Advice from Professional Poker Player: Adam Noone
You should take poker seriously if your goal is to profit from playing online poker games!
There was a new article published on Full Tilt Poker a couple of days ago that all those playing online poker with the goal of turning profit or becoming professional poker player will want to pay attention to.
The author of the article, Adam Noone is a poker player from England who first saw poker on Television and then turned Professional after building his bankroll up by playing small stakes Sit & Go online poker tournaments.
He had some big winnings already such as finishing 209th in the World Series of Poker Main Event 2007 and winning the Full Tilt Poker Million Pound Challenge in London (that happened in September of 2008).
Today, he is one of the Full Tilt Poker Pros. It is interesting how he got the ticket for the Full Tilt Poker Million Pound Challenge poker tournament. He qualified online at Full Tilt Poker and after winning it went on to play FTP Pros Heads Up for £1 000 000!
In order to win those £1 000 000, he had to beat 3 Full Tilt Pros: Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson and Roland de Wolfe. After winning agains Ivey and Ferguson, he was only 1 match away from getting that million. Unfortunately for him, he lost the heads up match against Roland and had to settle for £200 000.
Anyways, to get back to the advice about poker from Adam Noone.
Basically, what you will find in the article is an explanation of the difference between someone who is playing (online) poker for fun or entertainment and someone who is playing poker in order to earn money (either as a professional or as seasoned poker player).
You can read the article here: Audit your game
In general, Adam Noone says in case your goal is to profit from (online) poker games (meaning to become professional poker player) you should treat poker as a business. Why business?
Well, because businesses regularly check and review their performance and discuss new tactics and strategies! Same should be said for Professional poker players: Reviewing and implementing new strategies is important and should be performed regularly.
One of the options to review your game is to discuss it with your friends who are also involved in online poker, but you can do it on your own too ofcourse! As said, you can read the whole article by clicking this URL: Audit your game
Leave a comment below if you liked it and/or have something to add! Good luck and keep in touch!
Rush Poker Strategy by Brandon Adams
Improve your Rush Poker Strategy with tips from Poker Pro Brandon Adams
Rush Poker seems to be taking off the ground quicky on Full Tilt Poker and I really hope you are getting the most out of it!
If not, this post will certainly help you out! But before I tell you about it, you should know that I have already made one post on Rush Poker Tips before. You can read it here: How to play Rush Poker: Basics and Tips from Howard Lederer.
Since then another professional poker player, Brandon Adams, has published his thoughts about Strategy in Rush Poker games. Due to the fact that online Rush Poker games are so new, every strategy tips about this poker form is more than welcome to get familiar with.
That is why I suggest all Rush Poker Players to further improve their Rush Poker Strategy by reading the following article written by Brandon Adams: Thinking about Strategy in Rush Poker
All those who have read the tips from Howard Lederer already know that one of the advantages of playing Rush Poker over the normal online poker games is that you get to play many more hands in Rush Poker.
There are estimates that with Rush Poker you are able to play approximately 4 times more hands than with normal poker games. While this is true, the number of hands played in Rush poker also depends on how fast you are with playing poker in general.
Just like you will be able to read in the article about strategy in rush poker by Brandon Adams, if you are above average when it comes to playing speed, you are able to play twice as much hands as an average player!
Enough talk from me, here are some of the highlights in the above mentioned Rush Poker Strategy article:
Rush Poker Strategy: Taking advantage of Quick Fold Button
When playing Rush Poker, you have an option to fold out of turn. This feature is called »quick fold button«. This basically means you get seated to another table immediately after pressing the quick fold button.
Ofcourse, the opponents at that table have no idea that you used that button, at least until the move to act gets to you. When that happens, your fold happens very quickly and it is obvious to the rest of the table that you used »quick fold«.
Now here comes the best part. Regular Rush Poker players take notes on who is quick folding or folding out of turn and are taking advantage of that.
As said, only regular players can be able to determine such players as they keep seeing some of the same players (eventhough the pool of players in Rush Poker consist out of 1000+ players).
So, how can you take advantage of players who are using »quick fold«? Well, constantly stealing blinds from them is one possible way of using such information!
