YOUR PokerIQScore™ IS 115!
(SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Congratulations! You performed better than 80.00% of the players that have taken the test so far. Most people will have a PokerIQScore™ between 70 and 130. In fact, 95% of all scores fall somewhere in this range. 68% of all people who have taken our test scored between 85 and 115. Your score indicates you already have excellent poker skills in many areas, and with this document you will become an even stronger player!

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How to use your personal Dominate Your Opponents™ report

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That's because, this document was created just for you.

Know that you will become a force to be reckoned with at the poker table if you learn the material in this document and apply it. No other poker training program can promise improvement as fast as the TestYourPoker.com Dominate Your Opponents™ course.

This system has been tested, and it does work.

We suggest you take the following steps to best utilize this information:

1. Read through all the material first, but don't expect to absorb it all at once. By focusing on one skill and practicing in a real poker game you will absorb it quickly.
2. Watch the replay of the test you just took (see the next section below).
3. Use the training chart (we have made the chart available for you in pdf format here) (available with purchased analysis), but don't feel like you have to complete all four hours practicing one particular skill all at once. You can also skip around (practice skill #1 for one hour, skill #2 for one hour, etc).
4. If you play online, you may feel more comfortable practicing at a lower stakes table (or even the "play money" tables) when you first begin testing out your new skills.
5. We encourage you to email us (info@TestYourPoker.com) with suggestions to improve these documents!

PERSONAL TRAINING CHART

Practice each item for four hours, and check off when completed.

TRAINING AREA	HOUR 1	HOUR 2	HOUR 3	HOUR 4
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED DOCUMENT #1 Apply the information from your first "Improvement Needed" document. See the section below, "How to use the Improvement Needed documents".
STARTING HAND CHART Print out a copy of the starting hand chart (there is a link to a .PDF version of it in this document). Follow this chart exactly as written for 4 hours – no changes!
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED DOCUMENT #2 Apply the information from your second "Improvement Needed" document. See the section below, "How to use the Improvement Needed documents".
TOP TEN TIPS TO SAVE MONEY… Read and apply the material in the "Top Ten Tips that are guaranteed to save you money almost every time you play poker". Tips 1, 4, 5, and 10 are especially important.
IMPROVEMENT NEEDED DOCUMENT #3 Apply the information from your third "Improvement Needed" document. See the section below, "How to use the Improvement Needed documents".
TOP TEN TRICK PLAYS… Read the "Top Ten Trick Plays" document below. Apply several of these plays over a four hour period. Plays 2 and 3 are good possibilities. Plays 6 and 10 are for the brave only!
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT DOCUMENTS There are 4 additional documents included – Check-Raising, Slowplaying, Strong Draws, and Pot Committed. They are in the same format as the "Improvement Needed" docs.
FINAL GOAL – APPLY ALL MATERIAL Once you reach this point you should be ready to Dominate Your Opponents! Try applying as much of the material as you can at once. Most especially be sure to use the Starting Hand Chart and Improvement Needed documents.

Your PokerIQScore™ broken down into categories

Of course, there is much more to No Limit Holdem than a single score. Your PokerIQScore™ has been calculated based on your performance in approximately 35 critical skill areas for no limit holdem poker. These 35 skill areas have been aggregated using a formula created by poker experts and a Ph.D. with statistical expertise to calculate not only your overall score, but also your PokerIQScore™ on each street and in 7 general skill areas that apply to all streets. These overall score areas are described in detail below.

Pre-flop – Your pre-flop PokerIQScore™ is determined based on important skills such as identifying appropriate hands to play, stealing the blinds and defending the blinds, appropriately knowing when to limp and when to bet, knowing appropriate actions when facing limpers and/or raisers, identifying likely hand ranges for opponents based on your reads, understanding your position relative to the dealer button, and a range of other skills based specifically on YOUR style of play, as identified by our artificial intelligence machine. Because you play pre-flop on every hand, your ability to play well pre-flop can have a huge effect on your overall profitability as a poker player.

