December 1, 2024 • 23 mins
Today we will discuss 3 simple poker strategies to help you crush low limit poker.
3 simple rules
-Play tight. Play aggressive
-Play draw heavy boards aggressively with your value and your big draws
-Don’t tilt. Tilt comes from one or more of three things. Misunderstanding of how poker edges and ev is distributed. Poor temperament. Low bankroll.
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3 simple rules
-Play tight. Play aggressive
-Play draw heavy boards aggressively with your value and your big draws
-Don’t tilt. Tilt comes from one or more of three things. Misunderstanding of how poker edges and ev is distributed. Poor temperament. Low bankroll.
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Hate AK? How to Play AK Master Class
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The best way to ramp your game up and know how to play any hand in any spot by drilling it over and over again. This is the only product I endorses. Make sure to use my code for a 25% discount at checkout: https://advancedpokertraining....
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome in. Here's another episode of lolomit Cash Games Podcast.
I know we have an agreement now where I don't
do a lot of fluff, but I just want to
quickly say, for the past several months, we've had over
one hundred fans of the pod over on Patreon who
get an episode of the podcast every single Sunday, fluff free,
AD free, BS free. And then I also remind you
(00:25):
to follow me on social media, so that's the way
you can reach out to me if you'd like and
ask questions. We post content sometimes, post a little tips
and tricks and stuff one time sometimes, but that's low limit.
Cash Games Podcast. I primarily do stuff on Instagram, but
we're on the X and the Facebook and all that
stuff as well. And if you want a message me,
(00:46):
probably Facebook is fastest. Just throwing that out there, all right, Well,
I have more to say about that stuff at the
end of the pod, but hey, fifty seconds not too bad, huh.
I know you guys get irritable when we there's too
much stuff at the beginning of the pod. So today
we're going to be talking about three simple rules to
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get better at poker quickly. Three simple rules to get
better at poker quickly. Now, it's not gonna be a
deep dive. We're not gonna dive off into the minutia.
We're not going to be getting into deep, deep, complicated
flop turning river spots. I'm just going to lay out
a very fundamental plan that if you will follow it
and you know, do a little work on the side
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and try to improve or execute these areas or stay
in line in these areas, that you should do fairly well.
So that's my goal here. I had somebody message me
not too long ago and they said, you know your role,
your poker content. It's nice because it's simple, but it's
just too simple. And then I reminded them that as
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of today, I have over two hundred either private messages
or reviews on apple pod podcast of people saying that
my simplistic information in the podcast turned them from a
losing winner to a winning player. Over two hundred. I
stopped counting at two hundred. I think two hundred two
was the last one I counted, and it's I've gotten
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many many since then. I'm like, okay, I'm just not
going to keep counting them. So simple as effective when
you're trying to beat low stakes. I'm not trying to
help you beat fifty one hundred no limit. I'm not
trying to help you crush the biggest crushers in the game.
We're not trying to help you beat the big five,
ten or ten twenty game in Vegas at Aria or
Belagio or whatever. I'm trying to help you beat your
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one two, one three no limit game at your local
card room. And so the stuff we talk about will
definitely do that if you adhere to it, I promise you,
But you know it's up to you. All right, here
we go. Three simple rules. Number one, Boy, you hear
me say this a lot, and it's amazing how many
people will send me hands and my first instinct is
to reply to them and say, full pre flop. That's
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the answer. That was the answer, full pre flop. But
the number one rules, play tight play aggressive. Play tight
play aggressive. That's rule number one. Play tight play aggressive.
I don't mean be a knit. I don't mean get
in there and only play aces kings and queens and
ace king. I don't mean that you play jacks, tens, nine's, eight, sevens.
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Then you can play six or five, four or three
deuces in the right spot. You can play some suited
connectors in the right spot. You play suited Broadways in
the right spot. But you play tight and you play aggressive.
