A waitlist of nearly 25 players was already on the board at 10:45am in the Resorts World Las Vegas poker room. Players began filing in around 11:00 for the day’s pre-poker event, the scavenger hunt.

Fast forward to 4 a.m., and we still had enough players for two tables of $4/$8 Dealer’s Choice!

Scavenger Hunt: So Nice We Ran It Twice!

Just short of a dozen players arrived early to chase their share of $100-value prizes. Cardplayer Lifestyle contributor and PokerNews live reporter Mike Patrick went two for two, finishing the competition in just 20 minutes to score another “free first rack of chips,” a.k.a., a nice rebate on his buy-ins.

A few minutes later, Patrick “Panda” Chen finished second and chose the “bucket o’ swag”, that included a library of poker books, a BBO Poker Tables portable table mat, and a Faded Spade deck set.

The third and final prize was the most fun to determine, as both Ruth Sun and Scott Sandoval arrived simultaneously, only to discover that they were both missing one final item on their lists! The two of them scrambled outside to grab a photo of the Encore Resort in a mad dash to complete their hunts.

In the end, Scott crossed the finish line mere seconds before Ruth was able to make it back to the poker room, thus claiming the $100 voucher to the PokerStars Store.

One by one, the remaining players filed in and learned they had missed the top three. Nonetheless, the competition brought smiles across the board and received immediate rave reviews for “bringing out my inner child”, and of course “every participant was a winner,” taking home a copy of Eli Elezra’s biography Pulling the Trigger or a RunGoodGear-produced Mixed Game Festival T-Shirt.

Day 3 of the #MixedGameFestival at @PokerRoomRWLV has been such a blast that we’re just catching up now!

Chuck brought us 4th of July donuts to help kick off the day alongside our new fan favorite, the Scavenger Hunt.

It was so fun that we ran two, which Mike and Giancarlo won. pic.twitter.com/HcJXQbjnwT

— Cardplayer Lifestyle (@PokerLifeMedia) July 5, 2023

Chuck Martin was another early arrival who, despite opting to pass on the scavenger hunt, won over everyone’s hearts by bringing some Independence Day-themed donuts for his fellow players to enjoy.

Cards went into the air at noon, and action immediately got underway at two tables. A few folks on the waiting list found themselves with some extra time on their hands, so our founder and event host, Robbie Strazynski, ran an impromptu second scavenger hunt. Among the handful of players, Giancarlo Santolin came out on top to earn his own “bucket ‘o swag.”

Additional giveaways continued throughout the day, with players engaging in blind hold’em flips, needing to be the first to make a nut (high or low) hand, and fulfill other unique at-the-felt requirements to claim some sweet swag.

Ahem… THIS is a “Mixed Game MUG” https://t.co/JzdmXgzLds pic.twitter.com/ydVoo8cS7J

— Cardplayer Lifestyle (@PokerLifeMedia) July 5, 2023

Some of Poker’s Finest Join Us on Day 3

Within the next couple hours, several prominent poker professionals entered the room alongside two tables of $4/$8 dealer’s choice and its waitlist.

Some of our friends from PokerCoaching.com– Justin Saliba, Paul Beitelspacher, and Kieran Woods – stopped by to chat with players. It was a repeat visit for Saliba, who – while regularly running in the high roller No Limit Hold’em circuit these days – openly shared that he absolutely loves splashing around in the low-stakes mixed game streets.

Just before the clock struck 3:00pm, mixed game aficionado and all-time tournament in-the-money leader “Miami” John Cernuto stopped by to show his support for grassroots growth of mixed game poker.

Thanks so much @MiamiJohnC for joining us today at @PokerRoomRWLV for Day 3 of @PokerLifeMedia #MixedGameFestival V!

All-time leader in @TheHendonMob tournament cashes dabbling in the low-stakes cash game streets.#WhoLovesItMore pic.twitter.com/lNGMaMQ6ii

— Robbie Strazynski (@cardplayerlife) July 4, 2023

A third table opened shortly thereafter with eight more players taking their seats, one of whom wasted no time putting the table into a frenzy of laughter and lightening up an already enjoyable atmosphere.

Of course, that player was Norman Chad, another longtime mixed game lover and MGF regular. If you missed him, he’ll be back on Day 5 (Thursday) to captain a special $20/40 Omaha 8/Stud 8 table.

Table #3 of @PokerLifeMedia‘s #MixedGameFestival V $4/8 dealer’s choice cash games just opened.

Apparently, @NormanChad got lost on his way to @Arbys and decided to join us for a spell at @PokerRoomRWLV pic.twitter.com/c4crMUpjyb

— Robbie Strazynski (@cardplayerlife) July 5, 2023

Pokercoaching.com Player of the Day – Roxanne Johnson

New to the Cardplayer Lifestyle Mixed Game Festival V, we are featuring a “Player of the Day” each day during the festival, sponsored by PokerCoaching.com. As a reminder, all Mixed Game Festival V attendees can receive a free one-week membership to PokerCoaching.com Premium just by asking Robbie in person for the special link. Check out this article with the specific details of what that entails.

Roxanne Johnson, our Day 3 Player of the Day, hails from Kelowna, British Columbia, a city of around 150,000 four hours east of Vancouver, Canada. She’s a retired court liaison, formerly having worked for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She has since kept herself busy with other gigs, like her current one as a PokerNews live reporter at the WSOP.

This is her first summer reporting at the Series, but her poker history dates back to pre-Black Friday (2011). She recalls getting into the game through 180-person turbo sit-n-go tournaments on PokerStars and playing regularly on Full Tilt Poker.

More recently in her career, she won a PokerStars Micro Millions event and decided to celebrate with a four-month trip to Europe last year. Her win also earned her an entry to a site-sponsored women’s poker boot camp, and she stayed up until 2 a.m. to participate, since the camp was on a North American schedule.

