It has been extremely busy for me over the last few weeks. I have completed the training for Damien and Mike and mid way thru training for Mary. We are meeting today at 2 my time to do session 4 of an approximately 6 sessions order to get my third trainee up to speed, and complete her training.
Mary amazed some of her classmates by reciting 60 of the 84 best pictures any year they wanted. She had never done anything like this before.
Mike had tweeted about his success in memorizing a full deck of cards in order in less time than his 2 nd attempt and is currently trying to break the 10 minute mark.
Damien has had an ROI online over 30 percent in sit n gos partially from memorizing the 60 percent charts I gave him, and of course it's mainly from his awesome play.
I have also been asked to do be a featured writer for pokergob, another blogging site in the UK. I can't tell you how honored I am to have been asked and I said yes but it would have to start in May as I have been swamped with life over the last 6 weeks.
Ah if I only didn't have to sleep! I wish to work in students on a regular basis but now am wondering if I have the time to do so. I am up every day at 530 during the week and get home at 9 sometimes just wrecked.
Enough of my whining! Let us move on to memory development. During my training with Mike and Damien, I (embarrassingly) was introduced to push fold charts. I pride myself on knowledge of poker mathematics and the latest in tournament or cash game play. After all I have been playing for over 12 years and when this was brought to my attention it just shows that you really do learn everyday.
So for those of you who don't know what push fold charts are, a few extremely smart propeller heads in poker decided to deduce mathematically what your chips were worth in relation to the cards you were dealt and give you optimal charts on where you should push or fold for optimum value against x number of opponents left to act, y value of your stack, and z blind levels.
Damien and I have already devised a method to combat this chart, which of course is still a trade secret for now. But rest assured you need memory training in order to do it. After my training session today with Mary, I will be putting in some solid work to organize the push fold charts into easy information to memorize and also this week putting in the work to combat the charts. These of course will be extra tools I will be bringing with me to Vegas this year, and I will also be using them to destroy my poker league in the final 2 tourneys. I have won four out of the 8 tourneys played with 2 tourneys left. Surely a magical year.
I also want to put a lot of work into committing some of the best books in poker to memory so I can maximize the library of information in my head and finally win a bracelet - my ultimate goal.
I have probably 2 months to do this maybe 10 weeks in my busy schedule to prepare for WSOP, most of the work is in the imagery, if I had that all complete, I could memorize all that information in days!
All and all, I am exited for my schedule to open up and put real work into my game and bring it to the next level. The real challenge is balancing a home and work life with it of course.
Until next time
Bennett Onika
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