Ok, here we go!

Ok guys, I'll make it short and sweet. I know the original post was long and boring but forgive me. I have the July flu and tend to ramble.

I wasn't a terrible player, just the average joe. I broke even in tournaments over the last year or so. On cash games, I made a little, I lost a little. I needed the extra edge. I couldn't get over the hump and win a tournament.

I went to New Orleans and was out in 27 minutes at the WSOP. I lasted through the break on 3 tournaments in Tulsa. The best I had ever done was place 3rd in a monthly tournament at the Horseshoe.

I was about to give up. If I was going to be mediocre, I wasn't going to waste anymore money on poker.

I signed up to PVT as a last ditch effort and this is my result. Call it a rush if you want to but these are the facts.

Since June 1st these are my results
8th ($225 freezeout)
no cash ($75 rebuy)
1st ($75 rebuy)
1st (WSOP Main event qualifier $120 rebuy)
5th ($75 rebuy)
1st ($225 freezeout)
no cash ($440 mega sat. at Winstar)
1st ($75 rebuy)
1st ($65 rebuy but there were only 22 players)
1st (WSOP Main event qualifier $120 rebuy)
8th ($225 freezeout)

So that is actually 6 wins, if you include the small 22 player tournament.

Thanks guys and good luck to PVT. You can only go up from here.

p.s. Daniel, if you read this, what is your opinion of the WSOP Academy? I have a friend that really wants me to go with him to the primer but I don’t know how it will affect my play afterwards. Thanks again guys. You truly made a dreamer become a champion. I hope to shake your hand and thank you in person at the Main Event. Good luck and congrats on your fourth bracelet. See ya on the 3rd Matt!

joke account?

Spam.

You sound like a dork dude.

First of all, Vandees, you posted a topic asking where there might be a house for sale that will be on CSI, and I'm the dork? You'll have to move to Santa Clarita, CA. Good luck with that.

Hey guys. I didn't mean to stir anything here. I am just pumped about PVT.
No, this isn't a joke account (though I might be a little dorky).
No one told me to put this here. I just wanted to encourage the guys that are thinking about joining to join.

I know it was a little long but everything in it was true. I made more money after joining PVT than I did over the past year or so.

The fact is this. Not everyone is a great player like you two. Most of us are a little dorky and dream of being the poker pro one day. I know that it will never happen but we can dream can't we. I am just glad that someone like Daniel decided to put PVT up and help guys like us out. I know that it makes it harder for guys like you to win now but that's the breaks.

I really can't say anything bad about the site. It has a few errors here and there but overall it's great.

I hope to see the two of you at the Main Event.

Good luck.

oh for fucks sake.

I don't understand the need for spam here

Wow!

I never thought that placing an encouraging message to others about my experience with PVT would stir so much crap.

Are there that many people out there on tilt 24/7?

look, in response to this and your PM, I'm sure you thought the thing is great or whatever, but all your posts like computer automated spam used to encourage people to buy the product.
It reminds of the actors on the infomercials who act like the product absolutely changed their life and over-dramitize it all, and act as if this knife didn't cut through a steel door then their life wouldn't be worth living.

Jam,

Thanks man for the response.

I'm sorry if it appears that I am spamming. I have to be honest and say that I have tried all the crap that the other guys have.
For the average players like me, you have to admit, it is pretty amazing to go from no wins in about two years to winning this many times in 2 weeks.

Yes, I am telling all the average Joe's out there that if they sign up and truly use the system, it will make a difference. I do not appologize for that.

I hate infomercials myself. Everytime I see that guy playing poker that use to sell realestate systems that said "You afraid to make money!", it makes me sick.

If there are any guys out there that are using the system and it's not working for them, I encourage them to write and tell why. I am just one of the guys that it clicked for. It will not help when donkey's make a call and draw out on ya, but it definately will help guys that have been playing A-x in early position or raising with K-J in middle position. This system will help guys, like me, that knew nothing at all about playing position, made calls after a re-raise with a small pair, and knew nothing at all about the math of the game.

I would like to ask everyone out there that thinks I am spamming this question. What if you were in my shoes? If you played in 4-5 tournaments every week for almost two years and placed several times but never won and then you signed onto PVT and in two weeks won two WSOP Main Event Qualifier $120 rebuy tournaments (that you never placed in before) and won 3 other nice sized tournaments and 1 small one? Would you just think that you were on a rush or would you feel that you made a pretty good change. I really shouldn't be encouraging others to buy the damn thing but I hope they do. I would rather play against guys that beat me with knowedge than being sucked out on by the guys that use to play like me. The site it good for the game. Can you tell me that you haven't gotten mad at a guy that played Q-10 off against your Ace's after you raised and he sucked out with a strait?

Thanks again for your explanation of the "Spam" and I hope you are no longer offended that I placed a positive message for guys considering the investment in PVT.

Thanks

Paul,
Not sure why you got so much flack on the post, maybe because of your relative newness to the site? Anyway, I've been here bout a year and a half and as I posted elsewhere in this topic, PokerVT has made a HUGE change in my play as well.