Your Pre-flop PokerIQScore™ is 116 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Flop – On the flop, the skills.... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Flop PokerIQScore™ is 114 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Turn – The turn .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Turn PokerIQScore™ is 114 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

River - Although many hands end prior to the river in NL Holdem poker.... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your River PokerIQScore™ is 113 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Bet Size – Knowing the correct amount to bet .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Bet Size PokerIQScore™ is 90 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Appropriately Aggressive Play – Let's face it – not everyone plays the game of NL Holdem the same. Professionals like Dan Harrington and Phil Hellmuth have hugely contrasting styles of play. They .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Level of Aggression is Slightly More Aggressive than Average (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Adjusting to Opponents' Style – Would you respect a raise from .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Ability to Adjust to Opponents PokerIQScore™ is 100 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Knowing the Odds – Think fast:  you have a flush draw on the flop, .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Pot Odds PokerIQScore™ is 118 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Respecting Previous Action – The correct play for you at any time .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Respecting Previous Action PokerIQScore™ is 118 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Timing Your Strategic Moves – Most players enjoy the thrill of the .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Strategic PokerIQScore™ is 110 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Position – You have been dealt nothing for a while, and .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Positional PokerIQScore™ is 117 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

Bluffing – You just missed your draw. But the board is .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

Your Bluffing PokerIQScore™ is 116 (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR SCORE)

The greatest overall strength in your game is Knowing the Odds (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR STRENGTH)

You are better than 60.00% of all people in this area. You have the ability to profit significantly from this skill. Continue to take advantage of it!

Improvement Needed (#1): Playing Weak Hands Pre-Flop (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR IMPROVEMENT AREA)

Narrative:

This is an area in which you need improvement. You have to consider many factors when determining if a hand is worth playing. Let’s take a look at the various factors:

CARDS

There are some hands that are no-brainers. Monster pairs and high cards are tough to lay down no matter what your position or your stack size or the bet necessary to call. But is there a minimum?

Based strictly on the cards, most pros will tell you that anything that dips below the face card level is pushing the odds. Again, this is advice comes from calculated percentages. Some poker experts will make exceptions for suited connectors, but that’s usually in keeping with some of the other factors as dictated below. See the hand chart for more information.

POSITION

The importance of position comes up a lot when talking about betting a poker hand, and for starting hands, it’s no different.

When in early position, such as under the gun or two from the blind, you should be a little more leery about limping in (calling) because there are still several players to act. If you’re not confident in your K-J offsuit, you’re really gonna be mad when the cutoff raises three times the blind. T.J. Cloutier: “If I am holding A-Q (suited or unsuited) or worse in the first four or five seats, I don’t want to put even a dime in the pot...” (Championship No-Limit & Pot-Limit Hold ‘Em, p. 128). So a standard sense of “dialing back” should exist in early positions, even as it applies to raising.

So does that mean you can go in with anything from late position? I think three guys just fell out of their chair in Toledo. Of course, the answer is no. While being in late position certainly relaxes some of the restrictions on a minimum hand, at least a little decorum is called for.

STACK SIZE

Another determining factor for whether you should play a hand is how much money you have. Doyle Brunson reasons that you should think of your stack in terms of “chips” rather than money, for psychological purposes. “Always play for Chips, rather than cash.” (Doyle Brunson’s Super System: A Course in Power Poker, p. 31) But the bottom line is – chips or money – if you don’t have any, you’re out of the game. And, if you don’t have many chips, you can’t win a huge pot – so don’t play speculative hands.

BET SIZE

While you never want another player to dictate how you should play, sometimes you just have to bow down and genuflect. You may hold a marginal hand in a good position to play, but the guy before you lays down a sizable bet. Suddenly that marginal hand looks downright ugly. Such is the way of the poker world.

NUMBER OF OPPONENTS

Being in late position not only allows you to see a lot of the action before you have to respond, but you can also get a solid count of how many people remain in the hand. But “number of opponents” really refers to how many people are at the table to begin with. Simply put, if it’s a short-handed table, you may be more tolerant of a moderate hand as one to start with. Playing against fewer people with fewer cards out of the deck usually means there’s less likely to be the monster hands as found at full tables.

QUALITY OF OPPONENTS

It’s always good to have a sense of how good your opponents are or at least how they play, especially as it relates to deciding whether to enter a hand. David Sklansky: “When the players in the game play loose, you should play tight, and when the players in the game play tight, you should play loose.” (The Theory of Poker, p. 149)

Another key barometer is simply the size of their stack (and don’t ask any embarrassing questions to get them to reveal it, like “show me yours and I’ll show you mine.”).

There’s no way to truly know how good an opponent’s cards are, but if you know he’s got money behind him, he’s likely to play just a little bit looser – as might you (see Stack Size).

