SNGMENTORS BOSS Manhat10ite - Michael Lehr

Introduce your self…

Michael Lehr, I am an antique dealer specializing in early photography and early 20th century American decorative arts.  The poker is just an accidental sideline to the boredom of my other businesses.

Ptp History....

I came to PTP in 2008 looking to stake players, I had been part of another poker forum which was very small.  50 members at most but we all knew each other from playing on Pokerroom and I learned a lot from players there.  I was starting to stake a little so one day I probably just googled staking and found PTP.  I never liked the strategy on 2p2 much, mostly the way they posted the HHs drove me nuts so I liked PTP for the more active strategy section back then.  I pretty much just bought action in the BAP section.  Since Black Friday that has become much more difficult for me to do transfers so I pretty much stopped.  

SNGMENTORS - You are part of great sngo grouop.

Tel me more about Sngomentors??

When I won my platinum star on Sharkscope for most profit in 18 mans I was contacted by Draqq if I wanted to do coaching and be part of a new site for staking and training.  So I bought into it for a few thousand dollars at the time.  I think there were about 7 investors, all great SNG grinders.  The only problem was our leader, Draqq was kind of lazy making it very difficult to grow the site.  Of the 7 initial investors only Vers and I were actively committed, coaching, posting in the forum, making videos etc.  Even before BF we were slowly buying out all the partners.  I think we finally bought Draqq out shortly after BF.  Now I think we probably have the best video library of any online staking site about 2,000 videos.  About a year ago we decided to sell a subscription service since we had built so much content.

How PTP members can be part of SNGMentors?

This is something I have talked with Joeker about on and off.  There are some possible plans to start posting a video a week on PTP and possibly starting a sub forum for the site so we would use the PTP system more for players we found on the site.  I do have a MAD posting looking for stakes, but the players who have applied are really starting out.  The costs of coaching them are too great.  It really is a volume game, we spend about $2-400 a month on coaching each player.  It makes it so we can’t take on a player only able to play 300 games a month.  

Investing in coaching?

One way or another every player serious about learning the game should take on coaching in one form or another. For starters players should really be self reviewing every day using a replayer like Universal Replayer.  Then they can get some excellent coaching just posting hands they aren’t sure of in the strategy sections on PTP, something players just don’t do enough.  Players should really be self reviewing every day using a replayer like Universal Replayer.   The next level up I think is joining a site like SNGmentors and watching the videos.  From there I would suggest having videos made of your HHs is a great cost effective way of getting coaching.  It is about the same cost as one on one coaching, but you can watch and review it again.  You can also question the coach who made the video on individual hands.  Finally on a more advanced level one on one coaching is great, our head coach ChronicATM is just great, our players love him.   

  

You are great staker and player, on site u mostly stake, how to pick good horse?? Did you ever had problems with players who steal your money?

At this point I try to pick horses that have been on the site a while and play a game I understand.  I will often ask to see HHs even of players selling BAPs.  I will almost always sharkscope a player to see if the action they are selling is in an area that they can beat.  Often a player will post a BAP to play higher than they should be playing, it is very important to invest in a horse that is playing within their limitations.  Sometimes I will also take shots on players, I used to love to look for a quick hitter where the player had huge volume of 30 or so games and the total bap investment was $2-300.  I have done very well in this sort of Sunday bap.  This is a great example and a decent player.  http://forum.parttimepoker.com/buy-piece/962582-daniel72-s-pokerstars-thursday-grind.html

We have players steal from us from time to time, it is part of the cost of doing business.  PTP is probably the best at protecting investors which is why I also chose to stake on the site initially.  Now when someone steals we will post a quick webpage http://marisbirausisathief.com/ for example.  We have recovered a little bit of money this way and I think it also has deterred others from stealing from us.  

Which games you play now?

There are very few sites I can play on, almost none that run games often enough to keep me interested.  When I play I will play Limit games like Horse or RAZZ whatever is running at a high level.  I will sometimes play SNGs just to stay sharp.  I did set my Pokerstars account up in Canada and will try to get there for a week every 3-4 months.

How much is optional SNgo volume?

I would say 60-100 games a day, at my height and when I was thinking of going for SNE I would sometimes play 300 in a day.  With that many games at the end of the day, your eyes can barely focus so I wouldn’t really recommend it.

Your poker plans?

Going to Canada for the TCoop, since turbos are my specialty.  Play the seniors event at the WSOP this year since I am eligible.  

Your favorite PTP players?

Probably Acid I think he is the perfect horse on PTP, loyal, wants coaching, strives hard improve, and plays a lot of volume.  

Tell us your HM configuration!

I think in the strategy section I spent quite a lot of time in a thread talking about my set up.  It was a while ago so it may have changed since then.  

number of hands/Voluntarily put in preflop or VPIP/Preflop raise or PFR/ Aggression factor

Fold verse steal/Steals/3bet/Fold to 3bet

Anything after is just too much information.  I don’t even have the player’s name there since the stats are always aligned with where they are sitting.

I would say the most important and underused feature is autorating.  I tell players who don’t want to use the hud to just then use the autorate feature and nothing else.  It gives you so much instant information.  For example if you see someone with the dice icon for a gambler and they limp UTG there is a high probability they have a monster, but if you see a rock limp, they have a small PP.  

What is most important for Sngo Players…

Volume.  Play super tight passive early, gradually become loose aggressive, and finally become a maniac.  That is in an ideal situation.  Learn your calling and shipping ranges. Don’t let yourself get below 10bb.

Message to PTP players who want to grind Sngos!

Download a copy of SNG Wizard or some variation of the program and review review review.