I'm looking for a developing and relatively inexperienced player to mentor. We would work on your mental game as well as your technical game. I’d prefer to work with PLO players, but it could be interesting to get to know an NLHE player. Maybe a transition player would be an ideal match since I can teach the basics, the typical pitfalls and also shore them up for myself in the process. But I expect the mental game and your overall poker thinking to be the part in which we would begin the work. I'm not entirely exclusive to starting players. If you are a little more seasoned maybe this could work out just fine.
This mentoring is free of charge but in return expect you to play at least 10 hours a week, ideally even more, and on top of that, work on your game. I want you to be heavily invested because that's when you start feeling the heat; the swings start to challenge you because they are not just about the money but they also question your effort and contest your aspirations. That's the phase where the mental game kicks in and that is what ultimately determines whether budding players live or die. We are all gifted, right?
As for technical aspects, we would focus on preflop hand selection and decision-making, and on playing in oop/ip postflop. I think those are the main concerns in small stakes PLO. Full ring games never died; they just moved to low stakes six-max.. ![]()
Of the authors, I prefer Tom Chambers, the now-obsolete Hwang, and among the contemporaries, Jnandez. As for the mental game, I've been drawing on the classics: Tendler, DiAngelo. I also employ several psychophysiological tools to cope with the stress, to improve focus while playing and to give stamina to play sessions as long as possible. Meditation, TRE, mental priming, etc.
I am an old-timer online low-stakes pot-limit Omaha player, mostly semipro after the boom. I feel PLO has always been my forte but, for the love of the game, I have studied the basics on pretty much all games and formats. This is my twentieth year. I have a full-ring background, having played lower middle stakes back in the days, but I have always been a table starter, so I have had short-handed/heads-up leanings.
For the past four years I have been playing part-time, obviously 6max, at plo25. I call this long stint my punishment, for I always had a gung-ho bankroll management approach at the beginning of my career. And it was for the worse, I think, because the rapid leveling made the stress go off the roof and I was usually burned out in a few years. Then I came back when I needed money, started all over again, made the climb, and wore myself out. Repeat. My days as a PLO groundhog… ![]()
In my initial thoughts, this mentoring would happen twice a week. One session would be talking about your playing week in general. This is your time to ponder on things, perhaps whine and cry, or celebrate your successes; I am mostly a listener, your personal downswing buddy if necessary. The second session would be focused on your off-table work: the technical aspects of the game and some poker theory.
I am interested in trying this for a month, and if it goes well from a mutual perspective, let's talk about a longer commitment and schedules. For me, this is also about improving my spoken English so the mentoring is going to happen completely in English even if you are a Finnish person.
Outside of poker, I study at university with an aim to graduate as an English teacher. As a hobby I teach psychophysiological methods mentioned earlier to people in mental health recovery. I also play basketball, work out, and engage in long cardio exercise.
You can email me jmurtoma25 aaat student.oulu.fi Tell me about yourself and your poker career and after that let's discuss arranging a Zoom or Teams meeting.
p.s. This advertisement can be moved to private coaching if necessary. I couldn't start a thread there.