Heya Guys,


Due to some family events I have pretty much booked my March. Personally, when I play I like to have the entire day dedicated to grinding etc which will not be the case for the next week or so, so that said, it opens the door for some coaching. So if you're interested I'm cutting my rate to $150 for the next week or so. Group coaching is encouraged, so if the hourly seems steep just grab a friend or two.

For a description of my program, go here.

I've been meaning to put together some references, but they are certainly available upon request. As always, I encourage you to check out my videos to gauge whether you feel my style will help you, although I have certainly improved my coaching and approach to poker over the years.

March was pretty good for me, I was trying to hit 30k hands before this date, but ended up with 24k (mostly NL this month) and 50 or so tourneys. For me to put in 24k hands in half a month is a huge accomplishment, and I will have a few days towards the end to see if I can top 30k.

PLO has been a little too good to me as I'm running significantly above EV, although I'm not entirely sure how good of a job HEM does at determining PLO EV. Assuming it's correct it bothers me a little. I'm a winner, even EV adjusted, but not by much at low stakes, so I think I need to plug some leaks there. It really is quite a weird game... I've been watching some of the higher stakes matches and it isn't even the same game as the low stakes.

I have a new goal for the medium term and that's to win an MTT. It's been years since I won one, in fact, I think the Iron Man promotion was the last one, and that was yeaaaaars ago. I've always been a mediocre tourney player and feel that it's probably the easiest for a HU player to adapt to mostly because players don't know how to deal with the rising pressure and generally make horrible bluffs postflop... and the preflop game is pretty simple to figure out with only a few minor tweaks needed in accordance with reads. Some of you may remember a while ago I blogged about how nasty the variance is in MTTs. While I'm still painfully aware of that, MTTs are amongst the softest form of games and of course binking a big score is always nice.

Why the change of heart? A few Sundays back I loaded up on MTTs in lieu of cash and made two final tables. I wasn't really able to capitalize on either... I won the majority of my flips (1 or 2 suckouts iirc) to get to the FT, but lost my only two flips at the FT. I had a nice run in the miniFTOPs $30 event last week, taking 188 out of a staggering 33,000. That day in particular was pretty disgusting for me on the MTT front as I lost just about every AI. I had 4 entries in the event and had been knocked out of 3 and was approaching the bubble. It was the last tourney out of about 20 played that day across PS and FTP, so I made a somewhat deliberate bad shove with KQo when I open from the CO and SB raises... now it could be justified, but in this case it truly wasn't and I knew it. I ended up sucking out on AA and decided to play right, which landed me the 188th. As they say you either leave the tourney with a story or 1st place.

As for videos I have one in the can which is a lowstakes leakfinder. I think a lot of you will find it interesting as a refresher.

My next handful of videos I'm going to really focus on breaking th emold and trying to re-invigorate HU content that's available. My goal is for a large portion of people to take something with them from each video, and I realize there's a lot of content out there, some of which is very good already. So that said, my next few videos will be an extension on Know Your Edge, with the goal in mind to help find definitive answers to questions, and going over in gorey detail how to find those answers and limit assumptions etc.

Best of luck at the tables!