Introduction
Good news for anyone living in the Chicago area – WSOP are bringing their advanced poker lessons to Chicago as their Poker Academy takes its first venture around the Great Lakes. August 29th – 30th at the Horseshoe Casino will be the place to go for anyone looking to hone their poker skills, picking up tips and advice from top class instructors and international poker stars such as Annie Duke and Matt Graham, who will be accompanied by poker players and authors Bernard Lee and Joe Navarro.
What you can expect at the Poker Academy
I guess that's one way to hide your poker tells.
Post Oak Productions, the company responsible for running the Academy programs, are promising two days of intensive seminars including live-hand demonstrations from the expert players, a video analysis of a WSOP tournament and, whilst amongst performing other duties, Joe Navarro will be delivering a seminar on his area of expertise – poker tells. The academy is advertised as suitable for all levels of players; however, perhaps absolute novices might benefit from getting a few hands of poker under their belts, so to speak, before attending it. The two days will pretty well be given over to playing Texas Hold ‘em covering issues such as pot-odds, playing position, post-flop strategy, tells, identifying poker player’s styles and, not forgetting of course, how to vary your own game in order to confuse opponents.
Play with the experts
As in previous Academies participants will have the opportunity to compete in private multi-table tournaments, allowing attendees to play poker whilst being observed and picking up the vibes from the experts. If you need more of an incentive to join in the tournaments – the winner will receive an invitation to compete for a $10,000 seat in the 2010 WSOP Main Event via the WSOP Academy Tournament of Champions.
