Posts Tagged ‘Full Tilt Poker Academy’
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Five Common Hold ‘em Leaks
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
With the World Series of Poker just a few days away, this might be my last push at running a Full Tilt Poker Academy challenge 5 Common Hold’em Leaks. This went also went quickly right on the tail of doing the Pre-Flop Play Challenge which shared many similarities to this one. Hand selections before the flop, action after the flop, and overall profitability while dodging situations for big down swings.
The challenge was completed over a weekend of multi-tabling the microlimit NLHE games again with the same results. I’m also using the lessons learned through the Bankroll Management challenge to grind my bankroll properly without ever risking the entire thing with one swing of variance.
Listed below are the tasks for the challenge as well as some of my notes.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Phil Gordon
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Pre-Flop Play Challenge
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
My trek through the world of the Full Tilt Poker Academy continued when I chose Chris Ferguson’s Pre-Flop Play Challenge. Meant to enforce proper pre-flop discipline, the challenge has tasks based on your position and hole cards. The different strategies are discussed in the session video and a good place for you to start.
When I first looked at the challenge, I didn’t see much that would be too taxing since most of the principles are already firmly entrenched in my head. Bet sizing and pre-flop hand selection were some of the tasks as well as the Pro Play was could be summed up nicely as NO LIMPING. The longest part of the challenge was finding the action folded to my position when playing micro-stakes.
I fired through the challenge pretty quickly and my experiences are after the jump.
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Full Tilt Poker Academy – Bankroll Management Challenge
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
It took me awhile to get back in the swing of things but I’ve finally completed my second challenge on the Full Tilt Poker Academy. My first was the Sit N’ Go By the Numbers Challenge which went rather quickly thanks to a sick run of cards. This time around I went with the Chris Ferguson Bank Management Challenge. Ferguson is famous for his prop bet where he ran his bankroll from $0 to $10,000 with solid bankroll management. After watching his instruction video, I accepted the challenge and began the grind.
The goals and tasks of the challenge are designed to build proper habits with your bankroll as you work to build it through responsible play in cash games, SNGs and large field tournaments. Games that you should be able to beat with your skill set without risking your entire roll on a bad run at the tables. These bad runs will happen, it’s a matter of when not if. Sitting down to cash games with no more than 5% of your roll or an even smaller percentage in tournaments. As you bankroll goes up, you gain valuable experience and prepare you for the move up in levels.
It’s a proven method to improve your game and a worthy Academy Challenge. Details and my experiences after the jump.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Bankroll Managment, Bloggers on the Rail, Chris Ferguson, Full Tilt Poker Academy
Weekend Plans
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail
You’ve had a tough week at the office, the kids are driving you nuts, or maybe none of that is true. You can use any excuse available to justify a little personal time hitting the tables at Full Tilt. There are plenty of chances to hit up the big games online this weekend or you can hit up the small ball games while railing your favorite pros.
Full Tilt Poker started a new promotion which is running at the moment. Take 2 is running now through April 10th where you have a chance to earn double points as well as cash bonuses. All for playing multiples cash game tables which you are probably doing already. Click on the link above to get the full details.
There are big guarantee tournaments running all weekend long starting this evening as well as some special blogger games. Some of the tournaments highlighted after the jump.
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Tags: AlCantHang, Battle of the Blogger Tournaments, Big Money Sunday, Bloggers on the Rail, durrrr Challenge, Friday Night Fights, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Julius_Goat
Full Tilt Poker Academy – First Challenge
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
Over the last week I’ve spent quite some time poking around the new Full Tilt Poker Academy checking out the offering, lessons and challenges. I’m impressed with the amount of educational material they’ve loaded into the site with promises of more and more. After going through some of the lessons I decided one evening to fire up my first challenge.
I settled on the Aaron Bartley Sit & Go By the Numbers challenge. SnGs fit into my current schedule and I challenged myself to see how many tournaments it would take me to get through. The challenge lays out 5 tasks to successfully pass. These tasks highlight and force you to practice the ideas which were outlined in his Sit & Go By the Number video.
The 5 tasks for this challenge were:
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Tags: Aaron Bartley, AlCantHang, Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
Full Tilt Poker Academy – A first look
Posted by AlCantHang | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
I heard awhile ago that we were about to see the launch of the Full Tilt Poker Academy and I was pretty excited. I know the principle people involved in the project, leaving little doubt that the new site would be impressive and educational. The roster of players involved alone guarantees an increase in poker understanding in just a few sessions.
At first glance you can find four short lessons that will kick start your game:
Chris Ferguson – Bankroll Managment
Andy Bloch – Math Made Easy
Howard Lederer – Betting Basics
Phil Gordon – 5 Common Hold’em Leaks
There are other lessons, sessions with the pros where they walk you through their actions in specific hands, podcasts with various players, and different challenges to test your new skills on the Full Tilt Poker tables.
I’ve only spent a few hours digging deep into the Academy to get my initial response. I will spend the next few days really getting into the material and bring you my thoughts in my next post. I am also looking for other players/bloggers interested in sharing their thoughts. If you would like to contribute, you can leave a comment on the blog or send an email to battleofthebloggers@fulltiltpoker.com.
Other posts about the Full Tilt Poker Academy and challenges:
Full Tilt Poker Academy – First Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Bankroll Management Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Pre-flop Play Challenge
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Tags: AlCantHang, Andy Bloch, Bloggers on the Rail, Chris Ferguson, Full Tilt Poker Academy, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Learn How to Play Poker with the Pros!
Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under Bloggers on the Rail, Full Tilt Poker Academy
Full Tilt Poker has just launched a completely unique comprehensive poker training experience, the Full Tilt Poker Academy. Watch the Pros and members of Team Full Tilt as they present poker lesson videos, strategy tutorials, quizzes and tests, and challenges which incorporate what you’ve learned. If you wish to go even deeper, there are complete courses designed to take your game to the next level. You have seen Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Phil Gordon, and all the other Full Tilt Pros for years, but now you can interact with them through a personalized curriculum taught by the best in the game. Learn how to play poker with the Pros.
If you already play on FullTiltPoker.com, use your exisiting login details, and simply sign up here, it’s free to join.
Update: You can follow along as we go through different lesson and challengs from the Full Tilt Poker Academy in some other posts below.
Full Tilt Poker Academy – A First Look
Full Tilt Poker Academy – First Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Bankroll Management Challenge
Full Tilt Poker Academy – Pre-flop Play Challenge
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