I'm sure every site is what you make of it, but I totally get "it" from PokerVT. I hope you have continued success!!!!

for a player that new nothing about position and such . once you learn that the game is like a whole new beast , everything starts to make sense and you avoid being in alot of tricky spots so i def agree with you on that ,

your post;s were kinda ghay for us thick skined folk jk but i know exactly what you mean.


keep up the good work and gl in the wsop . post your real name so we can cheer you on if you get deep in any .

Thanks guys for the post guys.

I'll tell ya the truth, it scares the crap out of me to think about playing with that many people. I have performed poorly in that atmosphere. I lasted 27 minutes in New Orleans and only lasted past the first break in Scotty's Tulsa tournament.

Any advice from the vets out there would be greatly appreciated.

I'm going to the WSOP Academy the weekend before the main event and I will probably play in some of the tournaments around town that week to see if it improves how I play in large tournaments. I haven't found it yet but I hope they put information on playing in large tournaments out there. Any ideas on some tournaments between the 1st and 4th in Vegas? I plan on playing one of the last two first days in the Main.

My wife and I will be there for about two weeks so wish me luck, but don't expect to root too long for me in that craziness. Pray I get over this illness. This sucks! It is extremely hard to concentrate when your nose is about to fall off you're face. I'm skipping a lot of tournaments this week to rest up. I also have to haul hay for all the horses that my wife has. That's going to be a great thing to do after this! Oh well. She has horses and I have poker. Trust me, my hobby is cheaper!

GL guys!
Paul

Congratulations Paul!

When you get a great result after a lot of hard work, you post it if you belong to a forum. When I (finally) won a significant tournament I also posted it and got encouraging replies. Congrats and keep posting. Ahem, you DO realize that the forum will demand progress reports on your Main Event game .

What is your online handle on PokerStars so I can add you to my WATCH LIST at www.bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb 'personal dashboard'?

Congrats !

Thanks Flint!

I will let you guys know how poorly I am doing out there, even if it tears at me to do so.

Thanks for the encouragement. I played the WSOP Sat on Thurs and placed 13th. Not too good but it could have been worse.

Thanks again!
Paul

Sorry if I came off a little harsh Paul, but spam is one thing that really annoys me.
You're obviously a genuine poster so I don't really have a problem now. I just wasn't sure if you were just some computerized account or something, coz your first post did sound a little informercial-y.
Anyway, well done and I wish you continued success

Thanks Jam,

I won a small $175 Freezout on Monday. That made 7 wins in 2 1/2 weeks. The system worked very well but tonight I shouldn't have gone.

I had terrible news about my Dad. He has a tumor that has to be removed from his lip and it was cancer. He should do fine but when you hear th C-word it kinda takes it out of you. He has a 95% survival rate so it's very little chance of being bad, but that 5% can tear at ya.

Everyone wanted me to go to the tourney tonight and get my mind off things. My wife and I moved down here to take care of them in their golden years. I have the number one wife in the world. Anyway, I shouldn't have gone. I played the worst poker of my life. I made a move at a pot and when I was called, I tried to steal a flop of A-5-Q, turn J, and river Q and made a wild bet each time until he went all in on the river. Took my last 1600 to another table and was not patient at all. There were 5 limpers before me, and I was on the button with Q-J off. I called the 200. There were 8 of us on the flop of 9-4-3 and everyone checked so I went all in. One guy called with A-Q and the Ace held up. I took my $175 and went all in with A-K with 4 callers and got a strt on the river. I should have been patient with my bounty but was the big blind with A-Q and the flop was 10-10-10 and the small blind raised and I went all in. He had 7-7. What a dumb lot of hands I played!!! I never once looked at anyone's chips. I played Jh-9h under the gun, Q-10 off, in early position, Kd-5d after a raise.... my mind was nowhere near the game!
If I play like that this weekend at the Acadamy, I don't think I can waste the seat at the ME! I am thinking about canceling the trip but everyone said that it would make my Dad feel like a burden and he doesn't need any stress. He has a very poor imune system so we need to keep his spirits up.

I have no chance of winning anything in the ME anyway. I don't know what my arrogant ego is thinking of going to the dang thing anyway.

Anyway, thanks Jam for the kind words. Posting here is keeping my mind off things.

Hey Paul -

Sorry to hear about your dad. Can be a scary thing but it sounds like he'll be ok.

I know you mentioned attending the WSOP Academy in one of your other posts. I happen to know the guys that run it. I can save you around 15% off the normal price.

Just PM me your phone number if you're still interested and I'll have someone give you a call.

Thanks,

Matt

Paul,

Sorry to hear about your Dad. I hope you have a great time at the Academy!!! Make sure to post back and let us know how it goes.......

Lisa

Man I can't tell you how much it means for everyone's support.

My Dad is doing great. He's just ready to get the sugery over with and get back to his garden.