There's numerous people out there who put out ranges pre
flop range charts. Over at the Patreon low limit cash
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games dot Com will take you there. I have an
exclusive set of live cash rames ranges specifically designed for
one two, one three limit. I don't post those for
free because that's just you know, part of the perks
of people being on my Patreon. But there's a ton
of places out there that do post stuff for free
and almost any of the work. Just make sure you
don't get some gto online ranges, right. You don't want
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that because that's I mean, it'll actually you probably would
win with them, but they're not exactly optimum for life.
See play tight, so tight range is preefop. And then
you want play aggressive. You want to be raising when
you come in. You want to be three betting with
the appropriate range. You want to be four betting some
of the time. You want to be aggressive. You want
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to be aggressive when the flop comes. You want to
make sure that you are continuation betting the appropriate percentage
of the time, which will vary based on your position,
how many people are in the hand, the qualities of
your hand as it relates to the board, and things
like that. Rule number one, play tight, play aggressive. Rule
number two is one that I just see people get
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wrong all the time. They just get it wrong all
the time. Now, this rule is for sure not a
one hundred percent of the time rule. As is poker.
Nothing as always, and nothing is never. It's never always
do this, and it's never never do this. It's you
know when, if I ever, If you ever hear me
say always or never, I mean, you know, almost always
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and almost never is what I mean. But you almost
always play draw heavy boards aggressively with both your big
value hands and your big draws. Play draw heavy boards
aggressively with your big value hands and your big draws.
What I mean by this, I mean, if you've got
a board it's very draw heavy, it's very wet as
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they used to call it, it's very dynamic as they
currently call it, and you have a set, you want
to play it very aggressively. You want to check raise
if you can, or lead big or just raise if
you're in position. You want to play it very very aggressively.
If you have a set on a very dynamic, very wet,
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very draw heavy board. Likewise, if you flop a very
big draw you know ace king of clubs on a
two club board where you have the two overs, you
have the club draw, you have specially positioned, play it
very aggressively. You flop you know, gut shot with the
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flush draws, so you have the gut shot straight in flushdraw.
This'd be the one you probably would one of the
most most decent percent of time, play very aggressively. And
then obviously the bigger ones, right, the open ended straight
flush draws, play them very aggressively. And the one thing
I'll say is when you have uh flush straws for example,
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that aren't to the nuts. So I see this a
lot of the time, so it's a decent draw. Let's
say you have a you know, this would be a
good example of one of those gut shot straight draws
and flush draws. Right. So let's say you have Jack
ten of spades on a eight seven of spades deuce
of clubs board, right, so you have a gut shot
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to the straight flush you have two over. This be
a great great hand to get aggressive with. There's a
couple of reasons why when you don't when your flush
isn't the nut flush playing aggressively, well, many many times,
either on the flop or on the turn, get the
nut flush to fold. So one of the things that
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happens I see people play these smaller flushes very passively
and they get their flush and they met the river
and they get raised, and then they can't fold because
they made their flush. But you know it's a nine
high flush and the other guy just has the a
hip flush. So there's a host of reasons. There's many
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other reasons, Like I could talk about it for forty
five minutes. Suffice to say, we're not going to go
that deep into the weeds in this episode of the podcast.
But rule number two play draw heavy boards aggressively, both
with your heavy value hands and your big draws. And
then number three out of all these is going to
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be the hardest one, but it's the one I'm obsessed
with this year. So again, not to talk too much
about the Patreon, but one of our big focuses this
year is the mind game. The mental game, so I'm
posting tons of content. I've basically devoted a specific segment
every week over on the Patreon strictly to the mental
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game of poker, because it's so important. Tilt is so important.
You could be a completely average or slightly below average
poker player that never tilts, and you will just crush
a really good poker player who's very prone to tilt.
I sometimes play with a player like this, not a ton,
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but occasionally I play with a player like this who's
a really tough opponent, but they kind of easily tilt,
and once they tilt, they're just going to give it
all away. And so I don't mind playing the game
of this person. They're tough to play against, but I
know at some point, you know, unless they get up
and they get out and they're gone. If they ever
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anything happens to tilts them, they're just gonna be like,
you know, whoever manages to get them at the table's
personal ATM machine. So tilt is bad, don't tilt. Tilt
comes from a few things. So I want you to
consider these things and do what you can to understand
them and stay ahead of them right so that you
don't succumb to tilt. Tilt comes from one or more
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of the following. It could be one of these. It
could be you know, all of them. The first thing
is the misunderstanding of how poker edges and ev is distributed.
