6-Max Coaching up to 100NL from Grinderschool Instructor.
Hey guys. Since M2M is taking micro/low stakes guys for FR coaching right now, I thought I'd make a parallel thread doing the same for 6-max.
A Bit About Me
Most of you probably know a bit about me and have seen me posting a bunch on the forums over the past few years. My name is Pete, and I'm a Philosophy and Language student from Scotland. I'm a 6 max specialist who has basically never played FR, always devoted my time to 6 max. I've beaten games up to 100NL for what would commonly be considered good winrates. I have been coaching now since around May and have taken on quite a few students since then and gained a load of experience in teaching. Some of these guys are regs on FTR and can vouch for me if need be. I am also a video producer at Grinderschool.com - Low Stakes Poker Strategy Videos, where you can check out my videos if you want a flavour of my teaching style.
I'm looking to take on students playing anywhere from 2NL to 100NL 6 max.
Winrates
Here is a picture of winrates at stakes from 25-100NL 6 max. To see my PTR graph just type "Carroters" (pokerstars) into PTR. ]
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Forms Lessons Can Take
Sessions may take many forms depending onwhat both you and I think will be benificial to your development.
Leak Finder - This is you record a shortish video of you playing a session at yournormal stakes. i will watch this and take notes in my own time before we go over it together in the session you pay for. These are very benificial for one of the first sessions as they allow me an insight into your game where I can immediately spot certain leaks and areas for improvment.
Instructive Session - I will record a short session of me playing a stake of your choice. This can be your current stake, one you're about to move up to for the first time or my own regualr stake to show you how higher games play and the deeper thought process required to succeed as you move up.
Instructive HH review - I will select a bunch of what I feel are highly instrcutive hands and together we will go over them and improve your understanding of why a certian line is good or bad and what factors we should be considering in our analysis.
Quiz Session - I send you a bunch of questions, many of them just HHs a few days before our session. You work your way through them and wrtie down some stuff, then we go over it together during the coaching session. This is a new idea, but one I feel will be really useful.
Problem HH Review - Where you select a bunch of hands that you felt lost in or that perhaps you played badly and aren;t sure what you could have done to improve. We will go over these in depth and find the right thought process to generate the most accurate line of play.
Instructvie Sweat - Where I play a stake of your choice live and quickly but descriptively explain everything I am consdiering in making each decision. Good for demonstrating how your ingame thought process should work.
A Rough Lesson Plan
Session 1: Leak finder video. A 20-30 min vid of the student playing their usual game, 4 tables tiled, HUD visible. During this sessionwe go over spots plug leaks and set youa bunch of goals to work on in order to improve your play. I base these on your play in the leak finder and your understanding of concepts, thought process that I get from you during the session.
Session 2: You sweating me playing a stake of your choice (within my rollz ldo) Iexplain thought process as it happens, you can pick my brain during down time we canstop earlier and review hands. This is negotiable and we can do something else if you don't fancy this.
Session 3: Quiz session. I send you the quiz a good bit before we do this so you'll have prepared answers and stuff. We go over the 10 questions together in detail. Again negotiable.
Session 4: Dunno yet, whatever you fancy of the types of session I offer, or suggest something new.
Session 5: Another leak finder where we watch your play, again get your thought process and see if you've achieved the goals set in lesson 1. Also, we set new goals provided they've been met sufficiently.
Getting in Touch
Please contact me privately for rates and additional information.
If interested, you can contact me either through FTR private message, or by emailing me at [email protected] or [email protected]
I usually offer sessions in blocks of 4 or more as this reduces the cost and makes coaching more worth while for the student.
Questionnaire: (Please copy/paste the following with your answers and send to me in a PM).
This is the part where I steal M2M's questionaire and ask you fill this in also if you contact me for 6 max coaching. It basically contains all the information I want to know about potential students and is very well thought out, so thanks to M2M for hopefully not minding me using it! Here's a copy of it.
Describe your poker background/experience:
Please list your screen names matches with each poker site you play on.
What is your bankroll management strategy (please be detailed about how you move up/down between stakes)
What stakes/games are you currently playing?
What are you looking for in personal coaching?
Have you had personal coaching before?
What are some of your goals in poker?
Tell me about your approach to the game - how do you go about studying/reviewing hands etc?
Thanks for reading guys, and please get in touch if you have any interest or any questions at all.
Pete aka Da Carrot Man.