Solution:

Taking all of the above into account may seem like a lot to do before each hand. Well, it is. But as Dan Harrington says, “If this were a short list, the game would be much easier, more people would do it well, and fewer players would make any real money.” (Harrington on Hold ‘em, p. 18-19)

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to employ a consistent MSH guideline for use in general circumstances. Then make adjustments to that as conditions dictate.

Summary:

• There are many factors that affect what hands you can play before the flop. Some of these include:
1. your stack size,
2. your opponent’s stack sizes,
3. whether your opponents are loose or tight,
4. the quality of your opponents (how good they are),
5. whether anyone has raised yet,
6. and, of course, your position.
• Being able to balance all these factors while at the poker table just takes time, training, and a little bit of experience.

Examples:

• You hold Ace – Ten, unsuited, and are the first player to act at a 9 person table. Although this is the best hand you’ve seen in 30 minutes, you realize that there will likely be a raise behind you, and you’ll have to play a marginal hand out of position. You fold.
• You hold Ace – 7, unsuited, in a $5/$10 game, and everyone folds to you on the dealer button. While you normally wouldn’t play this hand, your poker knowledge tells you that on average, this hand will be a lot better than what the blinds have. Plus, you will have position on them for the rest of the hand. You raise to $35.
• You hold 8 -7, suited, in the big blind at a $1/$2 table. A player with only $20 in his stack raises to $6. You might normally call this raise and try to catch a lucky flop, but with your opponent only having $14 left, you realize that it isn’t worth playing a drawing hand – you simply won’t be able to win enough from him when you do hit your hand to make it worth it.

Improvement Needed (#3): Bet Size Too Small (SAMPLE - THIS IS NOT YOUR IMPROVEMENT NEEDED AREA)

Narrative:

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1. Hand Selection:

One aspect of the game of poker that often causes many players players much grief is deciding which hands to play and which hands to dump. .... (This rest of this feature only available when you purchase your output.)

That being said, these charts will serve you well in most typical low-stakes No-Limit cash games, such as games with blinds of $1/$2 or $2/$4 and below. These games typically have several loose players at the table, and good opportunities for winning big pots with suited connectors (hands such as 87s) and pocket pairs. With practice, you will be able to be a consistently winning player with these charts as a starting point. As you improve, you’ll find yourself making adjustments to these charts based on the four factors listed above.

Note: Never use a Limit Holdem hand chart in a No-Limit Holdem game. Some hands, like the previously mentioned suited connectors and pocket pairs, go way up in value in No-Limit, and can be played from almost any position. That is because in Limit Holdem you might win a decent pot with these hands, but in No-Limit Holdem you are aiming to win someone’s entire stack. Other hands, such as AJ, which might be playable in a Limit game, are much less playable in No-Limit.

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CHART #1 – YOU ARE FIRST IN THE POT

CHART #2 – YOU ARE NOT FIRST IN, BUT NO ONE HAS RAISED

CHART #3 – THERE HAS BEEN A STANDARD RAISE (3 to 5 times the big blind)

CHART #4 – THERE HAS BEEN A RAISE AND A RE-RAISE

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LEGEND

Early Position = the first 3 positions after the blinds (and, in the blinds for charts 3 and 4) Middle Position = the next 2 (in a nine-handed game) or 3 (in a ten-handed game) positions after EP. Late Position = the last two positions, known as the “Cutoff” and the Button.

ATs = Ace – Ten, both of the same suit ATo = Ace –Ten, of different suits

AT = Ace – Ten, either of the same suit or not KJo = King – Jack, of different suits QQ = pocket queens

PP = pocket pair, such as QQ SC = suited connector, such as T9s SCog = suited connector with one gap = a hand like T8s Axs = An Ace, with any other card of the same suit

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3. Slow Playing:

Narrative:

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5. Being Pot Committed:

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Top ten tips that are guaranteed to save you money almost every time you play poker

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Where Do I Go From Here?

You’ve read all the material. You’ve learned the starting hands. You’ve completed the training plan. Where do you go from here? Here are some suggestions on how to proceed.

1. Play, play, play – Like any other sport, you can only theorize and practice so much, and then you have to get out there where the rubber hits the road. Whether you play online, at home games, or at Bricks and Mortar casinos, you have to put in the hours until applying the information in this document becomes second nature.
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