If you don't understand how your edge and poker is distributed,
and you get what's called entitlement, you will just tilt.
If you get frustrated when your aces get beat, You're
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gonna tilt because you are entitled. You have entitlement, You
feel and titled to win when you have aces. If
you were to win one hundred percent, if every time
you had aces you won with them, if every time
you had aces you won with them, you would be cheating.
Something would be going wrong because you're not supposed to
always win with aces. You're just not spending on the
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hand your opponent has. You're gonna they're gonna have somewhere
around twenty percent of the time, twenty two percent of
the time they're gonna win. That's a lot. One out
of five times is a lot. I did this example
in a pod. I think it might have been just
for my patrons only. It may have been public. I'm
not sure. But if you, you know, put your five
fingers down on the table and you have somebody slamming
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a hammer down at them, and you say, I'm gonna
hit one of your fingers twenty percent of the time. Uh,
that puts into pretty stark realization of what twenty percent is.
Twenty percent is a lot. I don't want my finger
smashed with a freaking hammer twenty percent of the time.
That's one out of five. So now when you can
see standard deviation and how many times a twenty percenter
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could come in, I mean you, literally, it's not a
big deal at all to get aces several times in
a day, several times in a session. First of all,
you run a web of average if you get aces
several times in a session, But it would not be
out of the ordinary or uncommon for you to lose
every single time during that session with those aces. You
get them three times, you lost with them all three times.
There's nothing abnormal about that, there's nothing irregular about it,
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there's nothing tilting about it. That is just the way
the value of poker hands is distributed. So anytime you're
in a hand with somebody, whatever hand you have should
win a percentage of the time. You're entitled to a
percentage of the pot. Let's say you're entitled to seventy
five percent of the pot or whatever. Well, at the
end of the hand, when you get the river, the
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dealer doesn't take out seventy five percent of the pot
that you were entitled to on the flop or preflop
or whatever and give it to you, and they give
the twenty five percent to the other player, and then
we move on to the next hand. That doesn't happen.
The way ev is distributed in poker hands is it's
all or nothing. You either win the whole pot, which
is you win in it you're winning too much, or
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you wining none of the pot, which means you aren't
winning enough. Keep in mind, when your opponent has queens
and you have aces and your hand holds up and
you win, your opponent got cheated cause they're entitled to
twenty percent of that pot. And the way that twenty
percent that pot is distributed to them is not because
it's taken out of that pot. It's over time they
will win twenty percent of the time and get the
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whole pot. So the way poker edge and EVE is
distributed to something you need to understand and you need
to come to terms with it. Your job is not
to make sure the flop turning river runs in your favor.
You literally can't do that. You have zero control over that.
What you did have control over was how you played
your aces. Did you get it in as a favorite,
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and if you did, if you got your opponent put
all their chips in. You know, with twenty percent, you
did your jobs. That's all you can do. And if
you do that consistently, over over and over in all
you're long, you're going to realize you're eighty percent. So
there's no point in tilting about it. There's no one
in being upset, there's no one in getting been out
of shape about it. And it doesn't matter if it
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happened to you every day this month. You went to
the poker room Friday, Saturday, and Sunday every weekend this month, right,
so it's like twelve days you went and all twelve
days you got aces, and all twelve days they lost.
It's not the best. There's nothing you can do about it.
That's just that's just how poker works itself out mathematically
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to divvy out winnings according to percentages of eveek. The
other reason that I see people tilts because they have
a poor temperament. Now if you're a person who has
generally poor temperament, you're just gonna tilt over everything. Again.
I've over the course of many years, I've played with
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several different poker players who just have a poor temperament.
Nothing is ever their fault. Everything is always somebody else's fault.
Why you play your hand like that, dealer, Why you
put that card out there like that? How can you
check that turn like that? Why didn't you bet your
hand like They're just barking out what everybody else is
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doing wrong, and how everything is everybody else's fault. Nothing
is their fault. They're just sitting there a poor, innocent victim,
and they just have a poor temperament for the game.
