Re: missing the point
With respect Sam, winrate is highly relevent to some aspects of the discussion you were hoping to have. Your longterm winrate in higher level games has a lot to do with the viabiltity of quitting a secure/established job, particularly if you have grown up responsibilties which clearly you do. I have played quite a bit with you at the 10/20 Party and I don't have have slightest doubt that you can make a sum substantially in excess of the salary you mentioned playing poker full time for the next few years in various forms. What I've said in previous posts is that I haven't seen evidence of your 10/20 play yet that would equal the overall winrate you are talking about but I am aware that there might be reasons why that data I have might be inadequate. Whether the benefits of playing poker professionally besides the financial ones are worth it to leave the stability of the day job are ultimately up to you, I personally haven't found it to be so but I have an unusually flexible day job in the first place and only a fiance.
Winrate is also a relevant measure of the success of a style/strategy of poker under given circumstances, since in the end $ won is the ultimate measurement. So of course your winrate became a central topic of discussion since the Party 10/20 is the most well recorded platform that most HSNL posters play in. It's unfortunate that you don't have your own statistics because they would obviously be the most complete picture. Don't let that sidetrack you from what you hoped to gain from the forum.
Aside from that however, if you want to discuss strategy, I would suggest you do so in a slightly more concrete manner as turnip suggested, perhaps a string of hands ala some of bruiser's old HU posts since metagame considerations are very, very important to your strategy in each hand. Poker takes a thick skin, so you'd be well served by this forum if you can shrug off this initial reaction and focus on what it has to offer, there is a wealth of knowledge to be had though sometimes it's in realizing how wrong the majority opinion is.
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