Session Review

Originally Posted by bikes

this no longer happens. why? because people are too fucking lazy...

This strikes a chord, and is certainly one big reason why I'm not advancing.

Way I see it, when bikes says to me "you played the hand like a retard", I ask myself why, I don't question him, I don't moan he didn't spoonfeed me, I accept I played the hand like a retard and try to figure out why. Maybe someone else will spoonfeed me. Maybe not. Whatever, I at least know I played the hand like a retard. I won't next time, if I can figure out for myself why I played it like a retard. If someone else tells me, well maybe I'll remember next time, maybe I won't. When people spoonfeed you, the info doesn't quite sink in as much as if you figure shit out for yourself.

Shit like "great insight" and "+1" at those who play higher stakes than the rest of us and who give their time to try and make us suck less, it doesn't help. Me and bikes probably won't be buying each other beers in any hurry, but man if he just went "you know what? fuck off BC" then we lose out, it's minus fucking ev.

Figure shit out for yourself. When that lightbulb goes off in your head, you suck slightly less than you did before. Then figure more shit out for yourself. That's our journey.

Originally Posted by OngBonga

This strikes a chord, and is certainly one big reason why I'm not advancing.

Way I see it, when bikes says to me "you played the hand like a retard", I ask myself why, I don't question him, I don't moan he didn't spoonfeed me, I accept I played the hand like a retard and try to figure out why. Maybe someone else will spoonfeed me. Maybe not. Whatever, I at least know I played the hand like a retard. I won't next time, if I can figure out for myself why I played it like a retard. If someone else tells me, well maybe I'll remember next time, maybe I won't. When people spoonfeed you, the info doesn't quite sink in as much as if you figure shit out for yourself.

Shit like "great insight" and "+1" at those who play higher stakes than the rest of us and who give their time to try and make us suck less, it doesn't help. Me and bikes probably won't be buying each other beers in any hurry, but man if he just went "you know what? fuck off BC" then we lose out, it's minus fucking ev.

Figure shit out for yourself. When that lightbulb goes off in your head, you suck slightly less than you did before. Then figure more shit out for yourself. That's our journey.

if someone says 'this is better' or 'this is bad' and you try and figure out why and post a long set of rationale for the good vs bad of it then you've gained cos you've basically done some study. If that poster then confirms or otherwise that your thought process is making sense, or says something like 'this bit is wrong' then that would be nice. But relying on nice isn't as guaranteed as relying on yourself to do some work.

Originally Posted by bikes

this no longer happens. why? because people are too fucking lazy to do the necessary work thats required to move through the stakes and wait here for myself d0zer, yaawn, m2m or surviva to spoonfed them information. it's fucking retarded. do some work, collaborate with your friends and then boom.

for as much as i hate daven and ongbonga they are the only ones here who actually put in effort. which says a whole fucking lot. kickass does too but irl gets in the way and i can't fault him for that.

so i take it that in future any threads suggesting study groups (free to join ones, not things you have to pay to be part of) on irc won't get trolled and then deleted from the bc as they have in the past? and cheers (genuinely fwiw) for noting that i actually put in some effort from time to time