Amateur to Pro

Hi Guys, If anyone wants to ask me ANY questions about this video or the series in general then fire away. Regards Chingster23

You must be Welsh to be able to quote that saying.

haha na but have many welsh friends, i live in cornwall though so kinda celtic aswell. enjoyed the vid lee, GL in your poker career

For those of you interested in my personal story (they both run alongside each other) then check out my blog at www.leedavy.co.uk.

In addition to comments on the technicalities of the poker playing side of things remember this series is about becoming good enough to earn money consistently. The starting point of this story was a guy (me) who had a NORMAL job with a wife and a kid trying to live a NORMAL life. If you have any questions on this side of the story feel free to ask and I will answer them all.

Lee

My playing schedule consists of four tables of 200nl. I played about 10,000 hands of 400nl the other week and really enjoyed myself. I have discussed moving up with Coach Jackson and for the time being I am going to remain where I am.

I can let success get to my head quicker than it should and sometimes it makes me think I am better than I am. This is where a good coach steps in and bitch slaps some sense into you.

Read my two blogs about my experiences at 400nl. The good feeling and the not so good feeling.

Lee

Yes, that is likely.  Make sure you are attacking the limpers w/ the proper range, which we'll get into in future videos. T9o+, T8s+, 77+,Ax+, all broadways, and you can dip down into hands like K7s,Q8s.  Be a bit tigher oop.

Depends on your definition of ABC, which I imagine you understand.  I think player that feel they need to be extremely tricky/aggressive are incorrect.  I make moves, but I only do it when I'm sure it's +EV.

W/ AA and KK in this spot it's a question of getting the greatest value.  I think flatting gets us the most value.  I think UGT commits his stack w/ AA/KK/QQ, I don't think he does so w/ AK in most ssnl games (if I think he stacks of w/ AK/JJ/TT then I think a 3B is the way to go).  When flatting we can get multiple barrels out of worse hands.  Allowing pots to get multiway and having someone hit can potentially put us in tough spots, but I still think there is more value in flatting.  I do like 3B'ing light in this spot vs players who play straight forward.

ChrisMintz:

I left in September with a plan to make a living through poker but more importantly to enjoy my life and wake up each morning looking forward to each day. This morning I woke up in the Kemplinski hotel in Bratislava, Slovakia, a truly luxurious hotel. Yesterday, I sat inches away from Roberto Romanello after he burst into tears winning the WPT title in Slovakia. I was the chief live reporter for the Party Poker blog. I went to bed at 04:00 this morning after spending the evening partying with Roberto, Andrew Feldman, James Akenhead, Tatjana Pasalic, Jesse May and a whole host of other poker players and people employed by poker. I couldn't sleep last night because I was buzzing. Today, I fly home to spend a few weeks doing what the hell I want and I am gonna play a lot of poker. Then I am reporting live on the 48hr cash game for Party Poker before traveling to San Remo to cover the EPT. At the end of May I am going to fly to Las Vegas to spend the whole eight weeks of the WSOP living in a mansion with John Eames, Mathew Frankland and Stuart Rutter. I will tick two things off my bucket list 1. live abroad for two months 2. Play in a WSOP event. I am going to play, work and generally enjoy an experience I sincerely believe I will have every year for the rest of my life. 

Is this a brag? Of course not. One day you can be lying in bed waiting for the dreaded sound of that alarm clock. The sound that will drag your mind screaming and kicking into your world. A world you believe you are stuck in. You will go to work dreaming of a better life. I am telling you this because you don't have to be stuck and you don't have to do that damn job. Just have a belief, turn it into a conviction through merciless planning and then take action each day for the rest of your life and you will be able to do truly anything that you want in life.

Ching

Two seperate subjects, imo.  When we open we have no idea which opponent will call unless its bvsb. 

The decision as to what to open is based upon our desire to play hands in position and if we're not in postion to start w/ a range that is easier to play. Thats why we are so tight in the first to spots but open it up in the last two.  In the first two spots we open w/ hands I know to be at least slightly profitable. THis is based upon experience and reviewing the play of many winning regs.  In later position I open up anything playable, the exact range based upon the blinds tendencies.

Once we get called then we start making our decisions based upon our opponents tendencies.

If we're faced w/ an unkown opponent we fall back on default lines. For example, I would barrel draws and made hands vs an unknown but wouldn't bet gutshots or scare cards. 

perdanny, send a pm to Lee.  He's writing a series of articles on the coachign and I think he has some charts.   If you can get a hold of recent issues of Bluff Europe they're in there. For 3/4 betting watch my Common Spots 3B'ing video and I lay it out in great detail.

Thank you Alan and Lee ,droped a mail to lee and sure will watch the 3/4 betting series, the series inspired me to make a transition from turbo sngs to 6 max cash, keep up the good work both of you, and gl in the future.

I generally open to 3.5x.  Recently tho, HM added a few new stats, one of which is fold BB to SB steal.  I now use that stat on my hud and when a player is folding over 60% I open wide and only open to 3x.  When their fold is closer to 50 I open up tighter and open to 3.5x or 4x.

When I am on the button, I look at my opponents fold BB to B steal (this is actually a new stat for HM1, use to be fold BB to steal).  If they fold a combined 160% you can open any two card profitable from the button, certianly the top 65%, assuming you open to 2.5x.

When in the CO I really don't watch those numbers.  I open up wider if the B plays tight.