What to do when someone says "You suck at poker"

[Robb]

It was actually spoon telling me i sucked that forced me into putting in more effort to get to 2/4 (which ive now almost done)

The biggest turning point was actually 'fuck you i dont suck' and proving that wrong

It's nice to hear that other folks have - once in a while - plateaued.

Robb serious advice you're probably constantly overthinking and levelling yourself all the time. Nail down a really good ABC game and don't over-adjust because of half-arsed reads.

The best thing about admitting I suck and getting to work was that I'm finding my game's not a complete train wreck. I've got a decent start.

Positives
1. Lots of folks online suck worse than me, so I'm up $1,200 lifetime at 10nl.
2. My lifetime net at 25nl is -$524 over 56k hands, or -1.9 ptBB/100. Which, after rakeback, is only 4 - 6 BI's down over nearly 60k hands.

So badgers is exactly right - I've gotta nail down the ABC's that win consistently, find the big leaks, build the roll and then pwn 25nl.

I'm building a small list of things I think that you should look at. I'll flick it your way when I'm done. The first is filtering on hands where you call a river bet > 40bb without the nuts.... I hero-call less now.

Yeah, most of my big losers in pots > 150bb were overshoves with a premium pocket pair on the flop - after check raises from passive players.Or Hero calls of flop or turn raises with TPTK. The kind of overshove/call following action that reads (in HUGE Las Vegas-like neon) "my cards are better than yours, dipshit."

this is gonna sound bad but if you cant beat the micros you should seriously reconsider what your goals are in poker. you seem to have finally realized you suck bad enough that you admit to the world u cant beat the micros. get a grip dude either put in the time and effort and get the results you want or quit bitching about your poor results.

Bitch, please!!

Seriously, red, you have it exactly right. I would emphasize one thing. I'm a hobbyist. So if I spend 3 hours of week on poker, 2 of them studying, and playing only 4k hands a month, it's going to be a few months before I'm pwn'ing 25nl. Just because Spoon will play 500k hands before I get to 25nl doesn't mean I'm not working at it and improving. Just be sure to let folks have their own personal time line that makes sense.