Image Credit: PokerNews

The time discrepancy was inconvenient, but the timing was perfect. Boot camp participants earned a seat into a winner-take-all tournament for a PokerStars Platinum Pass, good for a $25K buy-in at the PokerStars Players Championship and travel expenses. The event took place at EPT Prague while she was in Europe, and she bested the field to earn a trip to the Bahamas.

Her poker past notwithstanding, Johnson didn’t get into mixed games until this summer. Having played No-Limit Hold’em primarily, she said her favorite variant so far is Crazy Pineapple due to the similarities with the game she knows so well.

Before jumping back into the action, Johnson took a picture donning a Pokercoaching.com hat and shared the following: “I’m already a member of the site and I love it! They’ve helped my game so much.”

Day 4 is sure to be another fun one today, with more poker celebrities set to make appearances. We look forward to seeing you at Resorts World Las Vegas!

Day 4 of @PokerLifeMedia #MixedGameFestival V will start at 3pm today at @PokerRoomRWLV.

Poker HOF-er @FirstLadyPoker + @WIPHOF-er @Jan_Fisher will be joining us to kick things off.

Every hour of play = an entry into our @PokerStars-sponsored EPT Cyprus mixed game package… pic.twitter.com/QDyCofBeaH

— Robbie Strazynski (@cardplayerlife) July 5, 2023

*Our daily coverage of Mixed Game Festival V is brought to you, with much appreciation, courtesy of PokerStars.

To access the weeklong membership, all you’ll have to do is show up and join us from July 2-6 during the Mixed Game Festival and get the code directly from me. Upon using the code to register your account on Pokercoaching.com, you’ll receive unrestricted access to every bit of training material they’ve produced for seven days!

From the moment you open your account, the clock will start ticking, and you’ll have a full week at your disposal to look around, watch some videos, and check out a variety of tools designed to help you become a better poker player.

The platform features over 25 full-scale poker courses taught by company founder Jonathan Little as well as his top-notch roster of poker coaches, which includes highly decorated professionals such as Faraz Jaka, Justin Saliba, Lexy Gavin-Mather, Tommy Angelo, Alex Fitzgerald, Brock Wilson, Matt Affleck, Ethan “Rampage” Yau, and Jonathan Jaffe. Plus, there are over 100 hand history review videos that you can watch that are practically guaranteed to give you a leg up on the competition you’ll face at the felt.

Popular offerings to check out from their library of material include their Cash Game Masterclass and Tournament Masterclass. If you’re a more experienced player you’ll likely want to have a look at Little’s new Advanced Tournament Course.

On top of traditional courses and instructional videos, PokerCoaching.com offers a range of interactive content, including more than 2,000 hand quizzes and 700 coaching seminars. These tools will prove immensely useful when putting your newly acquired knowledge into practice, thus improving your understanding of theoretical poker concepts.

As you’d expect, you’ll also find a boatload of GTO preflop charts for different formats, as well as hundreds of coaching webinars featuring interactive sessions between coaches and students where common spots get addressed effectively. If you pay close attention and internalize the lessons, you’ll have a utility belt full of enhanced options and maneuverability during your poker sessions.

Plus, on top of your FREE week of Pokercoaching Premium access, many Mixed Game Festival V attendees will likely have the opportunity to mix it up at the felt in person with some of the stable’s pros, who’ve showed up to splash around with us in the non-Hold’em streets in the past.

Finally, during each day of our upcoming Mixed Game Festival, one player will be selected as our “Pokercoaching.com Player of the Day” and will receive a free hat along with special coverage in our daily recaps.

Success in poker is all about finding value, and you’ll be sure to find plenty of it at Mixed Game Festival V, thanks to Pokercoaching.com.

Enter the Advanced Tournament Course, the latest massive multi-lesson endeavor from Jonathan Little and his outstanding team of coaches. With over 35 hours of content, it would appear to be a huge stand-alone course, and while it sort of is, it’s almost more like a huge expansion pack to your favorite video game, with exciting new weapons and items to crush your opponents.

What’s New in This Poker Course – The BFGs in the ATC

The Advanced Tournament Course takes the lessons taught in the Tournament MasterClass and expands on them in a huge way (I mean it is 35+ hours long). One of the most notable additions is the expansion of bet sizing strategies. Whereas the Tournament MasterClass primarily dealt with situations for “small” or “large” bet sizes, (mostly 1/3 or 2/3 pot-sized bets), the Advanced Tournament Course moves from the preset buttons to the slider with lessons on how and when to implement tiny bet sizes (ranging from 1 BB to 25% pot) and various overbet sizings on each street. Each section comes with multiple examples and comparisons using a variety of board textures.

The elements to consider within a hand are refreshed and expanded throughout the course. While range advantage and connectivity, nut advantage, position, stack size, and such are obviously discussed, it felt to me like there was an added emphasis on board dynamics when it comes to bet sizing and frequency. All of these factors are obviously important on any given hand and are discussed in each bet sizing concept lesson in the course.

Lessons are primarily taught with the onus on 40 BB strategy, which obviously has some wiggle room around that stack size, but there is a section specifically on 75+ BB play and the impact on frequency and sizing of bets (primarily based on the importance of nut advantage and SPR size). Short stack play isn’t really revisited from the Tournament Masterclass as the lessons there still hold up.

Plenty of new tools are also included in the course, including updated preflop GTO charts, new ICM and heads-up charts, a ton of post-flop GTO betting frequency charts, and for users of PIOsolver, a ton of presets to load into the program.

The PokerCoaching.com staple of a short quiz at the completion of each lesson to test yourself on what you’ve just learned returns, along with a 40-question final exam at the end to test everything you’ve learned collectively.

Advanced Tournament Course Content

Before we get into a few specifics of some of the lessons, here’s a quick breakdown of all the content you’ll find in the Advanced Tournament Course.