For the rest of the Rush Poker strategy by Brandon Adams, I suggest reading the whole article by clicking here: Rush Poker Strategy!
Have anything to add about Rush poker strategies? I really hope so! Leave it in the comments below please. Thanks and good luck at the (online) poker tables!
Top 5 Poker Pros with most contributions on FTP Academy
Find out who are the most productive contributors of poker strategy content on Full Tilt Poker Academy!
I am not sure if you noticed it, but this is my third consecutive post on Full Tilt Poker Academy in a row.
The reason for this is quite obvious: Getting constant and solid poker education or training should be on top of the priory list for everyone, who wants to become long-term winning poker player or win more.
Since I assume you (as the regular reader of my blog) are one of these poker players who are constantly looking for ways to become better at poker, I want to make things easier for you by bringing you closer to the FTP Academy as it really is a great source of poker knowledge for beginners to (online) poker games as well as more experience players.
This time I write about top contributors of poker strategy content on the Academy. By contributors I mean Poker Pros and by content I mean things like video lessons, podcasts and video sessions (basically the way the poker strategy is presented to you on the academy).
Anyways, here are the top 5 Poker Pros with most contributions on FTP Academy:
Andy Bloch: 9 contributions
Andy Bloch has 9 contributions on FTP Academy. He is described as a math expert who came second the inaugural WSOP $50K HORSE event. Some of the things you can learn from Andy in the academy are mathematics in poker as well as on how to play Omaha, Razz and HORSE poker games.
Phil Gordon: 7 contributions
Phil Gordon is described as a poker broadcaster and author, who won WPT title as well and has up to date made 7 contributions to FTP Academy. Among the things he contributed are tips for beginners, game selection and guide to Sit & Go Tournaments.
Patrik Antonious: 6 contributions
Patrik Antonious is among the most famous poker players in the world. He is described as one of the best high-stakes cash game players in the world. He has 6 contributions on FTP Academy.
Some of those are about Limit and Pot-Limit Omaha and about how to extract the most cash out of nut hands like quads or straights. Definitely worth watching!
Chris Ferguson: 6 contributions
I am sure you know Chris Ferguson (if not else, you have read my blog posts about this player). Well, he has 6 contributions on FTP Academy up to date, which among other things include bankroll management, pre-flop play and Heads-up tourneys.
Aaron Bartley: 6 contributions
I am not familiar with Aaron Bartley from before, but he is a full-time online Pro, who also made it to the final table in the first WSOP Circuit event. You can learn from him about how to play middle stages of Sit & Go tournaments and about shootout poker tournaments as well.
As you can see, the things you can learn from just the top 5 contributors on FTP Academy is worth gold for itself! But there are many more professional poker players to learn about poker strategy from on Full Tilt Poker Academy.
Hope this helps you with find good poker strategy content and with developing your overall winning poker strategy. That is it for now, do not forget to subscribe for more poker related content like that! Until next time, have fun and good luck at the poker tables!
About Professional Poker Players on FTP Academy
Learning poker strategy from professional poker players on Full Tilt Poker Academy
As I have alredy pointed out in my previous post Online poker training with Pros from Full Tilt Poker Academy, there are 32 professional poker players, who share their poker knowledge and experience on Full Tilt Poker Academy!
The Poker Pros that »teach« online poker strategy on FTP Academy are all among the best at what they do (playing poker professionally obviously) and are either part of Team Full Tilt or part of FTP Pros.
To give you one proof of their poker expertise: Take a look at all those titles and big poker events that these players have won or been very close to winning.
For instance, you will find videos and podcasts on how to play NL Hold’em or Limit Omaha Hi-Lo from top online Pro poker player Jordan Morgan in there. He has won WSOP Circuit Event in 2007 and many other big online Multi-table Tournaments (MTT) on Full Tilt.
Or perhaps you will be more interested in poker lesson from Gus Hansen about how to control the poker table. Gus Hansen has been World Poker Tour (WPT) champion for three times up to date.
The above mentioned Poker Pros are only 2 out of 32 total Pros that give advice on how to improve your game and become a winning poker player or earn more money. There are many more just as good (or even better) Pros that you can learn from.
