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Tournament players can struggle with the middle and late stages of tournaments. These key areas separate the most profitable from the average. We identify several key areas to focus on and improve. These include psychological, theoretical, mathematic and strategic. We will coach you in these areas to help you make better decisions and more money in the long run.

• Psychological – Are you nervous, scared, too aggressive? Are you thinking about the money, always think everyone is stealing and you’re re-raising too much?
• Stealing blinds and survival strategy
• Table image and reacting to it
• Pot odds for calling all ins
• How to combat the modern loose aggressive players
• Adjusting post flop betting sizes
• Adjusting pre flop opening raises
• Finding optimum moments to steal blinds and antes
• Bubble strategy
• Which stacks to pick on?
• Identify which players to target and play pots with
• Moving all in at the right time

You can now sign up for as little as 1 hour of coaching to get a feel for how we work with you, to help you become the best player you can be.

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We are very excited to share the news that we are now offering hand history reviews as a stand alone service. We are finding that many players only want hand reviews and are happy to sign up to just hand review sessions so if you are interested in this please get in touch and book some time with our expert coaches!
Hand History Reviews have arrived at Texas Holdem Questions!

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Due to popular demand and to appeal to more players, we have officially extended our coaching services to coaching by email.

If hourly rate coaching is out of your budget, take advantage of our email coaching plans instead.

Fees start at just $160 a month (cheaper if bought in bulk) so get in touch today to sign up and start making more money!

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Players often wonder how much time do they need coaching for. Usually, the more time you spend doing something, the better you become, however, it’s important to balance the amount of hours you’re being coached. You need to absorb the information and be able to reflect on it and implement. If you are receiving an information overload then how can you fully understand what you are being taught?

We find 2 hours a week is an optimum amount of coaching as this allows players to keep attention and focus on the coaching at hand and have a week to implement any changes.

Please get in touch if you’re interested in signing up to ongoing coaching. We offer competitive rates, particularly for players signing up to monthly retainers.

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We’re thrilled to say we are now offering free consultation before you have to invest in our services.

Contact us via contact form to let us know where you would like to see improvements, what you’d like to get out of 1 to 1 training.

We can arrange a phone call to go through your needs and talk about plans moving forward.

It’s an exciting time at TexasHoldemQuestions – we want you to be a part of it!

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We are delighted to confirm we are now offering 1 to 1 training consultancy!

If you’re interested in having a cheap first session, just quote THQAUG18 and we will give you a further discounted first hour at $40! We’re very excited to be offering this new service and can’t wait for all you aspiring professional poker players to take advantage of our expertise.

We will be posting testimonials in the future but get in touch soon as we have don’t have unlimited capacity and its strictly first come first serve basis.

Please get in touch. We’ll need to know your name, some history about yourself, where your game needs improving, what level you’re at etc.

We can’t wait to hear from you!

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1. Super System by Doyle Brunson
   Amazing book, must read for any poker enthusiast. Timeless book that still helps players today both online and live. It may have been a different era but the principles behind most of what Dolly says still applies.
2. Play poker like the pros by Phil Hellmuth Jr
   Think what you like about Phil’s antics but he’s written a great book here. This book is mandatory for players looking to improve their tournament play. Phil’s won 15 WSOP bracelets so when he talks, one should listen…..unless he’s just whining on tv of course then just laugh.
3. Ace on the River: An Advanced Poker Guide by Barry Greenstein
   Barry goes into depths where other authors don’t in this book. He’s helping the poker enthusiast become better in all aspects not just some game theory. I can’t recommend this book enough. The pictures are an added bonus too.
4. Every hand revealed by Gus Hansen
   Love this book, experience the journey of Gus’ thoughts as he plays out the Aussie Millions. It’s amazing getting an insight into how this genius but apparent “madman” operates. Excellent read and could read this multiple times easily.
5. Harrington on Holdem by Dan Harrington
   Both Harrington books are amazing and necessary for any no limit holdem tournament player. Invaluable advice with theory and insight that will engrave on your mind innately and improve you.

   Feel free to comment below or get in touch.

