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Below are resources, software, and links to things you will find helpful when completing these workbooks. Equilab: A free must-have piece of poker software. Equilab allows you do basic-to-advanced equity calculations and can perform some of the basic functionality of Flopzilla. The PokerListings strategy section is a mammoth resource with hundreds (if not thousands) of strategy articles. PokerStrategy.com has a poker school that provides players with a free $50 bankroll if they graduate. MosesBet.com is a smaller strategy resource, but one of the best poker.
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Here is the complete schedule of daily poker tournaments in the Upstate NY area, including Erie, PA, Niagara, and Upstate NY. Click on any tournament for comprehensive information and details including buy-ins, admin fees, starting chips, blind structures, days run, and more.
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41 Statistics and Win Rates Tracker
This super-useful stats and win rates tracker will help you find areas of opportunities in your database of PokerTracker 4 hands. It was shared in episode #320: The Simple and Efficient Way to Study Your Online Poker Hands on 12/4/20.
7 Characteristics and Exploits Against the 4 Common Player Types
This handy sheet for understanding the characteristics of different poker player types and ways to exploit each was just discussed in podcast episode #289: How to Spot and Exploit the 4 Common Poker Player Types on 5/1/20. Previously mentioned in podcast episode #123: Gathering Information On Opponents.
The ‘No Time for Study’ Plan
This poker study plan is exactly what the time-strapped poker player needs. This is a KISS-inspired plan that only requires 10 minutes of study per day. This means the majority of each week’s poker time is dedicated to playing and purposefully practicing the skills you’re studying. This was discussed in podcast episodes #219: A Poker Study Plan for those with no time and #260: A Simple Poker Study Plan.
Statistical Tracker
This Statistical Tracker (in Word format) will help you track your changing statistics as you study and work to improve your game. It contains all of the important PokerTracker 4 stats found within the LeakTracker function. This was discussed in podcast episode #246: 8 Micro Stakes Poker Questions’ originally released on 7.15.19.
The Top 11 Poker Profit Boosters
Are you looking for some simple fixes to the actions that are costing you money on the felt? This PDF consolidates everything I taught in episode #240 into an easy-to-follow one page guide to earning more profits. This was discussed in podcast episode #240: 11 Profit Boosting Solutions to Poker Losses’ originally released on 6.7.19.
10 Action Steps from ‘Exploitative Play in LIVE Poker’
I’m sure you know how good this book by Alex is, but have you gotten all from it that you can? Put these 10 Action Steps (download here) into practice as you read the related chapters to understand the strategies Alex discusses. This was discussed in podcast episode #231: ‘Exploitative Play in LIVE Poker’ by Alex Fitzgerald originally released on 4.16.19.
KISS Cash Game Ranges
These ranges were created for my book Preflop Online Poker. I’ve given out previous KISS Cash Game Ranges, but these are the most recent (updated 1.12.19). These ranges are exactly what you need to give yourself a mathematical edge and crush the micro stakes games. The ranges here contain basic instructions on how to use them. Read Preflop Online Poker for more detailed instructions.
Double-Studying Your Hands Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet will help you take notes on the initial review of a hand and each subsequent review. The purpose of double-studying hands is to see how your knowledge has developed through your studies and play. This was discussed in the YouTube Video called Double-Studying Tagged Hands posted on 11.27.18.
Board Texture Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet was created first for my 28 Days of Poker Study, but it ended up being a perfect fit for the Cbet MED series. I filled out the first table for you, but it’s your job to do the rest. I could give the answers to you, but you really won’t learn much if I did that. You’ll get so much more from this spreadsheet if you just spend an hour on it while using Flopzilla. Discussed most recently in episode #209: Q&A on 3bets, Cbets and Set Mining. Originally from episode #134: Cbetting Board Textures MED #6 Class #2 on 4/14/17.
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HUSNG Poker Challenge Tracker
This tracker allows you to track your HUSNG progress. First discussed in episode #175: “Valuable Lessons from 263 Heads Up Sit and Go Matches (HUSNG)” on 2/10/18.
66-Day Challenge Tracker
This 66-Day Challenge Tracker will help you develop healthy habits through 66 days of purposeful action. Discussed in episode #168: Sleep, Eat, Move, Improve… Your Mind on 12.10.17.
