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Your ideal mentor...

Sky_PokerSky_Poker Member Posts: 2,715
edited June 2013 in Poker Chat

Inspired by another thread...

If you could choose a mentor (who plays on Sky Poker now) to teach you all they know about poker - who would it be and why?

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  • greggo1410greggo1410 Member Posts: 147
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Your ideal mentor...:
    Inspired by another thread... If you could choose a mentor (who plays on Sky Poker now) to teach you all they know about poker - who would it be and why? Thanks Sky Poker
    Posted by Sky_Poker
    Lambert180 or cenachav have gave me some good advice so one of them two probably
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  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH Member Posts: 17,929
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    In Response to Your ideal mentor... : Lambert180 or cenachav have gave me some good advice so one of them two probably
    Posted by greggo1410
    +1
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  • MAXALLYMAXALLY Member Posts: 17,641
    edited June 2013



    Richard Orford. He could do it in the 1st break in tonight's show if he wanted.

    In return, I would teach him how to do a proper Wembley wave.
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  • percival09percival09 Member Posts: 3,804
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    In Response to Your ideal mentor... : Lambert180 or cenachav have gave me some good advice so one of them two probably
    Posted by greggo1410
    +1 for sure. Incredible
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  • scrumdownscrumdown Member Posts: 1,609
    edited June 2013
    lol u fold because very good all round player thats what needed to be a total player
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  • cenachavcenachav Member Posts: 2,682
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    In Response to Your ideal mentor... : Lambert180 or cenachav have gave me some good advice so one of them two probably
    Posted by greggo1410
    Taking too much advice from me is not going to be +ev!

    I would love to be mentored by Stu Rutter. For some reason every thing he says seems to make sense to me and helps me improve as a player
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  • BorinLonerBorinLoner Member Posts: 3,863
    edited June 2013

    Interesting choices there greggo... I like both of those guys. I'm not saying I'd consider being mentored by either of them but I suppose it depends how far you've progressed in your own understanding. I'm sure they could help relative novices a great deal as well as offering a good sounding board for other players on a similar level.

    Probably a silly question this one, Sky_Poker. We can all think of aliases of players we consider to be "good" but who's to say they'd be able or willing to mentor others?

    I think the only one I could say with confidence would be CoxyLboro, since I know he has some experience in coaching. He could probably help me with my discipline problem if I really thought of it as something that needed fixing. Aside from him, I'm unaware of anyone who's done this sort of thing before.

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  • waller02waller02 Member Posts: 9,116
    edited June 2013
    Easy choice for me....tommyd
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  • rancidrancid Member Posts: 5,947
    edited June 2013
    Beanah
    I think I could handle the harshnish !


    lol_raise....


    failing that then Anna Fowler for some one on one.........swish.....................
    Had to lower the tone...soz...


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  • GREGHOGGGREGHOGG Member Posts: 7,155
    edited June 2013
    Smitalos to help me at cash

    Because it would be fun! 
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  • Sky_PokerSky_Poker Member Posts: 2,715
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    Interesting choices there greggo... I like both of those guys. I'm not saying I'd consider being mentored by either of them but I suppose it depends how far you've progressed in your own understanding. I'm sure they could help relative novices a great deal as well as offering a good sounding board for other players on a similar level. Probably a silly question this one, Sky_Poker. We can all think of aliases of players we consider to be "good" but who's to say they'd be able or willing to mentor others? I think the only one I could say with confidence would be CoxyLboro, since I know he has some experience in coaching. He could probably help me with my discipline problem if I really thought of it as something that needed fixing. Aside from him, I'm unaware of anyone who's done this sort of thing before.
    Posted by BorinLoner
    Fair point, it probably depends on what you feel your skill level is - I guess you'd wan't to be mentored by someone a bit better / more experienced than you? They will have very likely played at your level before and they'd be able to tell you what they did to improve their game.

    That said, an alternative view from someone at your level might give you a different perspective too. Also, say you were good at tournaments, you might want to improve your cash game and get help from a cash player. So many options!

    Interesting thread.
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  • Lambert180Lambert180 Member Posts: 12,197
    edited June 2013
    Definitely Coxy, has a solid proven track record of crushing pretty much every format on the site at pretty much any level going. I also have first hand experience of how good a coach he can be.

    P.S. Thanks Greggles, not sure I'd be the best choice lol, but as Borin says I could happily teach someone the basics of the game
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  • bencbenc Member Posts: 1,063
    edited June 2013
    Nagrom/Bawfizzle so i could go and crush higher stakes HU sngs.
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  • The_Don90The_Don90 Member Posts: 9,818
    edited June 2013
    tommyd 
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  • GELDYGELDY Member Posts: 5,203
    edited June 2013
    MattBates
    has a totally different style which should be very additive to my play
    TommyD obv
    evilpingu and rancid could definitely add some value
    and if Borinloner can teach as well as he can post then for sure

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  • beanehbeaneh Member Posts: 4,079
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    Beanah I think I could handle the harshnish ! lol_raise.... failing that then Anna Fowler for some one on one.........swish..................... Had to lower the tone...soz...
    Posted by rancid
    nah you prob couldn't. 

    ask greghogg we did a session and he left in tears after 3 minutes.
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  • GlenelgGlenelg Member Posts: 6,622
    edited June 2013
    Grantorino,  his advice in the clinic, IMO,  is ALWAYS spot-on. If he's not available I'd prob go for Solack or ryan83 - they ALWAYS seem to be on GAryQQQQ's results threads! 
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  • WilhelmWilhelm Member Posts: 1,730
    edited June 2013
    2guys1acct

    Alas, I can't afford him.
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  • Mariusz80Mariusz80 Member Posts: 102
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    Nagrom/Bawfizzle so i could go and crush higher stakes HU sngs.
    Posted by benc
    +1 to Bawfizzle
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  • BorinLonerBorinLoner Member Posts: 3,863
    edited June 2013
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor...:
    In Response to Re: Your ideal mentor... : Fair point, it probably depends on what you feel your skill level is - I guess you'd wan't to be mentored by someone a bit better / more experienced than you? They will have very likely played at your level before and they'd be able to tell you what they did to improve their game. That said, an alternative view from someone at your level might give you a different perspective too. Also, say you were good at tournaments, you might want to improve your cash game and get help from a cash player. So many options! Interesting thread.
    Posted by Sky_Poker

    I think that if you were going to offer up a mentoring system for Total Player there has to be something special about it, that you can't get by chatting with players on the same level as you. From that point of view, I wouldn't think anyone like Lambert, rancid, Percival, myself or many other forum regs would be particularly good. We can talk about the technical elements of the game pretty well, but we can't talk about how we "beat NL50 and turned pro" or anything like that.

    I know that Lambert, the_Don and others have a Skype group anyway so you wouldn't be offering those players or players like them anything distinctive without professional mentorship or coaching.


    You want to be tutored by someone who has a thorough understanding of almost all aspects of the game. It's possible to win consistently at certain levels or games with only a relatively narrow understanding and there are many on Sky who manage this. These players would not be good tutors despite their results. In the same way, there are players who have all the knowledge and understanding of poker needed to mentor others but lack the social or communicative skills to do so effectively.

    That's why I would say CoxyLboro because, to my knowledge, he ticks all the boxes. Any mentor scheme should really be centred on players who've mentored or coached before.
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