Amazon has the first few pages you can read!!!

This link will take you to the opening chapters!

I am soooooo excited to see this!

Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory Teaser


Enjoy!

A Winnipeg Blog has TOUGH QUESTIONS for me!

 

My book is available for pre order on amazon and you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.

It would be an honour to have Winnipeg support it's own card player author.

This book basically put poker tracker in your head.

Bennett Onika

 

                   

         

Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2011, 01:01:32 AM »

seems legit;

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/unleash-your-hidden-poker-memory-bennett-onika/1106587181

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Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2011, 07:24:13 PM »

No "special discount" for PCH members?  Signed copies?

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Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2011, 10:10:27 AM »

It is legit.  I know the author.  I think a few other guys on PCH do as well.

 

Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2011, 12:40:13 PM »

Quote from: Bennett Onika on October 21, 2011, 12:55:40 AM

My book is available for pre order on amazon and you can follow me on Twitter and Facebook.

It would be an honour to have Winnipeg support it's own card player author.

This book basically put poker tracker in your head.

Bennett Onika

Not too sure, but I think a boo boo got past the editor...  not nitpicking... well, yes, I'm nitpicking...  that's what I do...

I wonder if it comes with an English translation...  just kidding...

April 2012?  That's a little far in advance to be taking pre-orders... especially without any review of the contents of the book. 

   

Bennett Onika

Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #10 on: October 22, 2011, 07:29:21 PM »

I love the comments especially the PUT poker tracker in your head. See what happens when you have no editing team

Anyways I will most likely have a book signing event in Winnipeg just before the release I m really proud of the work here's a spoiler Bombay has read the unedited version I needed his opinion ( and several others) to make sure I really had a good idea.

However Bombay is sworn to secrecy as to the methods lol

Anyways it is a bit early but I wanted my home town to get the info fastest.

I hope you like the book when it comes out and I hope you think it changes the live game like I do

Bennett Onika

 

Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2011, 10:46:15 AM »

So am I getting some sort of royalty for coming up with your one liner about putting poker tracker in your head? Did you end up getting any testimonials from the pros that took your book when we were in Vegas?  I still have one of your drafts if you don't mind me holding on to it.  Still haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Thanks,
Anders.



So what is the book about? More about thinking at the tables and mental game and picking up ques?

Hey anders the royalties I get are pretty meager would you settle for a beer and a thank you? Lol I think I have Gavin smith and possibly others but ECW will be working more on it

Feel free to keep the copy let me know if you think I should change anything as I still have time to edit

Basically what the book is about is I have taken common memory techniques and poker tracker stats and created a system where you can remember VPIP exactly, hand ranges with more accuracy, memorizing all hand rankings for a full table and heads up IE K2 is ranked 65th and 131st suited unsuited resPectively in a full table and 71st and 86th HU suited and unsuited of course.

I also have a system where you can memorize exact hole cards in the position the player played them for example anders in seat 6 position nine played t8 76s kj and AKs in position 6 he played AqsAaQq and so on

I have also easily broken down in 5 steps how to derive your exact win rate of your 2 hole cards versus a shove with any 2 random hole cards

Also memorizing all the tells you could ever want all at the table in a live game

In short you can be a human poker tracker at a live game instead of " he's tight and is probably on this"

I think it will be a book like what theory of poker did but for poker recall

I am very proud of it

Ps there is a tonne more information in the book I have just scratched the surface of what you can do



Question. If your book is as great as it is then:

A)Wth you doing selling it to open public? Having system like that in your head would make you lots of money,no?
B)When was last time(if any time) you won/cashed major live tournament using this system?
C)You are saying that price of the craziness is only 16.21 when we know that any HUD software is minimum of 50$ unless you steal it or get it for free through poker services provider?
Yes you can speculate that software engineering is more complex but you telling me your time was only worth 16.21 a copy?
D)If this system does actually work,why not to sell to narrow public who has the money?

Not trying to be sceptic,just whole thing seems weird to me.


Those are all good questions
A) the system has made me money and continues to. The main reason I wrote it was the same reason many other authors write about the things they are passionate about. I have many reasons for writing it no one has yet written a book with this type of detail on recall before. Also I wanted to see if I could get published which I have ( in less than a week ) . If this concept is accepted like a theory of poker and other books I will be the first person to have done this, something that will be remembered If you could be remembered as a person whom contributed to the game would you not do so as well?

