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Do you want to play poker wiith me and my buddies next time you are in the Cincinnati area?

We've got snacks....

Boar Bacon, Antelope burgers, mako shark, cheez-its. You know, the usual.

Hey Vanessa, I have a bunch of questions: 1) What is the best way to improve now that there is no internet poker available for someone who wants to get better?

2) What specific details do you look for when you sit at a table to weed out amateur/ bad players and how do you play against them? How does this change from cash games vs a tournament?

3) What goals do you try to set for yourself when you sit down at a tournament in order to set up for a deep run? For example, do you try to double up before the 4th level?

4) What is the best way to be a winning player at 1-2 NL when a player(s) doesn’t know how/ why to bet or how to bluff? Should you just play around the top 10% of hands and ABC straight forward poker, or is there a certain trick? What strategy would you use if you had to sit down at a lower stakes game?

5) What is your most certain tell on a lesser-skilled player?

6) How did you start your bankroll and how much fluctuation should you endure before you conclude that you cannot improve/ luck is no the limiting factor?

7) Should a player be looking to build his/ her bankroll more through tournaments or cash games?

8) When you were coaching Jesse Sylvia live, what information did you give him and when? Was it just after every hand that he played post-flop, or maybe every hand that he was involved in with a 3-bet or more? Was it hand ranges & aggression statistics from other players/ his image at the table? Were you coaching based on any physical or betting tells?

9) When you see a flop, what is your process for determining a bet? Do you play the hand all the way down through the river in your head and ask yourself “what will I do if he does this/ bets like this/ raises by this much/ if a certain card falls along the way?” and bet from there, or is there another system you use internally to determine the winning play?

I'm going to ask you some of the same questions I asked Vanessa almost a year ago:

1) What specific details do you look for when you sit at a table to weed out amateur/ bad players?

2) Do you set yourself any mile-marker goals during a tournament? IE "I want to have X amount of chips before X level or I know I won't have a deep run"

3) What is your most certain tell on a lesser-skilled player? What about intermediate players?

4) Are there concepts or ideas that you have figured out in poker that you haven't told anyone about?

Thanks.