They can help you out with any aspect (pre-flop or post-flop game, bankroll management, starting hands, position, betting) or form of poker (NL Texas Holdem, Pot limit Omaha). But basically, what you will learn on FTP Academy really depends on you.
Think about which element of your poker game you want to improve. What makes you lose money? What is your weakness? Is Heads-up play your weakness? What are your goals?
Take time and think for a minute or two what part of your poker strategy should you improve or want to learn more about it. When you have the necessary anwsers, log in to the FTP Academy (or make an account first at Full Tilt Poker in case you do not have one yet) and find players who has published tutorials or lessons on that subject.
When you find the desired content, watch it and compare everything that is being said with what you have learned or experienced so far about the subject. Think about how you will incorporate your newly gained knowledge in your current poker game the next time you will play poker online or live.
That is it! Now go to FTP Academy and start improving your poker strategy today so you can profit from it tomorow!
In case you would like to add something, please leave it in comments below. Thanks and good luck at the poker tables!
Phil Hellmuth’s Poker Books
Phil Hellmuth also known as the Poker Brat is one of the most famous and (and successful as well, ofcourse) professional poker players, who also wrote numerous Poker Books. The area where Phil is especially good are Texas Holdem Poker Games.
To give you a proof of that: He has up to date won 11 WSOP bracelets and they were all Texas Holdem Tournaments! At this moment, no other poker player has managed to won so many WSOP titles. So far, the closest to him are Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson, both holding 10 WSOP titles, but these are not all from playing Texas Holdem variation of poker.
Besides that, he also cashed in all together more than 70 times on various WSOP Tournaments! This is especially amazing because he is far away from ending up his poker career. We will probably see him win again and again in the future!
This simply shows how big of a Texas Holdem Poker Tournament expert Phil Hellmuth is. His poker knowledge is therefore really valuable and can be of benefit to any seasonal or professional poker player.
One way of how you can learn from him are the books about poker that he wrote. But make sure you pick the right one as some of them are mainly written in an entertaining manner. Of course if you have no problem with that, then just go on and get it!
Poker Books written by Phil Hellmuth
The list of the poker books written by Hellmuth together with short description is available below. You can buy all the below Hellmuth’s books on Amazon.
Poker Book: Read Them and Reap
Read Them and Reap was published in November 2006 and is book about Live Poker Tells. It was was written together with former FBI agent Joe Navarro, who is an expert in non-verbal communication and behaviour analysis.
If you are looking for information that will help you read your poker opponents like an open book, then this may be just what you are looking for!
Click here to buy Read Them and Reap on Amazon
Poker Book: Bad Beats and Lucky Draws
The book Bad Beats and Lucky Draws was published in October 2004 and is basically Phil Hellmuth’s collection of bad beat and big hand stories that can also help you get to know some interesting poker strategies and lessons, if you pay attention that is.
Special contributions from players like Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu and Johnny Chan are also included in this book.
Click here to buy Bad Beats and Lucky Draws on Amazon
Poker Book: Play Poker Like the Pros
Play Poker Like the Pros was first published somewhere in the year 2003 and is probably the most famous book written by Phil Hellmuth. By now it was sold in in more than 400,000 copies.
It consists out of 395 pages and includes various poker strategies that are suitable for beginners as well as for advanced poker players.
Click here to buy Play Poker Like the Pros on Amazon
Poker Book: Phil Hellmuth’s Texas Holdem
The Phil Hellmuth’s Texas Holdem book is pretty much a pocket version of Play Poker Like the Pros. One advantage of it is perhaps the fact that you can easily take it with you wherever you go.
Click here to buy Phil Hellmuth’s Texas Holdem on Amazon
Poker Book: Deal Me In
The Deal Me In book was actually not written by Phil Hellmuth, but he has his part in it as well. It was first published in September 2009 and consists out of 20 chapters.
Players such as Jennifet Harman, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Devilfish and many others, share with you their stories on how they become proffesional poker players.
If you are looking for fun, informative and inspiring poker stories, then this is probably a no brainer.
Click here to buy Deal Me In on Amazon
In case you have already read any of Phil Hellmuth’s poker books, do not be affraid to leave your review in the comments below. Thanks and good luck!
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