Vekked Poker Seminar Interest Thread
Ok I didn't know where to post this, but figured I'd post it here since this is the most relevant section where I spend time. If there's a better section then maybe compuease can move it there.
For a while I've been thinking of doing coaching, and I kind of like the idea of a group seminar thing since I think it's more feasible for students and I can still make enough to justify my time taken off grinding. I've never done a seminar before however and I've been thinking of doing a test run in order to see how it goes, so I figured a good group of guinea pigs might be PFC members :P. My idea is to offer a seminar at a discounted (and hopefully reasonable) price, only to PFC members in order to see how it goes. Potential details are as follows:
-$50/person, this is about 1/2 to 1/3 of what I think I'll be charging if I end up doing these and opening them up to everyone. My (and nearly any HSMTT player's) private coaching range would be like $150-$200, so I think this is a pretty sick deal.
-2 to 3 hours roughly, but won't end before whatever material I'm planning to cover is covered, so could be up to 4-5 hours if I'm super long-winded (which I usually am :S)
-If there's technical difficulties because it's my first seminar it won't be included in the 2-3 hours obv, and if the difficulties make it really bad I'll postpone, but basically you're getting at least 2-3 hours of strat teaching/discussion for your $50 regardless
-I'd like at least 6 people
-It'll likely take place some Thursday evening because that's best for me, but it's def negotiable
That's pretty much all I've got right now. If there's enough interest I'd like to talk about what topic to cover to make it best suited for the people interested. Right now I have a really good idea for a late game/final table bubble seminar that's a bit on the advanced side, I think it could be pretty interesting for some insight into how I close tournaments, but maybe there's a better topic for most people.
Thoughts?
For a while I've been thinking of doing coaching, and I kind of like the idea of a group seminar thing since I think it's more feasible for students and I can still make enough to justify my time taken off grinding. I've never done a seminar before however and I've been thinking of doing a test run in order to see how it goes, so I figured a good group of guinea pigs might be PFC members :P. My idea is to offer a seminar at a discounted (and hopefully reasonable) price, only to PFC members in order to see how it goes. Potential details are as follows:
-$50/person, this is about 1/2 to 1/3 of what I think I'll be charging if I end up doing these and opening them up to everyone. My (and nearly any HSMTT player's) private coaching range would be like $150-$200, so I think this is a pretty sick deal.
-2 to 3 hours roughly, but won't end before whatever material I'm planning to cover is covered, so could be up to 4-5 hours if I'm super long-winded (which I usually am :S)
-If there's technical difficulties because it's my first seminar it won't be included in the 2-3 hours obv, and if the difficulties make it really bad I'll postpone, but basically you're getting at least 2-3 hours of strat teaching/discussion for your $50 regardless
-I'd like at least 6 people
-It'll likely take place some Thursday evening because that's best for me, but it's def negotiable
That's pretty much all I've got right now. If there's enough interest I'd like to talk about what topic to cover to make it best suited for the people interested. Right now I have a really good idea for a late game/final table bubble seminar that's a bit on the advanced side, I think it could be pretty interesting for some insight into how I close tournaments, but maybe there's a better topic for most people.
Thoughts?
Comments
-money bubble
-early MTT
I might be interested depending on location.
Sounds good.
But wat about quadruple range merging?
It'll be online via Skype and hopefully skype screen-share feature or some equivalent.
blondefish - Unfortunately I can't have everyone going around quadruple range merging or there'd just be no money left in poker, so no :P.
Also, topic for me, betsizing and betfolding ofc ofc
I'd def be talking about bet-sizing almost regardless of the overall topic. What exactly about raise-folding are you interested in?
I guess I meant betfolding. I'm mostly interested in how to think about cbets, especially when cbetting something you expect to be ahead for value/protection and getting faced with a raise with short effective stacks. (for example that AK hand that was on the forum where we 3bet out of the BB and was left with right about enough chips to cbet fold the flop)
Also cbetfolding early on. I've watched training videos often talking about dry k high flops to be an easy cbet-fold with TPTK in a three handed and sometimes even heads up situation. Since I rarely go through with the fold part in those spots I'm interested in learning more about spots where you might have the best hand facing a raise.
Also, pre flop bet sizing and in particular open sizing and 3bet sizing and how your stack and opposition should affect these. My default is like 3x with deep effective stacks and 2,5x and 2,75x BvB regardless of how short stacks gets (unless ofc I'm shoving). It's a bit contradictory since I'm comfortable playing flops most of the time, but I'm not comfortable making my open smaller since
I'm very uncomfortable playing 3bet pots without a read and I feel that opening smaller tells our opponent that we're opening wider which often induces 3bets. Anyway, that's the type of thing I would like some input on
Shouldn't you be like a guest speaker at this thing??
Possible topic - Blind v Blind battles!!
brb
edit: yup im in...ill take the seminar on any topic...stellar deal.
+1
and I'd be interested in late play (ie. closing)
So I guess we need a topic is the first time. A list of some of the topics suggested here are:
-FT bubble
-money bubble
-early MTT
-Final Table
-c-betting*
-betsizing*
-blind vs. blind play*
-late game (closing)
Ok the ones with the * are topics that I will def try to cover (bet-sizing will be covered for sure), but can't really make a seminar about in itself (well I could but I think having an overall theme with those topics included is better than an entire seminar on just c-betting or something). Those will definitely be some subtopics, but I need some broader stuff like a phase in the tournament, or short-stack play late game, or deepstack play early game, or deepstack play late game.
So yea if we could get some more suggestions rolling and then if other people chime in and say which of those suggestions they like I can start to get an idea of what topic people want this on, and what level I should be gearing it towards.
I could def, that would have to be a turbo seminar likely
ok cool, I'll be in for that as well
I'd like to see your take on:
-c-betting*
-betsizing*
-blind vs. blind play*
at these levels:
-early MTT
-Final Table
-late game (closing)
with discussion about stack sizes sprinkled throughout.
Save the other levels:
-money bubble
-FT bubble
for a future seminar.
3 hours for me would be about right. 7pm EST start.
Additional topics?
- the luck factor
- how to avoid costly mistakes
- identifying mistakes others make and exploiting them.
Thanks.