Poker camp 2015 has ended! Check out the full trip report here - Poker Camp 1 Summary With Photos
If you're interested in joining a future poker camp, email rypac13@husng.com.
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Come join Coffeeyay, ChicagoRy and Wubblepig for one or both 7 day poker camps in a 9,000 square foot mountain house, fully equipped with exercise room, massage room, steam room, hot tub, fire pit, 8 burner grill, game room with pool table + air hockey, 12 seat theater room and more.
Coffeeyay and Wubblepig will be providing coaching throughout the duration of the camp. Chadders0 will be joining us and coaching for 3-4 days during each camp as well.
When: Camp 1 is September 20-27th and Camp 2 is September 27-October 4th, 2015. Players may attend both camps and will receive a discount for their room charge.
Where: The beautiful Rocky Mountains of Colorado, USA. Keystone is located roughly 90 minutes from Denver. Players will fly into Denver International Airport and be transported to the house.
Included: At least 15 hours of coaching, all breakfast, lunches and snacks, as well as great local beer, wine and spirits/cocktails. Self serve dinners are also included free of charge at the house, for anyone that does not want to go out for food. Laundry machines, cleaning service, transportation to and from the airport, as well as to and from any activities or restaurants/breweries/sights in the area is also free. See below for details on beds/suites.
About the team
Adam "Coffeeyay" Sobolewski is one of the most experienced and well regarded HUSNG and Spin and Go coaches. He's worked with a great deal of high stakes professionals, many as they climbed the ladder and found success. He's coached players such as currrr14, spiritedreal, 307th, torg0th, bubbleoutcas, noxxq, emotionx, yovengo, rocmar87 and spl0dge.
Scott "Wubblepig" Pollington has had great success at the highest levels of Spin and Gos on PokerStars. His results in particular on tables with one "regular" are very impressive. He has been regularly coaching players in Spin and Gos throughout 2015 as well, and is excited to provide insight into this new and profitable format at the camp.
Richard "Chadders0" Chadwick built the original guide to hyper turbo HUSNGs, while beating the $60s and moving into the $100 hyper levels. He now resides as a member of the $500s division, and has had epic battles against the best players in the world, most notably, mrgr33n13 in the $500 and $1,000s. He's made videos and coached players for 4 years now and will be primarily coaching heads up situations in this camp.
Ryan "ChicagoRy" Pachmayer is the founder of HUSNG.com. He will be handling the logistics of the camp, such as meals, drinks, activities, transportation and more. From a rare beer tasting, to cocktail night, hikes, biking, games and more, Ryan will be making sure everyone has a great experience.
Individual Suites (6 available)
Each suite includes its own private bathroom and shower, mini fridge, closet and queen or king size bed. All suites have porches, except for Imagine Suite, which has a larger room area instead.
Discovery Room Beds (5 Available)
Scott "Wubblepig" and Adam "Coffeeyay" will each have a bed in this large shared room. There are three regular bathrooms with sink/toilet and one large bathroom with a shower that the Discovery and Chiron rooms will share. There is a large balcony outside of the Discovery room, with stairs leading to the ground floor side covered porch.
Chiron Room Regular Beds (2 Available)
Upstairs from the Discovery room is the Chiron room, with one large (king) bed, and two regular sized beds available. It also has a private patio facing the back of the house.
Chiron Room King Bed (1 Available)
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For more information or to book now, email rypac13@husng.com. Payment options include Skrill, Paypal, Bank Wire and more. Prices above are USD. Payments in non USD currencies can be handled.
Attendees will receive a full survey when booking, covering three main categories:
1) Poker - What each participant would like to learn, so that the coaches can customize some of their time to learning those topics.
2) Food - What you like to eat, allergies, preferences and more. Meals will be tailor made for the preferences of attendees, as will beverage choices.
