I don't think you need to validate yourself given your progress. I'm fairly sure SplitSuit plays full ring mostly and I'm also pretty sure he doesn't need, want, nor care about validation. Let the fanboys snigger and just keep having fun and winning money I say.

Gl and looking forward to seeing the move up when it happens!

He does in the sense as if you are a coach you need to show very positive results to be taken serious and get students HOWEVER he doesn't need to follow trend and can/should do whatever he wants and play whatever he wants. Just all depends what you are after - poker player, coach, mix etc etc.

Keep crushing Regi. Love the blog!

I noticed your sn today at one of my tables, and I had 1.3k hands on you. Don't take it as an offence, but your stats are really bad! I mean, you got quite a few massive leaks that I believe most of 'good regs' abuse. I'm not gonna point finger at them as it's -ev for me since you play the same games, but it shouldn't be that hard to figure them out.

Which tables did you spot me at? What is your SN please?

1.3k hands is absolutely nothing as I'm sure you'll agree and over my own huge personal sample, I know my stats aren't really bad.

For the record, here is a snapshot of my stats over close to 1.8m hands winrates that demonstrate I am a $70k winner over the sample. The names to focus on are RegiTime, XmasBonus and Reg1Time.

Do I have leaks? Of course, as does pretty much every player in the games we play but to suggest I'm really bad is just silly.

I don't do much of it, just a little here and there at a very low price, mostly helping losing players and beginners. I enjoy it most of the time but you're right, it can contribute to burn out for sure.

Sky is great. I have been table starting there recently and it's possible to get into some amazing games using that method and I've had a very good start to the year.

As Jon said, there are always people out there to throw mud around for no particular reason, which means validation is important, hence the screenshot of my results in one of the posts above.

Some players think there is only one way to do things (whatever their way is usually) and that isn't how poker works. I've been successful for 7-8 years now and expect to continue to be successful, despite the reservations of some players that only have a fraction of my success and experience.

Yes I hadn't thought of it from that direction in my naivety.

Keep having fun sir.

Fair enough, as I said - I didn't mean any offence. The stats I got curious in are not included in the shot you provided. My hands on you are ~6 month old, so you might have fixed those issues already. And I didn't said you're really bad - I said your stats are bad (for a persons who charge $). Obv you're a winning player. Now it's up to you whether to ignore what I said or spend some time with your DB and be assured there are no obvious leaks. I saw you at 888, NL50 6-max table.
GL!

Still not releasing your SN?

I wasn't offended, it's just poker. There is also way more to poker than just what we do at the table, poker coaching is not just about having perfect stats and teaching players to also have perfect looking stats.

It just amuses me when as a long term proven, consistent winner, someone who has just 1.3k hands on me thinks I have tonnes of leaks and issues.

GL at the tables and say hi if you overcome your fear of telling me your SN

Idk, I haven't gave it out in the public yet. Although, with some work, it's possible to dig it up.

Always super interesting when you hear someones thoughts on your game and what stats they see. Also shows how sometimes stats can lead us to do things we may be incredibly incorrect.

Interesting comments Re Reg's stats.

At first glance, pounding on an 18/14 players blinds from the button or sb is something most lags will do without even thinking. Yes, they are exploiting his tightness but where an 18/14 does well is when they start playing back against the exploiter and the exploiter just can't seem to find the fold button.

So many regulars are conditioned to pound pound pound but often, all their good work identifying spots is lost when the 18/14 player flats AA in the BB versus BTN and stacks the lags AJ on the J high board. I know that a lot of Regitimes win rate is down to great table selection but a lot of it will be down to "re-exploiting" regulars who just can't fold.

Re: above

Poker is about so much more than just what we do at the tables and many players just have a terrible time understanding that.

Game selection is part of it, a big part but not just game selection, confidence is another huge factor, self belief etc.

There are no doubt plenty of players capable of exploiting me and I'm sure from time to time they do but they will have leaks in other parts of their game where I have a reciprocal edge without them realising. For example, I tend to play short, sharp sessions so I'm always fresh, I rarely tilt, I move tables if a player to my left is giving me problems etc. I do a lot of things that other players are frankly too lazy to do.

Tonnes of regs, if not most regs that 'work hard' because they put 100 hours per month in waste huge portions of that time by grinding tonnes of bad tables, just passing money around and paying rake for the privilege. If you consider yourself to be good but have a winrate

Update time.

I have been playing a mix of games so far this year across more than a handful of sites and my results have been pretty decent.

