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Advanced Poker Training Introduces Ground Breaking Training Plans And Reports

New Poker Training Software Helps Both Beginners And Experienced Poker Veterans

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If you’re like most poker players, identifying areas where you can improve your poker game is a real challenge. We all hope to find that perfect coach who can accurately assess our weaknesses and suggest ways to practice and improve, but that costs a lot of money. Unfortunately, most online training solutions involve watching videos on topics that may not even be relevant to us.

A recent innovation by web-based poker training leader AdvancedPokerTraining.com (APT) changes everything. The company has just introduced a personalized training plan that exceeds anything available on the market in directing you to areas where you can improve. Your training plan is updated weekly, and tells you what you should be practicing based on an analysis of all the hands you have played. It’s a highly practical and user-friendly way to identify and eliminate specific weaknesses in your game. Not to mention that the site is fun to use.

The APT training plan is more specific in both identifying weaknesses, and directing a player to improvement, than any other training or coaching solution available. To demonstrate the power of this, I’m going to look at my training plan for this week. I played about 1,500 hands this week on AdvancedPokerTraining.com. That may sound like a lot, but with the speed of the game it is less than 30 minutes a day. The first problem area identified for me this week was “Middle Suited Connectors.” The training plan states, “You were not winning as much as you should be with Middle Suited Connectors (10-9s through 7-6s), when we compared your win rate with the win rates of other APT users."

To help me improve, it provides a list of web resources and training videos focusing on playing middle suited connectors correctly. Now the best part: the "Practice Now” button allows me to return to the poker game, while only being dealt middle suited connectors, for additional practice. As I practice these hands, I can get real-time advice and the software automatically tags hands where I potentially made an error for later review.

My training plan went on to also identify three other trouble areas: “Trouble Position: the Small Blind”, “Not Playing Aggressively Pre-Flop”, and “Not Continuation Betting Enough”. Each of these has a “Practice Now” button and links to additional training resources and videos.

In conjunction with the training plan, APT has also launched a new series of reports that provide even more information about your game. These reports provide a series of charts and graphs that let you look at your game from many different angles. For example, there’s a hand chart that shows all 169 unique hole card combinations and uses trend analysis to detect both negative trends on specific hands, as well as hands where your win-rates are either exceptionally high or exceptionally low. It’s great for identifying hands you shouldn’t be playing, or hands you might be playing sub-optimally.

The reports also let you look at your performance at each position at the table, in each different game type and level, and even on each street. Additionally, you can look at various skill areas, such as pre-flop raising, continuation betting, blind stealing, and more. And again, all this is shown graphically – you don’t have to be a number cruncher.

One other feature I really like in the reports is the analysis of luck-adjusted play. Have you ever wondered if a recent losing streak is simply because of bad cards? This feature from AdvancedPokerTraining.com takes the guess work out of it. It tells you how often certain events should be happening (such as flopping a set), and how often it has happened for you. Again, no worries if statistics are not your thing – it shows your luck, both in categories and overall, in terms of a four leaf clover. The more filled the clover is, the more lucky you have been.

There are so many other features in the reports, and I highly recommend you check them out. In addition to the training plans and reports, the web-based software on AdvancedPokerTraining.com matches you up against hundreds of computerized opponents, with multiple levels of play. You can choose between full-ring and six-max cash games, sit-n-go single-table tournaments, or full multi-table tournaments that you can configure to match the size and structure of everything from a daily tournament at your local card room to the World Series of Poker Main Event. Among the software features are real-time advice and the ability to replay or share every hand you play. The software enables you to play up to 500 hands an hour and choose the hands you are dealt for targeted practice. The site also features over 20 “Beat the Pro Challenges”, which are basically like getting personalized coaching from expert WSOP champs like Scott “BigRiskky” Clements, poker legends like Mike Caro, and well-known authors and coaches such as Jonathan Little, Ed Miller, and James “SplitSuit” Sweeney.

A year-long all-access pass to all the features on the site costs only a little over $10 a month with no sign-up fees and a full 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. If you’re looking to go from beginner to expert quickly, AdvancedPokerTraining.com offers professional level training at a bargain price.