Advanced Bet Sizing Concepts (with Jonathan Little)

• 8 sections, with most videos 5-20 min long, a couple longer (3:13 total)
• When to bet small, large, adjusting raise size vs. a bet, playing turn, playing river

Deep stacked adjustments (with Jonathan Little)

• 4 sections (:43 min total)
• Postflop adjustments, positional effects, the value of being able to make (or block) the nuts

Multiway Postflop Play (with Jonathan Little)

• 7 sections (1:31 total)
• Advanced concepts, C-betting, large betting spots, strategies when facing aggression, as the in-position preflop caller, when to lead multiway

Advanced Exploits and Adjustments (with Jonathan Little)

• 8 sections (2:05 total)
• How to exploit opponents that C-Bet too much in single-raised pots, that C-bet too much in 3-bet pots, that ‘cap’ their bet size on the turn, that ‘cap’ their bet size on the river, adjusting against tight players preflop and postflop

Advanced ICM and Final Table Strategies (with Brock Wilson & Justin Saliba, Ethan “RampagePoker” Yau)

• 3 sections (1 instructional – 1:57, 1 Final Table Review – 3:58, 1 Live Stream – 4:00)
• Instructional section ‘Mastering Preflop ICM’ includes understanding preflop ICM variables, Raise first in (RFI) strategies, vs RFI strategies, vs 3-bet strategies, blind vs blind strategies
• Final table reviews of Rampage’s PokerGO win for $200k, Saliba’s WSOP online bracelet win + Saliba reviewing hands using solver software
• Live stream is Saliba’s bracelet win in full

Mastering Heads-Up Preflop Charts (with Jonathan Little)

• 2 sections (2:15 total)
• Online strategies (with 12.5% ante) for 10-75 BB, Live strategies (with big blind ante) 10-75 BB

Heads-up MTT strategy (with Jonathan Jaffe & Justin Saliba)

• 4 sections (14:42 total)
• Jaffe and Saliba play 1- and 2-table HU sessions and review each (both online ante, live ante)
• Saliba 30-min breakdown using software
• Live stream of the sessions

How to Optimally Use Poker Tools (with Matt Affleck)

• 4 sections (2:34 total)
• ICMizer, PokerTracker 4, Simple 3-Way, PIOsolver

A Few Specifics of the Advanced Tournament Course

Little and his team worked on the Advanced Tournament Course for about a year, and the effort is evident, but as is the case with almost all of Little’s teachings, it is very digestible. Most videos clock in at around 10-20 minutes, which presents players the ability to study a precise subsection of a topic, or just plow right through the 90 min+ section on multiway play should they choose. That said, I would strongly recommend focusing on the smaller chunks and really learning the concepts as opposed to just zipping through video after video.

Of note, while the majority of the lessons as I mentioned are of the shorter — but tightly packed with information — variety, the “Advanced ICM and Final Table Strategies” is where we first see sections consisting of significantly longer videos containing analysis of the play by the teachers of those sections. Get ready; the solver talk will be out in full force, but don’t let it scare you off. Hearing the players/teachers discuss their thought processes in the moment, then explaining what the correct decisions are with the solver and chart backup is really effective. In particular, fans of Ethan “Rampage Poker” Yau will really enjoy the breakdown of his Poker Masters win against Brock Wilson.

The “Heads-Up MTT Strategy” section is by far the largest of PokerCoaching.com’s Advanced Tournament Course with multiple hour-long videos of Jonathan Jaffe and Justin Saliba breaking down heads-up matches they played against each other online with 12.5% antes and a simulated ‘live’ session with a big blind ante to show the difference in strategies.

For those who want to study heads-up and learn from two of the best, this is an outstanding series of lessons discussing many, many spots they encountered in their matches with each other. Their interaction with each other as they discuss their matches is fun, too. With two players who weren’t as personable and comfortable with each other, this section could have become a slog, but that isn’t the case at all. To be fair, as lengthy and deep as this section is, it’s the one I was able to spend the least time on relative to the rest of the course. While heads-up play isn’t my primary area of desired study, the way Jaffe and Saliba go through their matches made it both entertaining and educational. I fully intend on revisiting this section and working more on my heads-up game.

A pair of sections I found very helpful were those on “Multiway Postflop Play” and “Advanced Exploits and Adjustments”. As a player who primarily plays in smaller to mid-stakes buy-in tournaments, diving deeper into spots with multiple opponents was a critical part to this course. The two sections go hand in hand, as one of the key topics of the multiway section is how much more checking is necessary because of the lack of nut and range advantage you have the more players are in the pot. This comes up in the exploits section when discussing how to take advantage of those players who just endlessly continuation-bet without taking those factors into consideration.

In another very cool and useful section for students to add supplemental learning, Matt Affleck provides some great tutorials and suggestions for PokerTracker 4, ICMizer, PIOSolver, and Simple 3-Way, all of which are key programs when some study outside of PokerCoaching.com is desired.

Conclusion

One of my favorite gigs with Cardplayer Lifestyle, besides being sent to South Florida to party and hang out on a beach (er, sorry, cover a poker tournament in South Florida), is writing PokerCoaching reviews because basically I get paid to study! I spend a huge amount of time immersing myself in the content and working on improving my game while also sharing what makes the course so worthwhile for anyone looking to improve their game.

As Little suggests, if you’re new to PokerCoaching.com or thinking of signing up for the site, the Advanced Tournament Course may not be the first module you want to tackle. It does hold up well on its own for experienced players, but with an added foundation built from the Tournament MasterClass you’ll appreciate and be able to apply even more of the lessons taught in the Advanced Tournament Course.

That said, for those with a solid foundation or PokerCoaching members who have made their way through the Tournament MasterClass, I can highly recommend the Advanced Tournament Course. Along with the 20+ hours of MTT content, the nearly 15 hours of heads-up training is outstanding. It truly is a complete course to take your tournament game to the next level.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to terrorize some opponents with 4x pot-sized river bets.