3) Leisure - If you want to go on a hike in the mountains, that will be arranged. Want to explore a cave? No problem. Just want to watch a movie or TV show in the theater room or on one of the other TVs? That's cool too. This category will include any alcohol and other enjoyment too.
In addition to the above, we can help you book your flights (finding you the best airfare prices) and handle any other logistics for you.
I'm really excited about this. We'll be providing more pictures, walk through videos, graphs, coaching itineraries, coaching videos (Scott in particular since he hasn't been featured on this site like Coffee or Chadders) and more in the next 48 hours. Stay tuned!
Here are walkthrough videos of the house. I did them on my phone, so please excuse the lack of professional quality!
Suites
Dance
Invent
Adventure
Imagine
Inspire
Create
Shared Rooms
Discovery
Chiron
Main Areas
Living Room, Kitchen and Hot Tub Areas
Theater Area
Game Room
Gym, Sauna, Massage Rooms
Hey guys just wanted to give some more details on a few lecture topics I plan to cover in the camp. I'll start with the one I'm most excited about—near game theory optimal (aka GTO) SB and BB ranges for 3-handed play (ie when the button open folds). I've been working on computing them for months now and I'll finally be revealing these ranges at the boot camp. I'll discuss how to make the most money out of understanding them, as well as disusing future ramifications on reg play. These ranges will be a great way for any player to gain edge preflop on even the toughest regs and keep it throughout their career. We'll also be looking at GTO play in heads up scenarios, both preflop and post, and how to use GTO to make the most money you can at the tables. With recent breakthroughs in computing power and calculation software this is where I'm noticing the largest increase in edge in players for work put in.
Another topic I'm very excited about is looking at using HUDs more appropriately. Most of the money in our careers comes from exploitative play, so every tool we can use to exploit players is an essential one to cultivate. With today's advances in strategy it's important to be able to recognize other strategies. To this end we will examine high level ways to connect HUD stats with ranges and strategies. We will also look at common strategies in the metagame and discuss viable counter strategies—we'll also look at how we can build strategies that combine exploitation with balance by using our GTO breakthroughs.
I also plan on doing non-strategy bonus seminars. We'll look at topics away from direct strategy to try to find new avenues for growth. A few tentative examples are: “The history of HUSNGs—a case study for metagame analysis” and “What separates the best from the rest? A panel discussion”. These lighter topics will provide insight into new areas to explore in your work to become the best poker player you can be.
In all of this I plan to craft the specific set of seminars to the individual groups of participants. Your input will be incorporated into the curriculum and our goal will be to discuss new content regardless of your incoming knowledge level—our coaching staff will make sure of it.
what a beautiful part of the world that looks.
wish i was baller and/or single enough to attend, looks completely boss.
Looks nice.
Any plans for something similar in Europe?
"If you want to win, you must not lose!"
Yup, a Eurpean boot camp would get me interested.
Also: how to you plan to coach if we can't play on Stars in Colorado? :(
There are sites such as Black Chip and Bovada to play on, but studying things like GTO play 3 handed when button folds doesn't require any live games.
Most serious coaches aren't doing live sweats these days either, they're doing post hand game reviews or theory sessions.
A Euro camp could happen at some point, but nothing is planned thus far. It's very hard to coordinate something of this size and caliber in another country. Adam and I live about 90 minutes from this house, so we were able to go visit it, walk through, talk to the owners, we know the area and the best hiking/biking trails, best breweries and restaurants, we have transportation available here with our own vehicles and so on. So we're really excited to be hosting everyone and showing them our beautiful state.
Let Spl0dge host the next one in Scotland, and I'll be there :-)
Good idea, but how about a cheaper/sunnier/with-hotter-girls place? :)
- Majer
Cheaper food or lodging comes with a cost, unfortunately. For example, I have plenty of friends that have been burned by rental contracts in other countries (such as Mexico, Costa Rica or Thailand). Imagine if you paid 30% less, but then you arrived and the place either wasn't what the pictures we were sent show, or the place was double booked and we couldn't stay there? That would be horrendous and won't happen 90 minutes from where we live.