B) 2011 I have several Wsop cashes although don't bother looking me up Bennett Onika will not come up. My close friends and card players know me and i am sure they have a high respect for my poker abilities as for those who can't teach thus far I have been unsuccessful in getting a Wsop bracelet but I assure you that is my primary goal in the coming years

C) I had zero control over the pricing once I sold the rights to ECW Press. I have even less control over what amazon does. All I can say is should you buy my book and apply the principals the 16 or 20 or whatever investment you make in it will give you far more information at the tables than you ever have. The price is inexpensive not cheap.

D) Money was never my main motivator for this project. This book may give me a chance to be remembered as a person who changed the game. No amount of money can buy you that.

You can be a skeptic all you want. In fact you have been kind compared to closer friends who said " I don't want you to take this the wrong way but who the @&/:; are you?"

I am a person from Winnipeg with an idea. People who tell me I CANT fuel me to do big things.

I have often said Winnipeg card players are amongst the best in the world. I would also encourage anyone with an idea not to be afraid of skepticism but embrace and let it fuel you to do great things.

I hope this provides clarity and I am looking forward to meeting you when and if a book signing party is done.


I have an interesting idea.

The MLPC is coming up. If the "secrets" in this book work, how about giving them a test drive?

I'm planning on playing all three again this year. Last year, I monied in the $1000 event, basically doubling my buy ins for the week. I was happy with my results, but hope to improve upon them this year.

I'm not the best player in the world, but far from the worst. I'll read your book, and put the theories to work the best I can. And we can see how well it can work.

If you're worried about the $16.21 you could lose by me not buying a copy, I'm sure we can work that out...

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Re: Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory

« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2011, 09:46:59 PM »

Answer to aard I have already tested the system on several novice players each one has improved their decision making by a substantial margin.

After all I am not the type of person to write something this public and not test it myself with players. So as much as I would love to test it out again the answer is no but I will tell you what if you come out and meet me when it's released because you are from the peg I would be happy to coach you on any of the tougher systems free of charge. This would be the least I could do for a fan of my work.

One thing to note is that the being able to apply the techniques taught in the book does not necessarily make you a good/better poker player. Like online stats software, it provides you the tools to help poker players make more informed decisions at the table. If you are a bad player, then maybe the techniques will help you and maybe they won't. But if you are a good player, then maybe employing these techniques will help you to refine your game/improve results my making more mathematically correct decisions.

I have read an unedited copy of the book although as yet, I have not taken the time yet to fully 'learn' the techniques. For the record, I have borne witness to the author employing his 'internal poker tracker'. And I have seen others who have read the book begin to demonstrate the same recall skills.

You were one of many doesn't bug me lol

Yes the system works for giving you more information but if you are bad then wel you're just bad lol

Having said that the information I had at tables this year helped make me make better critical decisions for my tournament life and or chipping up in short more info=better choices=fewer mistakes= higher probability that you will put yourself into position and win

Poker Memory Followers on Twitter and Facebook, and Domenic O'Brien

Hey Everyone!

I wanted to take this opportunity to thank a few twitter followers whom have expressed a real interest in my book and the whole notion of poker memory. They have also given me quality advice and I really do appreciate all the direction I get.

After all, I am not a professional blogger, nor am I a professional tweeter, I am however passionate about the game of poker and the players that play it. Each time a poker player follows me on Twitter or Facebook and wants to read and learn more about my systems to be released, I feel a tremendous sense of honor and pride. I swore that if my book was published I would make every effort to connect with my readers on a down to earth level as if we could call each other up for a home game!

Well, in 149 days ( most likely a little earlier ) my book will be on the shelves. My goal is to connect with as many of you as I can and answer any questions you have personally. I know I might be signing myself up for a huge volume of questions from tens of thousands of readers, but that is a GREAT problem to have, and I welcome the challenge. I love hearing from card players that have as much passion for the game as I do and genuinely want to take their game tothe best level they can.

Personally I want to thank

@nowitzness_13
@criticalmass369
@mitchell1969
@envicto_betting
@sethot
@5betdonk The poker players daily ( great read by the way also posted my preview )
@theroyalraiser ( cool blog and posted my preview )

and Marco who is following my blog right now!

I want to thank you for your advice in getting me this far.

I hope we can meet face to face at the WSOP next year. Although nothing is concrete, I might be down there during the main event promoting my system and book. I will be there earlier playing in a couple $1500 events like I always do every year.