A number of wonderful partners have stepped up to provide us with plenty of extra value to offer our festival participants, both those who play in our €230 HORSE tournament, as well as those who opt to just play in our dealer’s choice cash games.

So, I’m proud to release some additional announcements about the festival that everyone who attends will be able to enjoy.

Tournament Structure

Our €230 HORSE tournament will feature 20-minute blind levels, with unlimited re-entry open for the first 10 levels of play.

Players will receive a starting stack of 40,000 chips, with the initial blind level being 200/400.

Click here to view the full, printable schedule (PDF).

Extra Value for our Tournament Winners

Pokercoaching.com will be awarding a Malta Poker Festival Main Event seat (€550 value) to the winner of our €230 HORSE tournament. The winner will also receive a 1-Year PokerCoaching.com Premium membership ($1188 value).

The remaining five players who make the final table of our €230 HORSE tournament will receive a 1-month free PokerCoaching Premium ($99 value) added to their payout.

Our €230 HORSE tournament will also feature “Bubble Protection” from BadBeat Clothing. If you’re unfortunate enough to get eliminated on the bubble, BadBeat Clothing will sooth that pain by giving you your €230 buy-in back.

Freebie Merch and More

BadBeat Clothing has also provided us with dozens upon dozens of T-Shirts to distribute to our €230 HORSE tournament players as well as players who participate in our three nights of dealer’s choice cash games from October 25-27.

Throughout the €230 HORSE tournament as well as our cash games, I’ll be giving away a bunch of extras via “bomb pots” as well as random seat draws. These include:

• Pokercoaching.com hats
• 1 month free of Pokercoaching Premium
• Getting Started with HORSE by Chris Wallace
• Mastering Mixed Games by Dylan Linde
• Some other freebie merch I’ll be bringing with me

Come Join Us!

We’re just over a month away from the festivities and Malta beckons. The local Malta mixed game crowd is excited and plenty of folks who share that excitement are slated to fly in for the festivities from around Europe… and even as distant as the United States.

Be sure to join us at the Portomaso Casino and get your mixed game poker fix. While some of you will walk away with big winnings, anyone who comes to participate in our Mixed Game Festival is assured to walk away with great memories.

Just booked my flights! Malta I’m coming for some sweet mixed game action@cardplayerlife

— Milko (@DegenOnTour) September 18, 2022

So looking forward to this… https://t.co/6pYod9LGSI

— Martin Smith :-: Pot Limit Sviten Special (@poker4leisure) September 8, 2022

In more exciting news (to me), I’ll be heading to Malta to try and earn a between Oct 26 – Nov 4 for the annual @TheHendonMob Summit and play The Hendon Mob Championship, a part of the @maltapokerfest https://t.co/HCCsZCaKaA

Are Maltesers available in Malta?

— Kevin Mathers (@Kevmath) September 12, 2022

At Pokercoaching.com, Jonathan Little and his team of coaches have no such concerns, as they continue to pump out new content daily throughout the various elements of the site.

With that in mind, and with the World Series of Poker about to commence, we here at Cardplayer Lifestyle thought this would be an ideal time to pore through the latest updates to the site and pass along a glance at all they’re doing to make you a better poker player.

Where it all begins. The PokerCoaching.com Dashboard

The Pokercoaching.com Masterclasses

The most in-depth and thorough content on Pokercoaching.com is Jonathan Little’s Cash Game and Tournament Masterclasses, which contain many hours of content primarily via video lessons and quizzes.

They remain the most popular and successful content on the site, and recently Little gave the Cash Game Masterclass an overhaul, improving on an already outstanding instructional series that is worth not only a first look, but repeated viewings for whatever section of your game needs a tune-up.

Details of the latest incarnation of the Cash Game Masterclass include:

• 32+ hours of instruction through 156 lessons with quizzes dealing with both online and live cash games at 100 BB and deeper stacked play.
• Videos and quizzes broken into sections for preflop, flop, turn, river, deepstack adjustments, and additional topics (straddling, seat selection, rake etc.), then approximately two hours of hand reviews
• Lessons are split into general strategies for each street, then into board-specific strategies

Just a few of the lessons for play on the turn

Along with the Cash Game Masterclass, the Tournament Masterclass remains essential viewing for any PokerCoaching.com student both current or prospective, while Mastering the Fundamentals is a must for newer players and is completely free just for signing up with PokerCoaching.com!

For more complete reviews of each of these Masterclasses, follow the links below:

• Cash Game Masterclass
• Tournament Masterclass
• Mastering the Fundamentals

Pokercoaching.com Classes

The backbone of any poker training site is its selection of classes available to students. With an all-star team of coaches including Little, Matt Affleck, Bert Stevens (Girafganger7), Faraz Jaka, Alex Fitzgerald, Lexy Gavin, Tristan Wade, Jonathan Jaffee, James Romero, Michael Acevedo, Justin Saliba, Evan Jarvis, Brad Wilson, Ryan O’Donnell and more, this section is more than well covered.

READ MORE: 10 PokerCoaching.com Coaches & the Skills They’ll Help You Master

Almost daily a member of the coaching staff is either releasing a class or hosting a live webinar which will be added to PokerCoaching.com for later viewing, with each generally running at least 1-2 hours, with a wide variety of topics ranging from specific aspects of a hand like playing the turn in a check-raised pot to betting concepts like overbetting in deep-stacked cash games.

Several of the classes are multi-part series, such as “ICM Concepts Simplified” with Matt Affleck, “$1-2 Cash Game Strategies” with Tristan Wade, and “High Stakes PIO Solver Review” with Justin Saliba, but each can be easily viewed in segments and need not be viewed all in one sitting.

As of this writing, almost 600 different classes are available on the site, with content from the past week alone including:

• A $2 MTT Student Review with Tristan Wade
• Probing Turns After In-position Checkback Webinar with Michael Acevedo
• $2/$5 Live Cash Game Review with Lexy Gavin
• CO vs BTN in Single-Raised Pots Webinar with Matt Affleck
• Understanding HUDs and HUD Adjustments Webinar with Ryan O’Donnell

Live, online, high, and low stakes, all within one week, and this kind of variety is available throughout PokerCoaching.com so you can quickly find a section of your game to work on at any time.

