Do As I Say, Not As I Do

[AcesUp46 0]

I've got a good buddy who's very interested in playing poker but plays really bad. A few days ago, he asked me to sweat him in an MTT. The deal was that he plays his own style and when he's unsure of what to do, he'll ask me and I'll help him out. Also, I won't give my comments until after he makes his action. Anyway, he final tabled that tournament.Personally for me, I felt that sweating him was very beneficial for my own game. Being an observer (albeit one that can see my buddy's hole cards) allowed me to be very objective about the game. As such, I felt that at every point in the tournament, I knew what the correct play (though I admit that I'm certain that some of my suggested moves could very well be wrong due to my inexperience with playing MTTs) should be. Also, having to verbally explain situations to my buddy helped my clarify my own thoughts and made me more sure of my reasoning.So I suggest that you guys might want to try sweating your friends in tourneys and in the process, improve your own game.

[Canary3 1]

this has helped me out a lot

[Flushgarden 0]

I think everybody plays better if they know somebody is watching them. We all make a move that we know is incorrect from time to time...at least I know I do. If somebody is watching us we're going to make what we think is the correct move pretty much all the way through. We should all play MTTs like Dan Harrington is sitting behind us.

[Canary3 1]

quit taking the words out of my mouth..... but seriously... i know what you are talking about and think the exact same thing

[FourFlusher 0]

Teaching others is almost always a valuable learning technique, it forces you to verbalize what you know, and that's a big building block.

[Stylin_Fish 0]

I play like Mike Matusow is behind me.

[Incubus77546 0]

I play like Mike Matusow is behind me.

Is this why you always think you're a donk?

[Knight_Owl 0]

Teaching others is almost always a valuable learning technique, it forces you to verbalize what you know, and that's a big building block.

Very well said.

[llou 0]

Teaching others is almost always a valuable learning technique, it forces you to verbalize what you know, and that's a big building block.

I agree ...So ... maybe the whole protege thing will improve Daniel's game?llou

[SweetDaddyFreak 0]

Stop hitting "New Topic" and start hitting the "Add Reply" button

[doublemeup 0]

Yeah I've done this and have had buddies sweat me too and I think its helped my game out a lot.

[AcesUp46 0]

IMO, verbalizing also helps to avoid tilt when playing online poker. After a few suckout bad beats, I find that I am better able to control my tilt by talking out my thought processes to myself when I have a decision to make.Of course, every once in a while, the tilt devils pop up in my head and instead of verbalizing "MP3 is a tight player and hasn't played a hand for 3 rounds. Hence, his 3X BB raise must be respected and I'll laydown QJ", I will say "Damn MP3! He's using his tight image to launch a long range steal attempt and therefore, I will defend my big blind by shoving my entire stack in. Beeyotch!!"

[Jam-Fly 8]

yeah, apparently you remember 90% of the info when you teachnot sure how this relates to anything but i thought id throw in a few statistics

[loogie 115]

Friends?

[pbwl11 0]

I had a friend watch me play a couple times. I told him to hit me upside the head each time I made a donk play.I got a headache.And a big bruise.