Hello,

I am an Elite pro here (http://www.runitonce.com/users/TomChambers/) and I am offering two new group coaching programs beginning the latter of the week of July 24 and when the courses fill.

The hope is to run the courses from the week of July 24 to the week of November 13, so we don't hit Thanksgiving, but if we don't fill in time and start later we'll just skip that week. We will pick day of week and time for each course once we have a full or near-full roster.

The core theme of both courses will be hand analysis, with a couple other empirical analysis weeks included, which are noted below.

The courses will run 17 weeks total, including 15 weeks of 1.5 hour sessions and break weeks after weeks 5 and 10 where I hold a one-hour office hours. This adds to approximately 25 hours of coaching time.

The Beginner course is open to nine students, and the cost is $1250 per student (~ $50/hour). The Intermediate course is open to 6 students, and the cost is $2500 per student (~$100/hour). As a July 4th special and to kick start things, from now until the end of this week (7/7), I will cut those prices by 20% to $1000 and $2000.

For the majority of weeks, the lesson will cover a theme, a subset of students will bring hands that fit that theme, and we'll spend the lesson time discussing the hands. I've also included weeks with related topics, specifically statistical/database analysis (maximizing away from the table) and HUD design/session management/game selection (maximizing at the table).

The Beginner course has set themes that I have chosen. The members of the Intermediate course will vote on their themes from a list of around 50 I have compiled (including several that more advanced than in the Beginner course), and then I'll arrange the top choices in a logical sequence. We will make use of Poker Juice in both courses, but greater and more advanced use in the Intermediate Course.

We'll have private forums and chat rooms for each course.

Whether to choose Beginner or Intermediate is up to you. There are no stakes limits, although I'm posting in SSPLO in the hopes that 5/10+ players will understand this will mostly be covering things they know and will stay away.

This is long enough. I have syllabi written, but will leave them off this post. Instead, if you are interested, send me a message here or email plotheory.com with your email and I will send all the details.

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Before concluding I want to note the following courses given by my partner (jonna102 here) in the Elite Fundamentals Course offered at Poker Juice (~ $10,000 for 12 two-session weeks, and will be offered again in the next 2-3 months).

The Basic Fundamentals Course (https://pokerjuice.com/shop/plo-fundamentals-basic-course/) and Advanced Fundamentals Course (https://pokerjuice.com/shop/plo-fundamentals-advanced-course/) are aimed are essentially the same audiences as the two courses I'm offering, and they are very good.

I've thought for a couple years about offering group courses, because I'd like to coach more students, because they are cheaper for each student, and because the intra-student interaction is beneficial. But I hadn't yet this past year or so because of his courses.

Most of my videos here are theory videos, so a theory course would make sense, but when I came across jonna's courses I realized there was already a very good theory course out there, and especially now that we work together there is no point in me doing one as well.

Despite being theory-focused in videos, or actually probably because of it, I've been spending a lot of time on empirical analysis and I'm working on books and videos with that focus, and so I've designed these courses with that theme. Thus they are very different than the Fundamentals courses, while potentially being complementary with them for some students. I highly encourage people interested in theory courses at this level to take his courses. And I do think many would benefit from taking both (perhaps not simultaneously).

Thanks for reading

Tom