I have added iPoker's version of speed poker to the mix as I have an ok rb deal there and it's a decent spot to work on my game at slightly lower stakes whilst hopefully maintaining an hourly of £7.50. I have mostly been grinding the €20nl game as the €50 game doesn't run often and the €100 game is a little too big for me right now.

I am playing that game and I have sacrificed the Snap games on 888, so now, my order of checking for games is Sky >>> 888 full ring >>> iPoker speed tables.

The reg tables on iPoker look pretty decent too, so I'm considering dropping 888 altogether, especially since their client is so buggy right now and they seem to be taking players for granted with the speed at which they are fixing the problems.

I am continuing to pick up bits and pieces of coaching work without really advertising anywhere, which is nice and we have a real nice Skype group right now with a good mix of players. It really is refreshing to see players working together to help each other, which isn't something you often see on public poker communities.

The plan for the rest of the month is to continue the grind, I'm hoping for a 50k hand month, which would be great.

Away from the tables, I have moved into a new project at work, now working with people that mostly have mental health problems and mild learning disabilities. I loved my old project but this new project presents me with a lot of new challenges as the services users are all very different which makes life much more interesting. It also has sleepovers, where I'm basically paid to sleep unless something goes wrong, which is probably the best passive income ever

I'm only going to post graphs once per month but so far, across the sites I can track, I have made just under $500 pre RB/bonuses and on Sky, I have made around £200, so if I can keep that going, I'll be a happy chappy.

Cheerio for now

An OK deal? Then i have to assume its not with us as we have 3 of the biggest. PM me and let me know and i can hook you up easily bro although i do hope it is with us already!

It's an old deal I had from years ago.

It was 60% before the changes last Feb, now it works out at 30% in real terms.

It's not with you guys, sorry.

Obviously interested if you can better that

awesome journey page keep up the good work btw oh I sent you a pm also

I saw the PM but it seemed to cut off mid sentence and I have no idea if that was a typo or my just not opening it properly. Also, I have no idea how to reply privately, sorry

We can instantly beat 30% and you would get a huge deposit bonus working off at 20% rakeback plus our $55k monthly rake race and some other bits and bobs. Add us on Skype support.pokervip . Your missing out on some big numbers that's for sure!

New update:

This time it's mostly personal!

I have decided to try and lose 50lb before August 1st. My weight is currently the highest it has ever been and I'm finding it harder to carry it now I'm the wrong side of 40.

I have tried losing weight in the past but that has always been due to pressure either from medical types or family members and my heart hasn't ever truly been in it. I have often succeeded in losing weight, only to lose motivation and eventually pile the weight back on an then some extra too.

This time it is different. I am doing this completely off my own initiative and I am determined to succeed. I am often one of life's biggest procrastinators, which explains why my weight has soared in the first place I guess but whenever I set my mind to something that is important to me(ie get better at poker, quit smoking without any aids, quit alcohol, find a new job) I find I usually have stellar results.

This might be the hardest yet, as for example, quitting smoking or drinking gets easier over time, whereas this one, the temptation to cheat is always there because we all have to eat every day. Please don't bombard me with different diets or dieting techniques, I never know which is best but also, I hate being told what I can/can't do in life and this projects into dieting when people say do eat this, don't eat that.

I have a good idea about what is good and bad from previous attempts. I'm capable of eating a balanced healthy diet, I just need to remove all temptations from snacks which have often been the trigger for me giving up, such as I'll snack on some crap late at night for a couple of nights, not lose any weight that week, then give up completely. It's almost like that one drink for alcoholics, or that on fag for ex smokers that start again, for me, one chocolate biscuit or whatever is my trigger to fail, so I'm going into hardcore denial of treats.

Every diet I know has 'sins' or 'cheat days' or other similarly named ways that open the door to failure. I have removed all snacks from my house that might trigger a relapse. No more chocolate, crisps, sweets etc. If I want to snack later in the day after a long poker session, I'll now have to do with fruit or cereal, which I intend to keep a high and varied stock of, even if that means some of it gets wasted every week.

To help me further with this, I have had friends sponsor me. I had hoped to make £1000 for an as yet undecided local charity. Up to now, I have been pledged around £700, which I am pleased about. I'm not asking for, or expecting pledges from people that don't know me, so please don't mistake this update as some kind of 'SPONSOR ME SPONSOR ME' thing. It's just something significant in my life, so thought I should blog about it.

Away from the fat fighting, poker continues to go well and I'm looking forward to summarising my month over the weekend in a mostly poker related update.

That's all for now folks.

Take care.

Reg