Idea: Big Brother/Little Brother

[Tupacia]

As the SSNL forum has obviously exploded recently, I think we need to consider innovative ideas besides the standard "post troubling hands" as while still a great tool for getting better, many hands often disappear into the clutter of the forum without so much as a response or active discussion. Going along with Gregatron's great idea for public session review, I think having a sort of system whereby newer players can have a sort of poker mentor on the forums for session review, general questions, etc. would be incredibly beneficial. Yet, the crux of my idea is that people can only be mentored if they themselves are mentoring somebody else. For instance, I am a winning player at NL25, and in order to receive the privilege of being mentored by someone better than me, I would have to mentor a player at say NL10. Now obviously, only people who are reasonably active in the forums should be allowed to take part. As an added side benefit, this may reduce the amount of clutter on the forums as posters may turn to their mentors first to get their obvious questions answered instead of starting another "what does VP$IP mean" post. As it is completely voluntary, nobody would be forced to do it thus ensuring that people participating would be committed. What do you guys think?

[xwillience]

i think this has it merits. I think a better FAQ would help alleviate some of the basic congestion. I also think that sometimes people are just to lazy to search the FAQ and end up posting redundancies.

[kolotoure]

I would be willing to help out

[Tupacia]

We can do a confidence interval test to determine whether someone is a proven winner or not.

[xwillience]

i dont know who Id be capable of helping and Im already paying a couch but if i can help anyone Id be willing to offer up my time. Maybe a NL10 player or something?

[Ness]

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i dont know who Id be capable of helping and Im already paying a couch but if i can help anyone Id be willing to offer up my time. Maybe a NL10 player or something?

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I guess if you are going to learn No Limit, a couch is a good a place as any.

ness

[jakerc]

i'd be interested in participating in something like this as a mentoree (there's a nice word). i just started playing/studying seriously a few months ago, right now i'm playing NL10 on absolute poker. if anyone's interested in helping me out they can private message me (sorry to try to whore for advice on this thread lol).

[xwillience]

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i dont know who Id be capable of helping and Im already paying a couch but if i can help anyone Id be willing to offer up my time. Maybe a NL10 player or something?

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I guess if you are going to learn No Limit, a couch is a good a place as any.

ness

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dude, I totally saw Phil Hellmuth do this on TV!!

[WorkInProgress]

Hmm. I don't really want to mentor anyone. I have enough trouble trying to teach my friend. Although, it seems to be getting to the point where I'm beginning to think that he isn't cut out for poker. I don't want to be a direct mentee either. I would rather have conversations (as equals, or atleast I attempt to be) where lines, hands and plays come up on their own, and sometimes we can branch into other topics. Always interested in meeting people, especially with similar interests.

I cannot stress this enough, but I see a lot of the same posters posting and replying, with emphasis on the latter, over and over. And, it would hardly seem surprising that these posters are the ones I look up to. I used to be a lurker, so I can state with confidence, that the learning curve's derivative has a greater positive value when you reply, and reply in great detail. Put your your entire reasoning down in words, and you will see the holes in you logic, and strengthen your thinking and the ability to follow through with it when you are faced with a tough decision and the clock is winding down at the table.

AIM: dragonforever80

[EMc]

I agree dbitel. FAQ is clutch

also too, as said by Ness, I will probably mentor in a similar style.