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Study Session 2: Preflop Strategy With Team Fearless River
Wednesday, October 11th
3PM Pacific | 6PM Eastern Time
Over the next 2 months Team Fearless River is hosting Study Sessions for Members to get your game ready to dominate the WPT® World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas this November 29 - December 23, 2023.
For each poker Study Session we'll provide a curated curriculum that focuses on specific concepts and habits essential for tournament success and we'll host LIVE Member-only sessions to focus on key strategy concepts for each topic, answer questions, and address nagging issues in your game.
Today's Live Study Session is focused on Preflop Strategy,
Knowing how and when to make moves Preflop is one of the keys to getting a hold of chips in a poker tournament and responding to aggression with the correct strategy is vital to accumulating a big stack and crucial to avoiding costly mistakes that can derail your Championship run.
Join this Live, Interactive MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Study Session and let Team Fearless River help focus your efforts to maximize your results and get answers to your most pressing poker problems.
Spend some time with Fearless River Instructors Eric "Rizen" Lynch and Michael "Gags30" Gagliano who will be talking about:
Join us for some great poker discussion with Members and your Fearless River Instructors. Bring your questions and get ready to learn and study with fellow Members and Team Fearless River!
MICHAEL'S ACHIEVEMENTS
✔ 3x WSOP Bracelet Winner
✔ More than $6 million combined live and online tournament earnings
✔ Over 10 years as a Professional Poker Coach
Michael Gagliano, also known by his online screen name Gags30, has been playing poker professionally for more than 15 years while also helping students achieve their goals as a coach for almost a decade. He began playing online with low stakes sit and go’s and multi-table tournaments before moving into high stakes online MTTs. After much success, Michael broadened his focus to include online and live cash games.
After crushing the online felt, Michael successfully transitioned into the live poker arena in 2011 with multiple top 3 finishes in high profile tournaments including WSOP Bracelet events, multiple Borgata Poker Opens, and a 5th place in WPT Prague. Michael won his 1st World Series of Poker Bracelet in 2016 after qualifying online, outlasting a field of over 1000 players for a $448K first prize and took home his 2nd WSOP bracelet after winning the October 2022 Online Bracelet Series Event #18. Gags recently captured his 3rd WSOP bracelet in September 2023. Michael’s talents and experience extend off the felt through roles as, an active ambassador for partypoker US Network and Borgata Poker, serving as a consultant for online poker sites to help improve their product, as well as being a fierce advocate for the player.
ERIC'S ACHIEVEMENTS
✔ 3 Major WSOP Final Tables
✔ More than $5 Million in tournament winnings
✔ Author of Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time, Vols. I, II, III
✔ Over a decade of Professional Poker Coaching Experience
Known in cyberspace as "Rizen", Eric Lynch's internet poker career took off when he won the PokerStars Million Dollar Guaranteed Tournament in May 2006 and took the prestigious Tournament Leader Board award for that month. Eric has made over 300 Final Tables in high profile online and WSOP tournaments including placing 3rd in a Pot Limit WSOP Event in 2006.
Eric is the acclaimed author of Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time, Vols. I, II, and III, considered the most comprehensive collection of expert hand analysis in print. Rizen also excels at the cash game tables, having logged thousands of profitable hours both live and online. As an instructor for Fearless River and the World Poker Tour® has had the privilege of helping thousands of students from all skill levels grow into successful players during the past 15 years teaching alongside Nick Binger for the World Poker Tour. Ask any of his students what separates Eric from other poker instructors and they’ll say it is his ability to make the game more understandable for all players, no matter their skill or experience level.