They're irritable, they want to argue, they want to be
the victim, they want everything to be everybody else's fault.
Don't be that person. First, I would say, if that
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describes you, and try to be honest with yourself. Poker
as a pursuit for profit probably isn't for you. Now.
Poker as a vehicle for you to go out and
engage with others in a social activity and maybe get
lucky sometimes and win and devent your frustrations when you lose,
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it's a great vehicle for that for you, But to
a profitable player of long term poker is not for you.
You are not cut out for that. Now. Can you change? Yeah?
Perhaps people change, but it's very difficult to change, especially
if you have a poor temperament. Be honest with yourself.
And then the last thing I see that make people
tilt until it is very bad is having a low bankroll.
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People who have five hundred dollars and that's all the
money they got to play poker, and they go play
some one to two no limit. They put two hundred
on the table and they lose it. Put another two
hundred on the table and they lose it. And then
they put their last hundred on the table and they
just limp limp limp limp limp limp because they only
got one hundred left. Limp limp limp limp limp Limp.
They're not playing poker. They're trying to hit Bingo, limp
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limp limp limp limp limp limp limp limp. And they've
limped themselves out of one hundred dollars and they're tilted
because nothing went their way. And they're like they tell
all their friends, oh my god, I went went and
played poker and lolls five hundred dollars. And their friends
are like, oh my god, five hundred dollars. I lose
five hundred dollars all the time I'm playing poker. It
happens all the time. If losing five hundred dollars is
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very uncomfortable for you and very tilting for you, Poker
ain't for you. You're gonna lose five hundred dollars all
the time, play a one through low limit, and if
you play a one to three no limit, it's gonna
have even more of the time. Uh So, if that's
all the money you have, it's gonna be very tilting
for you. It's gonna be very upsetting for you. Now,
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am I saying you can't play poker if you only
have five hundred dollars? No, not saying that at all.
I'm saying you need to take that five hundred. You
need to play it as well as you can, and
you need to play it as well as you can
right down to the last dollar. Play it correctly, learn
what the proper strategy is when you have a full
two hundred on the table, and then if whatever's happened
over the course of the day, and the next thing
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you know, you're sitting in a one two game with
seventy five dollars. Know the proper way to play that
seventy five dollars? Odds are you're gonna lose it. I'm
just gonna be honest with you right now. If you're
at a one two game and all all you got
left is seventy five dollars, the odds of you leaving
that poker room with that seventy dollars or more is,
I don't know, twenty five percent maybe. So that's if
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you play that seventy five dollars properly. If you don't
know what you're doing, it's near one hundred percent chance
you're just not leaving with any more than that. So
what can you do about it? Well, you can't do
a ton about your bankroll. It is what it is.
What you can do is understand the limitations that bankroll brings.
Understands that many nights is gonna end with you not
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having any more money left to play poker. Understand that
means you're gonna have to wait till you can save
up another four or five hundred dollars and just accept it.
Just accept that this is where I'm at right now.
And I know that it means that I'm going to
go home with nothing a lot of times, but you know,
and in the meantime, prepare yourself to do the best
you can. Study, study, study, do the very best you can.
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So I hope that these things help. Three simple rules
to start being profitable poker play type play aggressive play,
draw heavy boards aggressively with your value hands, your big
bay hands and your big draws. And don't tilt and
understand where til it comes from and do your best
to avoid it. I appreciate you being here. I would
like to take this moment to invite you to join
us over on Patreon if you will learn how absolutely
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crushed one two, one three limit. As you know, I
do one on one work with a very limited number
of people. I think it's limited to six now. That's
where I've got it maxed out at. I just don't
have more time than that in my life. It's not
something I care to do. And earlier today I had
a conversation with one of those six and uh, he
started doing one on ones with me a year ago,
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and you know, he wasn't the worst player ever, but
we had this hand come up. We're talking about it
and I'm like, you know, a year ago, you would
not have played that hand that way, and he's like,
I know. It's like it's I'm just such a different
player now, and he's just crushing. He's put in the time,
he's put in the work, and he went from being
a guy who eh was I don't know, breaking even
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or losing a tiny amount or winning a tiny amount
or something a year ago. So he's just the crusher
in his room now. He just crushes that room now.
