WAYOFLONO
Notes from a poker player.
A book, a course, and real hands on the felt — built from coaching with Tyler Forrester.
Fifty hands and thirteen lessons are free. No account.
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The Way
Ten tracks, in order. Video lessons paired with book chapters. The first track is free.
The Book
Reading the Table. Built from years of coaching with Tyler Forrester. Chapter 1 is free.
The Archive
100+ hours of coaching sessions and 113 short theory lessons. The first thirteen are free.
Membership is $99 a month. Everything opens — The Way, the book, the archive, every hand, the Discord. The first fifty hands, the first thirteen lessons, and the first chapter are free.
I'm Lono — Eric Burnside in everyday life. I built this site as a study tool for myself: a place to work on my own game, and to gather other players who want to get better the same way. It's all built around the ideas of my coach, Tyler Forrester.
If you want to work hard on your game — real study, honest hands, pushing each other to see more — there's a seat here for you. Join us.
Off the table: skateboarding, chess, meditation, a good decaf. I live in Austin, Texas.
Tyler Forrester is the coach — the voice behind every verdict on this site. The graph is his own: a few million hands of winning online no-limit, straight from his database. He plays a deeper game than most, and teaches the part a solver can't — how to read the actual people across the table and take what they give you.
His whole approach is exploitative: don't play unexploitable, find the leak and press it. The population over-folds in one spot and pays off too much in another, and Tyler has the hands to show exactly where. Everything in the book and The Way came out of sessions with him.
Poker is more than strategy. The Meditation and I-Ching tools are here for the part strategy doesn't reach.
"The Perfect Man has no self; the Holy Man has no merit; the Sage has no fame."
— Chuang Tzu