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Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Poker Book Preview - Pre-Release


Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory
How to Win at Texas Hold-em by Turning your Brain into a Poker Tracking Machine
 
Preview by Bennett Onika

               
 Every so often a poker book gets written that completely changes the way we play the game.  Like Super System, The Theory of Poker, and Harrington on Hold-em, Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory will change the live game of poker.

               Although the book does have some strategy, the main focus is on unlocking your brain’s existing ability to recall information on your players. Phil Hellmuth Jr. has said that the way you win tournaments is not by getting great hands and being paid off, although that helps. Where you get the most chips in tournaments is on the tough decisions where you know you are ahead or behind by a marginal amount. Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory gives you the tools to train your brain to remember a vastly superior amount of information when compared to a player who is untrained. Even the big name professional poker players if untrained are at a major disadvantage to you if you are trained and know the game of poker. Hence if you are in the trenches for chips and if you can remember just one extra piece of information to make you fold or call, it makes the difference in the long run for a tournament and will put you in a position to win.

               Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory uses common memory techniques that have been written about by memory experts such as Harry Lorayne in the real world, and combines them with the poker tracking statistical analysis of the online world. The result was the creation of the world’s first most powerful and revolutionary poker memory system ever created. Harry Lorayne has proven time and time again that people with admitted average memories can improve their recall by an incredible amount. 

               Poker tracking software was invented not long after the first poker website was created. Initially used for multi-table players, poker tracking software kept track of VPIP, Cbet % just about any statistic you wanted to keep track of. Until today, no one thought you could use VPIP outside of the online world. The average memory retains 7 different pieces of information for 30 seconds making live tracking impossible for the average untrained memory. The systems in this book allow you to train yourself to be able to be a human poker tracking machine.
               
In the book you will learn how to memorize:

-         All 169 starting hole cards in hold-em in order of rank for a full table and Heads up

-         A system to derive your exact mathematical win rate within 2% of your 2 cards vs any 2 random hole cards

-         a shuffled deck in sequence

-         which cards have been played in other games such as bridge gin rummy and stud

-         and accurately keep track of a full table of players’ VPIP

-         and keep track of CBet % of all players

-         and keep track of a list of players exposed hole cards in the position they played them in

-         and easily get VPIP %

-         hand ranges IE 30% VPIP = Top 51 hands = AA-66, Any suited ace, Any suited 8 or higher from king to 9, and any unsuited 10 or higher

-         any bluffs or other information from any other text you want to remember for a live game.

You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook under Bennett Onika. I will try to answer all questions my readers have once the book is released. Until then I will be putting hints as to how I use some of the systems over Twitter.

The edge a player would have if properly trained to do even 3 of the above items would be enormous. The book is scheduled to be released in April 2012, and is available for pre-order. Give yourself the ultimate edge in poker and in other areas of your life, give yourself the power of an awakened powerful recall and order today.

- Bennett

Monday, 17 October 2011

Pokertube - Road to November Nine

A look back at some of the action from the WSOP 2011 leading up to the selection of the November Nine.
















Congratulations Eoghan,
  You've Done Ireland Proud


Thursday, 13 October 2011

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Hand History Reviews

A review of the hands that did, or didn't work out well for me....... Feel free to leave comments regarding strategies, betting styles or anything you wish. If you're a Pokerschool Online member you can watch the replays of each hand in the Hand Replayer.

No 4. 
Plenty of limpers here so I was getting great value to flat call in position. I was extremely lucky that it was the Big Blind that was short stacked and the Small Blind that had the large stack. If it was the other way around I'd have been crushed.

This was one of those rare occasions where I lose the hand and still manage to nearly double-up. I jammed post flop as the pot was already one third of my stack and I knew I was going to be pot committed.

As always your thoughts are appreciated. Leave a comment below or join me on Twitter @theroyalraiser




No 3.
Here I attempted a blind steal (On the Buttton) with suited gapped connectors....... How do you think I got on? Would you have opened this hand? 


The interesting thing with this hand was trying to read the opponents as the board was dealt out. Leave a comment on your thoughts about the hand....... The hand can be replayed by clicking the link at the bottom of the photo.






No 2.
This one didn't work out good! Looking back on it there's nothing I've have done different. Made a standard raise in early position and I was never folding preflop with this holding. 