I always try to get my followers thinking and exploring, so here is a video of Dominic O'Brien. He confirms (as every other memory champ does ) that they trained their memories. No Godly gifts, no tricks. He even explains how he does it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZfwvHgo1Kw

I am showing these videos to show all followers what is possible. My book will detail how to apply it to a poker table to destroy your opponents. In the meantime, I would encourage you to explore the wonderful world of memory training for yourselves.

Bennett Onika

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Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory
How to Win at Texas Hold-em by Turning your Brain into a Poker Tracking Machine
 
                Every so often a poker book gets written that completely changes the way we play the game.  Like Super System, The Theory of Poker, and Harrington on Hold-em, Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory will change the live game of poker.                Although the book does have some strategy, the main focus is on unlocking your brain’s existing ability to recall information on your players. Phil Hellmuth Jr. has said that the way you win tournaments is not by getting great hands and being paid off, although that helps. Where you get the most chips in tournaments is on the tough decisions where you know you are ahead or behind by a marginal amount. Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory gives you the tools to train your brain to remember a vastly superior amount of information when compared to a player who is untrained. Even the big name professional poker players if untrained are at a major disadvantage to you if you are trained and know the game of poker. Hence if you are in the trenches for chips and if you can remember just one extra piece of information to make you fold or call, it makes the difference in the long run for a tournament and will put you in a position to win.                Unleash Your Hidden Poker Memory uses common memory techniques that have been written about by memory experts such as Harry Lorayne in the real world, and combines them with the poker tracking statistical analysis of the online world. The result was the creation of the world’s first most powerful and revolutionary poker memory system ever created. Harry Lorayne has proven time and time again that people with admitted average memories can improve their recall by an incredible amount. For those interested in seeing more I have provided a link and I have also used his techniques and verify that they do work, the videos only work for PC WINDOWS type media. There have been issues trying to pull them up on my iPad.

http://www.harrylorayne.com/
                 Poker tracking software was invented not long after the first poker website was created. Initially used for multi-table players, poker tracking software kept track of VPIP, Cbet % just about any statistic you wanted to keep track of. Until today, no one thought you could use VPIP outside of the online world due to the sheer volume of information your brain would have to hold. The average memory retains 7 different pieces of information for 30 seconds making live tracking impossible for the average untrained memory. The systems in this book allow you to train yourself to be able to be a human poker tracking machine, and hold and incredible amount of stats in your head.

               In the book you will learn how to memorize:
-         All 169 starting hole cards in hold-em in order of rank for a full table and Heads up
-         A system to quickly derive your exact mathematical win rate within 2% of your 2 cards vs any 2 random hole cards (Useful when a Player is desparate)
-         a shuffled deck in sequence
-         which cards have been played in other games such as bridge gin rummy and stud
-         and accurately keep track of a full table of players’ VPIP
-         and keep track of CBet % of all players
-         and keep track of a list of players exposed hole cards in the position they played them in
-         and easily get VPIP %
-         hand ranges IE 30% VPIP = Top 51 hands = AA-66, Any suited ace, Any suited 8 or higher from king to 9, and any unsuited 10 or higher
-         any bluffs or other information from any other text you want to remember for a live game



-         Put Pokerstove in your head for hands vs certain hand ranges to give you a 60% minimum win rate
You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook under Bennett Onika. I will try to answer all questions my readers have once the book is released or if I can answer them earlier I will. Until then I will be putting hints as to how I use some of the systems over Twitter.

The edge a player would have if properly trained to do even 3 of the above items would be enormous. The book is scheduled to be released in April 2012, and is available for pre-order. Give yourself the ultimate edge in poker and in other areas of your life, give yourself the power of an awakened powerful recall and order today.

Comparison of Poker Memory vs Non Poker memory

Here is an example of a hand I found on a message board. In fact this particular player includes more detail than your normal player. I wanted to show how poker memory may have saved him his stack.

 

Regular memory is as follows:

 

$1-$2 obviously.
I'm bought in for $160, am sitting with about $250 behind.
Villian is a pretty tight Asian dude, about 40ish. He's been playing a decent number of hands, betting aggressively when does play, and as a result, hasn't shown down much in the 3 hours I've been there. When he has shown down, he's had it, and he's built his stack up to about $400 or so. He's got me covered.

