You make a post every other day stating that fish just get lucky and always beat you, you never get cards and when you do it gets folded to you or your aces get cracked 29 times in a row. It is good though that you realize you are a fish but making threads REPEATEDLY about this and not posting any hand histories is just kind of a waste of time. Majority of your threads are rants about bad beats and implying that the best hand on flop never wins because the fish ALWAYS suck out. It is like you are posting these threads just hoping that people will agree with you and say you are doing a good job or something. Good luck with your coaching and studying and I do hope your game improves.
In the future if you are going to make a thread complaining about your bad hands or how your aces get cracked all the time, post hand histories too. Posting a sympathy rant is not helping your game at all.
Good luck on the tables!
Look, I admit when I first started to post I was fully in victim mode, I think it's something a lot of players don't realise they are doing. Now I see that mentality in many people posting, and I am sorry for having posted like that. I realised it was wrong, and since then I have vowed to not make those kind of posts.
You are right to call me out on it, it is bad form. But, a lot of beginners make the same mistakes in thinking and are driven to forums with the wrong mentality. So I hold my hand up, I should have posted better.
In this case, I really think you have misunderstood me in this post. I was genuinely asking a question based on observations on styles of play. It's a fair question to ask whether a loose style of play can pay in the long run.
By asking, I now have got great feedback, and it seems the answer to this particular question, "Does loose play pay off" is this:
1) Yes, if you feed it with bad play (so my mistakes help the bad player) and
2) Yes, if you only look at short term results. Nathan Willaims in his book states that samples of less than 100,000 hands can be unreliable. So, my set of 30,000 is not going to show anything meaningful.
The real answer is of course a resounding NO, and I am glad to hear it. I am currently working through some great videos on DC on variance, and learning lots more. I wouldn't have found them had I not asked this question, and the answers did help me to understand the longer game.
I am grateful to everyone for their responses to this and other posts, Iplay, you included.
And, in future, if I post a hand or genuinely decent question, I look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback, Iplay, you included. Likewise, if I ask a stupid question, feel free to let me know, I won't take offence. Poker is a steep learning curve. I will do my best to make my interactions here positive.
Thanks again to everyone for the information.