I went to the El Dorado tonight and placed 6th. We only had 52 players but it's still 14 tourneys and 11 final tables with 7 wins so I can's complain. I wish I could do as well in the large tournaments but I suck in those. Maybe the acadameny will help, if I go.

The ME is a once in a lifetime thing for me but you only have one Dad, and family means more to me than winning it. Though I know a few in the family I might sacrifice for a couple of wins!

Seriously though guys, it's great to have your support and prayers. I'll know later this week if I am going or not and if I'll play in the ME. I may at least go the the Academy but I don't know if I'll stay for the ME. What would be my chances anyway?!

I'll keep in touch and thanks again.

Paul

well i obviously never ever post here (was suprised to see i already had an account) but VT seems awesome from the few hours ive looked at it. as a total dumbass im actually looknig forward to the math section ha!

in fact that was my first post.

Hey Scallop! I am honored that you chose mine to be the first you posted to!

You will not regret signing up. Matt and the guys are great. They are having a few glitches every now and then but that is to be expected with new startup with this much video on it.

One suggestion. Even though you aren't a new player, you need to check out the beginner section. This game is all about fundementals. It's just a like a football player or a golfer (Daniel). You are always taught to keep the fundementals fresh in your mind and you'll score big.

I had a friend that I respect as one of the best poker players around come up to me last night, grab my hand and started rubbing it sayint "I have got to rub some of that luck off for me!! Just kiddin man. With this many final tables, it is not all about luck! That's great to see players like that come up and commend my play. I never thought that would happen. I listen to the Daniel before every game.

I hope the guys don't get on me for spamming again but I also recommend "The Psychology of Poker" and "Tournament Poker" by David Sklansky, if you like to read.

Good luck man! I hope to see you at the ME one day.

Paul

Well what a trip! We started off and were five hours out and hit a cow! That's right, a cow!
It was pitch black and we were just about to the hotel and we hit this black cow. I turned the wheel just in time, I only had a fraction of a second cause the thing just appeared, and it took out my left side. I can't believe it was able to drive after that but we still drove the thing to Vegas.

Saw Daniel, Doyle, Phil, Huck, Barry, Erik, and several others playing HORSE. Daniel was doing great but after my wife and I left, he got into a bad hand and was crippled. He later went out 13th, I think. Looks pretty good for Scotty and Erik. You can never count out Barry either. That hurt Daniels chances, since he needed a 3rd and the other two only needed a 6th or 7th. My wife got some great pictures of Daniel. What a great opportunity it was. You don't get many shots with Doyle, Barry, and Phil sitting next to each other in a tournament.

What a trip. Vegas has sure changed since I was here as a lad in the early 90's. Twenty years make a huge difference. I'll go to the academy in the morning and decide later if I'll get into the ME or not. My Dad is doing great but we'll know more in a couple of weeks. He really wanted us to go to the ME but I don't see how I could ever stand a chance against that many people. It is very scary to see that many tables and huge lines of guys wanting to get into a Satelite.

Thanks again guys for all your thoughts and prayers for my Dad. I'll let yall know how things turn out, and if I get into the ME.

Paul

Hey guys. The Academy is going pretty well. My friend Justin and I sat up on Sunday night and I showed him PVT site. He got the small ball concept down pretty well and went on to win $5,000 worth of chips in the Academy tournament!

I, on the other hand, couldn't get paid off for my Kings and such and went totally card dead. After a few hours I was sitting the rail rooting for Justin.

The Academy is great and I really recommend it! Mark Seif, Annie Duke and Joe Navarro did a great job today of training us poker wannabes! Alex Outhred and Paul Wasicka gave me some of the greatest pointers for the ME you can find. For one thing, I know I have been doing great in small tournaments, but in the large ones I have been sucking. I need to settle down and only play the small pots for a while and not risk my entire tournament for $4000 when I will need the larger pots of $20,000 and $200,000 later on. Be patient.

Well, I really need to get some sleep and prepare for tomorrow.

I saw poor Daniel at the Horse and the guy was giving it all he had. I am glad for Scotty though. He is a great player and one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet in this ego filled poker world. At least a real player won it and not some hack like me. It really is more of a game for the real champions and not for the everyday Joe to pull in.

Well, I changed my ME day to Sunday. They are not taking anymore Sunday spots. When I got in there were a little over 1300. They are averaging everything out.

Pretty cool day today. Sat and talked to Alex Outhred for a while. He has a great article in All In you should read about tells.
Then I ran into Devilfish. He had quite a badbeat story.

Then I met with the guys at Pokervt. What a great bunch of fellas. They are working their butts off on the site and I think they are going to be making some more great improvements soon. I'll hopefully get to talk to Daniel on Saturday. As most of you know, he changed his day to Friday because schedule change and I, like the idiot I am, changed mine to Sunday in hopes that I could do a little more work on the game.

I had a couple of bad beats in the two megas I played. The first mega had 297 people and I finished somewhere around 75. I had queens on the button with an allin in the 4th position preflop. I called and he showed Ad 4d. As you can expect, he turned an Ace and rivered the flush.

