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 Originally Posted by kmind
Money well spent to me.
only thing that matters!
I wasn't trying to be offensive, but i admit that i was prodding a little  and you're right, i do have some kind of innate objection to paying/training/etc at things that i love doing. Take climbing, it occupied all my time for some years and i've reached ok levels, but i refuse to 'train'.
an overlooked value of coaching is that there's this funny psychological thing where paying for something often makes it more effective - i use my approach to learning spanish as an example. When i'm paying for something i'm far more likely to maximise my gain from it - if i'm studying for free, i'll easily justify not giving it 100%. Weakness? sure. Common? yep. so, what am i trying to say? Well, living in chile and paying a bunch (don't remember - US$200/week?) for lessons got me moving way faster than almost everything else i'd bothered with (one exception = living at a surf beach with almost exclusively non-english speakers -> spanish was the lingua franca/gringa/whateva)
i think that coaching isn't 'necessary' because, in theory, you could gain the same info required to beat the same stakes in the same number of hours - for free. But, if you're anything like me, it's likely that you'll gain a lot more from paying for those hours. Kinda perverse huh, human nature is weird.
re 10nl being different from 25nl, it definitely applies in FR too - maybe cos you can make a decent salary there if your salary context is eastern europe/asia.
Originally Posted by kmind
This post isn't to prove you wrong but more so prove myself right. Money is tight with a long distance gf so I don't want to buy anything not useful for the long run.
no problem dude!
also, go read bjs's post in the poker book thread in the high stakes forum
oh, and if anything i wrote reeks of some strange mid-afternoon borneo cocktail of redbull-isotonic soft drink-local brandy, well, that's hardly a coincidence 
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