November: A lot of coaching and fewer hours at the tables.

I have had a very busy poker month with most of the time dedicated to coaching my new students. When I first decided to take up coaching I could never have imagined there would be so many micro stakes players contacting me and asking for help and advice. Many thanks to all of you!

I had to set a limit for the number of students I can take on. And there are only two more slots available before Christmas.

It have been a very inspiring month. I have had the opportunity to get in touch with so many friendly and interesting people from all over the world. Some guys are in there early 20’s and some guys are even older than I am (47). Some live next to the gorgeous Australian beaches some live in the beautiful Rocky Mountains some live in the biggest cities in the US and some live in small European villages. Some are married and have kids and grandchildren some still live with their parents, some like sports others prefer classic music, one guy even plays a lot of golf.

I am so happy I got to know you guys and I promise I will do everything I can to help you out with your game!  

As my students play 6-max as well as FR on both NL10 and NL25 I have played a few sessions on all these tables to get a feel for them. I must say that I usually had a rough time for the first 10 orbits at all the tables I normally don’t play, running into quads twice when flopping a boat doesn’t make things easier, that’s exactly what happened to me the very first session. But once you get used to what is going on there are bunch of mistakes to take advantage on.

Here is a graph over my NL10 and NL25 hands. It was a pretty rocky road, 18 Buy In’s over 15,700 hands is still a decent result and proves that playing a decent ABC poker where you play in position at least 75% of the hands, value bet the calling station and don’t give the NIT action will help you build up your Bank Roll pretty fast even at these limits.

Make sure you keep your patience because you will run into so many “stupid calls” from your opponents that you may lose the trust and confidence in the winning ABC Poker. If you check with Poker Stove you will find out that when the villains 22 is a slim favorite over your AK and his 98 of diamonds has 23% chance to crack your black Aces. When they get it All-In pre flop they don’t realize that these are moves which have value in the later stages of a  tournament when someone is sitting there with less than 10-15bb, but not in a 100bb cash game. But if they saw it on TV it must be a good play never mind the circumstances.

Just look at my graph below with the two big valleys I had to climb after slipping down vs. a bunch of these moves, but luck doesn’t last forever.

 

Play well, keep the patience and don’t forget your prayers to the poker Gods before talking to the Sandman!