Most of this is conjecture, but having watched a fair amount of Lifecoach over the years I've gotten the impression that first he won a lot more out of poker than $211,000 and that most of his winnings came from private cash games and I'm pretty sure there was a period he grinded online poker for a while too. A few of the things he's said randomly. The famous players are not the best players, you don't even know the names of the best players because they make a point to not be known. In this same stream someone in twitch chat brought up Tom Dwan, who's a big money cash game player on TV a lot, Lifecoach starts laughing and starts saying something like sure, Tom Dwan, I love Tom Dwan he used to be one of my best customers. implying he had won a fair amount off him.
In a recent stream he was multitabling hearthstone and complaining about the game and he said something like this reminds him of poker but at least then he got paid.
So yeah, his cash ins at big events are pretty modest, which is where I think you're getting the $211,000, but that's not the only way to make money in poker.
Teched in one ooze for cold blood after running into 5 shamans in a row at rank 1. Gl getting golden with the coolest class
I can vouch for this list I've been running almost the same list and it's pretty good. The only difference is I run a peddler instead of the ooze. I'm rank 3 right, but I'd probably be legend if I didn't play like garbage in my last session and tilted my way down to five before climbing back to 3. So that's the word of warning, if you don't play this deck well you will get rekt.
I used lifecoach's build as the foundation for my post karazhan build and its been working out pretty well. Cut the squires for swashburglar, and one cold blood to fit in peddler. Lastly I cut violet teacher for Yogg.
It depends a lot on your win rate. I Also think a more casual schedule like an hour a day can help some people and hurt others. I think with some people who try and grind out long sessions end up losing more than they should. Tilt, boredom etc. cause bad play. Some people who just play an hour here and there though might suffer because sometimes it can take a few games to get in the groove and make the right decisions and see the correct lines of play. It just kind of depends on how you're wired.
Bottom line though, yes, if you git gud 1-2 hours a day is sufficient to get to legend.
Going to try my hand at wild just for something new. I can see myself returning to standard if too many emoting Secret Paladins trigger me, but I'm going to try and hit legend. Besides I hear they have this new class you can play in Wild called priest, so that should be fun.
No need: azure(1 to loatheb another to nourish), starfall(to swipe), onyxia(too slow), druid of the claw(to wrath) the rest is good
For the above deck
Not really sure to how decipher this, but I'll give it a shot. Loatheb is out of standard, and two nourishes can get really awkward. I'd rather have the body and spell power of azure. Starfall as a 1 of has been great. Against all the flood decks out there 1 more sweeper has been pretty nice and the spot removal against other decks is fine too. Not sure what druid of the claw to wrath means. I have 2 of each and either way they don't really sub for eachother.
I might be biased, Onyxia was the first legendary I ever opened, but I've run her a lot and she's extremely under rated. She is making her way into more lists now. Sjow's running her in warrior. It's kind of counter intuitive, but she's actually a pretty good anti aggro card, particularly for druid. Against say zoo, or even shaman, you're often just a little bit behind going into the midgame, and more often than not that trends into a loss with them being able to leverage their initiative into trading efficiently enough to stay ahead and kill you. An innervated Onyxia launches you into the lead on board, and also usually forces them off the kill you plan unless they have lethal then and there, because now they have to be worried you can kill them. To highlight how effective this is, I will say I have had wild growth innervate and Onyxia in my opening hand against a warlock and kept it thinking well if he's zoo I can probably just innervate Onyxia and win. I was not disappointed.
All and all having played the deck a lot last season and today, the card I'm most unsure of and is on the bubble for being cut, is Black knight. He's been good enough so far, but not great.
I see very little regular, non-C'thun, Druid and I'm not sure why. Seems a lot stronger and proactive to me, but I guess it doesn't have the same novelty. Plan to mostly play druid to legend, maybe switch to rogue and shaman for variety.
Rank 2 with maly rogue. I think I'd be legend by now if it weren't for the warriors. Oh well, still climbing, feasting on the tears of druids and warlocks.
Maybe i should give Malyrogue a try. Should be fun at least and it seems like there are some people having success with it.
Here's the list I'm running if you want to give it a try.
Rank 4 with maly rogue. Feeling pretty good about legend this season. I've gotten pretty comfortable facing the big three of druid warlock and paladin with it, so the climb has been fairly smooth. The only hiccup is that I've been running into more freeze mages than I've seen in ages. Hopefully it's a fluke and not a trend.
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Most of this is conjecture, but having watched a fair amount of Lifecoach over the years I've gotten the impression that first he won a lot more out of poker than $211,000 and that most of his winnings came from private cash games and I'm pretty sure there was a period he grinded online poker for a while too. A few of the things he's said randomly. The famous players are not the best players, you don't even know the names of the best players because they make a point to not be known. In this same stream someone in twitch chat brought up Tom Dwan, who's a big money cash game player on TV a lot, Lifecoach starts laughing and starts saying something like sure, Tom Dwan, I love Tom Dwan he used to be one of my best customers. implying he had won a fair amount off him.
In a recent stream he was multitabling hearthstone and complaining about the game and he said something like this reminds him of poker but at least then he got paid.
So yeah, his cash ins at big events are pretty modest, which is where I think you're getting the $211,000, but that's not the only way to make money in poker.
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It depends a lot on your win rate. I Also think a more casual schedule like an hour a day can help some people and hurt others. I think with some people who try and grind out long sessions end up losing more than they should. Tilt, boredom etc. cause bad play. Some people who just play an hour here and there though might suffer because sometimes it can take a few games to get in the groove and make the right decisions and see the correct lines of play. It just kind of depends on how you're wired.
Bottom line though, yes, if you git gud 1-2 hours a day is sufficient to get to legend.
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Going to try my hand at wild just for something new. I can see myself returning to standard if too many emoting Secret Paladins trigger me, but I'm going to try and hit legend. Besides I hear they have this new class you can play in Wild called priest, so that should be fun.
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I see very little regular, non-C'thun, Druid and I'm not sure why. Seems a lot stronger and proactive to me, but I guess it doesn't have the same novelty. Plan to mostly play druid to legend, maybe switch to rogue and shaman for variety.
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Been a while since I've hit legend, glad I could get there one last time before standard hits. GL to the rest of you.
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Rank 4 with maly rogue. Feeling pretty good about legend this season. I've gotten pretty comfortable facing the big three of druid warlock and paladin with it, so the climb has been fairly smooth. The only hiccup is that I've been running into more freeze mages than I've seen in ages. Hopefully it's a fluke and not a trend.