Writing and teaching…
WPT UK magazine offered me a chance to write a bankroll article early in 2007 and I leaped at the chance. I am an instructor by nature and love to write about poker and my experiences. The opportunity to combine my playing experience with what I have learned about poker primarily from other authors is a singularly satifsfying experience for me.
I learned poker just like I learned many other games. I read a book. I then applied what I learned and was immediately successful. I must be fairly unique because I read countless stories of people who have not had any success, let alone the success that I have had from reading and applying what they learned in poker books. Evidently, many people have trouble trying to actually apply what they have read and thus look for other sources to learn how to play poker. I have tried to become one of those sources. I teach poker online and in person to those that contact me. I also produce online videos that I sell here: http://www.thepokercamp.com/videos/bwillis_main.htm
In my classes I teach a very nuts and bolts approach to cash games. I lay out what starting hands should be played from every position on the table whether it is full or short handed. I also describe what actions should be changed based on the other players acting ahead of you. Reraises, all ins and play against short stacks are all covered. Postflop I describe my strategies about continuation bets, when to check raise, when to bet pot, etc, etc. This is my basic class and it describes how to play the cards properly. This strategy will enable anyone willing to apply it to beat games up to $5/10 NL for 10big blinds per 100 hands or per hour in a live game. I know this for a fact because I have been doing it for over two years now and the system is well proven at all the lower levels of poker. Many reading this may doubt this, but my results speak for themselves and I have the pokertracker and excel spreadsheets with years of data to back it up.
I also teach advanced poker courses on how to use my cash game strategies in MTTs. How to play the players after you have learned to play the cards. How to beat SNGs using a totally different strategy that I didn’t come up with, but use because it works. I charge $150/hr for my time when I teach all these classes because my time is worth more than that when I sit down to play poker. (Which is what I could be doing if I wasn’t teaching poker.) I do this because I love to teach and I understand that some people learn differently than I do. They learn by watching and discussing poker while it is played better than by reading a ‘dry’ poker book. The poker books are cheaper than my classes, but many of them are bad and learning which ones to heed and which ones to toss on the fire is a difficult proposition for beginners. If you read my story below, you will find that I learned from many sources, not just books, but also from colleagues and videos. Thus you will find this blog full of many links to articles and videos that will help you on your poker journey to whatever destination that you have in mind. Enjoy!