Just listened to the latest episode of Deuce Plays, the DC podcast hosted by Bart Hanson, in which FWF / DaEvils gives his thoughts on coaching. I have been aware of Bart Hansonīs work ever since he hosted Live at the Bike, and I always know that an interview with him means relevant questions and astute comments, so I try to listen to the podcasts heīs involved with if the guests are interesting.
Personally, I thought the interview was great, and it was a sound commentary unaffected by general forum noise, which it seems is always there these days. Although forum debate is very good, some times some of the finer, more subtle points of discussion can go lost amidst other things.
I agree with pretty much everyhting he said (have not yet listened to the last ten minutes), the pimary thing being to do your homework when selecting a coach. For instance, if the choice is between a coach that articulates himself well and one that does not, all other things being equal (price, for instance) you should go for the on that is better at explaining himself, just based on the higher likelihood of him being able to add more value to your game. Or if two people are equally articulate, all else being equal, you should go for the one that is beating the games over the largest and most recent sample size. If those two things are equal, go for the one with most recommendations, or the one that is the cheapest. And so on and so forth until you can narrow it down as much as possible. Basically, if you are looking for a coach or you are at all interested in the recent coaching debate, you should definitely check out this interview.
As for me, a lot of this month has been devoted to studying the game and rebuilding and analyzing parts of my game that I feel have grown a little stale. I am experimenting with some new things that I feel very excited about, and other things that I feel do not work as well in practice as they do when I think about them in my head and on paper. So itīs been a very interesting month thus far in terms of poker-development, and I am going to spend a lot of this month continuing to build on and finalize some of the experimental parts of my current game. Between my pokerstudies and my actual studies volume continues to suffer. I have managed to get roughly 25 k hands in so far in March, slightly less than two-thirds of them on Ipoker:
I am running very well on other sites as well, so up about 50 k on the month so far. Havenīt started playing on my other Ipoker sn yet, as it feels hard to let go of Bucuster. Itīs almost like giving up an old friend. I've had this sn for almost two years now, and itīs the nickname of the greatest zen-master I have ever known, namely my cat. I am a dog-person at heart, but our apartment is way too small for the type of dog I want (hopefully that may change in the future and The Bucuster would then get a canine friend for sure). Weīve had her for almost three years now, and she was adopted when she was six months young from the local cat shelter which my girlfriend is involved with.
So this here is the Original Bucuster, slightly surprised but loving life, chillaxing on our Ikea carpet:
And hereīs the OB, wrapped in our IKEA sheets on our IKEA sofa:
It is amazing how attached you can become to anything living. When my girlfriend first brought up the idea of adopting a cat a few years back, I was opposed to the idea thinking that we should wait and get a dog further down the line. Today, she is a firm part of the family.