It doesn't move quite that quickly or quite that dramatically
if you're in the twenty five dollars tier. However, we
have coached up many, many people in twenty five dollars
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tier to be winning, profitable, more knowledgeable players, and they
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I know you might saying, well, solvers is the new thing. Well,
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I do some work with solvers and stuff that I
extract from it, and things I learned from others that
extract information from solvs that apply to learning how to
start beating one two or one three oh limit. I
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You don't have to run solvs, cause one, a lot
of it's not applical in games where most parts are
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And then if you hang around long enough and you
dive in and you participate in the discord and you
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hand history discussions, and you participate in the exercises that
we do, and you are vehemently activity. You can just
become a crusher. You can just become a person in
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every week, you're like, God, I really miss it when
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actionable as I can for you. And then the other
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long the month is, that is reserved for fans of
the pod. That is for folks who for the very
very small small price of five dollars a month, and
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hear over on the Patreon doesn't have ads. None of
this fluff that you're hearing here is in it. There's
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of stuff. And then you also get private access to
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(21:51):
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to the free pod, if you send me a message,
I'll get to it as quick as I can, but
it may be a day, maybe three days, maybe a week,
but I do try to get to everybody. All right,
links to everything I've talked about is going to be
down in the information section of this podcast, and well
that I hope that you've gotten from it. This is
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the last I believe this will be the last episode
of the year. I may do something New Year's Eve.
I'm not sure, but I think this may be the
last episode of the year, and if it is, thank
you so much for being here with me this year.
I just want to give a heartfelt thanks to everybody
that's been positive and written reviews like I've got so many.
(22:34):
I had one or two bad reviews this year on
Apple Podcasts, but so many killer five star reviews and
so many people saying nice things, and so many people
contacted me and saying how much the pot has helped.
And just had somebody contact me a couple of days
ago and they were like, I've now listened to every
episode four to I'm on my fourth time through every episode,
and i can't tell you how much it's changed my
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game and how much it keeps changing my game. Like
all that stuff means the world to me. I'm glad
you've been here for it, and I look forward to
another year next year. I would love to have you
over as a fan of the pod so we can
talk to you every Sunday and really try to help
you help your game. But if that's not for you,
that's fine. We're going to try to continue in the
next upcoming year to crank out one high quality, actionable
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episode a month for you guys, and looking forward to it.
So if I do not speak to you again, I
hope that the end of this year and the holiday
season is a good one for you and we'll be
speaking to you again in the upcoming year.
Hey, welcome in. Here's another episode of lolomit Cash Games Podcast.
I know we have an agreement now where I don't
do a lot of fluff, but I just want to
quickly say, for the past several months, we've had over
one hundred fans of the pod over on Patreon who
get an episode of the podcast every single Sunday, fluff free,
AD free, BS free. And then I also remind you
(00:25):
to follow me on social media, so that's the way
you can reach out to me if you'd like and
ask questions. We post content sometimes, post a little tips
and tricks and stuff one time sometimes, but that's low limit.
Cash Games Podcast. I primarily do stuff on Instagram, but
we're on the X and the Facebook and all that
stuff as well. And if you want a message me,
(00:46):
probably Facebook is fastest. Just throwing that out there, all right, Well,
I have more to say about that stuff at the
end of the pod, but hey, fifty seconds not too bad, huh.
I know you guys get irritable when we there's too
much stuff at the beginning of the pod. So today
we're going to be talking about three simple rules to
(01:08):
get better at poker quickly. Three simple rules to get
better at poker quickly. Now, it's not gonna be a
deep dive. We're not gonna dive off into the minutia.
We're not going to be getting into deep, deep, complicated
flop turning river spots. I'm just going to lay out
a very fundamental plan that if you will follow it
and you know, do a little work on the side
(01:28):
and try to improve or execute these areas or stay
in line in these areas, that you should do fairly well.