The second was a $550 mega with 380 in it and I finished somewhere around 150. I was slowly building a nice chipstack when the guy under the gun raised 3x and I was on the button again with KK this time and went all in since my raise would have only been 2x. He called with 44 and hit a 4 on the flop and had be covered by about 500. Oh well, like I always say, if you don't have a badbeat story to tell after the last hand is played you weren't playing good poker.

The sit and go I played lasted 3.5 hours! We started with 1500 and I was third and the guy would not chop for 1k each but oh well. I played well but you can't do much when you go card dead and the blinds are 600-1200! The dealer said it was the longest s n g that she has ever dealt.

My Dad is doing great! He is one tough old bird.

Hey mate...I have been really close to signing up to pokervt but I just can't seen to do it ( I don't know why..I really want to learn more about the game) After reading this topic and seeing you on rawvegas talking to Daniel, I am REALLY keen to join and will probably do so in the next day or so...thank-you for writing this topic as I think it will be the contributing factor that will make me join...it's good to see an 'Average Joe' do well from this training package.

Hope your Dad is OK...and good luck on Sunday...

Cheers.
Anton

Thanks Anton,

My Dad will go in Monday to have the tumor removed. Thank you so much for your concern. I talked to him last night and he is really pumped about Sunday and I hope I don't let him down. It's going to be hard to play and think about the next day and that I won't be there but he really wants me to go as far as I can. He's supported me my entire life in every crazy little thing I did.

Please indulge me for a moment while I tell you his last battle and forgive me ahead of time for rambling here.

My Dad is the strongest and bravest man I have ever known and he hates going to the doctor. He only missed one day in over 30 years on the job for being sick. He was a pipeliner and hated the work but loves his family and knew where his priorities were. I was in Branson trying to get on a show. I went there without a job or a place to live. I spent three of the coldest months without a heater and lived on noodles because I didn't want them to know that I was broke. I started as a parking lot attendant and parked cars (got hit by a couple) and cleaned up the lot every night for a year before I was put backstage working for Ray Stevens. When Ray left he sold the theater to Country Tonite, a show that was here in Vegas at the IP for several years. I was there only a couple of months when this guy saw me clowning around on stage between shows and said he wanted to put me on the show. My mom had come up for vacation and while she was here with my aunt I got a call. I could hear my mother crying in the background and my aunt said I needed to come over quick. I asked her if something had happened to my Dad and she said that she couldn't tell me and that I needed to be there for my mother. I thought he had died! She said he was not dead but that he was in ICU. We drove as fast as we could to Shreveport and I walked in and saw my Dad lying in bed. He could not move but could talk clearly to me. "Isn't this something boy?! I can't move a muscle!" He was smiling and laughed a little for me as though to tell me that he was alright and not to worry. My brother was with him when it started and he took him to the hospital. It started as his feet and was working its way up. My brother said that he woke up that night and saw my Dad crawling on the floor at the hospital. He jumped up and said "Daddy, what are you doing? Did you fall out of bed?!" My Dad said "No! I had to go pee and since I couldn't walk I thought I would crawl!" It turned out that he had Guillain Barre Syndrome. It paralyzes you and then works its way back down. He had to learn how to walk and even feed himself all over again. I was going to leave Branson and come back home to be with him. The doctors said that it would hurt him if I did because he would think it was his fault that I finally made it onto a show and was giving it up because he was sick. I reluctantly went back home at the urging of my mother and brothers and started as a feature on the show. That was in June of 1994. They said that he would not be able to walk again from a year to two years in the condition he was in. In December of that same year, I walked out onto the stage and saw my father sitting in the front row. He had to use a cain, but had walked into the theater. He is the strongest man I know. He still can't feel below his knees but they taught him to balance and walk though, and he walks without a cain now. I did leave Branson to come back home and be with them in their golden years but I have never regretted these years of being close to them after being away for so long. When I won the seat he wanted me to follow my dream and said that he didn't want me to stay home because of this "little thing". Can you believe that? He has got to be the most unselfish man around. I sang to millions of people, met my beautiful wife in Branson, and had a ton of fun in Branson and Nashville but nothing makes the tears come back and roll down this fatboys cheeks like the memory of may Dad's smile when I came out on stage and saw him sitting there.

Man I hope I don't let him down.

I have got to tell you that this has been one of the greatest experiences coming to the ME. I have met a ton of pros and my wife is having a ball watching me talk to these guys. She thinks it's kinda funny seeing me turn into a kid around these guys. I have been around big stars in the music industry and movie industry for years and I never show much sign of being nervous around them. I have only met a couple of jerks but most of them are excited that you recognize them. I saw Dario Minieri and he was so excited whenever someone recognized him and wanted a picture. He is truly a great guy for the game! He knows what this is all about.

I know I have a better shot of making a fortune picking one number at a time on the wheel but it's amazing to sit side by side with these guys and catch a nugget here and there from conversations that may pay off ten fold.

