for online cash games there are many sites .
to learn live getting a coach is the best way to learn

Do you guys have any review about micro grinder courses?
Is Dc still alive for micro? If not what are the other options available?

Cheers!

Just bought upswing subscription, deeply unsatisfied at the moment. Buyer Beware. I will update if things change, but currently the website is not user friendly and the material he is selling for 199$ is not very good and you can get better material at RIO for 10$ essential sub.Seriously the info upswing offers is stuff that every 25nl player should and does know. That being said, I'm just one guy, give it a shot if you like. I am trying to prevent people from making the same mistake. The only thing I see possibly being worth it is potential access to a fb group, with that being said I'm so pissed off about the modules and website functionality right now its hard to even be optimistic about the fb group. Also, that I only briefly perused the modules but they were not impressive. I cant even access the lab again because the website functionality is not user friendly (meaning I cant find the lab).

Also, I should add that I messaged Doug and told him I would be reviewing it on here so he can feel free to come on here and refute me. I am not attacking Doug's character on here, I am providing a simple review of the website. The material wasn't worth the price in my opinion, if you still feel it is worth it, then buy away. I am done with this thread because honestly it is disheartening to even discuss my purchase at this point. However, I think its only fair you thoughtfully consider Doug's response to this as well.

Upswing Poker looks like a level so far, seems like a lot of effort to go to for a joke though.

My thoughts as well. Doug seems like a pretty smart guy who cares about his reputation so it's hard to think that this is a product that he wants to attach his name to. I'm mildly interested to see how it develops though.

I was coming on here to ask advice/reviews of upswing poker.
First review isnt great has any one else purchased the full subscription?

Also any one got any recommendations for good theory based cash game videos/ series on any other website?

The play and explain approach which is what most sites offer is low value imo and all the training site pros are keeping all the good stuff to them selfs.which is fine just don't be a training site pro if your not going to give a 100% and just cash in on a 30 min live session with mediocre commentary.

Any recommendations would be great

Cheers

what are the best coaching site(s) for 6max NLHE? I didn't play in a couple of years. Is it still cardrunners? What are the alternatives?

Hey guys, just came across this thread. I want to tackle a few of the questions in here, and I am glad to see there is some interest in what we have to offer.

Thanks for the honest opinion. Its comments like this that make companies better. You were the first person to EVER buy our product, and we had a bunch of issues we had to fix. We have updated the videos to a different hosting service and now they are much quicker/load smoothly. We have added in some small stakes play and explain from fees and I. Our facebook engage group has been growing and we have been answering a ton of questions there.

I also want to say we gave a full refund to this user for his bad experience with us. We are not here to take your money if you feel that our product is so bad you need to warn people about it. I am putting my name on the line here, and spent many hours creating that content. I feel that the way we think about poker is correct, and is why we have been so successful.

If you still have anything you would like to discuss feel free to get in contact with me, you should still have my information.

Not a level. We are a coaching site and are building our brand. We are going to move to a new site format soon that should hopefully look more professional. (I am a poker pro not a developer!)

If I thought there was a 1% chance this would hurt my reputation within the community I wouldn't do it. When I started this company with Fees and Matt, my worry was and will always be, our customers should get good value back for their purchases. That is basically my role in this company, to make sure you get the bang for your buck.

There may be some confusion as to what we are offering with our products. If you think I am going to sit down and play 50/100 and show you all of my personal ranges for the people I play again, that is clearly not going to happen. I have a career in playing high stakes poker. However at the same time, there is a correct way to think about poker and that is what we are bringing here to you guys.

Let me explain exactly who the lab is targeted for, and exactly what it is.

The lab is aimed at small-mid stakes players who are looking to think about poker in a more strategic way. Our lab has 5 different sections of information. A section on basic stuff to get you up to speed on what you will need to know for the later information. A preflop section on how to play preflop in various different spots. A postflop section, this is the most dense section, covering the basis for how we will be playing our hands across various boards and how to categorize our hands. Then we have game elements/mental game sections, giving good advice to people looking to move up in stakes.

There are 19 videos of me in these sections, ranging from a few minutes to twenty minutes. I would say the average length is aproximately 10 minutes. In these videos, I talk ranges, how sizes change what I would play, and how hands can be played differently from differnet positions. I also fill the videos with hands I played that I thought were interesting, cool, and a few big pots I have played through my career in online poker.

We have 8 30 minute play and explain videos at small stakes we added in a week or so ago. These are half me, half fees. We play small stakes and explain our logic as we go through the hands. This was the content we added for March.

We will be adding in more content monthly. I took a poll of what our users wanted to see and they wanted to see more information on turn/river, so that is likely going to be up next for april.

Additionally with all of these things, you will get access to the Upswing poker Engage which is a facebook group that Fees and I are in where we can answer questions in a group setting. Also there are the other members of the lab that can chime in and hopefully help you out as well.

Let me know if you have any other questions! I am happy with the product we are putting out, I have put a lot of work into it. This is NOT a teach me how to play high stakes series! This is really aimed at people in the nl 400 and under range online, and probably up to 5/10 or so live.

Hi everyone!

