Full Tilt Academy

[Wakou]

As I am always looking for even more ways to waste my life on poker related internet activity, when I saw some freerolls on FT related to this academy, I signed up. First impressions OK, top pros do short videos on a certain aspect of Poker. For my first lesson I chose "Fixing leaks in NLHE with Phil Gordon" as I have more leaks than the Titanic. Point 4 is "Avoid Dominated hands" and gives good advice about how KQ is a dog vs AQ etc...
However Point 5 "Check/calling the river with medium holdings", more good advice, but his example?

He calls a button raise from the BB with Q T!
How much more dominated can a hand be preflop??
He raises the Q x x board and is called....
Surely this DIRECTLY contradicts his advice given 30 seconds earlier?

[PokerWoody]

his example?

He calls a button raise from the BB with Q T!
How much more dominated can a hand be preflop??
He raises the Q x x board and is called....
Surely this DIRECTLY contradicts his advice given 30 seconds earlier?

Yeah, this all seems pretty bad to me, especially given his river plan.

[Aidan77]

lol at raising the flop. It sucks that he just folded out all the air in their range and probably got called by a better hand. Was his plan to c/c river if the turn got checked through?

[Wakou]

Just watched the vid again , he check raises the flop, and is called

[lev1athan]

I don't think there's anything wrong with the call pre. I haven't seen the vid, but I doubt he wanted anyone to interpret his comments about dominated hands as meaning "fold to all position raises with any hand other than AA".

I guess I'd agree with Aidan that calling is probably usually better than raising the flop.

[PokerWoody]

without knowing anything about stack sizes, opponent etc, i'm gonna say calling pre sucks and so does Phil Gordon.

[jingjangjong]

who the fuck is phil gordon?
any relation to flash?

[TankmanDan]

I don't think there's anything wrong with the call pre. I haven't seen the vid, but I doubt he wanted anyone to interpret his comments about dominated hands as meaning "fold to all position raises with any hand other than AA".

I concur. I think his point about dominated hands relates to multi-way raised pots. Faced with a button raise and no others in the pot, I am calling pre and check-raising if I hit. We may still be dominated if the CR is called but we could also be facing a draw or total air. Action after this point is obviously then determined by the turn and river which aren't given in the OP.

If u think his advice means fold ALL likely dominated hands ALL of the time then what hands ARE u gonna play?

[Barnfather]

I kinda like some of the stuff on full tilt academy, especially as its free.

Appreciate there is some dodgy stuff there, and the whole 'challenge' thing is flawed on a number of levels, but the most entertaining aspect of it was watching some of the regular 2+2 posters go into meltdown about it, as it wasn't a subscription service you had to pay a small fortune for.

Clearly there is a place for the leggopoker and the deuces-cracked's of this world but also for the FT Academy.

Any really *good* videos on there, worth making a b-line for?

[Pokersid]

I've found some interesting videos in the academy, worth to check them out if you are a newbie player.