Coaching Prices Dramatically Reduced!

This cloud has a silver lining for those of you who have been considering coaching: my time right now is worth a lot less than it was last week, and consequently I’m cutting the price of my coaching in half! Effective immediately, individual coaching is $150/hour with even deeper discounts available for booking a package. Please take a look at the coaching overview and then feel free to contact me if you have more questions (most people do- I understand that even the discounted price represents a big investment and I take that very seriously) or if you’re ready to sign up.

I want to take this opportunity to address a blog post that I promised frequent commenter/home game player Kevko I would comment on quite some time ago (sorry Kev):

Then I began losing. I was blaming bad luck, other bad players, or just whatever it was that seemed to be going wrong that day. This led me to begin really studying the game. I read books and articles, forums, and even subscribed to PokerVT (Negreanu’s training site) for a while.

It seems like from that point on I have never really been able to get my game on track. In fact, the more I studied and learned, the more my results fell off. I know sooooo much more about poker now than I did then but it seems like my level of performance is deteriorating. Well maybe not deteriorating but leveling off. Is there a point where playing mathematically “correct” poker impedes your ability to get into the groove?

A lot of my students come to me with experiences like this. They feel like studying, reading, videos, and even coaching has disrupted their “natural rhythm” and now although they no more they have conflicting ideas in their heads and feel like they actually play less well.

I believe that my style of coaching is a powerful remedy to this problem. Usually what’s happened is that you’ve got a lot of information from a lot of different sources and you haven’t sorted it through it yet. Some of it could be simply wrong, but in many cases it’s a matter of not understanding the nuances that help you to figure out what is best in a given situation.

My general philosophy of coaching is to help you improve your thought processes rather than tell you how to play specific hands or situations. This means that my goal is to help you realize all of the things that you should be considering during a hand, to consider those things more quickly and effectively, and to get you in the habit of doing so consistently and instinctively. You learn how to synthesize information and think through situations in terms of strategic objectives rather than just a few new moves to your game in isolation.

Kev, I don’t mean to answer your question by saying, “Buy my coaching”. It certainly is something that you can sort through yourself. The trick is to do what I help my students to do: boil it down to concepts. Understand the purpose behind what you are doing. If a book says that you should bet in a certain situation, ask yourself why? What does that bet accomplish? Then think beyond the book and ask, “Is there a better way to accomplish that objective? What would I do in a slightly different situation? What sorts of hands are best to bet, and which hands would I rather check?”

I don’t believe that poker players have an innate style that is inevitable thrown off-kilter by learning more about the math and strategy that underlie the game. There may well be an adjustment period as you add new concepts to your game, but ultimately I think that understanding poker at a deeper level is necessarily beneficial.

Helping students to achieve this deeper understanding so that they understand what works about the way they already play and how they can enhance and improve their games is what my coaching is all about. And now, for a limited time, you can get in on it on the cheap.

These rates could go back up again at any time, so contact me right away if you’re interested!