So that's my goal here. I had somebody message me
not too long ago and they said, you know your role,
your poker content. It's nice because it's simple, but it's
just too simple. And then I reminded them that as
(01:51):
of today, I have over two hundred either private messages
or reviews on apple pod podcast of people saying that
my simplistic information in the podcast turned them from a
losing winner to a winning player. Over two hundred. I
stopped counting at two hundred. I think two hundred two
was the last one I counted, and it's I've gotten
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many many since then. I'm like, okay, I'm just not
going to keep counting them. So simple as effective when
you're trying to beat low stakes. I'm not trying to
help you beat fifty one hundred no limit. I'm not
trying to help you crush the biggest crushers in the game.
We're not trying to help you beat the big five,
ten or ten twenty game in Vegas at Aria or
Belagio or whatever. I'm trying to help you beat your
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one two, one three no limit game at your local
card room. And so the stuff we talk about will
definitely do that if you adhere to it, I promise you,
But you know it's up to you. All right, here
we go. Three simple rules. Number one, Boy, you hear
me say this a lot, and it's amazing how many
people will send me hands and my first instinct is
to reply to them and say, full pre flop. That's
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the answer. That was the answer, full pre flop. But
the number one rules, play tight play aggressive. Play tight
play aggressive. That's rule number one. Play tight play aggressive.
I don't mean be a knit. I don't mean get
in there and only play aces kings and queens and
ace king. I don't mean that you play jacks, tens, nine's, eight, sevens.
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Then you can play six or five, four or three
deuces in the right spot. You can play some suited
connectors in the right spot. You play suited Broadways in
the right spot. But you play tight and you play aggressive.
There's numerous people out there who put out ranges pre
flop range charts. Over at the Patreon low limit cash
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games dot Com will take you there. I have an
exclusive set of live cash rames ranges specifically designed for
one two, one three limit. I don't post those for
free because that's just you know, part of the perks
of people being on my Patreon. But there's a ton
of places out there that do post stuff for free
and almost any of the work. Just make sure you
don't get some gto online ranges, right. You don't want
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that because that's I mean, it'll actually you probably would
win with them, but they're not exactly optimum for life.
See play tight, so tight range is preefop. And then
you want play aggressive. You want to be raising when
you come in. You want to be three betting with
the appropriate range. You want to be four betting some
of the time. You want to be aggressive. You want
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to be aggressive when the flop comes. You want to
make sure that you are continuation betting the appropriate percentage
of the time, which will vary based on your position,
how many people are in the hand, the qualities of
your hand as it relates to the board, and things
like that. Rule number one, play tight, play aggressive. Rule
number two is one that I just see people get
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wrong all the time. They just get it wrong all
the time. Now, this rule is for sure not a
one hundred percent of the time rule. As is poker.
Nothing as always, and nothing is never. It's never always
do this, and it's never never do this. It's you
know when, if I ever, If you ever hear me
say always or never, I mean, you know, almost always
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and almost never is what I mean. But you almost
always play draw heavy boards aggressively with both your big
value hands and your big draws. Play draw heavy boards
aggressively with your big value hands and your big draws.
What I mean by this, I mean, if you've got
a board it's very draw heavy, it's very wet as
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they used to call it, it's very dynamic as they
currently call it, and you have a set, you want
to play it very aggressively. You want to check raise
if you can, or lead big or just raise if
you're in position. You want to play it very very aggressively.
If you have a set on a very dynamic, very wet,
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very draw heavy board. Likewise, if you flop a very
big draw you know ace king of clubs on a
two club board where you have the two overs, you
have the club draw, you have specially positioned, play it
very aggressively. You flop you know, gut shot with the
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flush draws, so you have the gut shot straight in flushdraw.
