[5NL] JJ, IP, 3bet pot, river spot.

[Cobra_1878]

There's a term called "uncoachable" to describe someone who isn't willing to listen or take advice because they always have some excuse why they should keep doing things the way that they are doing them now. It's not possible to help people who are uncoachable until, for whatever reason, they stop being scared of improving.

What a ridiculous statement to make.

I have taken away and learned so, so much from this forum. I was a losing 2NL player ffs and now I know I am a winning 2NL player on the verge of becoming a break-even 5NL player.

Some people who find certain things in life easy, have trouble understanding how some people just don't find the same things as easy as you do. People are so quick to put it down to ignorance, I find that quite ironic.

Why would anyone be scared of improving? That doesn't make sense.

[daviddem]

What a ridiculous statement to make.

I have taken away and learned so, so much from this forum. I was a losing 2NL player ffs and now I know I am a winning 2NL player on the verge of becoming a break-even 5NL player.

Some people who find certain things in life easy, have trouble understanding how some people just don't find the same things as easy as you do. People are so quick to put it down to ignorance, I find that quite ironic.

Why would anyone be scared of improving? That doesn't make sense.

Come on bro, if you are capable of writing a proper essay or being a school teacher, then you can do the algebra bit if you put some effort in it.

I was horrible at and hated math until I was 17 and I took interest and tried. I ended up becoming an applied math engineer.

[Icanhastreebet]

Why would anyone be scared of improving? That doesn't make sense.

It makes sense especially in the situation you are in playing for real money. You are probably scared to move up to 10/25NL because in the back of your head you are scared that losing money at these stakes would be a disaster or something.

You already stated in the earlier 65s you purposely make errors at 2NL to avoid future losses but you probably know that by purposely committing errors you actually never have to move up to have these future losses.

It could also be related to the fact that you are winning atm and think that changing anything is a mistake when this line of thinking is terrible and I see it in tonnes of kids coming out of high school trying to do math in university but who know if you refuse to learn how to do something pretty simple you will never succeed at anything let alone beating 2/5NL. It may sound harsh but it's true. If you cannot take the time to learn a skill that is basically a requirement you are pretty screwed for pretty much the rest of your life.

Also you are not the first person to try to learn poker with who has weak math. The good thing is the you should already have nearly all the mathematical skills you need to advance to where you need to be.

[Cobra_1878]

It makes sense especially in the situation you are in playing for real money. You are probably scared to move up to 10/25NL because in the back of your head you are scared that losing money at these stakes would be a disaster or something.

You already stated in the earlier 65s you purposely make errors at 2NL to avoid future losses but you probably know that by purposely committing errors you actually never have to move up to have these future losses.

It could also be related to the fact that you are winning atm and think that changing anything is a mistake when this line of thinking is terrible and I see it in tonnes of kids coming out of high school trying to do math in university but who know if you refuse to learn how to do something pretty simple you will never succeed at anything let alone beating 2/5NL. It may sound harsh but it's true. If you cannot take the time to learn a skill that is basically a requirement you are pretty screwed for pretty much the rest of your life.

Also you are not the first person to try to learn poker with who has weak math. The good thing is the you should already have nearly all the mathematical skills you need to advance to where you need to be.

I would love to move up the stakes, that's why I am playing poker.

I also understand that I have to develop my game in order to progress. I know I still have a lot to learn and that I need to learn in order to progress.

Everyone keeps referring to algebra as simple. It's simple if you know/understand how to use it. That's the same with every method/question in the world, if you know the answer it's easy, if you don't, it's not so easy.

I am screwed for the rest of my life if I don't learn algebra? I hope that's not what you're referring to as that could be a slight overstatement. I am 26 years old and have gotten this far without it.

[spoonitnow]

Some people who find certain things in life easy, have trouble understanding how some people just don't find the same things as easy as you do.

You're demonstrating what Carol Dweck would call a fixed mindset.