Observation HUD
This PokerTracker 4 HUD was created to help myself stay focused on the action at the table instead of over-relying on HUD stats. Discussed in episode #144: Observation HUD and the Simple Truth on 6/23/17.
30-Day Poker Study Challenge Tracker
This great 30-day tracker will help you build the habit of poker study into your daily routine. It’s not designed to make you a poker master or a specific skill ninja, but will help to ingrain the valuable habit of study into your life. First discussed in episode #42: Plug Your Leaks #4: Poker Study Apathy on 3/8/16.
Leak Plugging PDF
This 6-page leak plugging PDF gives you all the information you need to diagnose and plug 6 different, common and costly poker leaks. This was shared in 4 leak plugging podcast episodes #38, #42, #47 and #49 from early 2016.
7 Steps to Poker Book Learning PDF
This great one-page PDF contains the 7 steps to getting the most from every poker book you read. First discussed in episode #21: How to Learn from Poker Strategy Books on 2/2/16.
Poker Journal Questions PDF
This 2-page Word document contains 12 questions to help you keep track of your play sessions and study sessions in your poker journal. First discussed in episode #15: Poker Journal on 1/27/16.
3bet Re-steal Poker Challenge Tracker
This nifty tracker will help you improve your 3bet skills. First discussed in the blog post called 3bet Re-steal Poker Challenge on 7/2/15.
The Best Use of Your Time
If you’re looking for a good place to start your poker education journey, I suggest you check out my MED’s of Poker Series of podcasts, starting with Episode #87. This series gives you a poker skill development road map to follow. Spend one week studying each episode in the series as you play with purpose every day. Man, I wish somebody had given me a path to follow when I started taking poker seriously and began studying the game.
If you love reading books, I’ve written 3 so far. Check ’em out:
- How to Study Poker Volume 1 – this gives you all the study techniques I use and share with my students that lead to quicker skill improvement.
- How to Study Poker Volume 2 – this book demonstrates all of my study techniques from volume 1 as I take you through 4 weeks of studies I actually completed on hand reading, defending against check-raises, preventing tilt and much more.
- Preflop Online Poker – I give you a road map that helps you build foundational preflop skills like open-raising, 3betting, defending your blinds and exploiting your opponents.
If you’re into video learning, check out my YouTube Channel where I have over 600 videos for you to learn from. Here are some of my YT playlists:
In a sense, the governor of the Empire State is helping it live up to its nickname.
The Cuomo administration said this week that it will look into allowing a casino upstate near the Seneca Nation’s casino in downtown Niagara Falls, says a report from The Buffalo News. The reason? The tribe is no longer giving Albany a cut of its gambling winnings.
The development could bode well for online poker, which the state has been eyeing for several years now as a relatively immediate tax revenue source.
The news of the tribe’s plans to halt the payments came earlier this year, and now the state is looking to put pressure on the tribe to continue forking over about $110 million annually. The tribe has paid about $1.5 billion to Albany since 2002. The tribe’s New York casinos are the Seneca Niagara Casino, Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino and Seneca Allegheny Casino.
The Seneca Nation said its compact with the state doesn’t say it needs to continue making the payments past 2016, which led to the most recent showdown with the state.
New York already allowed a commercial casino—the Del Lago Resort and Casino in Seneca County that opened in February—about 100 miles from the tribe’s Buffalo property.
That new casino was one of four Albany and state voters approved for struggling upstate regions, with three having opened their doors so far. The tribe’s compact granted the tribe casino gambling exclusivity in the region, so the threat to give a license for a Las Vegas-style casino right next door to the tribe’s most successful casino in the state would officially mark an end to that exclusivity. However, it would take several years of hurdles before a fifth commercial casino could begin construction, and it’s not clear if Niagara Falls could support another one.
This isn’t the first time the Senecas and state officials have argued over the compact. The tribe and the state had a dispute in 2013 over the new commercial casinos, but that was sorted out in part thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatening to allow a casino just 20 miles northwest of Buffalo. The state’s tribal gaming industry didn’t attempt to thwart the commercial casino referendum that the administration wanted to pass.
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The compact is valid until 2023, but New York contends that it’s out the window if the revenue sharing payments don’t come in. The money goes to local communities.