This'd be the one you probably would one of the
most most decent percent of time, play very aggressively. And
then obviously the bigger ones, right, the open ended straight
flush draws, play them very aggressively. And the one thing
I'll say is when you have uh flush straws for example,
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that aren't to the nuts. So I see this a
lot of the time, so it's a decent draw. Let's
say you have a you know, this would be a
good example of one of those gut shot straight draws
and flush draws. Right. So let's say you have Jack
ten of spades on a eight seven of spades deuce
of clubs board, right, so you have a gut shot
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to the straight flush you have two over. This be
a great great hand to get aggressive with. There's a
couple of reasons why when you don't when your flush
isn't the nut flush playing aggressively, well, many many times,
either on the flop or on the turn, get the
nut flush to fold. So one of the things that
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happens I see people play these smaller flushes very passively
and they get their flush and they met the river
and they get raised, and then they can't fold because
they made their flush. But you know it's a nine
high flush and the other guy just has the a
hip flush. So there's a host of reasons. There's many
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other reasons, Like I could talk about it for forty
five minutes. Suffice to say, we're not going to go
that deep into the weeds in this episode of the podcast.
But rule number two play draw heavy boards aggressively, both
with your heavy value hands and your big draws. And
then number three out of all these is going to
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be the hardest one, but it's the one I'm obsessed
with this year. So again, not to talk too much
about the Patreon, but one of our big focuses this
year is the mind game. The mental game, so I'm
posting tons of content. I've basically devoted a specific segment
every week over on the Patreon strictly to the mental
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game of poker, because it's so important. Tilt is so important.
You could be a completely average or slightly below average
poker player that never tilts, and you will just crush
a really good poker player who's very prone to tilt.
I sometimes play with a player like this, not a ton,
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but occasionally I play with a player like this who's
a really tough opponent, but they kind of easily tilt,
and once they tilt, they're just going to give it
all away. And so I don't mind playing the game
of this person. They're tough to play against, but I
know at some point, you know, unless they get up
and they get out and they're gone. If they ever
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anything happens to tilts them, they're just gonna be like,
you know, whoever manages to get them at the table's
personal ATM machine. So tilt is bad, don't tilt. Tilt
comes from a few things. So I want you to
consider these things and do what you can to understand
them and stay ahead of them right so that you
don't succumb to tilt. Tilt comes from one or more
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of the following. It could be one of these. It
could be you know, all of them. The first thing
is the misunderstanding of how poker edges and ev is distributed.
If you don't understand how your edge and poker is distributed,
and you get what's called entitlement, you will just tilt.
If you get frustrated when your aces get beat, You're
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gonna tilt because you are entitled. You have entitlement, You
feel and titled to win when you have aces. If
you were to win one hundred percent, if every time
you had aces you won with them, if every time
you had aces you won with them, you would be cheating.
Something would be going wrong because you're not supposed to
always win with aces. You're just not spending on the
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hand your opponent has. You're gonna they're gonna have somewhere
around twenty percent of the time, twenty two percent of
the time they're gonna win. That's a lot. One out
of five times is a lot. I did this example
in a pod. I think it might have been just
for my patrons only. It may have been public. I'm
not sure. But if you, you know, put your five
fingers down on the table and you have somebody slamming
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a hammer down at them, and you say, I'm gonna
hit one of your fingers twenty percent of the time. Uh,
that puts into pretty stark realization of what twenty percent is.
Twenty percent is a lot. I don't want my finger
smashed with a freaking hammer twenty percent of the time.
That's one out of five. So now when you can
see standard deviation and how many times a twenty percenter
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could come in, I mean you, literally, it's not a
big deal at all to get aces several times in
a day, several times in a session. First of all,
you run a web of average if you get aces
several times in a session, But it would not be
out of the ordinary or uncommon for you to lose
every single time during that session with those aces. You
get them three times, you lost with them all three times.
There's nothing abnormal about that, there's nothing irregular about it,
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there's nothing tilting about it. That is just the way
the value of poker hands is distributed. So anytime you're
in a hand with somebody, whatever hand you have should
win a percentage of the time. You're entitled to a
percentage of the pot. Let's say you're entitled to seventy
five percent of the pot or whatever. Well, at the
end of the hand, when you get the river, the
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dealer doesn't take out seventy five percent of the pot
that you were entitled to on the flop or preflop
or whatever and give it to you, and they give
the twenty five percent to the other player, and then
we move on to the next hand. That doesn't happen.
