+++Tri Nguyen in da house!+++

Originally posted by mbml
what are the main sites u play at?

PokerStars.

Originally posted by mawaykid
Hello Try,
You think a player who is starting now in micros should already give a great importance to this part or is it more important to develop the technical part?

Not sure what "give a great importance to this part" means.

If you are starting, you should definitely develop great technical skills.

For a player more nl4/10 interest know when to apply a 3 bet than what makes you keep playing your A game for several sessions? your answer changes to nl25/50?

It's always important to play your 'A' game. It's much less important at the micros ie below NL50. However, you should develop a habit of playing only when you're having fun and are your 'A' game.

A few days ago to watch a video in dailyvariance.com you published on your origins and tips non-technical, so I ended up watching a part of the video, and when I tried to see the rest have not found where I can get it?

We have many videos at DailyVariance.com. I'm not sure what video you are referring you. I can help you out if you post a link.

sry for my english, ty

Don't worry about it. My friends have a hard time understanding my English most of the time haha.

Originally posted by DukeXIII
Hello again Tri

I have another question. I have asked this to other professional players as well cause I want to shape a better idea. So here it is.

What is your opinion about playing between 4am -8am. Are these still good hours (in poker terms of course) now that US players can't play?
The reason I ask is because I want to increase the hours I play so I was thinking that I could play 2-3 hours very early in the morning and 2-3 hours after 18:00. Since I can't put much volume yet ..like playing 4 or 6 consecutive hours I thought that by doing two separate sessions would be easier and this way I ll have time to rest in between. I also like waking up early and I have much energy these hours.

Thank you

Hey Duke!

Play any hours that is most profitable for you. Play any hours where you have a lot of energy.

And of course, take a lot of breaks.

Good luck!

Originally posted by Yoyoyh
Hi Tri!

I really like the way you are, confident, enthusiastic and emotionaly stable. For the moment I was thinking I share some of this charasteristics with you but after losing couple of small bankrolls (due to overagressiveness and not having brm) I begin to lose fate in my abbilities. Currently I'm busto. I don't want to give up playing poker but I think good break might really help me.
Im in new college and to pass exams I have to focus a bit on studying

Thanks Yoyoyh.

Confidence comes from competence. There are times where I have self-doubt as well but fortunately, there are tons of answers out there for our problems.

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Here are my questions:
1. I have limited funds (~150$ and in my situation it's a lot of money for me).You said earlier that playing below nl25 is not good. Do You find it sound to deposit that money and try to get a shot at nl25 on building bankroll?

I wouldn't deposit that money. I would save up until I have $500 and then I deposit and practice extreme game selection and bankroll management.

If you don't have $500, eat out less. Drink water instead of soda. Eat ramen. It'll take time but you can do it.

2. What game would be better for me, nlhe 25 or plo 10? I think I can crush both but in omaha there are more fishes that might help me to build bankroll faster. On the other side of coin I am afraid that not properly bankrolled risk of being busted quick is much greater.

I would take up PLO10 but I would try to move up quick. The rate at micro-stakes PLO is crazy and you'll end up going bust quick.

3. I feel like going crazy. After loosing my couple initial bankrolls I have started doing such silly things like watching every poker video on YT with Tony G or playing freerolls. At the moment I have to focus hard on studying if I want to pass my first exams in college. Im considering half year of poker break (no poker vids, articles, nothing connected) to get the balance right. Should I completely ban poker activities from my life or only this time-wasting like watching poker shows?

Step away from poker. Take a long break and focus on your school. Finish up your obligations so when you come back, you'll be 100% focus on poker and can attack it with all your time and energy.

One important lesson I learn is don't multitask. Do one thing at a time and do it extremely well.

4. Do You think that starting oher intellectual activities can improve in big way my poker thinking? I'm thinking about other games like chess, backgammon, chinese poker and bridge. I don't now if the time invested-reward ratio is good enough

Use that time to finish school. Other games won't help you.

5. I am 19 years old and I think I have missed the best years to build bankroll reall quick (2003-2008, no training sites, no poker programs). It is unfair :P. Am I thinking right?

The easy years have definitely went by. However, you can say that about a lot of market, not just poker.

It's dangerous to think about the "what ifs" instead of asking yourself, "what needs to be done today for me to get to where I want to be in the future?"

If you ask yourself that everyday and put the effort to execute your answers, you will be successful. It's difficult for you not to.

I have to add that at the moment I don't have much time and I don't now what is better: give myself break from poker or spend such little time playing as 0.5-1 hour daily.

Take a break from poker. You need to get away from the game to think clearly. Even the best players in the world benefit after taking a break.

Thanks in advance for your answers and sorry for mistakes, english is not my mother tongue, I hope You have undestanded me

Don't worry about your English. You did great. Good luck with everything.

With effort and persistence, you can achieve anything.