I've been pretty much card dead and grinding for 3 hours when I look down at JhJs in middle position. Tight villian makes it $12 UTG+1 and gets one caller. I pop it up to $38 and he ponders it for a minute before calling. Other player folds.

This guy is not calling with any 2, so I'm putting him on maybe a mid pair he's set mining, 7's to Q's, or AK, AQ. That's pretty much my thought on his range.

Flop comes out 3-5-9 all spades. He bets out about $35 into about a $90 pot. Small bet, seems kinda weak to me. Maybe AK with the A of spades, and he wants to see a cheap turn. Maybe something like 10's and he's not sure where he's at.

I want to raise, but stack size is awkward now. I have about 210, I want to bet about the pot, try to price out any nut draw or maybe get value against 8-8, 10-10. Problem is, that would make the pot $225 and I'd have $100 behind. I have the J of spades as a re-draw if my read is way off and he hit a set, so screw it. I shove.

Spew? Awful play?

He thinks for about 10 minutes. Literally. So at this point I'm pretty sure I'm good. He didn't flop a flush, and maybe even if he hit a set he thinks I did with an AK type hand.

Results once I get some opinions.

OK

Here is how the hand might look like when you use the poker memory system

$1-$2 obviously.
I'm bought in for $160, am sitting with about $250 behind.

Villian is a pretty tight Asian dude, about 40ish. He's been playing a decent number of hands would be Villian has played 6 out of his last 50 hands giving me a VPIP of 12%. On a 10% hand range he is playing AA-99 any suited 10 or higher any unsuited Queen or higher. at 15% he is playing AA-88 any suited 10 or higher any jack or higher.

betting aggressively when does play, and as a result, hasn't shown down much in the 3 hours I've been there. When he has shown down, he's had it, and he's built his stack up to about $400 or so. He's got me covered. He has played qq kq and aks in position 4 and his cbet% is 66.66%

I've been pretty much card dead and grinding for 3 hours when I look down at JhJs in middle position. Tight villian makes it $12 UTG+1 and gets one caller. I have JJ and if I were to get all my money in with him which will most likely happen and I want to have a minimum mathematical win rate of 60% based on any 2 cards in his range, his range would have to be more than 20% for me to play. In this situation at best I am dominated or racing. Calling for a set would be the prudent move. 


I pop it up to $38 and he ponders it for a minute before calling. Other player folds. 
This guy is not calling with any 2, so I'm putting him on maybe a mid pair he's set mining, 7's to Q's, or AK, AQ. That's pretty much my thought on his range.  (look at how much different the ranges are )
Flop comes out 3-5-9 all spades. He bets out about $35 into about a $90 pot. Small bet, seems kinda weak to me. Maybe AK with the A of spades, and he wants to see a cheap turn. Maybe something like 10's and he's not sure where he's at. Not much you can beat here which is why the reraise is an error any higher spade or overcard turn river you most likely lose. He either has a higher spade draw or a better hand, very unlikely he has anything else.
I want to raise, but stack size is awkward now. I have about 210, I want to bet about the pot, try to price out any nut draw or maybe get value against 8-8, 10-10. Problem is, that would make the pot $225 and I'd have $100 behind. I have the J of spades as a re-draw if my read is way off and he hit a set, so screw it. I shove. ( by making the re raise early without that key VPIP information he or she has now put themselves into a shove situation with their stack)

This was the result

All right. Thanks for the responses everyone.

I lost the hand when, after literally 10 minutes of thinking (he apologized for taking so long about 3 times), he flipped over KK with the K of spades.

I was pretty shocked. IMO, that's a 4 bet pre flop number one, and secondly, with the second nut draw, I think it's a snap call on my flop push.

After the hand I was wondering if I played it too fast, but after thinking about it for a day or two, I'm not sure given the information I had, that I would ever play it any different. ( had he had the VPIP information and the actual ranges and actual hands he played in that position he may have slowed down on this one )
Now I have made assumptions we do not know his actual range and other information. Like he doesn't 4 bet with KK but that could all be committed to memory.

Would you make a different decision if you had more information vs what he told you?

I welcome comments

The World's First Poker Memory System

So there I was thinking about how to do it. There has gotta be a way to tie this in to the poker game. At first I watched documentaries and read them on Stu Ungar. Nothing came to mind as to how he remembered things.

