09-30-2013 08:17 PM
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09-30-2013 08:21 PM
#77
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This is a pretty in-depth Q and we're actually discussing doing another AMA of just these Q's. There are a lot of ways. The most popular and effective include hand history reviews where I load both my and the student's hand histories into a replayer and discuss every aspect of every hand played throughout a tournament. I'm also working on an A-to-Z training manual that I'm going to use for long-term students and multi-day live poker seminars that I'll eventually be running. I do most of my coaching in NL tournaments but can also do NL cash and PLO tournaments/cash. As my PLO/OFC game gets better and better I'll start advertising PLO/OFC training. | |
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09-30-2013 08:25 PM
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Taking into consideration that you like training/coaching ...do you get the same rush from getting a newbie to make it big in the poker universe as you do for example from winning a poker event (not counting the money part)? | |
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09-30-2013 08:28 PM
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09-30-2013 08:30 PM
#80
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09-30-2013 08:38 PM
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I hang out with Matt Salsberg, Steve Gross, Amanda Baker, Amanda Musumeci, Joe Cappuccio, and Matt Iles a lot. Every single one of my poker friends has said something that has influenced my game at some point so it's difficult to say. Mark Vos and Dustin Dirksen were HUGELY influential to me early in my career whether they realize it or not. I started chatting on AIM with both of them around 2005 when online poker first became popular and they were killing it. I'd occasionally ask about hands but it was mostly general poker advice from them that helped me a lot, and just talking to them motivated me to believe that it was something I could really do. So thank you to them. | |
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09-30-2013 08:55 PM
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This has been a spectacular AMA so far; we will have to reconvene after we address some capacity issues – a huge testament to the quality of this AMA. We will announce the date shortly and Matt will come back and finish answering posts. Thanks a lot, all, and stay tuned! |
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10-01-2013 11:10 PM
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Matt, | |
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10-05-2013 04:06 PM
#84
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What time does this start? |
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10-05-2013 04:07 PM
#85
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Any minute! This is going to be great!!! |
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10-05-2013 04:12 PM
#86
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Matt is going to be here in about ten or fifteen minutes! |
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10-05-2013 04:34 PM
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vamos Matt vamoooooos | |
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10-05-2013 04:36 PM
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10-05-2013 04:40 PM
#89
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sup Matt, what is your favourite grinding food? Pizza for me! any1 else? | |
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10-05-2013 04:41 PM
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I go to NJ at least 2x a year to visit family, play Borgata events, go to Rangers/Giants/Yankees games, and go to Great Adventure. I miss being close to my family the most but I still make sure to see them plenty. Aside from that the proximity to NY is the thing I miss the most especially since my sports teams are there. | |
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10-05-2013 04:49 PM
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Yes I did pretty well for WCOOP, thanks for asking. I won my PCA package, the Tilt Super Sized Sunday $635 for $44k, and made some other final tables including a few in the Stars $109+rebuys. All in all I think I was up a little over $20k. | |
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10-05-2013 04:51 PM
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10-05-2013 04:59 PM
#93
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10-05-2013 05:00 PM
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I tend to stay away from home games in general especially since I don't play much cash. | |
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10-05-2013 05:02 PM
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Too late! Gg, gov't. | |
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10-05-2013 05:03 PM
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10-05-2013 05:06 PM
#97
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10-05-2013 05:12 PM
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10-05-2013 05:14 PM
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I've been involved in a lot of backing deals in my life, both being backed and backing a stable of other players. This is more of a book that could be written than an answer to a question, but I'll break down the two main types of arrangements. | |
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10-05-2013 05:17 PM
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lol My Dad was a computer programmer back in the 80's when computers were weird and scary to the average person, so I actually started learning how to type when I was about 3 because my Dad taught me how to play video games on the computer when he wasn't home. He was a smart man! | |
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10-05-2013 05:18 PM
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Hello Matt! | |
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10-05-2013 05:20 PM
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The long run in tournaments is probably more live tournaments than a human could realistically play in years, which is why live tournament variance is so high and backers are often needed. I think online you would need at least 1000-2000 tournaments to really get a good sense of what a player is capable of. | |
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10-05-2013 05:22 PM
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10-05-2013 05:23 PM
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Just about, it's one of the reasons that I love doing training. I couldn't have been prouder when I watched Amanda Musumeci make her deep run in the WSOP ME and take 2nd in the biggest WSOP $1500 of the year the following series and watching Mike Frazin, who's in his 50's, take down the WPT Regional $2k event in FL for well over $100k was an incredile feeling as well. | |
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10-05-2013 05:24 PM
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10-05-2013 05:25 PM
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10-05-2013 05:26 PM
#107
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Sooooooooo I finished page 2 questions and it still won't let me load page 1. Guess I'm going to have to try again later and finish those. | |
