mike l

I am 37 years old and have been playing winning limit hold em for over 10 years now. I was one of the most prolific and respected posters on twoplustwo.com (mike l., I rarely post there now) and I regularly play between 40-80 and 100-200 in the cardrooms of LA and San Diego. I have been coaching independently for over 3 years and am excited to be working with the DeucesCracked team since it started. For live coaching I use email, phone, and especially live sweating with postmortems of live sessions in the LA and Vegas area to give students a personal precise evaluation of their play, and breakdown a system for them to improve immediately. Recently I've been coaching students online using Skype to go over hands on their replayer and evaluate trouble spots they are coming up against in low and mid limit online limit games. Many of my previous students have found that I provided them with the skills they needed to quickly move up in limits and achieve their goals. While my focus for now is playing the juicy 40 and 60 games at Commerce, I have played a lot of online over the years and am familiar with how to use the currently available tools to beat those games. I look forward to sharing my theories on how to best beat 6 max and full ring limit hold'em with more new students, and a sample of my approach to online play can be seen in my various series I've done with Death Donkey.

"A few things about Mike l.

-He has an unforgettable way of saying things. His advice really stays with you when you are at the table, even months later...

-He's extremely versatile. When I first met Mike, I thought "Oh he seems so weaktight" but the more I learned the more I realized that he is not stylistically inclined in any rigid way, but he is basing all his advice on a virtuoso level ability to take certain bits of information of an opponent's playing style and extrapolate that into knowing what they would do in situations we haven't even seen them in. This even applies to conversations I've had with him about opponents he has never met.

-He sees basically everything that happens at the table. He must have a birdlike peripheral vision or something.

-He has an amazing memory for how people play even if he hasn't sat with them in a long while." - Snowball (2p2 student)

Coaching rates are: $100 for online, $200 for live coaching