My advice to everyone is to sign up on pokervt, go to a poker camp, talk to as many pros that will allow you a moment, play in or at least go to some of these large events if you have the chance, and listen to all the bad beat stories you can. I know the last one is kinda strange but I have taken notes on the bad beats find that you can learned a lot from other peoples mistakes. Hearing those guys’ mistakes is like using other people’s money. I have found out that when I smell a bad beat coming at the table, I get out and watch the fireworks and take note of each step that lead up to the disaster.

Make sure you go on my topic of "Main Event Numbers" and take a shot at the number of people in the ME and maybe you can get the three months free on pokervt.

Write back on this post when and tell me of your success! I can't wait to hear from ya!

Now I'll sit back and watch the guys tear this post apart for my "rambling".

It's really great to hear someone like you want to genuinely help PokerVT after winning so much. A little note on what I bolded. Though one can recognize pre-warnings of a storm through things like barometric pressure and what not, it isn't the same for bad beats. Don't get into the habit of trying to recognize the "steps that lead up to the disaster" to rationalize folding KJ on a J-5-6 (5-6 of hearts) board just because you "smell a bad beat coming". Good luck on your future successes and I hope to be reading more about your next big win.

Thanks for the advice. Believe me, every little bit helps along the way. Don't worry, I can get extremely aggressive if I have a strong read on a guy. In the second ME seat win, I called a player with only a pair of nines when there was a Queen and a Ten on the board. I just had a really good read on the player and nothing made since along the way. It was not a good story to make me believe the bluff with all the information I had gathered.

It's kinda like my golf game. I have played since I was 12 and I'm not great but I'm not too bad. I see a lot of guys in tournaments that could take the sure tie and play another hole and they go for the long shot and drop out of the money because they just knew they could do it. They have enough talent to take the other guy out on another hole but their competitive juices (and testosterone) get to running and they go for the green instead of playing the safe shot and end up out of bounds. It's great to be competitive but you have to know where you should take your final stand. The chips are like an army. If you will still have enough soldiers to win a small battle, you might build your army so that you can win a war. I want to see the battlefield (the flop) and if I see that I trips (sorry Daniel) or flop a strait, then I know that I have a good view of the field and can charge in. It's true that sometimes you get ambushed though. (Sorry again Daniel) and you can't avoid it. You just have to make good dicisions and the only way you can is with as much information as possible. That means reading from situations that you have seen and that others have told you about. Not the idiots that have 5-6 say "I can't believe that idiot called me with a Kc-2h-3h-9h board and won with King (hearts) after I threw my chips in as fast as I could on the turn. HOW COULD HE NOT THINK I DIDN'T HAVE A FLUSH!!" (true story and the guy almost had to be removed from the room!)

Ok, here goes the rambler! (Please go easy on me guys)

I am far from being a really good player but I am improving and I beg anyone that has any advice to place it here. I am still learning this game.

I am just saying this. Use your chips for information and profit. Learn to think things through completely and take your time on tough decisions. If we can all learn from each other, we will be more than prepared when the donkey plays all in with a gut shot. I am all for us improving every player we can to improve the game. I would rather play with someone that knows the game pretty good than someone that is a pure donk. Those are the guys that write your bad beat stories.

Greg Raymer said that he has a lot of problems playing against guys that want to donk their chips off too him just because they would rather he have them than someone else and they really like him. He said that it really sucks when he knew they didn't have anything in the first place so he puts them all in with a bluff and their hand is better than his! You would not believe the number of people here that only play once a year to take back a story like going out to a world champion or playing with a guy that they saw on TV. These people have more money than sense. (And I say that while I am taking a chance against thousands of people and more than half of them could whip my tail any day of the week. Who's the donk now?!)

I know, I know... here comes the bashing!!!! Go ahead an let me have it.

-Daniels Little Fat Buddy

Actually, no bashing on this end. I started playing poker about a couple of months ago when a friend of my in my spanish class was talking about it. I signed up for pokervt only 3-ish weeks ago and things just started to click for me. Like things i was so confused about before started to make sense to me.

While i am definitely far from being great, pokervt has helped me improve my game ten fold

Glad to hear it! Keep up the good work and keep watching those videos

Haha, no doubt. Pokervt is basically a gold mine, why would i want to stop that.

Just an update on my Dad.

He had two more tumors when the went in and they hope the removed it all. He said it feels like someone laid a railroad tie on it but other than that he's happy.

Thanks guys!

Slept most of the day and relaxed. Felt great after I found out that they removed two more tumors from my Dad and believe they have it all out! Thank GOD!

The last stuff I ran over was some of the Heads Up stuff Sunday and some of the hand analysis videos. I don't do many sit and goes or single table sats but after reading his first book, I won a single table into a $1000 main event.

I went over to Caesars to play a sng for the Mega Stack Championship. I had already won 3rd in a $125 and had $220 (after three and a half hours!) so I put another $10 buck with it and won a seat into tomorrows Main Event!