Just a few of the nearly 600 available classes

Pokercoaching.com Courses

Along with the Masterclasses, which are the grand poobahs of courses available on PokerCoaching.com, there are 72 other shorter collections of classes gathered together in generally 3-10 hour long “courses” focusing on various elements of No-Limit Hold ‘em.

Two of the newest are the “2022 US Poker Open Review” where Little breaks down not just his 2nd place run in a 10k event for $149,000, but other tournaments and key spots in the series from other high-level players including Dan Smith, Chris Brewer, Jeremy Ausmus, Nick Petrangelo, David Peters, Sean Winter, Shannon Shorr and many more.

The 2022 US Poker Open

Also new is the “Crushing Small Stakes Cash Games” course which includes:

• 10 hours of live play and explain videos from online low-stakes cash games with 29 short 5-10 min topic-based lessons.
• Among topics discussed are GTO preflop ranges and play and exploit adjustments.
• The course utilizes the very useful PokerCoaching.com app, which includes preflop charts for various stack sizes.

Crushing small stakes means not being a nit!

As mentioned, there are a total of 72 courses available, teaching both cash game and tournament theory and strategy, but also in the mix is a great series of mindset courses featuring such notable instructors as Dr. Tricia Cardner, Jared Tendler, Elliot Roe and Zachary Elwood.

Whether it’s a topical course like prepping for the WSOP Main Event, or learning how to beat wild cash games like the recent Hustler Casino Live stream; or just improving your win rate on the Sunday grind, or eliminating tilt from your game, there is a course for you on PokerCoaching.com.

Pokercoaching.com Challenges

Along with the Courses, another student-friendly ‘guided learning’ style presentation on PokerCoaching.com is the series of Challenges structured around a time-based learning module.

Examples of these include:

• 5 day preflop challenge
• 7 day 3-betting challenge
• 30 day cash game challenge
• 30 day tournament prep challenge

Up for a multi-day challenge?

Challenges are built through a variety of areas on the site including sections of classes, webinars, quizzes, and even Masterclasses.

The time commitment varies from day to day depending on the day’s content (with few taking more than an hour). But the combination of a variety of content and the structure of daily presentation is some of the most appealing training for any student, especially those that may be new to poker training sites.

Play and Explain

With the popularity of poker streamers on platforms like Twitch and YouTube, PokerCoaching.com has tapped into that with over 70 videos of multi-hour sessions from some of the very best in the world of online poker playing and explaining their thought processes for students.

Among the coaches to watch crushing their sessions are the aforementioned Jonathan Little, Bert Stevens (Girafganger7), Matt Affleck, Faraz Jaka, Tristan Wade, and Brad Wilson.

Watch a few minutes at a time or watch eight hours, it’s up to you, with hundreds of hours of online play available on demand.

Tens of hours of Girafganger7 in action

Pokercoaching.com Quizzes

The most plentiful and easy-to-digest content on PokerCoaching.com is the massive library of quizzes available to students.

As of this writing, the site is now approaching 1,700 individual short quizzes designed to test and teach students in a highly consumable, multiple-choice, street-by-street format with one of the coaches guiding you through a single hand from either a tournament or cash game.

Players are graded on their choices at each decision point, with a total score awarded at the completion of the hand.

Each quiz generally takes no more than five minutes, so if you’re strapped for time but want to get a quick bit of learning in, quizzes provide the ideal outlet for a fast bit of No-Limit Hold ’em knowledge.

Just one of the nearly 1,700 quizzes available

Hand History Reviews

While some of the courses or webinars on PokerCoaching.com include hand history reviews, if those are your preferred method of learning, they’re also organized exclusively into one section for students.

Just under 200 hand history reviews are available from coaches covering stakes ranging from $2 online MTTs to $10k live tourneys and micro to high stakes online and live cash game reviews

Hundreds of hours of hand histories

Tools and Community

Whether you’re building up your poker skills or just laying the foundation, you’re going to need some tools and PokerCoaching.com has a workshop full of them.

GTO preflop charts, push/fold charts, a range analyzer, a Progressive Knockout (PKO) Tournament bounty calculator, and even Jonathan Little’s own online HUD settings are available to students, along with a thriving Discord community for students to discuss hands, strategies, and all things poker.

GTO charts galore. Just don’t use while playing!

Conclusion

With the World Series of Poker just around the corner and poker booming worldwide, there’s no better time to get working on your game.

PokerCoaching.com continues to be the front-runner in cutting-edge, student-friendly poker training for No-Limit Hold’em players of all levels.

For the sixth consecutive year, Cardplayer Lifestyle is proud to offer our readers this Holiday Gift Guide for Poker Players. In much of the developed world, things seem to finally be heading back towards what we knew as normal, and there’s a lot to give thanks for. Thus, it’s important to try and focus on things that can make us happy and bring us smiles.

As always, we’ve put together a wide variety of gift giving ideas for you to consider this holiday season, including a number of new, creative entries on our list as well as some annual stalwarts.

Moreover, many of our featured vendors are offering exclusive holiday discounts to Cardplayer Lifestyle readers, so whether you’re looking for the perfect gift for your poker-loving partner or, alternatively, just want to treat yourself to something nice, be sure to take advantage!

We hope you enjoy this year’s guide!

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Take your home game to the next level with your very own Digital Poker Table. This holiday season is the perfect time to purchase your very own electronic gaming table, where you can play up to 18 different poker variants at the touch of a button.

No cards or chips necessary! Just an outlet, WiFi, and you’re ready to play poker with your buddies!

Whether you opt for the 2-, 4-, 6-, 8-, or 10-seat Digital Poker Table, you’ll always have access to the latest software updates and upgrades.

