Q1: Your profit in poker comes mainly from:

Q2: Which of the following is the most important factor in profitable game selection?

Q3: Daily Tournament Selection. Here are two real daily tournaments on the Las Vegas schedule, side by side. Choose the one you’d play and explain your reasoning — name the specific details that decided it.

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Q4: Weekly Tournament Selection. Here are two real weekly tournaments — a higher buy-in — on the Las Vegas schedule, side by side. Choose the one you’d play and explain your reasoning — name the specific details that decided it.

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Q5: $1/$3 Cash Game Selection. Here is the same $1/$3 No Limit Hold’em game at three Las Vegas poker rooms. Choose the room you’d play and explain your reasoning — name the specific details that decided it.

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Q6: $2/$5 Cash Game Selection. Here is the same $2/$5 No Limit Hold’em game at three Las Vegas poker rooms. Choose the room you’d play and explain your reasoning — name the specific details that decided it.

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Q7: True or False: in a full-ring game, a winning player folds 60% of the hands they’re dealt.

Q8: You’re first to act in a nine-handed $1/$3 game with 100 big blinds. Which hand is outside your playing range?

Q9: You’re playing $2/$5 NL with 100 big blinds effective and are on the button facing a 2bet to $15 from a LAG in MP. You look down at 7♠6♠. What’s your standard play: flat, 3bet, or fold? What factors did you consider most in reaching your decision?

Q10: Tournament ICM: 12 players remain and 9 get paid. Your current chip position rank is 8. You are the effective stack with 18 big blinds on the Button with A♣T♦. A TAG in MP opens for 2.2 and a Rec. in the Cutoff flats. What’s your play: call, fold, or shove? Explain your strategy.

Q11: Facing a 2bet open with a playable hand, our overall frequency of 3betting to Flatting percentage:

Q12: Your post-flop aggression factor (AF) = (Bets + Raises) / (Calls). What’s the target metric of winning players:

Q13: Cash game – Deep stacked: You open from EP with A♥K♣ and a LAG Reg. player defends from the big blind. The flop is 8♦7♦5♠ and they check to you. Check or CBet? Make your choice and explain your reasoning.

Q14: Tough, deep-stacked $5/$10 game. A thinking TAG Reg. in the big blind thinks you’ve been playing overly aggressively. He even says to you – “you never give us a walk; you raise every time you have the button.” A few hands later you pick up 8♠8♥ on the button and open to $40. The player now 3bets you exclaiming: “I told you I was going to 3 bet you the next time you tried to steal our blinds!” – How do you read this player and their hand strength and what’s your counter strategy?

Fold and let him have it. Flat to protect your equity. 4bet to fight for the lead and legitimize your hand. Make your choice and explain your reasoning and any Meta play going on here.

Q15: True or False: Fear is a higher-level toned emotion than anger.

Q16: You just lost a big pot on the river to a player who sucked out with a 4 outer. What’s the most useful emotional response and behavior?

Q17: $2/$5 NL Cash – Deep stacked. You’ve been playing a few hours and after a few consecutive bad beats, you open with K♣T♦ from under the gun and recognize you’re tilting. You’re opening wider pre-flop and chasing past the flop in negative expected value spots. What do you do?

Q18: Final Table Tournament Play: You’re ranked 7th in chips of the final 9 remaining with 15bb with significant pay jumps in the top 6 spots. The chip leader is being overly aggressive and bullying the short stacks by 3betting light and making polarizing bets post flop. Due to the ICM pressure, nobody wants to go against him and risk busting before the big pay jumps. You’re aware of it but uncertain what to do about it. What’s the best approach to handling your opponents’ fears and your uncertainty?

Q19: True or False: Thoughts and Emotions are Senior to Action.

Q20: The concept of “Leveling” is about:

Q21: $5/$10 Cash Game – Deep Stacked: Your opponent is mostly a level 1 thinker who plays straightforward. Explain your counter strategy and the level of thinking you would apply to defeat them.

Q22: High-Stakes Tournament Play: Bubble play (3 left to the money, average stack 25bb). You have 50bb. A TAG player with 30bb in the Cutoff 3bets to 9bb over a 2bb open from MP. You have A♠5♠. What’s your play and reasoning?