Ex PokerStrategy PLO Head Coach, 4c/5c/6c/HU Expert, 17 Years of Coaching Exp, Still Crushing
Hello all, this is Bocian, the Head Coach and CEO of Pokerninjas.org - the premium PLO stakin....
I used to play PLO for a living since 2006.
I have been coaching PLO for at least 17 years, used to be a Pokerstrategy.com Polish Division Head Coach for around 5 years, recorded more than 120 instructional videos back then. You can find me there by searching “MrBocian” in the Videos. I’ve spent countless hours teaching countless students how to master PLO and during the last 3-5 years I have successfully transitioned several good NLH players to beating high level, high stakes PLO. For the last 6 years I run the Pokerninjas.org PLO Stable and coach my players on regular basis.
I decided to offer my service for the players from outside the Stable as a way to challenge myself, gather some insightful data from various poker sites that I’m not yet familiar with and, obviously, help some players to improve quickly. I believe I am extremely effective when it comes to coaching – even 2-3 hours can often be enough for a player to recalibrate and start crushing again. And I still do love coaching people.
In my work I use DriveHud2 (with custom stats), PLO Trainer, PLO Genius, PLO Vision, Grinders Vault 6c Calc, Odds Oracle, SnapMDA, PreflopWhiz and Excel. I also have access to Oranges Calculator Pro and Monker Solver with 256 GB of RAM, but I don’t use those. If you need to set up a simulation in Monker (4c only), you can contact me, I can make it happen for you. We will use some of these tools during our coaching sessions.
This is my current database (Apps only, various PLO formats):
I am able to keep double digit winrate EV adjusted despite having to pay 22bb/100 in rake and testing new formats for my Pokerninjas.org players (which has often been pretty costly for me).
When we exclude some of the new/weird formats tested (double boards and big Ante games) my winrate goes up by 2bb/100. Other unusual formats (hi/lo, bomb pots, cucurucho, squid game, etc.) were not excluded here, but they surely decreased my winrate as well when I started testing those (some were solved afterwards though).
My current winrates in 4c/5c/6c are pretty similar, although my 4c wr is the best and my 6c is the worst (still decent though):
My 1k+ winrate is 13bb/100 currently. Please note that I was not testing any new formats at these stakes:
And I feel pretty strong in HU – 15bb/100 EV adjusted with 54% WWSF:
I still don’t play much, usually between 15 and 30 hours a month – just enough to stay in shape. I put majority of my time into running our Pokerninjas.org PLO Stable. You can find our 2+2 thread here:
The current price for an hour of coaching is 222 USD (paid in crypto, via Skrill or with a wire transfer). I also offer a database analysis for a 555 USD price – you can find my thread here:
I will analyse your PLO database
The prices may go up in the future - depending on the demand. The prices will not change at least till the end of February. I should be able to assign around 6-12 hours per month for coaching sessions and process 2-4 databases on top of that.
If you wish to talk to me, find me on Discord (my ID is “bocian20002” – I’m a member of RIO/Mastermind/Genius and several other poker related communities). You can also write me via private message here on 2+2, but I will most likely not check the messages daily – will try to do this at least twice a week though. You should also be able to find me on MS Teams (bocian20002), but I check it only once a couple of days as well.
Good luck at the tables!
B
