to see someone win, lose and trying to recuparate from that instead of seeing someone constantly crushing all the limits.

I tried to think of something sensible to say but basically it boils down to I love this series too. I felt a couple of the comments made in this thread were effectively kicking someone when they were already down and probably unhelpful. The previous series were recommended to me and were the first vids I watched and I like to see how the journey is progressing.

I've been playing poker for 3 years now and don't crush 10nl but I pay my money here, same as the uber-ballers and seeing someone essentially fighting the same fight, albeit with bigger weapons is great.

Alex, you're very clear speaking, nice to listen to and watch and Wilt is fab and as you can never please all of the people, all of the time, keep going and hang in there.

the student in question always tries to play me HU. let's just say that my winrate is way better than his...

the student in question always tries to play me HU. let's just say that my winrate is way better than his...

What does that tell us?

WTF are you talking about? He only left his job at the end of October. What kind of gorilla math are you using to come up with lack of success for over a year? He has only been playing poker full-time for not even 3 months yet.

lol gorilla math

Looking at it in a broad sense, the cool, differentiating thing about this series is not that it's a zero to hero story about a part time home game player gone Railheaven, it's that "real life" part of the title. It's an accurate representation of what it is like to try and make it in the poker world. Granted, Alex has had some advantages over most of the rest of us by getting coached by Aaron, but that is not a guarantee that he's going to be part of the next generation of HSNL players.

Anyway, it's not scripted, and if it deals with struggles, then that's definitely material that will benefit 99.9% of us at some point in our poker lives.

Edit: Btw, I didn't find Sugar Nut's reply BBV-ish. Perhaps that's because I am definitely jealous.