It should be pretty good. The prize pool is going to be well over $1,000,000. They give you $25,000 in chips so it should be interesting.

Thanks again guys. I hope you aren't going to make me pay royalty! That makes 3-5 for single tables. Don't know how we'll do but I'll be sporting the Pokervt hat and gear!

Daniel, you rule man!

Alex, if you read this, TID in the main bro! I'll text the chip stack updates to ya!

We started the Mega Stack Championship at Caesars with I think a little over 1200 players. We have 126 with our first night and I think that day 1a ended with 136. They are paying the top 99. We have around 1.2 million in the prize pool and first place is around $275,000. We started at 12:00 with a 1 1/2 hour dinner break and played until 12:30. We'll play tomorrow until the final table. Matt, I just about ran out of cards on the knockouts. Believe it or not, I only had one guy say he wasn't going to do it. The others were nice guys, even though I sent them on their way.

The average chip stack is 110,000 and I have 143,500, so I'm hanging pretty tight.

It's made up of a lot of the guys that busted out of the WSOP ME, like me.

A few hands.

My first table was not extremely tough and made up of a couple of real donkeys. One guy called a guys all in because he had a five (with an 8) on a A-A-5 flop. The other guy had A-K. I later doubled up on the A-K guy when I had Ad-7d (funny because that was my crippler when the guy hit runner runner for a strt flush when I flopped a fullhouse at the ME) and the board his all diamonds. The guy couldn't get off of A-A so I went to over 70,000. Lost a 10,000 with K's against A's but knocked the guy out later when he had K's and I had A's (same guy that went all in with 8-5). He build back up to 12,000 and I got it all back plus.

Had Kd-10d on the button and no limpers so I raised and the SB called. The flop hit K-9d-6d. He made a 5,000 bet into a 2,000 or so pot. I called. K on turn. He bet 5,000 and I called. 10 ON THE RIVER! He bet 5,000 and I raised 15,000 leaving him on 6,000 if he called. I thought he would go all in. He turned over K-6 boat against my K-10 boat.

There was only me and one other guy when they split us up. We built a really nice table made of three top pros and the rest of us were intermediates. Then they sent me to hell!

It was made up of almost all internet guys. I held 10c-8c and limped in, I should have raised on the button but like a donkey I didn't. The board was checked down to a A-Q-9-x-J board and the first guy checked, second raised, I called, back to the first and he went over the top another 15,000 and smelled the damn k-10 but the guy next to me said he had to go all in with his last 13,000+ so I, like a donkey, felt I was priced into a pot of over $50,000 and put in the $15,000 and the guy that priced me in turned over a set of J's, and the re-raiser turned over his K-10. Down to $70,000.

I waited for a good hand and caught Q's and raised, had one caller and the big blind went in for another 15,000. I immediately held up my Q's and the guy next to me saw them as I threw them into the pot. The guy had a huge tell that I could tell everytime he had a monster or was bluffing. He hated me! I called several of his hands and told the guy next to me he had Kings because of the tell and I knew if he had Aces he would not have come that far over. I also felt that the other guy was going to go all in if I called. He anounced that after I folded and he folded. The big stack turned over K-K to show us.
The guy next to me nearly fell out and told everyone that he saw my Q's. It kinda put the big stack on tilt from me.

I then doubled up on a guy that had me covered. I had watched his betting pattern because I could never see a tell on the guy. When the board hit 9 high rainbow, I raised and he shoved all in and had me covered. I looked at him and said I thought he had 10's or J's from the way he played, I called and he turned over J's and my Q's held up.

I held onto the 140,000 for the rest of the evening. Bought some blinds and made a few plays to keep my stack and felt great.

You would not believe the idiots that dropped out with 70-80k in the last two minutes.

I hope I play as well tomorrow. It felt great today. I had great tells on 2 of the guys at the last table and great betting patterns on 4 others. The others were tight as you can imagine and just tried to hold on.

One of the guys new me from rawvegas and did not speak highly of Daniel. He called a guy with 9-5. The other guy had Aces and the 9-5 had three nines on the flop. I think the all in went in on the flop. The guy said he just didn't like the guy raising his blind all the time. I gave him a 24 hour card he said there was no way he was going on pokervt. Ok.

People were telling me of all these big pros that were playing there but I never saw them. Didn't care. I played my table and didn't worry about theirs.

Well, it's been a long day. Had great news on my Dad, which eased my mind and my play, and had a great time at the table. Made calls and folds that I couldn't believe and would never have done before Daniel's help and my new bud Alex Outhreds help.

Root for Alex! He's got a little over 60,000 in the ME tomorrow and is one of the nicest guys and pros I've ever met. Win it all bud.

Have a great one guys!

Good stuff Paul


gl

paul, man, u are a writing machine! Haven't seen anyone like you before! lol

No one else has either.

It's a heck of a game isn't it?!

Gl out there.

hey pauld I have gotten through all the small ball stuff and made notes and I study it every day. But i havent gotten to the Charley swayne math section will it make a huge improvement. Its weird I play limit and im not a math guy I am more of a feel guy.

