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Originally posted by taavi1337
I challenge you to a HU battle at 2/4 play money on Stars
I'm gonna buy a new house with my 10BB. I'll put a dog house in the back w/ ur name on it okee 
Crikey digger, yo' avatar looks like Avatar. 0.o
Gratz! Are you taking over TerrorBlade's coachings?
lol taavi! perpetual profit machine eyemo 
^makes no sense here but I:heart: neways
Originally posted by Waiboy
Crikey digger, yo' avatar looks like Avatar. 0.oGratz! Are you taking over TerrorBlade's coachings?
Thx waiboy, I heard there'll be a news post soon.
The plan right now is, this week TerrorBlade & I will co-coach both the Advanced and Beginner FL sessions. It should be really fun.
I'll be playing a live session but to mix things up and to mark the occasion I've come up with several questions to ask TB about his experiences over the last several years. I'll be prospecting for coaching gold, but it should be valuable for everyone.
Next week both live coachings will be offered at exactly the same time slots. I've posted a feedback thread with many of the details and I'm pretty excited about the challenges it'll offer.
Approximately 400 million years ago (mya) there first lived a fish that we call the Coelacanth. As you might expect things were not the same then as now. It was warmer, quite a bit warmer actually. Six degrees C above today's average. Don't worry though, no one was screaming nonsense about global warming. It wasn't until about 100,000 years ago that Reporters learned what Parrots perfected well before and life was getting on just fine without them.
Not all, but much of what we know about this period can be learned from outcrops in Devon County, southwest England which is why its referred to as the Devonian. Since 1839 we've known about the Coelacanth; unearthed in Australia, lobe-finned ancestors of the tetrapods, and for 100 years we believed they went extinct some 65 million years earlier.
The Coelacanth was uniquely immutable. Over the course of nearly 350 million years it had remained basically the same. However, we know that competition in the natural world is unyielding for 99.9% of all species that have existed are now extinct - it would seem the natural conclusion of life. In this sense, adaptation seems like the only way to survive.
This sentiment is apparently true in Poker as well, and there are countless examples to support it. Strategies and the players who adopt them rise and fall in waves. Winning Poker seems to be an elusive target. At times we might think that learning the newest strategy is the only way to insure we aren't chewed up by sharks... but I can't help thinking this is mostly wrong.
One hundred years after its fossils were unearthed the Coelacanth's story took a remarkable turn. We found another one off the coast of Africa, but this time it was alive. Just imagine a Dinosaur, living, breathing, stalking around in your back yard. The Coelacanth is quite literally a Living Fossil.
How is it that a 400 million year old fish can remain unchanged and still survive? It goes against so many of our intuitions about competition. We might venture a guess that this durable fish approximates a stable point for life in the ocean on our planet. In other words, when it comes to pure strategies for survival the Coelacanth might have locked one up. I wonder what John Nash would think.
In our game of Poker, and as John Nash has proven, at least one pure strategy (or equilibrium point) exists. This is a strategy which continues to win as long as our opponents make mistakes. Because of the rake we know Poker is not a closed system, but the same could be said for life. Here the Coelacanth has set a pretty high watermark. Not bad for a fish.
Originally posted by taavi1337
What about the session review, Coelacanth?
icwudt.... 
Originally posted by Wriggers
Great post thereheh glad u like.
Greg Jackson is considered one of the very best trainers in MMA today. As poker players we train often and put in many sessions each week. I like to look to sports to try and improve my session volume (one of my weakest skills).
March was tough. Freelancing as a coach has put poker in a new context. Usually its been just a hobby BUT the added bit of pressure is giving me a good opportunity to examine my leaks. I'm riding a 10k hand BE stretch now and that just won't do. I've already arranged a Coaching session with AdamantHQ to look at my hands later this week and a session review the next day with Taavi.
Volume Targets:
[7.6k] 10k hands
[3] 3 HU SNGsStrategy Training:
[7] 4 Session Reviews
[10] Coaching Sessions
[8] 4 Postflop Equity Training Sessions
[8] 4 Preflop Equity Training Session
[5] 2+ ArticlesMental Strategy:
[38] 40/100 Signs. Identifying my C-game. (Study)
[11] Play sessions when I feel like crap.
[x] Develop a new Prep / Evaluation method.
Hypnotic blog, I'm only on page 3 but feel the need to subscribe.
Your understated signature link had the effect you most likely planned, so glad I clicked it.