Choose to play limit, pot limit, or no-limit, whether in cash game or tournament format.

Best of all, the Digital Poker Table doubles as a family gaming table! You can play popular favorites like Rummikub, Trivia, and more with your kids, neighbors, and even invite the grandparents over for game night.

Don’t have room in your home for a table? No problem — for just $25/month you can purchase a premium subscription to the Digital Poker Table software and play on your iOS devices, even broadcasting the game onto your Apple TV!

Visit DigitalPokerTable.com or call (702) 628-1900 to order in time for the holidays, and be sure to mention Cardplayer Lifestyle!

THE GTO+ SOLVER BUNDLE BY RED CHIP POKER

Red Chip Poker has officially partnered up with GTO+ to offer you the best introduction to GTO. As game theory optimal (GTO) poker continues to increase in popularity and importance, now is the time to invest in a quality solver and training. So their new GTO+ Bundle includes a lifetime license to the GTO+ solver AND a complete course so you know exactly how to set up the tool, explore the trees, and analyze solves like a pro.

GTO+ allows you to do everything from simple solves to complex bet sizing exploration. Plus, you can “play against the solver” to test your skills between sessions. And for the more advanced players, this solver allows for node locking, various display methods, and even scripting.

Buy the GTO+ bundle for the poker player in your life (or as a nice holiday gift for yourself!) to start seeing GTO poker more clearly.

THE MENTAL GAME TUNE UP FOR TOURNAMENT POKER

The Mental Game Tune Up for Tournament Poker is a video-based course that walks players through the same steps that Jared Tendler takes his clients through to prepare for tournament play. Comprehensive yet simple, it consists of eight modules covering key topics, such as tilt, handling swings in variance, burnout, and distractions.

The most popular feature of the course are the unscripted coaching sessions called “Coaching the Pros” featuring two notable professional poker players: Diego Ventura and Matt Affleck. Go inside to see how top online and live professionals think and prepare for WCOOP and the WSOP. Now is the time to get yourself ready for 2022. Don’t wait until the next series to get started. Invest in your game and let Jared guide you through the steps to get it in shape.

“I can’t recommend the Mental Game Tune Up course and Jared’s work highly enough. I really found it valuable to work through leading up to my last WSOP trip which was my most successful trip by far. Thanks for another amazing product Jared!”

Lara Eiesenberg, 2021 WSOP Ladies Champion

Claim your special $125 discount this Holiday Season by using promo code CPL125 when you enroll in Jared’s course.

RUN IT ONCE TRAINING

If you want to start taking your game seriously in 2022 you’ll find everything you need to back up your commitment at Run It Once Training. Launched in 2012 by high stakes legend Phil Galfond, Run It Once has always been the place for dedicated poker players to advance to the next level and stay ahead of their opponents.

The slogan ‘Train With the Best’ doesn’t only reflect that you’ll learn from the highest tier coaches like Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, Kevin Rabichow, or Phil Galfond himself. It also means you’ll benefit from a community of students that have the highest aspirations in poker and are often professional players themselves.

Members of Run It Once Training Plans get access to an expansive library of over 6,500 training videos, with two brand new videos every single day to make sure you’re always learning the newest strategies. No matter which form of poker you play or which area of your game you need to work on, Run It Once has you covered.

Just starting out in poker or want to transition to a new game format? Run It Once Courses were specifically designed for new players who want to start learning poker from the beginning, the right way. The courses follow a carefully crafted learning journey until you have the proper foundation you need to expand your game to the highest levels.

If you need help planning the perfect poker gift for your loved ones, reach out to Run It Once Support and we’ll assist you every step of the way.

FADED SPADE PLAYING CARDS

As the preferred playing cards of the World Poker Tour, Faded Spade has fast become the most popular playing card brand for poker players across the globe.

Poker players in many countries and continents have switched to Faded Spade playing cards for their poker home games. The cards are known for their modern face card designs and high quality 100% plastic that has an intentional balance of strength and flexibility. Two-deck sets are available in Poker Size 2.0 (Wide), Bridge Size 2.0 (Narrow), and 4-Color 2.0.

Beyond WPT programming, you might have also played with Faded Spade cards at your local poker room! Plus, you may have seen Faded Spade poker playing cards on many popular poker live stream shows or in play on NBC Sports, PokerGO, and more during poker programs like Poker After Dark, Super High Roller Bowl, Poker Masters, and the U.S. Poker Open.

CAESARS PALACE POKER ROOM

There’s perhaps no more enjoyable time to take a poker trip than the Holiday season, and similarly there’s perhaps no more enjoyable poker room to play in than the one at Caesars Palace! Once you hit Las Vegas, head straight to the center of the famed Las Vegas Strip to the one-of-a-kind Caesars Palace Poker Room.

With 18 tables, and located right next to the casino’s sportsbook, the 4,500-square-foot poker room offers all the action you can handle at limits ranging from $1-3 right up to the nosebleeds. Comps are offered at $2 per hour, with Caesars Rewards Members also earning 34 tier points/hour.

Beyond cash games, the room also offers multiple tournaments each day and is staffed by some of the most professional, friendly dealers and floorpeople you’ll find in the city.

Staff are happy to speak with you anytime, so feel free to call (866) 227-5938 and get your name on the waiting lists this holiday season at Caesars Palace, home of champions!

SHUFFLE TECH MDS-6 MULTI-DECK SHUFFLER

The new Shuffle Tech MDS-6 is perfect for this upcoming Holiday Season. As you gather with friends and family to spend time together and play games, this makes a perfect addition to your game night.

This multi-deck card shuffler can shuffle up to 6 full decks of playing cards. Whether you play canasta, blackjack, or any other multi-deck card game, this will streamline your hand shuffling. Paper cards will shuffle, but not as well as with 100% plastic playing cards. So, quality playing cards are always recommended. And as always, our products come with a 1-year warranty.