It was a month of searching for the right answer until I was coaching a friend of mine in poker by playing and online tournament together. I hadn't really thought of it but we had a few cocktails and I started to remember counts because he had not had the poker tracking software installed on his computer. The idea was born. The memory techniques I had learned thus far however, were letting me down. I kept getting confused and I couldn't keep an accurate VPIP of all the players. Nonetheless we wound up winning the sit and go and I was not at all angry with myself because I knew I had finally made the connection.

After that night I knew I just needed a better way ( which will be covered in the book ) to track the VPIP. I knew after that night of thinking about it what I had to do and started to implement the system.

I did it slowly at first, with 3 people at my Poker league in Winnipeg. It worked. What was more amazing is I had these players classified as "tight", "loose" and "aggresive". I wanted one of each to see if my system worked.

Now this bit will truly amaze you. I had classified all of these players from the first time I played with them, and just assumed that these players played the same basic way every time. After all it was my league and the tight player I knew had the capability of switching up his game but the newer more novice loose players I thought were always well loose.

In my league there are 3 breaks for the 6-7 hour tournament. In the first round my Tight player was at 66% percent VPIP and I wound up busting him out of the tournament with A9, A hand I may not have considered playing. My loose player was at 12% ( not very loose at all ) and my aggressive player was playing so meek it was incredible, he was at 36%. VPIP tells me exactly where I am going to get my chips from. It's like a neon sign above the player. It also tells me whom to watch out for. Now normally when the loose guy raises I would not have given him much credit for his raises and would have tried to make some kinda hero read and call only to discover he had KK. Now that I had tracked him at 12%, I knew that unless I had a monster hand I was't going to tangle with him. This information saved me chips, and allowed me to know where to get chips. Now my final aggressive player, well I beat him up worse than Ali did Wepner. Having that information also allowed me to gather chips.

What really surprised me as well was the two remaining players played differently in the 2nd and 3rd rounds. I was shifting gears with my opponents.

I went on to place 3rd in that tournament instead of busting early because of my new found tracking ability and disposing of the assumptions that I would usually make about that player. I also noticed because I was focused on the table I wasn't nearly as bored as I get sometimes. This also helped me reduce the variability in my stack. Again this was only with 3 players not the full 9.

Needless to say I went home elated and then created a system to easily keep track of all players at the table, not just three, and I practiced until I could perform this at online speed, which was plenty fast for the real world. This happened very easily.

But what else could I accomplish with memory and poker?

VPIP it seemed was the tip of the iceberg.

Bennett Onika

The Poker Memory Training begins

The next day I was so excited about my new memory recall I ferociously read everything I could about the brain, recall and how memories are stored. I also was determined to perfect the methods used to see which cards have been played and which ones haven't.

I worked on my speed every night until after about a week I was satisfied with the results. I then progressed to try to remember a deck in sequence. That required more research and other programs. I ordered every book I could and even some audio memory programs and finally came up with a system that I could easily remember a deck in sequence and retain it for as long as I wanted. In fact I became so good at retaining it I would sometimes get mixed up from the night before.

One late afternoon after work I was with some buddies having drinks. The one buddy was skeptical about my memory abilities and I challenged him to a bet - which he eagerly accepted.

$100 on whether I could memorize a shuffled deck in sequence and recite it 24 hours later after one viewing!

It wasn't really fair, not only did I recite all 52 cards he asked me what card number 28 was and I would instantly reply with the correct answer.

I went on to learn all 50 states in alphabetical order, their nicknames and their capitals, Super Bowl winners losers, even all the best pictures from 1928 till today.

My wife can give me entire shopping lists and I can recite them in order and never have to write them down. This indeed was an incredible skill.

What was really crazy was that I was just a normal guy with what I thought was an OK memory. I didn't know that your memory could be trained. It made me angry that I wasn't exposed to this in high school. I could have aced all my subjects and had plenty of time to do other things.

Still as good as I thought I was there were memory champions that made me look like I was playing in a sandbox. Ben Pridmore memorized a deck in 24 seconds. It takes me about 9 minutes on a good day.

For about 2 months I had studied memory techniques and never really made the connection to poker.

Then one day it hit me. I remembered reading a book about Stu Ungar and how he had an eidetic memory and how he used it to win tournaments.

I then started looking for memory poker books. Poker memory books, any type of book with memory and poker. None existed.

Could it be that I was the first one to connect the two?

I remember thinking there has to be a way to use this to my advantage at the poker table.

But how?

My next post A poker memory system is born!

Bennett Onika