$16 Per Hour SNG Blueprint... Now Ready

Hey, my new course is ready!

Called this the '$16 Per Hour SNG Blueprint' and as the name suggests the idea is to take novice poker players and empower them to earn at least $16 each hour from the tables.

This course lasts 30 days and is in 4 parts, each building on the one before. We start with 'The Blueprint' which outlines the basic strategy stage-by-stage. Next I teach bubble play in terms of prize pool equity (ICM etc), before the 3rd part gets readers up to speed multi-tabling. Finally I bring it all together with the 'profit booster' which contains some killer tips on improving returns from SNGs... and gets you over the 'hump' and into the bigger winnings!

Click Here For The Preview And Join Page At SNG Planet

Would be great to see as many readers as possible join me on the course... and of course, your feedback is valued and always welcome.

GL at the tables, Mark

New SNG Course Almost Completed!

Quick Planet Corp Update here today... I'm a good 80% through completing a fantastic (in my opinion!) new course, this is called the $16 / Hour SNG blueprint and is actually in 4 parts, going from the basics to bubble play then multi-tabling and finally bringing it all together with some killer strategy tips.

The thing is, having worked in the poker industry for a good few years now, I'm paranoid that the scummy low life out there will re-publish the course, which is currently in pdf format. So, I'm making sure that Google etc know that the work is already published before we go live (aiming for next Thursday) by offering parts of the book for republication - as long as a notice of 'express permission' is given with it that plugs my site... if you have a blog or website and would like to have some high quality material for your readers then let me know.

For now here is my preview page and the 'where we will be in 30 days from now' page - just to give readers a little taster!


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Chapter #1 – 30 Days From Now – Where Will You Be After Completing This Course.


With the skills and knowledge to earn an average of $16 per hour (or more!) from the tables your bankroll could be starting to grow very fat indeed after completing this course. Let us be more specific, by way of introducing the main concepts.

I expect that the average player will be logging on to their chosen poker site, firing up 6 to 8+ turbo SNG tournaments, following our guidelines to avoid having too many multi-tabling opponents. They will be making fairly ‘automatic’ decisions in most cases, based on a clearly defined strategy specifically designed to reduce difficult spots without leaving too much ‘value’ on the table.

Our player will be cashing and winning at a rate which sees their bankroll move up and up and up with more games played. Busting out will not be a problem, you’ll simply fire up more games – waiting for the bubble where you now have the skills and knowledge to take advantage of your opponents again and again.

In 30 days you will have the tools to grow your poker bankroll at will. Whether your objective is to move to the high-stakes tournaments, transition to cash games or even just to generate some useful extra money for non-poker uses – you’ll always have the ability to come back for more.

We have broken the skills into 4 separate focus areas:

Part #1 – The SNG Blueprint: This part of the course will give you the ‘big view’, showing you how SNGs can mean big profits and giving you a new perspective which will quickly boost your profits, along with strategy and profit-making advice and insights which we will build on as the course progresses.

Part #2 - Becoming A Bubble Ninja: This part will arrive in 1 week, it will break down the bubble of a 1-table SNG tournament like you have never seen before. By the end of this section you will know exactly what mistakes your opponents are making at the bubble, and possess an effective counter-strategy for each one.

Part #3 – Turn Up The Volume: Next we will teach you how to gradually increase the number of games you are playing – while maintaining that profitable edge. You will be amazed how quickly playing 6 or more games can become as simple a routine as playing just 2!

Part #4 – SNG Profit Booster: In many ways this is the most important part of the course, arriving a week after Part #3. While we would love to share the insights and advanced strategy tips with you earlier – they become even more valuable after you have a solid grasp of the principles from the earlier sections.

If you are prepared to put in effort to learn the key concepts then read on, mastering SNG tournaments is easier than many people think!


You will find the course over at http://www.sitandgoplanet.com of course (English only from Thursday, though we will have it translated into DE, RU and HU shortly!)

Time For A Graceful Retirement!

*** Another Update *** Bringing this blog back to life... not so much covering my own games anymore (see link below)... providing industry insights, links to interesting articles and highlighting any interesting blogs out there instead... ***

*** Quick Update: I started a new blog - it is part of my main site Sit N Go Planet, and continues right where Plan3t Gong left off.... check out the Sit N Go Planet Blog now! ***

An announcement - I have decided the time has come to let Plan3t Gong gracefully retire.

Over the last few years it has been a pleasure, no - an honour, to have provided 100's of posts with the theme of 'making you think' about poker in all its wonderful forms. However, life moves on, and rather than allow my passion for this blog to dwindle into nothingness or simply abandoning posting altogether I would prefer to draw a definite line, say a 'big thanks' to the readers who made the whole thing possible and then move on...

Good news - I'll continue to blog, Melted Felt is my poker news satire blog and that will be updated regularly. Also considering a more personal non-business blog too (we will see). I'll also continue to write tons of poker strategy articles... these now go on my 'Planet' network (see adverts on the right --> )

Finally, it seemed a shame to waste so many strategy / thought provoking pieces... so I have make a 'super sticky' with links to as many as possible (sticky also linked on right). Updates will continue below when I have a new business venture to announce.

Thanks very much to everyone, as I say it has been a genuine honour to have been read (and hopefully enjoyed!) by so many of you...

GL at the tables, Mark

Quick PS: I'm still passing on any interesting poker links / news and blog posts via Twitter.... will follow you back if you don't tweet junk! You can find me at www.twitter.com/PlanetMark

Planet Network Expands Again (Not Strategy)

Just a quick post to inform the search engines that my network continues to grow, the latest additions are:

- http://www.prorakeback.hu a Hungarian rakeback-focused site providing reviews, a beginners rakeback guide and our SNG rakeback calc (along with a Texas Holdem one), this site also features some VIP loyalty deals which are too good to be called 'Rakeback' !!