The only thing to do is make a note on the opponents shoving range while short stacked! Thankfully the damage was at a minimum....... Leave a comment if you have similar stories of being sucked out like this. 



No 1.
Flopped a straight and nut flush draw..... My opponents starting hands made sure I got paid off here....



Friday, 7 October 2011

Spindler Takes Down EPT London









Benny Spindler won EPT London and £750,000, finally fulfilling the expectations of the poker paparazzi by winning a major title. It was a virtuoso performance from the German, one which matched bare aggression with stunning reads that blasted his opposition off the final table.


Spindler, hair in face, could see enough to roll up his sleeves and win the hard way, personally responsible for the departure of five of his final table opponents. Runner-up Steve O'Dwyer took the other scalps on his way to well-deserved £465,000 score. 


(Taken from Pokerstarsblog.com)




EPT London Winner Benny Spindler




For more results and action from EPT london visit;


http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/

Thursday, 6 October 2011

The September Micro Grind

The month of September was pretty good on the Micro Grind. I made a valuable discovery when I found out about officialpokerrankings.com (OPR) It's a website that tracks players stats and results and is a great tool for keeping track of your performance.

At the start of September I had a minus ROI (Return On Investment) according to OPR so I set off on a mission to rectify that. At the time of writing this post I've improved my ROI from minus 50% to a plus of 21% return. If anyone wants to take a look at my stats log in to OPR and search for royalraise85.


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My target for this month (October) is to improve my overall rating from 85.89% to a plus 90% figure. One of the instructors on Pokerschool Online set out a challenge called the 'Cowboy Challenge'. This involves playing 100 games in the month with the objective of doubling your starting balance at the end of the month. Hopefully I'll run good and achieve both these targets. I'll be posting my results on this blog on a day by day basis.

The next big discovery of the month was getting Holdem Indicator. It's a great online poker calculator with a fantastically simple and easy to read graphic display. What I found best about this calculator is that it really helped understanding your odds & outs. The simple rule of thumb is that if you only have a 20% chance of winning the pot then don't call any bet that's more than 20% of the pot. I hope to do a You-tube review of Holdem Indicator soon but if you want to find out more about it now then just click on the flashing banner on the top of this blog. I can't recommend this enough for the micro-stakes player.


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This isn't the best of pics but you get the idea. Notice the column on the right and the bar charts. The green bar is your odds of winning and the red bar is the % of pot you have to call in order to stay in the hand. Here I'm clearly not folding. (By the way I made $6 taking this picture so thank you Blog).

Holdem Indicator also has a HUD (Heads Up Display) which isn't on this picture. The HUD gives you individual player stats on all your opponents. The HUD appears after a few hands (I only played one here to take this picture) but if you want to see the HUD working just click the link at the top of the page.

Finally, if your a micro stake player or just new to the game check out Pokerschool Online. There's FREE live training sessions on there everyday of the week. Plus a host of other stuff to help you improve your game. Check it out.

I'm hoping to start a home game on Pokerstars just for the micro stakers. Maybe a 5/10c game once a week for an hour. If you would like to get in on the game message me here or on Twitter @theroyalraiser.

That's it for now, I'll let you know how I'm getting on in the October Micro Grind where I'll be continuing with the Cowboy Challenge on Pokerstars and competing in a new league on Pokergob.com

Good Luck at the Tables!

TheRoyalRaiser

Monday, 3 October 2011

UKIPT Pokerstars League Div 2 - October

I'm going to give this league a shot for the month of October. It's a freeroll league where the monthly winner is awarded a buy-in for a UKIPT Live event.


Date
T’ment ID #
Finish
League Position
01/10/11
447561544
5/630
5th 15pts
02/10/11
447561545
224/660
Tied 8th 16pts
03/10/11
447561546
522/817
Tied 13th 16pts
05/10/11
447561548
297/818
Tied 32nd 17pts
06/10/11
447561549
47/741
Tied 22nd 22pts
07/10/11
44756550
399/640
Tied 67th 23pts
09/10/11
447561552
487/673
Tied 82nd 24pts
10/10/11
447561553
292/843
Tied  96th 25pts
11/10/11
447561554
467/747
Tied 106th 26pts
14/10/11
447561557
35/666
Tied 122nd 31pts
15/10/11
447561558
105/624
Tied 98th 36pts
17/10/11
447561560
95/816
Tied 92nd 41pts