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10-05-2013 05:28 PM
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10-05-2013 05:29 PM
#109
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10-05-2013 05:32 PM
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10-05-2013 05:33 PM
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do you play or watch Starcraft at all? if so, games one day? | |
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10-10-2013 12:24 AM
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10-10-2013 12:29 AM
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These answers are the same both online and live... | |
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10-10-2013 12:33 AM
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10-10-2013 12:36 AM
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Highs: Traveling to tons of awesome locations and meeting some of the coolest people I could ever possibly meet. Winning tons of money and making WPT and WSOP final tables. Being homeless at times (no house/apt to worry about or rent to pay). | |
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10-10-2013 12:49 AM
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I played a long session of 25-50 (cent) limit hold'em w college buddies and won $4.25. I'd never been so excited to win so little money, and with such a slave wage hourly rate to boot...but I was VERY excited about it at the time and immediately hooked. | |
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10-10-2013 12:54 AM
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10-10-2013 01:00 AM
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Create my own obv. Would take over Batman for the sick whip and cool toys and because I'd have the sickest roller coasters at Six Flags. If I could have my own super power I'd be the "Karmic Corrector." I'd find the people who have let money turn them into gigantic douchebags, strip them of everything, and leave them penniless in the street while giving their money and belongings to good people and families in need. | |
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10-10-2013 01:11 AM
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I've done a lot of work with Habitat for Humanity for a long time and was the VP of Habitat for my college. I even ran a (probably illegal) charity poker tournament to raise funds for them at my college. I've also started volunteering at Threesquare food bank in Vegas and will be doing some work with Habitat Vegas soon. I love Habitat because they provide incredibly low-cost housing to people in need and I've always like supporting food banks because it's important to help our fellow man fulfill this most basic need without having to beg regardless of what their financial situation is. | |
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10-10-2013 01:22 AM
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1) The key is to not get frustrated and instead enjoy the challenge while trying to find the best way to counter their strategy. In this case, a combination of not betting with crap in the first place and betting with the intention of 3betting as a bluff more sounds about right. | |
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10-10-2013 01:30 AM
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Sure. I taught Amanda Musumeci how to play tournaments in 2007. Since then she has done well online, been sponsored by Bodog, and had this impressive list of cashes (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=194849) including a 62nd place finish in the WSOP main event for $130k and 2nd in a $1500 WSOP event for almost half a mil. | |
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10-10-2013 01:32 AM
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10-10-2013 01:33 AM
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10-10-2013 01:40 AM
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Of course they had concerns, but by the time most of them were hearing that I was going pro I'd experienced a good amount of success, chopping a $560 WSOPC AC event for $34k and winning two $10k seats into the main event. My father was very opposed to me playing poker while I was a broke college student, but once I won that much money he even said he'd understand if I took time off from school to pursue playing poker for a living. | |
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10-10-2013 01:45 AM
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1) Football a bit and baseball a little but I channel most of my sports enthusiasm and attention towards hockey. | |
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10-10-2013 02:00 AM
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10-10-2013 02:18 AM
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1) Not sure what u mean. Playing Stars on your cell phone? It's awesome. | |
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10-10-2013 02:22 AM
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1) The $10k PLO. I've near bubbled it the past two years, this year in spectacular fashion bvb with top pair and 2 flush draws in a 640k pot that would have put me in the top 5 in chips. | |
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10-10-2013 02:24 AM
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10-10-2013 02:26 AM
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Thanks. I went through hell with the IRS and getting my tax situation straightened out after I was dumb enough to let myself get a couple years behind and was happy to share everything I learned to help make my friends' and followers' experience with the IRS a little less stressful. | |
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10-10-2013 02:26 AM
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10-10-2013 02:27 AM
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10-10-2013 02:29 AM
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I used to NEVER step on the cracks when I was little, but just for the hell of it and because I pretended I'd get sucked into them. I'm not superstitious. I'm up 2.5-1.5 in the dump/being dumped game and hope to never play it again. I would support my kids' decision to play poker for a living. I was 12 when I first kissed a girl. She's now dead. | |
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10-10-2013 02:33 AM
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1) My house, even though it's not extravagant? So I guess it's my 2009 Mustang Convertible if you don't count that. I don't really buy anything expensive that's not necessary. | |
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10-10-2013 02:36 AM
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1) There are definitely times where people do things and try to act in a way that's clearly over-the-top intentional and oversold. | |
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10-10-2013 02:37 AM
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10-10-2013 02:40 AM
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10-10-2013 02:44 AM
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1) Wherever I'm winning is fine by me. I guess online? But it's close. I lead a much healthier (physically and psychologically) lifestyle when playing live, though. | |
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10-10-2013 02:48 AM
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