Originally Posted by Educa-P0ker.
I want to start off by saying that I feel that most people really liked the course and that I am sorry some of the guys that bought it didn’t like it as much. We are learning from all kinds of constructive feedback and we are trying to improve the course in the following areas:
1. Length of the course: we will be adding different videos, and some of them are being released right now. The course will be 30 hours as advertised. There will be more Play and Explains at different stakes, more postflop videos including theory ones and practical ones.
2. English is not smooth: we understand that I am not an English native. You can check on youtube how good it is. At some points, given I am speaking fast, it might be tougher to understand. However, the Upswing team realized that and they added subtitles to all the videos. I consider it´s a very good idea. Poker is a very technical topic and I think it should be easy for you to follow even if it´s not the most pleasing experience.
3. Preflop is too simple: I agree with the following statement “Preflop is much simpler than postflop”. I don´t consider myself an extremely good preflop player. I’ve always considered the driving force for success in poker is efficiency. I didn’t want to spend too much time on some topics that were not so important to your winrate.
If you look at the videos, in my poker career for preflop, I have used superficially solvers to understand the preflop levers, make my own ranges and try to avoid most of the possible mistakes. For me, preflop is the base for the following streets and it’s the street were we are trying to avoid mistakes rather than becoming a very accurate player. I think that using Pokersnowie is more practical than Piosolver in many spots,even if it´s much less accurate, and in some spots common sense is superior to both solvers.
I understand that some people might complain about it but I think that, given my success at the tables, it was not an issue to become a very big winner even in toughest lineups on the planet. In my opinion, preflop accuracy in NLH is much less important than in PLO or FL games for instance.
4. Lack of clarity: I can understand some of the complaints here. You can go to a video and two different things might happen:
a. Videos don´t manatain some kind of studying method: I might use different resources or methods to work on that specific spot. However, I consider these more complete than just finding one way to study poker. For me, poker is a very complex thinking process, much more often than not a non-linear one that goes in a circular fashion and you will need many different kinds of inputs. For example, using a “method” is not the way you can become creative. As well, in every single spot you can give more or less weight to one kind of reasoning over the other.
b. Videos might be too fast: for example, I often don´t describe boards or situations. I have been teaching poker for long time and I was never told these kind of things. However, I can understand it because besides me going too fast over the spots sometimes, there is also my imperfect English which leads to you needing to rewind often. This is something we are working to avoid happening again. I go slower and clearer in the latest videos, although, as with the English problem, the lack of clarity is not something that I can change for the first videos, so I ask you for some patience while going through the course. The things that I am trying to explain are very complex and technical in nature and they cover tough spots many times. You will find a lot of good material, but it´s something very technical, and I am a technician, not a speaker. If you really want to improve, you WILL find what you need. I compare it to buying the best technical book compared to a best seller book.
I would also recommend having a little bit of patience at the moment as we round out the course. To anyone who is upset, contact Upswing and we will make sure you are taken care of.