There are a lot of learning sites with different coaches, for example www.deucescracked.com, runitonce.com, www.cardrunners.com, iveypoker.com and so on.
I would like to improve my cash game.
Please tell me who should I watch for improving my game - NL50,100,200?
Who are the best players on NL50,100,200 who demonstrates their game?

thanks

The answer is pretty clearly run it once at the moment IMO

Hi Doug!

I might be interested to buy the Poker Lab.

I am working on the correct 4betting and calling ranges from every preflop scenario. Do you cover this issue in the Poker Lab? Would like to see similar hand charts to you RFI ranges, added with your continuing range if someone 3bets.

Also would like to hear your thoughts on flop raising/check-raising ranges as a preflop caller vs. flop cbet. Maybe some examples of different board textures and which value hands, draws and bluffs would you choose to raise/check-raise. Even better if there are some turn and river examples as well.

Thanks!

I'm a very small-stakes player, focused on SnGs mostly, working on grinding up a bankroll. I've got a much stronger record in small tournament play than cash, both live and online. I've got some useful Johnathan Little videos I'm working though, but I'm wondering if there is anything reasonably priced I should be looking into beyond that.

Hello - getting back into playing again and looking for a training site for micro and low stakes 6-max NLHE.

My question is, if there is an answer, is "how can I confirm that the coaches on these sites are truly winning players now-a-days"?

Years ago I had subscriptions to XX, XX, and XX.

These are just opinions and questions. I won't mention any names.

Some of the coaches on one of these sites were truly legends. I had a couple of great coaches who's win rates were epic and they really helped my rates personally. But others were touted as legends but they were certainly not! Some even hid their actual screen names so they couldn't be "PTRed", etc. Others had long term losing records - but were defended saying "well that was at those sites - the coach is playing at XX not where data can't be mined, and NOW he's winning. I have trouble trusting this site now.

Another site, even right now as I look, features a coach showing a cropped screenshot of a 80,000 hand sample. How can it be verified that there are no filters on these results? Are these really his only hands? I'd like to see his unfiltered database of all of his hands. This site has employed proven winning legends too, but after seeing results posted like this, I now also have trouble trusting that site as well.

The 3rd site seems to have some of the best winning players ever. For real "freak-of-nature-I-know-for-a-fact-they-crush" outliers. I bow humbly. But I suspect that this site too, back a while ago, had coaches who suffered frustrating break-even or losing periods. These players went on to coach , make videos, and write books - but they were giving advice to grinders though they were not currently winning grinders. No offence - I'm sure you know more than me, but I don't want to pay to watch your videos if you are not playing and at least winning a little bit.

Is there anyway to verify win rates of the coaches on these sites in the modern poker era?

Thank you.

Hello,
My name is Art I am from the US and I started learning/studying, and reading about poker in 2015 (i was incarcerated in 2014 while this all happened) we played a bit out in the pod and I came in 1st - 3rd place every game we do speed tournaments a lot and used only play money. I got released in March 2016 i went to casino in a local town 50 miles away in Oklahoma, my first night I entered a 1/2 cash game and I won $500.00 in 4 hours. I went back again the next week and lost over $300.00, later I found out there was a casino only 10 minutes away from my house. I went there twice in a month and lost another $300. Now I play betonline.com which is alright my bankroll fluctuates here and there. I was wondering was the first time just beginners luck or what, And if anyone would like to couch me or give me some tips id appreciate it Thanks guys.

I mainly play cash games, and some of the videos and forum posts have really opened up my eyes and increased my alertness in certain spots where I'd otherwise just routinely make the same play w/o thinking twice, especially some of Hunter's vids. Additionally, it's comforting to know that they have adequate PLO and MTT instruction as backup should I ever hit a tumultuous downswing and want to embark upon a different adventure. it seems obv these guide sites are about affiliate revenue.lso no one has mentioned pokerVT, I've seen adds for it around and about.

I notice that a lot of sites make a lot of HH review videos. Are they useful to the learner at all?

Besides there being some underground tracking sites - you don't.

Even published results of super high stakes games can be very flawed as the tracking isn't without mistakes. You also don't know about the networth (shud that matter) bc of how action is split.

Tournament winnings is also a bad indicator, not only bc of variance, but also bc all the tournies where the players busts isn't taken into account.

That leaves you with one thing:

* Most sites require a low investment. Error and trial. With prices out there, not a bad option as some will even refund your money or have some sort of free trial

* Look for those coaches who have publicly proven to bring students from step1 to Step X (your goal).

If they have done it, that's better than those who haven't (all else being equal).

hi, im looking for a site with sng videos (turbo and hyper) and/or mtt videos played on bovada.

i just checked out all the main sites, not really finding anything. tpe has a few bovada series that ive already seen and snggrinders' content seems old.

what do u guys suggest?

Hi all

Whats is the best HUD poker software to use? Most effective, easy to use, (maybe price).
Looking at holdem manager and poker tracker etc... what else?

Also how essential do you experienced players think this software is?

most pros use a hud. besides the ones u mentioned, there is another newer one that some of the guys from tpe use like bigdogpckt5s, who never used to use a hud. i cant remember the name of it.

jivaro

is deucescracked down?

I mainly play mircro SNG & MTT,

which training site should i join? Deucescracked? Any other?

Cheers

Any new reviews for upswing?