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Before reading this article - we recommend reading the first part of the material: How to work on the game of poker part 1
The field of poker education is the main part of Alexey Exan13's work in the poker ecosystem. Self-education and versatile development are his hobbies. And according to the coach, whatever activity he would decide to engage in at the age of 20, he would eventually come to the field of education. Alexey's coaching career began in 2014 and immediately took up the bulk of his working time. He really enjoys self-education and improving the methodology of transferring knowledge to his students and subscribers. For simplicity of perception, the coach divided all the necessary knowledge and abilities for growth in the world of professional poker into 3 categories.
1. Three categories of poker education
Human education is a complex thing. It is difficult to achieve outstanding results without methodical work on different areas of your professionalism.
Game strategy
What knowledge and skills does a player need in order to improve the game solutions themselves at the poker table?
There are several playlists on youtube Poker University at once:
Personal effectiveness
A set of character traits and skills that allow you to go in the direction of success in the world of professional poker:
- Discipline;
- Ability to self-education;
- The will to win;
- Concentration;
- Endurance;
- Working with software;
- Financial literacy.
Optimization of your workflow in the near-game area:
- Selection of poker rooms;
- Working with the schedule;
- Bankroll management;
- Thinking through the various numerous nuances that a tournament poker player faces, such as rebuys,
re-entry; - Late check-in entries, etc.
All this affects the final result and needs to be regulated.
The Psychology of Poker
The thoughts, emotions and feelings that you experience at the gaming table are part of the gameplay and affect the final result in both short and long the long run of many years of your poker career.
There are also other psychological characteristics of your personality that will definitely affect the result:
- Your level of motivation;
- Various fears and psychological blocks;
- Attitude towards people and oneself;
The main factors preventing the player from breaking through the ceiling into which he rested or completely changing the trajectory from negative expectations to success are in the field of psychology and personal effectiveness. A separate video course "Psychology and Professionalism in Poker" was released on our website, which is open to all users of the site.
To improve your knowledge and skills in the field of psychology and personal effectiveness, our website has separate thematic sections, in which you will find many useful articles and videos. You can also contact a proven psychologist-consultant Sofia, who has a large arsenal of modern skills for optimizing the psychological state. Upgrade your operating system and be a winner!
2. Poker Training with a Coach
The modern world is like a racing track: high speeds and risks of being left behind. But haste only harms the development process. However, optimizing your activities is a prerequisite for modern life.
Poker is quite a competitive environment, and not everyone will be able to become professionals, so many players save time and turn to a professional coach. This allows you to quickly select the necessary track, avoid ridiculous mistakes and dead ends, effectively configure all processes and accelerate your development, greatly increasing the chances of success. If you have the desire to allocate funds for poker education – do it, it's really worth it. Time is a very valuable resource, and the money spent will be returned a hundredfold. We must warn that there are a lot of amateurs and even scammers in the field of poker education, many teachers simply lack competence and even not always in the game itself, namely in coaching skills. Training is a serious skill.
The site has an excellent article on this topic: How to find a coach and effectively learn poker, What does an effective training with a coach look like.
Many students, being delighted with individual lessons with Alexei, told how much they were burned. Some were very indignant, they considered themselves deceived by other coaches and schools.
3. Self-education in poker
In today's poker world, there is a huge amount of versatile information regarding the strategy of the game, the learning process, the use of software and other areas of poker education. Information about the sea: streamers, bloggers, various articles and courses. The untrained mind is lost in all this diversity. In the understanding of the game, a structureless mess is formed, in which, of course, there is useful information, but along with it contradictions, gaps in some important conceptual sections of the strategy, which the player simply does not think about. Therefore, it is very important to work out the entire strategy from the most basic things like open-raise to post-flop on the river and complex reflections on late-stage ICM. The easiest way to do this is to buy 3 fundamental video courses:
Only by creating a solid downed strategy without holes and contradictions, you can qualitatively engage in subtle constant work on the details of the game, viewing versatile information from different streamers and bloggers. Engage in narrowly focused improvement of different areas of the strategy. Of course, not everyone can allocate a lot of money for vocational training, so the Poker University team has developed a loyalty program with the possibility of free training. Thanks to which you can get a cashback of 50% in the format of internal currency (U-points) from the rake you played in the rooms registered from our site. For more information, please click on the link below.
A section of the self-education site from Poker University with a special convenient format for studying. A guide to articles, videos and methodologies for their study from the Exan13 trainer. Believe an experienced coach – much more money is lost on poorly developed basic parts of the strategy, and not on the lack of any subtle abstruse strategic decisions.
