#1 overall winner at $10/$20 NL on Pokerstars in 2010 - My story

PrinceSheba · Nov 5, 2011

Thanks for your inspiring story. I have always believed it's my fault if I can't move up. Simply when I'm good enough I will be able to be successful. Not a day before....
I guess I've really never improved ;>( Time for learning instead of struggling.

Please share with us a couple important tips w/ examples. Thank you.

YourDoom · Nov 6, 2011

Do you think your success is due more to creativity or consistency?

Both are very important

How long do you spend playing vs studying?

I would look over my notes for 15-20 mins before each session played. I would also take a few hours a week to look though HEM for general analysis...how I was losing money in certain spots w certain hands.

In your mind, is what you do difficult? This comes back to creativity vs consistency. Do you think that you do a bunch of relatively simple stuff but do it really well or do you think you do some quite complex stuff with maybe a limited degree of success?

Some of it comes easy to me, but there are always challenging spots. that's why poker is so great. Even the best players in the world can stand to get better.

Looking back, with all you know now, how tough was 1/2?

1/2 in 2007 was a sick joke of free money. I made 86 cents per hand over a summer at 1/2 and I wasn't even that good. Today 1/2 is 20 times tougher.

Whats your biggest tip in general?

How important do you rate maths vs feel?

Both are v important to win at a very high level.

Many thanks

No prob

YourDoom · Nov 6, 2011

WurlyQ said:
The lesser important question:
What skills obtained in poker help you the most away from the tables and how?

The more important question:
Would you rather coach a hot girl that has no potential to improve in poker or a not so hot girl that has a lot of potential to improve in poker?

Haha. I've coached 67 students. Guess how many of them were girls...

Debi · Nov 6, 2011

YourDoom said:
Haha. I've coached 67 students. Guess how many of them were girls...

None

soncheebs · Nov 6, 2011

bgomez89 · Nov 7, 2011

What brought you to cardschat lol

YourDoom · Nov 15, 2011

dakota-xx said:
None

+1

YourDoom · Nov 15, 2011

Makwa said:
Great interview, I am taking it in pieces, BTW someone had speakers on too loud hence the feedback on Skype...

http://www.pokerphenoms.com/poker-tv/in-the-tank-episode-5-24.htm
Thanks, that's why I use a headset

YourDoom · Dec 2, 2011

fletchdad said:
I havent had a chance yet to listen - watch - the interview, but have this thread subscribed and will have some time next week when I get back to watch it.

But, bad news.... Being a music producer and also often my own engineer, I have done thousands of hours of recording over the last 30 years. And, unless you spoke different then you normally do, you sound on tape the way you sound in life...... (But everyone thinks their own voice sounds dorky if they are not use to hearing it, for the rest of us its just your voice...lol) Skype does sometimes have an influence, but it pretty much how you sound.

/derail
I have some interesting stories of people who complained that I used "weird" effect on their voice, when they just had never heard their voice on tape....
/end derail

In retrospect, I think my voice actually sounds fine. Maybe I was just a little nervous at the beginning.

Izaak · Dec 5, 2011

Great story

JOEBOB69 · Dec 14, 2011

Do you plan on just staying in this thread,or helping newbies out in lets say the cash HA section here?

fletchdad · Dec 14, 2011

JOEBOB69 said:
Do you plan on

1. just staying in this thread,

or

2. helping newbies out in lets say the cash HA section here?

Sadly, I think

[X] 1.

[ ] 2

YourDoom · Dec 30, 2011

Sorry for all my recent downtime. I've been swamped working on my newest video series...which is finally finished...

I'll do my best to browse around a bit and to add some input...

Happy holidays!
Ryan

ALL IN CLUBS · Feb 10, 2012

JOEBOB69 said:
Do you plan on just staying in this thread,or helping newbies out in lets say the cash HA section here?

This???? :dito: :dito:

YourDoom · May 9, 2012

YourDoom said:
Haha. I've coached 67 students. Guess how many of them were girls...

Update! 1 out of 86 students have now been female :biggrin:

white_lytning · May 9, 2012

Something doesn't feel right with this thread. Not sure what it is.

Can you post some stats from 10/20nl?
How many hands at 10/20 is win rate based on?
How have you made money since BF?

ALL IN CLUBS · May 9, 2012

Must be a brag thread or something hehe

YourDoom · May 9, 2012

white_lytning said:
Something doesn't feel right with this thread. Not sure what it is.

Can you post some stats from 10/20nl?
How many hands at 10/20 is win rate based on?
How have you made money since BF?

Hey white_lytning,

All of my updated post-BF stats are posted on my website broken down my stakes and stack size.

I've been running pretty sick. I really don't think 51.09bb/100 is sustainable at NL3k though

white_lytning · May 10, 2012

YourDoom said:
Hey white_lytning,

All of my updated post-BF stats are posted on my website broken down my stakes and stack size.

Can you provide a link.

All google search is showing is a site that looks like an advertisement for poker coaching. Can't find any of your stats on that site.

RamdeeBen · May 10, 2012

white_lytning said:
Can you provide a link.

All google search is showing is a site that looks like an advertisement for poker coaching. Can't find any of your stats on that site.

It's how it is..yourdoompoker on google reveals the top one as his site.

Yes, of course it's an advertisement for coaching, that's what his site is all about..

You can see his stats on his site if you browse through it and it's in one of the tabs.

NeverWinsRaces · May 10, 2012

bgomez89 said:
What brought you to cardschat lol

LOL Hes asked this question like 4 times

white_lytning · May 10, 2012

ramdeebam said:
It's how it is..yourdoompoker on google reveals the top one as his site.

Yes, of course it's an advertisement for coaching, that's what his site is all about..

You can see his stats on his site if you browse through it and it's in one of the tabs.

Thanks. Can you link to his stats then? I have browsed through it and havent found his stats,

YourDoom · May 10, 2012

white_lytning said:
Thanks. Can you link to his stats then? I have browsed through it and havent found his stats,

Since I sell instructional videos on my website, posting a direct link is against forum rules and I do not wish to break any forum rules.

But if you're already on the site, if you click the Coaching button at the top, you will find all of the stats that I mentioned.

Chemist · May 12, 2012

YourDoom said:
During this stretch, I occasionally played $5/$10 NL, but could not beat the level as I just ran terrible all the time. (I can tell you the real reasons you "run terrible all the time" at one level higher than your main game.) Anyways, it was pretty clear to me...$3/$6 NL was the most profitable level to play. Anyone playing $5/$10 NL was an idiot. There was no value there.

So the point of my story?...Every level is beatable. It's all relative to your talent level. Never listen to the masses about what "can't" be done. If you can't beat a particular level, it's not because "you run bad at that level" or "there are too many sharks" there...you're just not good enough...yet. Also, in the long term, there is no such thing as "luck." Everyone's winrate over 4 years and one million hands is... well... your true winrate.

Is EVERY level beatable?

What about the $5/$10?

Have you been back to try it again?

btw If you don't 3bet your small pairs and just call, how do you generally continue after missing the set on the flop?

YourDoom · Aug 5, 2012

Chemist said:
What about the $5/$10?

Have you been back to try it again?

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