Originally posted by IngridN
Hey guys,

Tri "SlowHabit" Nguyen author of the legendary Poker books "Let there be range" and "The Poker Blueprint" has written another book that tells a different story:

"How I Made My First Million From Poker"

The cash game expert joins us in this thread to answer your questions around Online Poker, writing books and anything that you may want to know from one of the biggest legends in the game!

Also, for the 5 most interesting questions/statements we will give away 5 of Tri's new books.

The thread will run from Thursday 15:00 GMT to Monday 11:00 GMT and winners will be informed from us by ticket.

Please leave your questions and Tri will be answering them along.

If you want to get some more background on Tri read our interview with him
here.

Addtionally you can read an excerpt of his book right here.

Coming in 2012...

How I made my first hundred from poker by IngridN

Wasnt your book planned to be released 2025 Ingrid?

Originally posted by ZeroDegrees

Originally posted by IngridN

Coming in 2012...

How I made my first hundred from poker by IngridN

Wasnt your book planned to be released 2025 Ingrid?

awww meanie!!

Hello Tri !! Merry Christmas !!

I m back again with some more questions.. I hope you will not get annoyed from my many questions ♦ So previously I asked if you could give me some details about the differences between your books. After your response I decided to start studying '' The poker Blueprint''. I was very happy when I saw that you start almost immediately with explaining about combinatorics cause I was always interested to know about this subject and how I can apply it to my game.

1) So my first question is about the part you say about how many combos of two pairs, sets etc there are and particularly about the set. You say that a set has 3 combos but I m counting them 4. I ll try to illustrate with an example and please correct me if I m wrong somewhere. So let's take the AA. We have: As, Ad, Ah, Ac so 1 combo = As, Ad, Ah
2 combo = As, Ad, Ac
3 combo= Ad, Ah, Ac
4 combo = Ac, Ah, As

2) My second question is that I really cannot understand where the exact usage of combinatorics is. I ll give another example as well. This time from your book. So we play 6max 100NL. Hero Raise UTG with AsKh and a TAG player calls from SB. Flop Kc, 8d, 9h. Villain checks Hero bets 2/3pot Villain ch/r 3x the bet size. After this example you continue with analyzing how many set combos, 2pairs combos etc there are.

So lets take for example the 2 pairs combos. As you say we can exclude 98o since he s TAG and is unlikely to call an UTG raise with this hand. With this logic we can exclude K9 and K8 as well. So we have only two combos that he could call with (98 spades and 98 of clubs). But isn't this process exactly the one we use in order to put the Villain in a hand range? We need to know how loose and aggressive he is and then assign ranges according to his position etc. But why would we care how many possible combos there are? Is this changing anything? And isn't this going to take us a long time to calculate when we play? We just need to know that his range includes only 98s (as far as the two pair combinations is concerned).

Also could you tell me in which cases it is more valuable to use them? Could you illustrate with an example maybe? Cause obviously it s not sth that is easy to use in every hand we play..

I m just trying to understand the hole concept that's why I m asking. Thanx again for your help and sorry about my many questions ♦

Criticism of Tri Nguyen in two plus two http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/view-poker-coaches-should-winning-players-critique-tri-nguyen-1148903/ . Come up with your own conclusion

Originally posted by jasonforan
Criticism of Tri Nguyen in two plus two http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29/news-views-gossip/view-poker-coaches-should-winning-players-critique-tri-nguyen-1148903/ . Come up with your own conclusion

everybody knows , don't worry ... his books are really bad for today's games anyway

Hi guys,

Thanks for the information. I've informed Tri about it and he will decide whether to comment or not.

Hope you all having a wonderful start to the new year!

Ingrid

let there be range is timeless imo. Its not about the hands, its about the though process, and its pretty clearcut. What is there to hate.

Originally posted by conall88
let there be range is timeless imo. Its not about the hands, its about the though process, and its pretty clearcut. What is there to hate.

tri is a liar and never to be trusted ,es ... yeah let there be range was good but today i wouldn't pay more than 10$ for it
close this thread

Have you made your second million already?

let there be range is probably a great book, Cole mfing South co-authored it, right?
unlike tri's book on how to make 100k/year by coaching even if you're a losing player (LOL)

oh and btw guys, those results tri posted in this thread would appear to be at least 3.5 years old, pre PTR tracking of his stars account QuickStilz. and he cropped the screenshot of his stats because the original showed that a lot of his other stats were very nitty compared to stats that would be required to beat today's games:

4bet range 1.5 ..... yeah like that's ever gonna work

yeah, quoting a guy from another forum: '1.5 4b% is ridic low, 2 is at least the minimum for solid regulars at midstakes.
(Pokerstove says AA/KK/QQ is 1.4, when you watch a high stakes vid you see people getting it in with TT+ and AQ+, depends a bit on the coach who you watch, but still AK and JJ is always the minimum)'

and before you wonder whether he might have slow-played high pps a lot, look at his call 3bet: under 26%

why don't you guys stop bitchin at him, and maybe just ask him why hes done such things..

Thank you for sharing this guys.