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1. Patience
   This can’t be emphasized enough. Patience is extremely important in no limit holdem. Whether it be cash game or tournament, picking your spots and waiting for the profitable moments are key. Tournament holdem can often be described as “hours and hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror”. Patience is one of the key differences between losing and winning players. A patient player will fold a strong hand even after hours of folding if he/she knows it’s the right thing to do.
2. Aggression
   Over the years, the game keeps changing but aggression is still a necessary skill to be a winning player. Even the players you call “nits” are betting their hands aggressively. The losing players are losing value on strong hands by playing unnecessarily trappy and slow.
3. Awareness
   This is a skill that’s often underappreciated. Winning players know what’s going on at the table, they watch the players intently and know what different players are thinking at different times. Why do they know this? They know because they are aware of what’s happening, they know John had a bad week at the office and history shows he bluffs more when he’s in a bad mood. Forgive me for sounding like Yoda but to be aware takes concentration and taking the game serious, you need to dedicate your attention to the table and perhaps turn off the greatest showman soundtrack while you play.
4. Bankroll Management
   One can’t do a list of skills needed without including this. OK, so it’s not a skill at the table but you can’t be a long-term winner if your bankroll management is poor. You need to play within your means and at a suitable level. Winning players are gamblers to the naked eye but in reality, how many winning players have a losing year? They practice sensible bankroll management and know what games and levels they need to stay away from and what times they can move up.
5. Ability to not tilt
   This again is a big difference between winning and loser players. Even professionals tilt at times, but the ability to not tilt is so key. You’ve played great for hours and lost 3 key hands in a row, natural tendency is to steam and play more aggressive. Not to the best winning players, they know that isn’t what makes them money. This is something that can be trained and embedded in your mind with experience. Don’t tilt.Do you have any questions about this list? Feel free to ask me or leave comment below.

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1. Ace Queen offsuit
   This is a hand even professionals often get into trouble. When was the last time you watched poker after dark or WSOP and you saw someone fold this pre-flop? What TV doesn’t show is the hours of patience some players will employ. In position or first in it’s a great hand but if you’re up against a tight player who’s raised under the gun or re raised your early position open then this is usually an easy fold, contrary to what you often see. Even those who profess to say this is an easy fold in the above scenario end up stubbornly calling down.
2. Mid pocket pairs
   These pesky middle pairs often get players into trouble. Players often call re raises pretending in their heads they will “get away” when they don’t flop a set then hang on to the river when there’s one or two overcards.
3. Ace Rag
   An obvious one here, the old ace rag. If you’re in the blinds and you flop top pair, remember what is with that top pair and who you’re facing. Likewise, if you’re in a position and calling a raise with this just because your opponent is active then you’re overplaying. What do you hope to hit or are you just trying to take away later? If so, why does it matter that you have an ace?
4. Small suited connectors
   The number of players who see Phil Ivey play these hands profitably and think they can too is staggering. Use common sense, these “numbers” are the lowest in the deck, a single pair is rarely enough to win and hard to get shown down so you’re hoping for three of a kind/two pairs and straights etc which the higher cards have just as good a chance of making.
5. Queen Jack
   This is a trappy hand, you hit top pair and you have a reasonable kicker but if you’ve called it to a raise or opened and caught your top pair, how good is it when facing resistance? Neither kicker is great in a raised pot, are they?

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This is so simple and obvious but a worthy reminder for all poker players. We often forget though; just how important it is to concentrate and focus. You’re following twitter, checking the football scores, chatting to friends and still playing poker at the same time?
Poker is hard enough now trying to overcome the tougher calibre players and bad beats without diminishing what edge you do have.

How many tables are you playing? Is this your optimum amount to play at or have you even thought about how many tables are your optimum for playing? Does it differ between tournaments and cash games? Perhaps you need more focus on cash games so need to reduce tables there but can play more tables with tournaments.

Players often just play on autopilot or robotically, don’t become complacent and do the same! If you want to win regularly and maximise your earnings, you need to focus.

I challenge you to do an audit of yourself and find out how focused you are. Ask yourself the following questions and be honest with yourselves.

• Are you playing the optimum number of tables?
• Are you doing other things whilst playing?
• Have you played on “auto-pilot” in the last week?
• Have you played whilst tired in the last week?

If you’re answering yes to any of the above questions then you are sacrificing some of your edge and costing yourself money. Don’t give up any of your edge, FOCUS!

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