I WILL TEACH YOU TO BEAT ME

Will you publish your current notes on players?I don't think so lacky.Because it is your work your info your edge.If it would hurt your pocket you won't do it.If you can see that it will your your pocket that is.In a live game where I had specific tells on players do you think I would share this information?

[pooh74]

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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point taken...i'm done with this one.

I think to some extent you over-value the level of advice given here. I've been around here for a few months and can tell with my limited SNG ability that not all the advice being given is good advice. I think a majority of the strategy discussion is carried out by relative newbies (like myself) who are learning through the discussion and the thoughts they provoke rather than from the specific advice given. Part of the learning experience is figuring out which advice to ignore.

This bit was posted not too long ago:
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this post is what sucks about playing at the 55's+

most of our good competition will be reading this...

for me, that makes me less inclined to answer these questions

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At first I thought: that sucks. Then I remembered that it's better to figure these things out on our own (after we read the different views and give it some thought) rather than just be told it is so.

One of my pet peeves is answers that don't involve some sort of reasoning. Something like: raise 150. A little reasoning behind the advice would be better for stimulating discussion.

Do you think Sklansky or Harrington or Brunson make as much writing books as they could if they spent the time playing poker? In Sklansky's case it may be a egotistical need to demonstrate to everyone that he's superior. I don't have direct interaction with poker authors, but I have had some with authors of bridge books and I can tell you that they don't all do it to feed their egos and none of them do it to get rich.

Take a look at the "where were you one year ago" thread to see that not close to a majority of players have moved up to high stakes SNGs. If the advice given here was some sort of magic wand, then there would be a ton of people who used to play the $11s, playing the $109s now. Simply not the case. Remember also, that there are probably plenty of people who were posting a year ago who did not make it in SNGs and disappeared (so won't contribute to the thread). And, even those who have been around for a year are more likely to contribute to the thread if their story is a good one.

Maybe the people who give advice are hoping that the newbies will be instilled with over-confidence and move up to the advice giver's level where he'll be dead money. The % of people who can actually turn the advice into profit at the table (at least at higher stakes) seems to be pretty small.

Keep your friends close,keep your enemy's even closer.

[lacky]

well, since that kind of info isn't on this forum, how does that apply to the subject of your thread?

[citanul]

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well, since that kind of info isn't on this forum, how does that apply to the subject of your thread?

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lacky,

because strawmen are easy to argue against.

but you knew that already.

i'm done with this thread and i'm guessing you are too.

c

Sorry lacky, I do not wish to be disrespectful to anybody here and it seems I may be doing just that.

"The average person thinks he isn't."

- Father Larry Lorenzoni

Fine.I go back to work knowing I wasted my time trying to enlighten the enlightened who only wish to argue and prove how silly everyone else is and get everybody back settled into the nest where they can continue to show the world how great they are.

[mlagoo]

i think el diablo said it best

"LOL"