Just took 51'st in a tourney on stars with like a 1200 person field. I was in the top 10 the whole time then got cold decked with KK vs AA. then I built my stack back up to about 30K then I get shoved into in the BB from the button for 10k with AK he has 99 and he wins the race.Blinds were like 400/800 pretty standard call when i still have over 20 BB's if I lose ( the flop came AK9 so sick becasue i saw the AK first) One more cold deck with QQ vs KK and the final cold deck JJ vs AA. I ran horrible and still took in the top 4% of the field. So I cant wait until I have am on the other end of a couple races and cold decks. Also I was never all in until the last hand I always called all ins because of odds their range and their desperation and it worked great. The biggest improvement thogh that I learned from Junglen was when to shove on the short stacks and re steal. I made one re steal wth KT with 20K vs a 8 K stack on the bubble.

I was the worst math guy out there. There is no problem with being a feel guy. Sometimes the gut is all you need to make that call and you don't even know why.

Before I begin, please forgive me because I am terrible at explaining the techniques and I will probably confuse you more than help.

For me, the math portion has helped me become one of the best at reading player’s cards and changing up my game.

After I was on the vlog with Daniel, I didn't really think about what it would do to my game. I actually sat down at the ME and a guy knew me. I had not studied the Charlie's portion very closely at the time of the ME. I didn't do well against the players that knew me. I was extremely shocked.
I then played in the 1200 player Mega Stack Championship at Caesars. When I went to the Caesars tournament, I started really looking at Charlie's portion. I outlasted almost 1100 players. On the last table the first day, I had a guy see my pokervt hat and he started blasting away at Daniel. I asked him later if he had seen me and he said he had seen the rawvegas vlog. I was down to about 60,000 from 100,000. I immediately started using Charlie’s math and his instructions to change my play. I was very deceptive. I knew 2 of the player’s hands from tells and 4 of the players hands from their betting patterns. The other guys were very tight and just wanted to finish out the day. I couldn’t get a read at all from the guy that recognized me and when he said that he had seen me and started going at Daniel, I knew what to do. I didn’t get in big pots with him but I took down a few of his blinds and attacked when he showed weakness. I did a total changeup on the hands I played against him. Charlie showed simple ways to do this. I have to admit that the guy was good. I finished about two hours later with 143500.

If you learn his portion, you can place yourself in their seat and understand what they are betting with. Then you can understand what they think I think they have. Confused? It will make sense when you start using it.

1. You will learn to change up your hands against better players than you. No pro will intimidate you. One of the guys thanked me for taking down a WPT Champion. I didn't know he was, but it didn't matter because I realized he was good and adapted accordingly.
2. You will be able to figure out their hands from their patterns and understand what you need to be up against with any hand that you have.
3. You will be able to look at the players and figure out just how many people you want to go up against with that hand of yours. It's great to see a couple of the players faces when all of sudden I change my preflop raise right when they think they have figured me out. It's like a computerized ride. No tournament is ever the same and I don't want to become too comfortable with the way I play. Watch his videos and he'll show you what I mean
4. One of the biggest things it has helped me with is this. I can get off of a huge hand and live to fight another day when before I was saying, "I think I have the best hand?", go all in and realize there was a simple calculation that I missed that could have saved the tournament for me.

I hope this helps and if not, please follow up with an example and I'll try to walk you through it. Remember that there is never one perfect way to play a hand. There might be several great ways to play a hand. The math will show you the way.

Hey, great play on stars. You'll find that even if you have a bad beat, you can slowly build that stack instead of wasting it all on one hand. Great play!

Just a little note. I am really thinking about the Weekend with Daniel. I have a real busy couple of weeks ahead and don't know how many tournaments I can make but if I make enough to win the buy in, I am going. I think I can make at least two decent tournaments that might cover it.

Anyone else out there thinking about it? I know this. Daniel said one tiny thing after I was out of the ME that made a huge difference in my play. I don't think he even knew he said it but it helped a ton. That's why you go to these things that people say, "You are crazy to spend your money on that!" If you can just get a couple of nuggets from a guy like Daniel, you can make ten times that.

Hope I get to play enough to go and if so how many are going with me? Anybody want to take down the little fat buddy for the $30,000 trip at Daniels? I had several guys at the WSOP tell me that you wanted another chance at me when I gave you the PVT card. I have also had a couple of guys on this forum that act as though they would like a shot at me. There will only be 18 there and here's your chance to prove it since I don't play online much.

Come on Cletus!

