And with that, I can get back to some poker and focus on what’s important, or, at least, what I have to do. I’m sure the culture will drag me back in, but looking at the news today, listening to the people who can’t explain high school civics but lecture us on everything under the sun, doesn’t seem worth it. I didn’t sign up for firefighting, for […]
You – future winning player – will need or want a solver at some point. If you already know why, I don’t have to tell you what an amazing a tool it is. A palantir, one noted poker coach calls it: that should tell you something. Even if you are the most exploitative-minded player there is, don’t you also want to look at just how awesome your […]
Special edition today, focused on OOP’s partner coach, Greg Porter. Greg will present a webinar titled Scientific Poker Strategy: Using GTO+ to Explore and Design Robust Strategies on Saturday, March 21st. Having established himself as a successful professional player, this last year Greg has been quietly expanding his poker coaching practice: this seminar is one of its fruits. We discuss an additional video analysis Greg made for […]
Greetings. Making a direct communication post on the content plans here. What is the structure of the Out of Position learning model? The heart of my teaching is 1) privates and 2) group courses, which ideally lead into each other. Both private students and group study participants join The Back Room, a private, participant-driven forum. It is not like other forums. There is no charge but the […]
In our last episode we focused on flop construction, but if you were reading closely you came away with, or had reinforced, one of the most profound aspects of no-limit strategy, one which can buoy your play across any street of action: Wagering and sizing choice have a direct correspondence to range versus range versus board considerations. There’s a reason, in other words, all those cool poker […]
In one sense, the day someone becomes my student is the day they should fire me. Why? Because I supply them with the question that ultimately answers all poker questions: What is a bet? Not just any bet, mind you – although we start with that – but a bet in poker. From the general to the specific. In fact, it’s the first of two connected and […]
I’ve found an unusual game at a small cardroom previously unknown to me. Worn out by emotional fatigue and the stress, frustration, and guilt of spending down my bankroll on various relaxations, I’ve wanted to warm up to the bigger games – 5/10 with our old friends such as the Sommelier, the Banker, the Koala, and the tourney pros that round out my scene – slowly. The […]
One of the most confusing concepts the aspiring poker player will encounter is the notion of an overall Strategy. Perhaps surprisingly, it is counter-intuitive to many that a relational game of information can have a strategy that is not merely reactionary and essentially reciprocal. For instance, even very smart people balk at the concept, as evidenced in this thread, where a poster posits there can only be […]
While I was sweating out my tournament blogging gig back in November, I received an email from Tadas Peckaitis, online low stakes poker coach. He had apparently stumbled onto my blog and was wondering if there was anything we could do to promote each other’s work. (It’s worth noting that he seems to be an avid consumer of poker content, as he retweets various poker sources and […]