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I want to welcome you to the Performance Poker - No Limit challenge. Performance Poker is, as the name implies, performance oriented. We don't spend tons of time talking about pot odds, poker theory, poker history, famous poker players, The World Series of Poker's past, or anything other than playing cards, pushing chips, and making money playing poker. We're talking only about Online Texas Holdem; and, in this book, we're talking only about No Limit Ring play. Tournament play, Limit play, Sit n Go play all may be Texas Holdem, but this book isn't about them. It's about sitting at a table with 8-9 other players with unchanging blinds and no time-limit on play. In other words, your basic poker game, except No Limit! Finally, this book is geared toward Online play. You'll see why as you read it. If you want a book about Brink-and-Mortar (cardroom), single table, live play, then this ain't it. Why? Because it's easier to transition from a Hobby-Player to a Performance-Player online than in live play.
I'm assuming that you know the basics of Texas Holdem and you know basic terminology: flop, turn, river, set, straight, reraise, limp, suited, etc. If you don't know the basics of holdem, then you need to learn that first - it takes about 30 minutes. If you don't know all the terms, but do know the basics, then there are online glossaries. If you come across a term you don't understand, look it up.
So, who is this book for? It's for anyone who plays Holdem (and loves it) but hasn't yet made the transition from "break even" or worse to consistently making money. If you want to step up your game to make increasing amounts of money, then you're in the right place. If you're frustrated because you've "learned poker" but can't seem to make reality match with the theory you've read, then you're in the right place. If you want to transition from the brick-and-mortar mentality that most other poker books teach, and learn how to exploit online play for steady, easy profits then you're in the right place. Performance Poker is for you, IF YOU LOVE POKER. If you don't love poker, then don't play it. Do something you love. If you do love poker and ache to be able to consistently make real money playing online, then you have found your happy place.
Let me tell you why I wrote this book, and from where it gets it's power. I love poker. I learned poker, I read all the standard books, and I played for years... "Breakeven". I would be up a little and then slowly lose my little $50 or $100 bankroll in short order. I called myself "breakeven" but in reality I lost money. I don't know how much because I never kept any records or made any notes. I just played when the urge hit and the money was available.
Then one day I decided to put together a "professional level" game. I invented the Performance Poker model (although I didn't know it at the time) and 3 weeks later I quit my job and made online poker my bill paying job. It took 3 weeks to go from break even to thousands of dollars per month playing poker online. Did it make me rich? No. But I went from "breakeven" to thousands of dollars per month in poker profits in 3 weeks, and that's no small feat. From that beginning I continued refining Performance Poker; my wife quit her job; I wrote poker articles, tutored players around the world and served as a poker consultant for poker sites.
So does Performance Poker just work for me? Am I just lucky? Well, I started helping other players transform their games, and again people saw rapid improvement, just as I did. Players who barely knew how to play were making money. Players who had studied poker only to be frustrated were breaking out with solid, strong wins. I had fans and students who were changing their lives with the money they earned following my advice. Where standard poker books failed them, Performance Poker insights made that key difference to making money consistently.
So, with their encouragement and help, Performance Poker - No Limit was born.
I quit my job and played performance poker full-time, but that's not the goal of this book for others. I turned poker into a 2nd career with performance poker, but that's not the goal of this book for others. The main question I want Performance Poker - No Limit to answer for others is, "how do I transform my game from idle (or worse) to consistently winning?" If you apply the principles and discipline I teach here and spend the appropriate time playing poker, then you should be able to (Pick One or Two):
- Make your car payment every month
- Save for a vacation
- Add to your retirement account
- Pay for your son's college tuition
- Add that deck to your home
- Fund your entertainment
... through poker.
As your skill and dedication increase you may be able to do all of the above and more. It's up to you.
In my experience most of the poker books available today give you a general knowledge about good poker theory but don't nail down exactly what you should do and how you should do it. Performance Poker is different.
Most commonly accepted poker theory is based on LIVE, SINGLE TABLE PLAY. This is very important so I'm going to spend some time on it. Most Poker Books are based on LIVE, SINGLE TABLE PLAY. Performance Poker is based on multi-table, online play and there-in lies much of the difference. Why?
- Live play is slow (about 35 hands per hour),
- Live play is limiting (you can only pick one table out of a small selection),
- To make money live you have to play higher stakes than necessary online, and at higher stakes you're generally playing better players.
- Hand selection (the hands you play preflop) is different for live play compared to Performance Poker,
- The way you play hands is different as well.
So the difference between Live Single Table play and online multi-table play is huge. In other words, books that are based on live or single table play are not taking advantage of Performance Poker methods and insights that make you money.
Next, theory poker books try to teach you "how to think" regarding poker, the books that teach technique also try to teach you "what to do", but none of them teach you "how to feel", "what to believe", "how to control and manipulate your thought processes to create success", they don't embolden, they don't inspire, they don't create - in a word - WINNERS. They create PLAYERS. Performance Poker creates WINNERS. If you read and internalize the lessons in this book then you will have no choice but to become a winning player who thinks and acts and emotes and reacts in winning patterns. You will become a player who can observe yourself, who can dissect and pick apart your own weaknesses and exploit others' weaknesses for your success.
In short Performance Poker is about Making Winners not Whiners. "I can't believe you called me there. You only had a 20% chance of winning but called a 50% pot sized bet. Boo, hoo, hoo" That's a poker Whiner. He knows theory, he knows odds, he knows poker "think", but doesn't know POKER. He doesn't know how to win. He doesn't know how to absorb variance, he doesn't see poker correctly. He's a theory baby; a poker whiner, not a winner. Performance Poker doesn't ignore poker theory, but we adapt it to the situation, and more importantly we don't treat it like it came from the mountaintop on carved stone. Why? Because we know most poker theory was written by players who play... what? SINGLE TABLE LIVE PLAY!!!
Sir Isaac Newton said certain things about Gravity, and he was right! However, Albert Einstein come along later and said, "That's true BUT here's what you never knew that makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE." General poker theory is true, BUT...
Ready to get started? Me too. Let's go!!
We can't put everything on here because it's all in the book. Publishers are picky about giving away the store... it sucks..:
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