Serg Saakian

Regular @VenetianPoker & @WynnPoker

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

I’m starting a poker experiment.

There are several major poker coaching platforms, and each of them claims to be the best.

Instead of relying on opinions or marketing, I want to test it myself.

I’ll go through 3 of the most well-known poker coaching platforms:
@clcpoker
@JakaCoaching
@RaiseYourEdge

The goal is to actually experience each system and compare them in practice.

At the end, I’ll give a clear and honest answer:

Which poker coaching platform is truly the best for improving your game.

As the experiment progresses, I may add more poker coaching platforms that are suggested by the community or considered interesting to compare, in order to make the final review as complete and useful as possible.

Also feel free to suggest which one I should start with first.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

@Nick_Palma1010 @PhillipHellmuth If your goal is to become the most hated player in the poker community, you’re well on your way.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

I want to announce that the next training site I’ll be reviewing is @PokerCoaching_, founded by renowned poker coach and longtime industry veteran @JonathanLittle.

Neither Demosthenes, Cicero, Pericles, nor Isocrates left behind as much material as @JonathanLittle has created in the poker world.

You could literally watch one video from his YouTube channel every day, and after 10 years you’d probably still have thousands of hours of new content to explore. 😄

I remember hearing in an interview with the famous poker player Artur Martirosian that they were once waiting to board a plane, and @JonathanLittle was standing nearby. He got tired of standing and, apparently inspired by a new idea for a video, simply sat down on the floor, pulled out his laptop, and started typing. 🤓

That’s why it’s hard to imagine we’ll ever see someone this dedicated to his craft again.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

I’m starting a poker experiment.

There are several major poker coaching platforms, and each of them claims to be the best.

Instead of relying on opinions or marketing, I want to test it myself.

I’ll go through 3 of the most well-known poker coaching platforms:
@clcpoker
@JakaCoaching
@RaiseYourEdge

The goal is to actually experience each system and compare them in practice.

At the end, I’ll give a clear and honest answer:

Which poker coaching platform is truly the best for improving your game.

As the experiment progresses, I may add more poker coaching platforms that are suggested by the community or considered interesting to compare, in order to make the final review as complete and useful as possible.

Also feel free to suggest which one I should start with first.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

Here’s what @clcpoker’s AI program looks like. I’ll attach a screenshot below.

I think it’s a really impressive AI tool. An interactive program like this makes it much easier to learn and remember the correct strategy for specific situations. Not everyone can use solvers effectively, and even fewer people can memorize all those solutions. This approach makes it much easier to retain the right decisions while you’re actually playing a hand.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

@FarazJaka @jakacoaching @RunItOnce @UpswingPoker @PokerCoaching_ @raiseyouredge I’ll definitely go back and revisit the top performers from my test once I’ve narrowed it down to the finalists, and then I’ll do one final review.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

@phil_hellmuth @TonyRobbins I’m thinking about doing a review of your book🤔🤓

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

You’re welcome. I just have one important suggestion: if possible, consider re-recording the course with better video and audio quality, so that details like charts, card suits, and everything on the screen are crystal clear.

I truly believe this course has huge potential. You can definitely build on it, expand the content, and turn it into an even bigger product. It’s already a great success, but with these improvements it could become a real standout.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

@MrBeast 5 millions

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

https://t.co/IA5wDZQIPH

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

As of today, the safest approach is to play low buy-in tournaments. In those, it’s virtually impossible for a good player to go broke. Once you move above the $1,000 buy-in level, the risk starts to become real - especially if poker is your only source of income and you don’t have a job.

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

Jon, could it be that your situation is different because you’re from the UK?
The UK has a tax treaty with the United States, so maybe this withholding rule doesn’t apply to UK players in the same way it applies to others. That could explain why your experience has been different from mine.

[South Point Poker Room @SPPokr]

Congratulations to the final 3 players in tonight's 6pm NLH DeepStack. Play ended in a chop giving chip leader Sergei first place and a $2,143 payday! @southpointlv

[Richard Amador @acuriocabinet]

I’ve been on holiday in Armenia and holy shit - it’s entirely possible to have a society build new and nice things, while remaining prosocial.

Yerevan is clean, modern, with no drug addicts or homeless people, walkable, etc.

“The West” is asleep at the wheel!

[Serg Saakian @sergd]

Lately I’ve been noticing a kind of turning point in the poker community, almost an existential crisis. It feels like the scene is in decline. People are rethinking GTO and solver-based strategies, talking more about luck and exploitative play, and even about the misery and desperation of high rollers.
Maybe it’s something like a decadent era, a sign that something new is quietly taking shape.