General APT use guidance

troopdog

Hi All,

I’ve been playing poker on and off for several years now, and I am now on a journey to try and improve my MTT strategy and this has begun by joining APT. I just wanted to say I love the ease of use and the speed you can play games! It’s a great piece of kit. I am now hoping someone can help guide me down the correct path for use to get the best training benefit from it.

Okay, so far I have spent the last 3-4 days playing thousands of hands on the MTT tables. Unfortunately, I was using the advisor’s tips as a gospel training strategy, believing they would be telling me all my mistakes, but have subsequently searched these forums and found this to be a mistake on my part.

I have now reset all my stats, and started playing the MTT on the hardest setting. I also found a great article on here about the poker IQ calculation, so my next hypothesis to learn was to hit the MTTs for a few hours a day to target my IQ rating and try to improve it each week.

Would this be a good method to utilise the software? I have searched the forums and found good pockets of guidance but no clear-cut direction thread. I have read a variety of poker books over the years so have a good foundation to learn from , but I still have a long way to go and was drawn to your training site when I read the hands on learning approach.

Could anybody else share that site strategy for learning from the software with a hands on approach?

I’ve also looked at the combat trainer and love the principle and theory but found it a little difficult to dissect the objective. Is it essentially to lose as little as possible when you’re behind and win as much as possible when you’re ahead? Or should you be looking at the opponents stats to calculate ranges and try and pinpoint their exact hands?

Apologies for the length of this discussion..

Any help, suggestions, and guidance will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

AllenBlay

Hi @troopdog and welcome to APT. This is a great question and you’ve clearly done your homework on the how to use the site. I would like to give you an equally good answer. Give me a couple days to put something together and I’ll post it here. I agree with you that there are bits and pieces of this around here, but not something comprehensive as far as a strategy of how to improve your MTT game using this site. As it turns out, the reason we developed this site is because I wanted a tool that would do exactly that for my game, so I can tell you how we designed the site for that purpose.

I’ll promise I’ll get back to you right here in the next couple of days. In the mean time, just keep playing a lot of hands and don’t alter your choices based on the advice. The way you play is what creates your reports and training plans, and that is the real key to improvement.

Allen

troopdog

Hi @AllenBlay,

I really appreciate you taking the time to formalise a comprehensive reply, thank you. I’m starting to find my feet a little and received my first weekly training report yesterday that pinpointed 4 problems I can definitely agree I have issues with, so I’m impressed it could highlight issues so quickly. Furthermore, I’m absolutely amazed by the training simulator’s ability to target these weaknesses and let you play them in different scenarios over and over again! This is leaps and bounds ahead of attempting to utilise anecdotal evidence in books (the way I had previously tried to learn).
I’m a very hands on learner so I'm excited and optimistic the tools on this site will seriously benefit my game. I can tell a lot of hard work must have gone into creating this site and I’m very grateful to have access to all its features.

I’ll eagerly await your reply whilst continually grinding through MTT’s for the next few days. I’m currently working through the “hands the analyser suggests for review” after each of my sessions to try and remove these mistakes in each subsequent tournament, so I have plenty to keep me busy for a few days.

Thank you again,
Jacca