The MDS-6 runs both on direct power or battery operated (4 x D-sized). Plus, as with all Shuffle Tech products, you also get a 1-year warranty!

We ship worldwide! For more information, visit www.shuffletech.com.

D&B POKER BOOKS

D&B Poker produces the best poker books out there and their latest publication from the highly successful coach and author Jonathan Little is no exception. Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker: The Essential Guide can rightly claim to be the definitive guide to tournament poker. As per our own review, “The poker world was ready for an age-defining poker book in a period of global flux; it has found it in this book.”

This holiday season, you can get your hands on either the beautiful hardcover edition, the ebook, or the audiobook (recorded by Jonathan), all of which can be found HERE.

Also due out in the coming weeks is an addition to D&B’s Mastering Small Stakes series, Evan Jarvis‘ Mastering Small Stakes Cash Games. Evan’s reputation as a top notch coach at Gripsed.com is well established and in this book he brings his full arsenal of knowledge and skills to help players master cash game play. Evan takes a holistic approach, recognizing that being able to master people and master yourself are equally important in order to achieve poker success.

This book makes for an excellent stocking stuffer, as the paperback edition will be publishing in December in UK/Europe and January in the US, with the ebook due out in January.

POKERCOACHING PREMIUM

This holiday season PokerCoaching.com is rolling out the red carpet and giving you up to 61% off on PREMIUM memberships!

Beyond their already massive suite of training materials, you’ll also get FREE access to two of Jonathan Little‘s exclusive courses — the all-new Cash Game Masterclass and his Tournament Masterclass — PLUS his vast library of 1-on-1 coaching videos!

Cash Game Masterclass

• 32+ hours
• 156 lessons

In this completely new course, Little teaches you everything you need to know to crush small and medium stakes cash games. Via numerous hand examples and quizzes, you’ll internalize how to consistently win in both online and live cash games, with starting stacks of 100 and 200 big blinds.

Tournament Masterclass

• 30+ hours
• 180 lessons

In this highly regarded course, Little teaches you everything you need to know to play every stage of a poker tournament optimally, maximally exploit your opponents, and maximize your tournament equity.

1-on-1 Coaching Videos

Best of all, if you act now and join PokerCoaching Premium, you’ll get FREE ACCESS to 240+ hours Jonathan Little’s 1-on-1 coaching videos!

Ring in the holidays by joining the 120,000+ poker players who are using PokerCoaching.com to increase their win rate through active learning!

THE POKER FORGE

The Poker Forge helps online small-stakes players build valuable skills for a fun and profitable journey. You will go through 9 Masterclass courses that teach foundational and advanced poker strategies in a logical progression. This will build you up as a player with useful skills one upon the other, while helping you avoid poker overwhelm: That feeling of having too much to study and not enough time. The Poker Forge helps you learn where you must focus your efforts and guides you in that direction.

You can start booking wins right away with course #1, the Quick Wins Gameplans, which help you earn quick profits with easy-to-use strategies. Or, you can bounce around from course to course. Maybe start with the Hand Reading Course (to learn poker’s #1 skill) or the Finding the Fold Course (to plug that costly leak of poor post-flop calling). The journey is up to you, but along the way the Poker Forge gives you checklists, calendars and study guides to keep you on track.

All Poker Forge training is built upon the idea of “learn then apply”. Each video teaches you important strategies to use in-game or during your study time. Plus, every video gives you action steps to take that force you to practice what you just learned because… action is the greatest teacher.

Give yourself or the poker player in your life the gift of a profitable and fun online poker journey with The Poker Forge.

FLOPZILLA PRO CUSTOM SPLITSUIT EDITION

One of the best tools for poker study is Flopzilla Pro. Flopzilla can do everything from analyzing single hands to complex ranges, break down post-flop situations statistically, and even do advanced range-vs.-range analysis.

If you’ve never used this app before, here’s an example of using Flopzilla Pro to study a common $2/$5 hand:

To make things even better, the SPLITSUIT EDITION of Flopzilla Pro not only includes a lifetime license for the software, but it also includes custom range presets and additional training videos. This bundle sets every poker player up for success to make off-table time easier and on-table time more profitable.

Get the SplitSuit Edition of Flopzilla Pro today and book yourself a winning holiday season!

RUNGOODGEAR APPAREL

This holiday season it’s time to scroll past the parody shirts send your favorite poker player something they want to wear both at and away from the tables.

Since 2012, poker players have been gearing up with RunGood, the industry’s leading apparel company. Focused on producing clothing with an emphasis on comfort and style, the RunGoodGear brand is a popular sight in poker rooms around the United States, with a wide variety of hats, hoodies, and shirts available online.

“As a poker player, we don’t make anything we wouldn’t wear ourselves on or off the table.” says Tana Karn, Founder of RunGoodGear. There is a reason items become out of stock, don’t delay and pick up an item today.

Also, be sure to visit www.RunGoodGear.com to see what’s happening next with the multi-time GPI Award-Winning Mid-Major Tour, the RunGood Poker Series, while picking up your next hat or hoodie.

Wishing all of our readers here at Cardplayer Lifestyle a happy holiday season!

For a limited time, everyone can get access to Jonathan Little’s PokerCoaching Premium package for FREE! The offer entails unrestricted access to every bit of training material in the program for five full days, from November 15-19, giving you a great opportunity to check out their excellent suite of poker training products. Have “a taste of this” and “a taste of that” without any financial risk so you can directly gauge which of their “special sauces” will help you most with your poker game.

To claim the offer, simply visit the PokerCoaching site, create your free account (no credit card is required during the registration process), and get started. From the moment you open the account, the clock will start ticking, and you’ll have five full days at your disposal to look around, watch some videos, and test a variety of tools designed to help you become a better poker player.

Premium Poker Courses, Hand Charts, and Much More

PokerCoaching.com is one of the most well-established training platforms out there that’s gone from strength to strength over the years. You’ve probably had an opportunity to watch some of Little’s free videos on YouTube, but these are just a tiny fraction of what’s available to the site’s full-time members.

