ProPokerSchool.com

One of my fellow Crew members, Brett "Gank" Jungblut, setup a site some time ago called Pro Poker School. Now there are a lot of online poker training sites, many of them very good... sites like PokerXFactor.com, ChipRunners.com, RealPokerTraining.com, etc. ProPokerSchool.com is different then all of them, however, because it is 100% free.

Let me repeat that. You can go to Gank's online poker school and get poker lessons from a World Series of Poker bracelet winner and it won't cost you a dime. This is an incredible deal. Brett is one of the players which I credit for improving my game the most. He makes some of the most creative plays I've ever come across in poker.

As an example, a few years ago when the Crew was just starting out, Gank, my little brother Bobby, and myself decided to play a little three-man Limit Omaha/8 tournament. O8 is Gank's best game... I had played my fair share of it as a prop in San Jose... but Bobby had never played the game before and really didn't have much of an idea of what he was doing.

A hand came down where by the river, I had a very weak high hand and the fourth nut low. The board read something like 887QA. I had been drawing to the nut low with A25x, and made Bobby had been raising the whole time like he had flopped the nut fullhouse. On the river, Gank checked, Bobby bet like he'd been doing every street, and I called hoping to salvage half the pot. Then Gank check-raised. Bobby called. I was disgusted, as I realized that I was getting squeezed. Brett must have been playing a 23 and hit his nut low. So I shook my head and folded my 25.

But then when Gank turned over his hand, he had absolutely nothing and Bobby sooped the pot with something like a pair of Kings. I couldn't believe it! "Why the hell would you raise?!?" At first I thought it was the dumbest play I'd seen...

But then I felt schooled as Brett started laughing his head off while Bobby scooped the chips. I realized what had happened. Brett knew that I was going to be getting half the pot with my low and he decided that he would rather see the whole pot go to Bobby, since he had never played O8 and Brett correctly figured that it would be easier to get the chips back from him than from me. It was still to this day one of the more advanced plays I've seen at the table... pushing out a better player to make sure a weaker player wins the pot.

A year later, Brett Jungblut would prove to the rest of the world what I already knew... that he was a world-class poker player and one of the best Omaha Hi-low players around. He proved it by winning the $5,000 Omaha/8 Championship at the WSOP. It was one of the toughest tables I'd ever seen a WSOP final table, filled out by the likes of Erick Lindgren, Huck Seed, Miami John, Thor Hansen, Minh Nguyen, Brent Carter, Mike Wattel and Todd Brunson. There wasn't a single weak spot at that final table. And Brett emerged victorious.

Go visit ProPokerSchool.com today and improve your poker game for free.