Master Outline of Coaching Topics

July 15, 2016

Betting Strategy topics − General

Anticipation
Full games
Shorthanded games
Bluffing
Showdown poker
Indiana vs the Arab
Suitedness
Connectedness
Pocket pairs
Freefolding
Boards
Draws
Checking behind
Betting out on the flop
Checkraising
Checky-cally in headsup pots
Taking turns bluffing
Passive and aggressive
Adaptiveness
The Universal Starting-Hand Chart
Reciprocality
- The cause of profit at poker
- Reciprocal analysis
Recommended reading / videos

Non-Betting topics − General

Your choice of games and venues
Lopping off the C-game
Quitting
Breaks
Sets and sessions
Winning, losing, and breaking even
The Professional
Reciprocality
- Information
- Tilt
- Bankroll
- Position
- Quitting
- Other
How to play your A-game more often
Seat selection
Game selection
Stake selection
Table selection
Low-hanging fruit
Your four bankrolls
Separating performance from results
Stabilizing mental gadgetry
Defining mistake
- Betting mistakes
- Non-betting mistakes
The Gray Area
Phrases and thoughts to avoid
Two ways to improve
- From the top up
- From the bottom up
Fusslessness
Your fears
Your emotions
Inevitability
Pocket aces
Streaks
Tilt and heat
- Hard and soft tilt
- The three dimensions of tilt
- Your tilters
- Dissipating waves of tilt
The hierarchy of fear
No decision before its time
The information war
Giving respect
Getting respect
Criticizing
Reading opponents
Going to school
Keeping score
The rake
Objects of the game
Rules
Moving up
Going pro
Recreationism
Defining success
Partnering
Home field vantage
On the road
Family, friends, spouses, lovers
Discretion
Cravings, medications, and addictions
- Gambling
- Caffiene
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Pot
- Drugs
- Food
- Drama
Poker funk / causes / cures
Table funk / causes / cures
Running good and running bad
Awareness
Concentration exercises
Focus
Rising above
Letting go
Meditation
- How
- Why
- When
Yoga
Mindfulness
Sitting
Breathing
Wellness
Resistance
Change
Self-perpetuating tiltlessness
- Resolve in reserve
- Practicing losing
- Energy conservation
- A reminder about odds
- Plugging leaks
- The path of leak resistance

Live Poker

Getting set
Tempo
Information reciprocality
How, why, and when to look left
Stack size scan
Protection
Flowchart of a hold’em hand
Betting and behaving with style
Shameless showdowns
- Showing bluffs
- Slowrolling
- Slowcalling
- Slowfolding
- Fastfolding
- Fastgrabbing
- Fastrolling
Sixth street
Mum poker
Your poker face
Hands on face
How to be unreadable
How to read others
Ignoring, and not reacting
Fantasy poker
The sanctity of a live hand
Talk lines
Forbidden words
Shutoff answers
Forbidden thoughts
How to sit
Sunglasses and hats
Folding
How to look at your cards
When to look at your cards
When to announce your action
Chip stack management
Changing seats
Pushing the button
Tipping
The dealer made a mistake. Should I speak up?
Dealers
The Floor
Disputes and mishaps
The Chain of Complain
Working the room
Be like the rake

Internet Poker

Internet forums
Software
Information reciprocality
Finger tilt
Prehand warmups
Rake rates
Rakebacks
Site selection
Game selection
Table selection
Number of tables to play
Notes to self
Breaks
Devise usage
From internet to live
How to sit
How to breathe

Cash Games

Fluctuation
Game selection and table selection
Game rejection
Get set
Prehand warmups
Buying in, adding on, and cashing out
Chopping blinds
Buy the button
Tipping

Tournaments

Event odds
The bubble
Tournament time
Things to know
Dollar value of a stack
Stack size matters
50-50 situations before the flop
Reasons to play tournaments
Reasons to not play tournaments
Making deals

All flop games (Hold’em Omaha, etc)
- Position
- Acting last
- Position reciprocality
- Firstlessness
- Preflop play, examined by position
  - Button
  - Cutoff
  - Hijack
  - Early position
  - Big blind
  - Small blind
- Postflop play, examined by position
  - Hulta
  - Hufta
  - Postflop button
  - Postflop cutoff
  - Postflop hijack
  - WOOPS
- Positional redeployment of chips
- Flops-seen percentages by position
- Common confrontations
  - Button vs blind
  - Blind vs button
  - Blind vs blind
  - Others
- The Universal Starting-Hand Chart

Limit Hold’em

Betting topics
- Bread-and-butter situations
- My starting-hand groups for limit hold’em
- The queen-ten bar
- I started with two big cards, I raised before the flop, and I missed the flop. Now what?
- I started with a big pocket pair smaller than aces, and I raised preflop, and an ace came on the flop. Now what?
- The raise-flop-and-drop play.
- My most profitable hands are QT and KT
- Betting out on the flop compared to checkraising.
- Why open-limping at LHE is not a good idea.
- Why a 2/3 blind structure is fundamentally more profitable than 2/4 blinds.
- The raise-and-fold-preflop play
- Suitedness and connectedness
Non-betting topics
- Stack size matters
- Sizing up games

No-limit hold’em

Betting topics
- Raising style
- Shoot ’em in the nest
- Stack size matters
- Pair poker
- AA and KK preflop, how much to raise?
- What it means to “control” the pot.
- Playing with a small stack
- Playing against a small stack
- Playing with a big stack
- Playing against a big stack
- Aiming for half a stack or all
- Your AK vs his QQ and the other way around
- 1/3 stack concept
- Calling preflop raises with pocket pairs and connectors
- I started with two big cards, I raised before the flop, and I missed the flop. Now what?
- I started with a big pocket pair smaller than aces, and I raised preflop, and an ace came on the flop. Now what?
- Free plays from the big blind
- Suitedness and connectedness
Non-betting topics
- Stack size
- How much to buy in for, and add on, and when?
- Quitting based on stacks (On stack sizes, and on stack locations)
- How to lose a big pot, and how to gain from it

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