[citanul]

I think:

a) your friend is "good enough" to play those games, especially considering it's stilll possible for him to improve (clearly)

b) i think that he likely should not be playing those games if he hates large swings

c) i think you are not qualified to be judging what a 215s player's ROI is

d) i think that oh, some other randomly chosen metric, like his ROI, is much more likely to tell you his ROI than your randomly chosen one of "pull a number out of a hat"

e) i think that since (a) implies he can still learn (there are after all players who beat those games for more than 6% and likely (b) is true, that since your friend believss he shouldn't be playing those games, he likely should move down and play lower, and work on his game.

f) it sounds like your friend *is* interested in getting his game better. that's a good thing. if moving down is the way he wants to do it, more power to him. it sounds like he's thought about this possibly more than you.

that's response 2 for this thread.

citanul