Poker Video: Misc/Other by WiltOnTilt (Micro/Small Stakes)

thx a lot
want moar already ;D

Aaron,

Great finale to the series.

one thing i'd like your opinion on that i'm not sure if you covered is poker e-books. are there any poker e-books that you would recommend and think are worth the money?

another thing i'd like to hear your thoughts on is how often you think someone should be looking at the cashier/wins and losses in HEM. i think i read once that leatherass only looks at the cashier once a month. i also think i read that many top salesmen don't look at their sales for the month until the month is nearly over as they feel if they know how behind pace they are, their confidence may take a hit and if they are way ahead of pace they may slack a bit and not sell as much as they could have, which would be akin to chasing losses/tilting when down in poker and getting winner's tilt/sitting on winnings/not putting in as many hands when winning in poker.

thanks for the series and thanks in advance for your opinion on these.

Great series, hope this continues in some way.

A thought on getting coaching:

Even if you're not planning on getting long term coaching from someone, is getting a few sessions every now and than just to have a person you respect giving an openion on your overall game a good idea? It sometimes goes along with hitting a plateau, but not always. Sometimes you just want to know if you're heading in the right direction and having the correct thoughtprocess. If you think you are imporving but you don't see results, it is, if nothing else maybe a confidence boost. Either that, or you quickly realize how much you don't know

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All people generalize too much is too generalized. At least that's what some people think!

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Soooooooo true..I find that my style is the one that I get from playing the way I do.. I have been struggling a bit with this, but it is very important!

Nice series Aaron! It really gave me a lot in terms of perspective

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I understand your point on style. Like if you are playing laggy, some players will adjust and you might be able to widen your value range in a spot a nit might not be able to solely because of how they are reacting to your image. But this would not be a style thing either because against another player at the table, your image may not have an impact on their play and thus widening your value range vs that player might be a mistake. The guy who want's to play laggy for it's sake would play optimally vs player 1 and sub-optimally vs player 2.

Thanks again for this great series - was very motivational for me.

Aaron,

Great finale to the series.

one thing i'd like your opinion on that i'm not sure if you covered is poker e-books. are there any poker e-books that you would recommend and think are worth the money?

another thing i'd like to hear your thoughts on is how often you think someone should be looking at the cashier/wins and losses in HEM. i think i read once that leatherass only looks at the cashier once a month. i also think i read that many top salesmen don't look at their sales for the month until the month is nearly over as they feel if they know how behind pace they are, their confidence may take a hit and if they are way ahead of pace they may slack a bit and not sell as much as they could have, which would be akin to chasing losses/tilting when down in poker and getting winner's tilt/sitting on winnings/not putting in as many hands when winning in poker.

thanks for the series and thanks in advance for your opinion on these.

Poker e-books: I have slowhabit's plo book and LearnedFromTV's plo book (the expensive one). I thought they are both very good. I've heard that slowhabit's no limit workbook is good, but I haven't seen it. I haven't heard much about the others.

As for checking the cashier/HEM graph: This is something I've good at avoiding when winning, and not so good at avoiding when losing. Obviously that is not a good strategy lol... you should be good at avoiding it all the time, and that's the goal. I think once per week is a good starting goal to try to achieve. it is a good exercise in self discipline. Like most things, it really comes down to whether or not that extra info is going to influence you at all... either to tilt/spew because you're trying to get even or to clam up to book a win when you're ahead. If you think you're even slightly prone to this (probably we all are, to varying degrees) it's best to learn to avoid it... so once per week or per month seems like a good goal, with the idea of not checking it before or during any particular session.

Great series, hope this continues in some way.

A thought on getting coaching:

Even if you're not planning on getting long term coaching from someone, is getting a few sessions every now and than just to have a person you respect giving an openion on your overall game a good idea? It sometimes goes along with hitting a plateau, but not always. Sometimes you just want to know if you're heading in the right direction and having the correct thoughtprocess. If you think you are imporving but you don't see results, it is, if nothing else maybe a confidence boost. Either that, or you quickly realize how much you don't know

I'm sure I'll release an episode or 2 when I think of another topic that needs addressed. Most of the ideas I get for these videos come from a forum post or a conversation that I hear several times and I think it is off track.

As far as coaching, there is absolutely nothing wrong with getting a check up session every now and then, especially during a downswing. I would encourage it. At the very least, you'll want to have some poker friends sweat you or go over some hh after a big losing session, at least some of the time. Jk3a and I do this a fair amount now. I used to hire flawless victory to do check up coaching sessions with me every now and then, but it's been a while since I've done one.

All people generalize too much is too generalized. At least that's what some people think!

I was hoping someone would catch this!

Soooooooo true..I find that my style is the one that I get from playing the way I do.. I have been struggling a bit with this, but it is very important!

Yea, style is just sooooo very often an excuse for playing sub-optimally.

I understand your point on style. Like if you are playing laggy, some players will adjust and you might be able to widen your value range in a spot a nit might not be able to solely because of how they are reacting to your image. But this would not be a style thing either because against another player at the table, your image may not have an impact on their play and thus widening your value range vs that player might be a mistake. The guy who want's to play laggy for it's sake would play optimally vs player 1 and sub-optimally vs player 2.

right, current image vs each player is far more important than some overall worthless style goal. Make the best play each step of the way for each particular player involved and the overall result will be your style.

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Just a caveat that this is only applicable for well bankrolled cash games. Certain points in a tourney, it might be ok to let go of a close spot +EV spot, near the bubble, e.g.

But yes, otherwise I am totally with you that often people take "style" as an excuse for fancy play syndrome.

Wilt on Tilt is in my head... :uhoh:

I was just thinking over the past few weeks about how to study more effectively or what to spend my time studying doing. Best idea I could think of was to take any tough hands you've got put aside to use during a coaching session and do your best to use some math to come up with the best way to play the hand, writing down the assumptions and everything you've made and get a coach to critique it all. It seems to me to be the best way to find the gaps or faults in your own thought process and it will probably help the coach find your faults quicker too. Also getting better at critically analysing your own play is going to be hugely helpful. Little did I know (though I should have) that WoT was waaaay ahead of me.

I honestly think this episode and the episode with Wilt Senior should be mandatory viewing. If the advice in them is taken on board and used properly I think they might just be the two most useful videos on this whole site. Absolutely fantastic content, hats of Wilt!

This series = personal paradigm shift

Thanks allot for this. I listened to this while working, thinking how much i hate my life and working. This motivates me to the extreme to play poker more seriously. Even if it doesnt work out, i had allot of fun listening to it =)