The thing that helps me alot more is something as simple of knowing how many BB's I have and knowing ways I can use that to my advandtage . Like my KT resteal shove into a stack that still had play if he folded. It narrows his range and I was trying to rebuild to win the tourney. I was already in the money and I wanted a win so I wasnt scared to make plays to get my stack back up. On stars the difference in the small stakes tourney is like 3 bucks if you wait 20 spots or so, but if you win you make a few hundred. Junglens vids have helped me so much Also I can't wait for the LHE section to pop up on PVT in the future. At casinos in LA the NL games arent good unless you can play higher limits which I cant quite yet because I dumped My BR on school. So even though I used to kill the 100NL at the commerce my bankroll can only afford the cheaper game which is a 40NL game with blinds of 1&2. So you are essentially short stacked almost to start. Although If you can work your stack to 40BBs you can demolish the game. On a few occasions I bought in for 40 left with like 350 and 400 bucks. So any way sorry for rambling I play live limit because you get about 8 to 1 on every call at the lower stakes. I use Sklanskys small stakes hold em' book. Which is weird because he so precise with math but I know how many outs I have and th3 # of bets in the pot so I do just fine. The games are so loose and passive that if you make 1 flush or straight you basically double your money. I mean talk about your Equity edge with big draws.The higher the limit the more TAG they are but still prett bad they play blind mostly.

Been owning the small stakes NLHE cash on stars. Rebuilding my BR made 275 in a week at .05/.1 and .1/.25 also I have won a couple 6.50 sit n gos but I watch boosted J's vids always right before I play. I have always won live but my online cash was less consistent, I would make money but it would go up and down. Since PVT i have learned not to use just brute aggression but to play better in marginal spots and online exploit flaws, like players who call raises with QT off out of position

Question for anybody out there:

I'm a relatively new PokerVT user and have had some success with online tournaments and SnGs, and a lot of success with heads up SnGs. I've found I've had a lot of success against the overly aggressive player, where I can be deceptive and allow him to hang himself while I'm cautious with my chips. My question is what's the best strategy to go against another small-ball user? I've found that we're both trying to do the exact same things to each other and there's very little edge either way and comes down to just a couple of lucky hands. Is it best to just try to "out small-ball" each other, or employ a different strategy against another small-ball (and possible another PokerVT user)? Thanks for any possible advice.

Go to the deception part of Charlie's site. It will help you out.

It really doesn't matter if a small ball player is playing against you or not. I usually put in a larger bet, say 4x or 5x. I love that I know what their usually playing in their position and it allows me to get a better read on them. I also can adjust to them a little better since their playing my game. I can place myself in their shoes and think, "What would I call or raise with..."

Remember one thing, SB players hate to go into large pots. I ususally push a large pot and leave myself enough room that I can climb back up early if the guy gets the best of me. One great thing the site has shown me is how to rebuild my stack. If I hit the large stack, I can play with patience for the next big hand. If I don't hit the large stack, I know how to slowly rebuild the stack. It just takes practice and playing in a lot of tournaments or cash games.

Play the D'nuts a lot to spot each spot quickly so that when you do involved you can spot 1st, 2nd, and 3rd quickly. This may seem like a really childish thing to a lot of guys but let me tell you, if you learn from Charlie what to look for first when you go into a pot and then go from there, it will improve you game dramatically . How many times have you looked that pot and thought you had them, make the raise and then look at the guy studying you like a steak yand look back at the board and think "Crap! I didn't see that!". Be ready to get off that hand like the plague if you have to and then rebuild.

Practice patience and practice discipline and you'll rip up the boards!

I hope that Daniel, Matt or Adam would answer this. They could do a lot better job than I could. I'm still kinda new to this, though I have had a ton of success with it. I hope I haven't confused you or made things harder.

Good luck and tell me how you're doing out there!

Paul I turned two min buy ins on stars and full tilt in to a pretty penny( atleast for me and my rebuilding bankroll).I bought in for 50 on tilt and turned ithat into 200 playing only .05/.10 Nl cash. That is a 15 max buy in increase. On stars I ran better and turned 25 into a little over 275 , thats a 25 max buy in increase. I just watch boosted J's vids over and over as well as Alvarados. I watch Junglens if I play a tourney. I have played 2, 1 where I took 51st out of 1200 and the other I got it in with KK vs JJ and he floped a set. The only live tourney I won at an indian casino in Cali. I absolutely love poker vt I get so much more action and then being passive out of position lets people have just enought bait to stick it in when you have a good hand. I love it.

WTG!
You can't really ask for more than that can ya? Keep playing the plan and keep me posted on your progress.

Nope I love it I had one losing session in the last week and it was because I had ATs and the flop came 8 T T vs a very loose player and he had T8

I've had some messages from quite a few of you asking about the Caesars tournament. I'm sorry I have been a little busy. It wasn't too bad and wasn't that great either.
Out of 1200 I was 150. Oh well.

Did pretty good at the last tournament of the week. I placed 3rd out of about 50. Went into the final table short stacked but played patiently and slowly made the climb. Had a couple of really great guys at the table that saw Daniels blog and got to hand out a couple of 24 hour passes.

I wanted to say thanks to all of you that are sending the messages telling about your progress. Keep it up guys and keep watching those videos.

Don't forget about the Weekend with Daniel. They're just about sold out!

up to 20 max buy ins on tilt