And you made this month so far almost double of that graph . Keep on rocking.

its not almost. It's doubled!

Hey gordon,

At this point I'am grinding on 50NL 6max and HU. Thanks to HU Mastermind I'am really doing well at this stakes. When I have money enough and want to try defeating 100 NL I`am thinking about to book coaching from you.

When I saw live sessions from the 6max course your students only played 2 tables. When they were playing 2 tables you were concentrating on timing tells, betsizing, gameflow etc. I normally play 12 tables 6 max so those factors are hard to concentrate on. Can this be a problem and will this effect your advice that you will give me?

I take gameflow into account when we don't have numbers OR the decision is close.

The ideal case is to play as many tables as possible without playing low quality. Keep in mind that NOT winrate, but HOURLY winnings are the important measurement.

Many people with extremely high winrates have low hourlies (bumhunting, game selecting a lot). That's not bad at all, but keep in mind, u wanna maximize your hourly, whatever that may mean.


So in your case our coaching would focus on more technical details. Some things that you can use while multitabling. The cool part is that one small tip can have huge effects since you put in big volume.

Technical parts btw include betsizing. That is something that u can learn, even when 24-tabling. We could go over classical spots that come up often and optimize your play there.

That would be my advice.

- Gordon

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I quoted this from his daily blog (the guy is my student for those who dont know him). I wanna use this hand to give away some strategy and show HOW genius his $40 river bet was. It was very smart,...

but most likely you will think " omg, captain obvious, of course he was inducing " .

So what most likely happens is that you will also try to "induce". But if you are like 99% of players, NOTHING will happen. Why?

The secret: It's not about what you see (the ******o jam by villain), but what you NOT see

Let me explain.

1) Steven (Imachampion) did NOT bet $40 to induce the jam! Instead he looked through his opponents range and thought what his calling range could consist of.
Kx and Qx of hearts are a very rare combination. Maybe some JJ or QQ combos that did not 4bet preflop. But still out of those, not many combos with a heart.

I don't wanna go to much into detail here, but it's important to realize that there are not many hands in this situation that you're going to get called by if you bet half pot or bigger.

Solution: BET SMALL to get crying calls from all lower flushes and hero calls from "omg, i got 2pair/straight, i'm beat but i get such great odds


2) IF Villain did show up for whatever reason with a Khigh flush, there is a decent and non 0% chance that he is gonna raise for value (rightfully so). Mayyybe even a small raise with a Qhigh flush. So by betting small, we may not loose much value at all vs the "cooler" part of his range.


3) And yes, of course by betting small we give Villain the chance to do something ******ed. Turns out that this happened. But this is just the icing on the cake.



It is important to realize that part 1) and 2) are the most important reasons for chosing a small betsizing.


I was NOT present when this hand happened, so maybe Steven had an additional read that Villain was turning made hands into bluffs on other occasions etc.

But this is a prime example of how many people can misapply something they see. You only see the small bet and a ******o bluff.

Most of the time, those small bets in order to induce are BAD. TERRIBLE and ******ED. You loose value.

I hope i explained why this was a great exception.

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Somebody on Pokerstrategy has shown extraordinary willpower. He played many hands on NL4 (also some on NL25 if i understood correctly) and he managed to blog almost 60 days without (almost any) interruption.

He is going to play NL1k in hopefully less than a year. I don't know if we can pull it off again. There are a lot of bad coaches out there who produce NO results at all.

I want not to only produce results, but make the impossible possible. Not once, twice or three times like already done in the past.

With Steven (ImapChampion) and Pavel (Ilidek), I will prove in 2013 that poker is still easy and beatable. If you don't have success, it is because you didn't put in enough work or your coach/video site/training program sucks.

You understand it correctly I was struggle with NL25. When I was shooting NL25 I was so bad that I lose soooooo much cash that to keep my bankroll management I needed to move down to NL4… I used to call it variation and running bad but the truth is that I was fish. I was pretty bad and even I improved a lot NL25 was still a problem for me.



