ultimatepokercoaching.com Reviews 11

I have Pedro Mateo as my coach- he is awesome. He is personable, super knowledgeable, organized, systematic and great at explaining things. He seems to really love teaching - to wit he always teaches for 10-15 minutes after the allotted time and encourages questions between lessons.

Additionally the ultimatepokercoaching site stands behind their product. They are very honest and if there are any issues they will make it right. If you are serious about improving as a poker player then you cant go wrong with this site and Pedro.

Extremely dense and insightful lessons from Thiago. I've done a couple packages of 5 lessons over the past couple years. It has transformed my poker from fun but losing... to even more fun, and profitably winning! I cannot recommend Thiago highly enough.

I mostly play cash games, but started to do low-stakes online tournaments for practice material as recommended by Thiago. Each lesson, we'd review the hand history of a recent tournament and he would walk me through a lot of tools and heuristics (GTOwizard, equilab, etc), especially analyzing mistakes or difficult spots and helping me to build my intuition for GTO, ICM, etc - terms I had heard but never fully understood or took the time to learn before.

Walking through my games with Thiago was incredibly practical and very worth $75/hour since I have gone on to win a $16k live tournament prize and can generally play much better now, helping me win many more thousands over the rest of my poker career in expected value for cash games, etc. Wrote a post about this journey if anyone wants to learn more - google "andy trattner blog".

I had some lessons with James a while back when I was first getting into poker. Over a short period, my game improved significantly whilst working with James. His knowledge of theory combined with when to deviate from this and play more exploitable poker has been extremely helpful. The way James explains concepts is clear and concise, which made it easy to implement new ideas into my play. I recommend anyone who wants to improve their cash game or MTT play to work with James.

Excellent coaching. James has the ability to adjust to the individual and tailor the sessions. Easy way of explaining complex strategies along with a great understanding of GTO and exploitative strategy..
Great for the beginner / Intermediate and even the high stakes guys could learn a thing or two.

I've spent the last week implementing some of the 3-betting strategy my coach went over to generate big pots and it's been working extremely well. They were able to explain a lot of concepts and clear up a lot of misunderstandings I had about positional play and how important it is. I have signed up for a few poker courses on Udemy.com but I just can't seem to focus when I'm trying to learn that way. So having someone take the time to actually explain things directly to me was very helpful. James is a terrific teacher!

Low stakes player. Started working with James in 2020 when my ipoker account was €1200 in the red. Within a year of working with him for 1/2 times a month, I turned that into +€10,500. (no big win, just lots of consistent small wins and final tables). That was all down to to him. I always used to struggle to get into the money online, let alone win 200/300 player fields. His knowledge of the game is incredible. If I actually studied outside of our calls I'd be doing a lot better. Chatting with him changed my whole thought process on how to analyse hands. Only wished I'd be more proactive outside of the sessions as I'm sure there is so much more I could achieve with his help.

Had a few Sessions with James. Nice dude, knows a lot about Poker. It helped me to understand the game more and the pricing was fair aswell.

I booked five sessions with Mr. Thiago.

Due to our different time zones, he manages to coach me even if it's late for him. I really appreciate that. 

Thiago is very knowledgeable due to his experience as a player and his team BBZ.

It is good for us students who want to improve our game with modern theories.

I send my hand histories, and we work through different spots. We question all my non-optimal play, and there is a lot of it. He first voiced his opinion, explaining why it was stupid and what I was thinking, and then proceeded with some solver analysis.

He mastered this tool, no doubt.

His thought process is that "it's better to be 50% right than 100% wrong."

This is why Solver is important, because he will teach you how to navigate different scenarios as both an aggressor and a defender.

I enjoy the fast pace because this is what deliberate practise is all about; you want your session to be intense and challenging.

My advice for future students is: 

Gather your hand histories.

Maybe get your database analysis first to know your weaknesses.

Ask in advance which part of your game you want to work on.

Listen more than you try to speak, but ask many questions.

Don't be afraid to paraphrase what the coach said with your own words, and he will correct you if you are wrong.

Record your coaching session.

Thank you, Thiago.

All the best, brother

LM

I've now had several coaching sessions with Thiago and they have been exactly what I was looking for and what I need. He is very knowledgeable, professional and courteous. It's difficult to find quality coaching that is also affordable so finding UPC has been a game changer for me. Highly recommended.

I established that I wanted to learn how to study hands prior to my tutorial sessions. I show up and paid as agreed and I was not taught this. I also set the expectation that my knowledge of the current game was lacking and I was still treated less nicely for showing up illprepared and getting lost.

Few misshaps with sessions rescheduled last minute etc but the quality of technical coaching was very high. Jacob produced highly detailed reports on all areas of my game, and even though I was already a winning player, definitely increased my winrate in many spots by finding leaks I did not understand.