Another aspect is going to be familiarity, which leads to value. Me knowing which biking or hiking trail, which restaurant or brewery is best, which roads are best to take at various times, where to buy the best food to cook with, the better beers and liquors, all of that stuff has varying importance to different attendees. Whether you risk being stuck on the wrong road for a few hours, or having a bad afternoon or day at an activity that is not that fun (or we get lost bc we're not familiar), that's lost value.
Coffeeyay also has an assistant, and she will be helping a lot throughout the camps.
Regarding girls, I think we have the fittest state in the USA and many olympic athletes come to train in Colorado. You're not going to find your sterotypical McDonalds eating people in these mountain towns, these are towns that anyone may visit, but if you want to live in the mountains up here, you are usually physically active.
Regarding sun, there is a lot of sunshine out here. The average rain in September is 45mm, and October is 27mm. That's 1-2 inches throughout the entire month. You'll see a lot of sun out here :)
My previous comment was meant to target Scotland/Scottish girls (and possible camp #2 destination), nothing but love for the lovely Americans. US #1 ;)
- Majer
Ah, yes, sunny Scotland :)
(In all fairness, Scotland is a great location too).
Hi Guys
I'll be running a mindset seminar for both groups via teleconference in the theater room.
It will be a 1hour seminar and then 30mins of Q&A. I'll be discussing my thoughts on the optimal mindset for poker and teaching techniques play in the zone more often.
Look forward to talking with you then
Elliot
Check out my pre game, heads up specific MP3 mindset warmup
Here's a video of Scott playing $100 Spins on PokerStars.
Here is his lifetime Spins EV graph.
Here is his lifetime Spins EV graph from $60 and $100 buyins.
A couple of fun pics of the area the house is located in...
We're at about 50% capacity for the camps, looking forward with about 4 weeks until camp!
Hey Ryan,
I think you need one of these in Australia and you know who can set this up for you.
ZoomRush - Fast Fold Poker Videos, Strategy and Software
Activity/Food/Info emails will go out shortly to everyone who is paid. We still have some slots left if anyone is interested.
Some of the nearby activities you can look at:
3 minutes away - Mountain biking at Keystone resort, you can go down the ski slopes areas on adventure courses (Pictured below)
5 minutes away - Dillon Marina - Boat, kayak and other water rentals to go out on Dillon Resevoir
14 minutes away - Backcountry Brewery - Excellent local brewery in the mountains that also serves sandwiches, pizzas and more.
18 minutes away - Breckenridge Rec Center - Includes rock climbing facility and much more.
35 minutes away - Dram Apothecary - Excellent cocktails and locally made bitters in an old semi ghost mining town.
70 minutes away - Black Hawk, Colorado (pictured below) - Multiple casinos with various live poker games being spread.
In addition, Keystone resort is 2-3 minutes away, downtown Dillon is 5 minutes away, Silverthorne is 9 minutes away, downtown Frisco is 14 minutes away, downtown Breckenridge is 20 minutes away.
We have a 15-20 deep restaurant list that is being finalized as well.
Best Poker Teachers + Some of the Best Nature the world has to offer? ...I must be Dreaming
I'm in 100%, and looking very much forward to the Experience
Thanks for putting this together Ryan et all!
I'm feeling a #GameChanger
Gonna be a blast, always loved your YT channel, I've modeled the HUSNG.com the same way.
haha, i always listened to / watched gripsed when i was a play money player on the HOLDEM KING poker blackberry app. allowed me to hit the ground running on my first deposit to a real $$ site.
It was a very competitive environment, and eventually led to me getting into HUSNG;s. I got owned HU on the app once, so googled some HU strategy books, stumbled on will tiptons book / this site and that was that, I was hooked. So yeah i had read will tipton about 8 months before i had played a hand of real money poker lol.