- http://www.rakebackbonus.ru this one is Russian, again the rakeback side is the focus, and agfain the best articles are available along with reviews and widgets. My focus here is that it is more important to get people on the right deal (for the long term), than just a big percentage. Hopefully this is reflected in the quality of the sites.

- http://www.omahaplanet.com not a new site, but has had a complete renovation, looks 100% better IMO and we also added a bunch of new articles and simplified the navigation. In fact we were so pleased with the results of this one that it kicked off a desire to completely renovate SNG Planet next (Sept by the time we finish that one... big job!).

Oh, just a FYI - we are having SNG Planet translated into both French and German at the moment (can not wait!!)

Mark

Rakeback-Planet Revamp Completed

Well, it took a while longer than planned... but we finally got the new version of rakeback-planet up last night. Still a couple of minor updates to do but have to say I really think this is the best effort yet - Check it out at:

Rakeback Deals

We have all the leading deals from Tilt, Cake, Carbon, Absolute etc + some special 'VIP' offers including 40% to 55% iPoker Rakeback equivalent and a Bodog Loyalty scheme. The angle we are going for is VIP service + best deals... PG readers have my personal pledge that if anything goes awry or you get into a dispute with the room I'll step in and help get it resolved.

Can't say fairer than that.

Extra busy today, will be updating the 'super-sticky' below this post each day for the next week or so - then an announcement will follow!

Gl at those tables

The PG Online Poker Strategy Super Jump-Off Page

OK - As will shortly be explained in a sticky post at the top of Plan3t Gong this is the Online Poker Strategy super jump-off! This will contain links to many of the articles posted here over the last 3 years - and many of the links to good outside resources too.

This will take a little while to fully update, and will work in categories. If anyone would like to see my current writing on SNG, MTT, Omaha, Satellite and Rakeback (and more) then check the square adverts towards the top right.

We can start with posts which were deliberately put into series - with their own jump-off pages:

Series #1) 10 Post Series On How To Increase Your Profits By 63% By Making Incremental Small Improvements..... Improve Your Poker Profits Idea was that just a 5% improvement in 10 different areas + the wonder of compounding + the wonder of rakeback = $$$$

Series #2) Articles Covering Annette_15... all quiet on that front at the time of writing, but I'm sure we have not heard the last. Updated versions of these articles are available at SNG Planet, but here is a small sticky with the originals: Annette_15 Strategy Annette_15 Strategy

Series #3) PLO Strategy... well, not so much a series as a collection: This smaller collection were my initial musings on PLO, which eventually morphed into the biggest and best Omaha resource online in the shape of Omaha Planet... I'm sure there are more than this, will look for them and add them to this sticky: PLO Strategy

Series #4) The Big One - SNG Strategy: While I played poker regularly the majority of this was SNGs - when PG started it was 'just another poker blog from a SNG fan' until I accidentially found that I enjoyed writing about the strategy.... anyway, this sticky is incomplete too - will make an effort to grab the URLs of all of the SNG posts soon: SNG Strategy Sticky

Going to publish this post now before completion - Double or Nothings, Draw Poker, Psychology, and External Links to be added as separate stickies, followed by a '20 posts which have stood the test of time' (which will take me a little while to pick from the 600+ posts here, but hey!)

See you soon!

Mark

Classic PG #1 - Reasons For Checking In Sit n Goes!

First in a few posts from the archives today... noted earlier that strategy posts go into our commercial sites these days.... meaning that I somehow do not feel like posting them here at Plan3t Gong any more. So, develed into 2007 and found one that is the opposite of the 'conventional wisdom' that you should always be raising and betting while playing poker.... entitled Reasons for Checking in SNGs.... enjoy

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Any SNG player (well poker players in general) knows there are a whole number of reasons for raising, most - if not all - poker books and strategy guides cover this subject. Well Plan3t Gong is the blog that likes to make you think... so today we can turn our thoughts to a slightly obscure area of Sit N Go Strategy - reasons for 'checking'.

(in no particular order!)

1) Pot Size Control. Sometimes you'll have a hand you are happy to play a big pot with... other times not - a top pair with kicker for example is often very vulnerable. If you do not want to build a big pot then you'll need to check at some point during the hand. This is especially useful when you have a big stack and are in a pot with another biggy - no point going to war when you can pick on the medium / small stacks instead!

2) To Take A Free Card. With position you can check to take a free card to make your draw. Works especially nicely if you bet the flop and missed your draw on the turn, now if you miss you have invested the minumum and if you hit (especially with a straight) you may find your opponent betting into you on the river.

3) To Induce A Bluff. So your opponent is known to usually call a flop bet... now checking on the turn might induce a nice bluff on the river from hands that might have folded if you continued to bet at the pot.

4) To Check-Raise / Slowplay.You know your opponent is aggressive and will keep firing at the pot, you check-called the flop when first to act... against the right opponent a check-raise on the turn can get more money into the pot. Make sure you pick the right players though... you do not want your opponent to check behind and take that free card when there are draws out there...

5) Co-operation Plays. When a short stack is all in and there is no side pot... checking down a hand can be mathematically beneficial to you. The increase in your equity from maximising the chances of knocking out an opponent are greater than the potential to win more chips. Make sure you know the math here though... there are many situations (when the bubble is not yet here) when a bet might be the better option.

6) To Prevent Yourself Becoming Easy To Read. Less common, especially at the low stakes, but if you always lead with strong hands and check weak ones you'll become exploitable by observant opponents. Mix up that play enough to put some doubt in their minds by occasionally checking when you would have bet and vice versa.Any more? drop a comment to let me know!

In the meantime... GL at the tables, Mark