The platform features over 70 full-scale poker courses taught by Little himself and the team of coaches working behind the scenes, including the likes of Faraz Jaka, Alex Fitzgerald, Matt Affleck, Tommy Angelo, and Jonathan Jaffe. Plus, there are over 180 hand history review videos that you can consume that are practically guaranteed to give you a leg up on the competition you’re facing at the felt.

READ MORE: 10 PokerCoaching.com Coaches & the Skills They’ll Help You Master

Whether you’re a tournament player or prefer the cash game action, you’ll have no problem finding quality materials to boost your game, with courses such as:

• 30-Day Cash Game Challenge
• Cash Game Masterclass (read our review here)
• Tournament Masterclass (read our review here)
• 30-Day Tournament Preparation Challenge (read our review here)

Pokercoaching.com’s illustrious, highly decorated coaching roster

On top of traditional courses and instructional videos, PokerCoaching.com offers a range of interactive content, including more than 1,400 hand quizzes. These are very useful tools to test your newly acquired knowledge and improve your understanding of theoretical concepts.

Inside, you’ll also find many GTO preflop charts for different formats, and these charts alone add tremendous value to the Premium membership.

Finally, there are hundreds of coaching webinars readily available for viewing. These are interactive sessions between coaches and students, offering answers to some concrete questions and situations that players come across during their sessions.

Great Opportunity at No Cost

Choosing the right poker training platform can be tricky as there are several quality options out there, but all of them have different approaches and offer different tools, techniques, and playing methodologies. What works for one player might not necessarily work for another one.

From that perspective, PokerCoaching.com’s All Access pre-Black Friday offer presents a great opportunity to see firsthand what they’re all about and if their approach to teaching poker is right for you.

Once again, the offer comes with no costs involved and you don’t even need a credit card. Once you sign up, you’ll have five full days to explore the platform and tap into its potential to help you improve.

To be clear, there is no obligation whatsoever to upgrade your subscription once the trial period is over, so you literally have nothing to lose.

If you’ve been thinking about ways to improve your game, but didn’t know where to start, here’s a great opportunity. Sign up today and see if Jonathan Little and the rest of his talented team of poker coaches can offer what you’re looking for.

Don’t “late reg”, though, as this promotion comes with an expiration date, so best to take advantage of it while you can!

RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We are committed to learning the game, but our priority is building healthy relationships where we can not only grow in the game, but grow in our enjoyment of life. The membership website at rec.poker is awesome, but it’s just a tool to help us build that community. You can join for FREE, giving you access to the groups, forums, and other member benefits. If you want to enjoy the premium content, or become part of the RECing Crew, those options are available and you can get $10 off your first payment using the code RECPOKER.

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Jonathan Little outside the PokerGO Studio

Little has a World Poker Tour title to his credit along with over $7 million in career tournament earnings. He is also the founder of Pokercoaching.com, while Jaka, Affleck and Romero are three of the coaches who also proudly represent that poker training site, and Saliba works for the company behind the scenes.

With Owen primarily being a cash game player, it’ll be interesting as a viewer to see how his game matches up against a murderer’s row of tournament professionals.

Anyone who has watched the previous two episodes of Poker After Dark Season 12 (entitled One Bourbon, One Shot, and No Fear) has already seen Little grace their screens in a 6-handed $20,000 buy-in hybrid cash/tournament session (with one re-buy allowed) competing against Alex Ding, Sam Soverol, Justin Young, Chris Johnson, and Jake Daniels.

Spoiler alert: Little was the first one eliminated from the proceedings, so we’ll see if he can “redeem himself” with a better showing in the sit-n-go.

How Would YOU Like to Appear on Poker After Dark?

As regular Poker After Dark viewers surely know from previously-aired episodes, PokerCoaching.com is giving one lucky viewer the chance to win a seat to play in a $5,000 sit-n-go with Jonathan Little, to be contested in Season 13.

If you haven’t already done so, you can enter the giveaway (quite literally, all you need to do is submit your name and email address). There’s plenty of time to send in your entry, with submissions closing on July 31, 2021.

A drawing will then take place to name the winner, who will have the opportunity to compete for a $30,000 prize in the sit-n-go.

More Info on Pokercoaching.com

Avid Cardplayer Lifestyle readers already know that for years now we’ve been quite proud to promote Pokercoaching.com as one of the industry’s top poker training sites. Beyond the aforementioned players, there are half a dozen more well-regarded expert coaches on the company’s roster who offer a bevy of lessons that will help you boost your own poker game.

Moreover, our own Mike Patrick has reviewed numerous Pokercoaching.com courses and other training materials, including:

• Tournament Masterclass
• Master the Fundamentals
• 30-day Tournament Preparation Challenge
• Learning Paths
• Cash Game Master Class
• 25K Platinum Coaching Series

We’ve received universally positive feedback on Mike’s reviews, which indicates that players clearly know they’re getting the goods when signing up to learn from Pokercoaching.com’s training materials. You might want to consider checking some of them out yourselves, if you haven’t already. After all, if you end up being the lucky winner of Jonathan Little’s Poker After Dark giveaway, you’ll certainly have your work cut out for you, and the skills you’ll pick up will undoubtedly prove useful at the felt to give you a better shot at claiming the $30,000 in prize money.

The second episode of the Poker After Dark Lesson Learned sit-n-go will air next week on Monday, March 15.

RecPoker is a vibrant and encouraging poker learning community. We are committed to learning the game, but our priority is building healthy relationships where we can not only grow in the game, but grow in our enjoyment of life. The membership website at rec.poker is awesome, but it’s just a tool to help us build that community. You can join for FREE, giving you access to the groups, forums, and other member benefits. If you want to enjoy the premium content, or become part of the RECing Crew, those options are available and you can get $10 off your first payment using the code RECPOKER.

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