As you can see after 50k hands I had less than 1bb /100 (37 798*0,37 + 13 007 * 2,67 / 37 798 + 13 007 = ~0,95) It isn’t too sexy, is it? But things changed now I work with Gordon and we will show you guys how great teacher he are. He want to prove that he can turn anyone with right attitude into wining poker player. We’re going to crush this game. I start from NL4 HU and our goal is to reach NL1k in one year. Seems challenging but with teacher like him it’s possible and I am going to work hard to show you guys it’s possible.

I can tell all day long that Gordon is a great teacher because:
He keeps everything simple.
His advice are easy to implement
He focus on most important things
Everything he teaches is very logical and he explain his thought process step by step

I can talk like that for hours, but we all know that actions speak louder than words, aren’t they? That’s why we are going to show you guys results not empty promises. This is my graph from NL4 HU:


If you want to be on the time with our progress keep follow our blogs, we update them regularly!
My blog:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...gekko-1312795/
Steven blog:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...okers-1283299/

Get Luck guys!

We're getting there, although for right now our main goal is to learn and get in some hands. I don't recommend anybody to play NL 4 or 10 to make money. Rake is to high in HU games, you'll be eaten alive.

Hey, just wondering why your name Raskolnikov doesn't appear on sharkscope or pokerprolabs. There are variations with numbers on the end etc but not that actual name...?

It is just my handle on pokerstrategy.com , not ony any poker sites.

oh PS= pokerstrategy, silly me

I think cc is a lot better than a silly small bet vs any kind of half decent villain. By betting small we show villain we have Ah in our range plus other flushes that want value. We are never ever bluffing and we are never betting anything that isn't a flush (probably Qh+). When we check we have a weaker range and he should actually bluff a lot more than if we bet small like we did. But you're the coach

Ben, good thoughts. Read what i've quoted bold, so 99% of the time i agree with you.

What is more important is to learn WHEN and under WHICH assumptions we make a certain play. The way i teach is to learn how to think. Most players don't do that.

And this is where you can have an edge. Make sure to make the right assumptions and verify them with the results. Be willing to change your opinion in light of new evidence.

That's it (oh well, i wish it were that simple in practise) !

Would you ever teach tourney? Have you had much tourney success?

I used to play full time tourney at the start of my career. I usually don't coach tournies unless it fully focuses on postflop play (where my expertise as cash game player comes in).

I don't know where and which kind of coaching you're looking for, but my specialities are HU & 6max games.

In short: I think i may be able to help you (depending what u wanna learn), but most likely a full time tourney coach will be able to serve you better.

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Para las estudiantes que no entienden bien ingles, el curso HU Mastermind ya esta traducido !

Me mande un PM si tenga interes.

It was only just a few months ago when I first started this with Gordon, we're slowly making it I just remember a few months ago just playing 4NL practicing and learning how to play HU for the first time and now I'm about ready to take a shot at 400NL.

Its crazy and feels really unreal and rapid how things are developing.

It was not an easy road, and there were tons of things that I had issues with but with Gordons guidance, it definitely got much more simple // the things we had problems with got reduced due to his specific instructions.

So I was gonna stay hidden for a while and not show graphs..

but cannot anymore because of the following:

1) I'm running damn hot

2) Its my best month so far (yes low volume.. due to a number of things including a huge break)

I'm kind of a problem child unfortunately and things always seem to occur and things never stay right for a long period of time (I DON'T KNOW WHY) lol.

Anyways here it is

Yesterday he made 3,5k ... his biggest winning day. To recap, the guy was playing NL 4 some months ago.

Everybdoy can find his blog, where all his steps are documented. Everybody can have success like him.

I get asked a lot what the "secret" behind so many successful students is and what i do different than other coaches.

One of the biggest geniuses in the world (Elon Musk) has explained it:

http://youtu.be/L-s_3b5fRd8?t=22m38s


In my courses i don't start with rules "4betting KQ is good" , " calling 3bets oop is bad" and stuff like this.
Instead, we start with the fundamentals. Reasoning from basic principles.

The reason why ALL of my 5 proteges move up to NL1k in less than a year is because they learn poker the right way.

Currently i have 2 proteges who started at NL 4. One is at NL400 atm, the other one just started, so NL4.

Of course you need other abilities and the attitude to never give up. But if you get the fundamentals wrong, you get replaced very quickly in the food chain.

First time breaking through the 5 figure mark.



Thx Gordon.