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Welcome to the Course and Best of Luck madzmadz25,

Hopefully you will enjoy around here. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, we will be around for you. Meanwhile good luck on tables, we will be waiting for your homework.

You can now start with your 1st Lesson:
Lesson #1

The whole course plan:
Overview of Beginners Course

Best Regards.

Sorry it took me a while to do even the first lesson. But anyway it's here. Better late than never

Question 1: What is your motivation for playing poker?
I'm from a third world country wherein most people of the are all striving in order to feed their family and to provide good future for their kids. I've just been recently married and is only on the first step of my married life. I'm currently working as an IT professional outside of my own country though I'm earning enough, I've dream of having to really enjoy my life with my family and not just spend most of my years working in order to give them what they need. I'm seeing poker as a way for me to earn additional income "in the future" since I'm just starting right now and currently in micro. I want to really improve my game, though slowly but steady and build my bankroll up to a level that it will really be able to provide a significant financial help. Though I may not have that much time compared to other persons on the level as I am, but whenever I can, I make the most of it. Quality over quantity

Question 2: What are your weaknesses when playing poker?
I'm a bit prone to tilt, but I've been working on it for the past few weeks and I know that I have been able to improve on that part already. I also experienced in a session where I'm doing good for a couple of hands but when I'm nearing the end of my session, I will do something stupid which will negate all the good plays that I've done from the previous hands. Not sure but it may seems that I'm trying to make the most of my remaining time which affecting my game and doing the optimal decision.

Question 3: What does it mean to play tight aggressive?
Playing TAG means being patient. Then when a good chance comes, you play that hand with the highest possible +EV. For me, as it is seen in real life, TAG simple means " Making the most of the opportunity that is given to you". TAG is also effective because you are only investing in hands, that you know will have a potential to grow into a monster, with the help of proper decision and optimal strategy.

Good job! Homework #1 Done!

You shouldn't be sorry about this. Do the homework whenever you are able to.

Easiest way to fight against tilt is to set up stop-loss technique. Which means if you for example have lost more than 3BIs for a session then you just stop the session for some time. The BI amount is set up from your own results. Some may put it higher, some lower. Also after the stop you can spend some time with evaluation part to become better.

Most of the weakness you wrote can easily be fixed by posting hands (analyzing your session). We will start writing feedback to your play. Usually negative feedback will put you into thinking phase and trying to fix all those leaks. It's almost the same as you lose money, you will remember it more than winning part. By this situation it's gonna be that negative feedback you gonna remember and try to avoid them next time.

Tight style is usually called playing selected hands. Like following the Starting Hand Chart. Aggressive should be also pretty clear that already the word says how you should be playing. But the problem playing aggressively is that you have to watch that you don't play too aggressive. Find good spots, find good targets. About The tight-aggressive strategy you can read in this article: "What is the Big Stack Strategy?"

Hopefully you will enjoy the Course.