The way ev is distributed in poker hands is it's
all or nothing. You either win the whole pot, which
is you win in it you're winning too much, or
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you wining none of the pot, which means you aren't
winning enough. Keep in mind, when your opponent has queens
and you have aces and your hand holds up and
you win, your opponent got cheated cause they're entitled to
twenty percent of that pot. And the way that twenty
percent that pot is distributed to them is not because
it's taken out of that pot. It's over time they
will win twenty percent of the time and get the
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whole pot. So the way poker edge and EVE is
distributed to something you need to understand and you need
to come to terms with it. Your job is not
to make sure the flop turning river runs in your favor.
You literally can't do that. You have zero control over that.
What you did have control over was how you played
your aces. Did you get it in as a favorite,
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and if you did, if you got your opponent put
all their chips in. You know, with twenty percent, you
did your jobs. That's all you can do. And if
you do that consistently, over over and over in all
you're long, you're going to realize you're eighty percent. So
there's no point in tilting about it. There's no one
in being upset, there's no one in getting been out
of shape about it. And it doesn't matter if it
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happened to you every day this month. You went to
the poker room Friday, Saturday, and Sunday every weekend this month, right,
so it's like twelve days you went and all twelve
days you got aces, and all twelve days they lost.
It's not the best. There's nothing you can do about it.
That's just that's just how poker works itself out mathematically
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to divvy out winnings according to percentages of eveek. The
other reason that I see people tilts because they have
a poor temperament. Now if you're a person who has
generally poor temperament, you're just gonna tilt over everything. Again.
I've over the course of many years, I've played with
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several different poker players who just have a poor temperament.
Nothing is ever their fault. Everything is always somebody else's fault.
Why you play your hand like that, dealer, Why you
put that card out there like that? How can you
check that turn like that? Why didn't you bet your
hand like They're just barking out what everybody else is
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doing wrong, and how everything is everybody else's fault. Nothing
is their fault. They're just sitting there a poor, innocent victim,
and they just have a poor temperament for the game.
They're irritable, they want to argue, they want to be
the victim, they want everything to be everybody else's fault.
Don't be that person. First, I would say, if that
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describes you, and try to be honest with yourself. Poker
as a pursuit for profit probably isn't for you. Now.
Poker as a vehicle for you to go out and
engage with others in a social activity and maybe get
lucky sometimes and win and devent your frustrations when you lose,
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it's a great vehicle for that for you, But to
a profitable player of long term poker is not for you.
You are not cut out for that. Now. Can you change? Yeah?
Perhaps people change, but it's very difficult to change, especially
if you have a poor temperament. Be honest with yourself.
And then the last thing I see that make people
tilt until it is very bad is having a low bankroll.
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People who have five hundred dollars and that's all the
money they got to play poker, and they go play
some one to two no limit. They put two hundred
on the table and they lose it. Put another two
hundred on the table and they lose it. And then
they put their last hundred on the table and they
just limp limp limp limp limp limp because they only
got one hundred left. Limp limp limp limp limp Limp.
They're not playing poker. They're trying to hit Bingo, limp
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limp limp limp limp limp limp limp limp. And they've
limped themselves out of one hundred dollars and they're tilted
because nothing went their way. And they're like they tell
all their friends, oh my god, I went went and
played poker and lolls five hundred dollars. And their friends
are like, oh my god, five hundred dollars. I lose
five hundred dollars all the time I'm playing poker. It
happens all the time. If losing five hundred dollars is
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very uncomfortable for you and very tilting for you, Poker
ain't for you. You're gonna lose five hundred dollars all
the time, play a one through low limit, and if
you play a one to three no limit, it's gonna
have even more of the time. Uh So, if that's
all the money you have, it's gonna be very tilting
for you. It's gonna be very upsetting for you. Now,
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am I saying you can't play poker if you only
have five hundred dollars? No, not saying that at all.
I'm saying you need to take that five hundred. You
need to play it as well as you can, and
you need to play it as well as you can
right down to the last dollar. Play it correctly, learn
what the proper strategy is when you have a full
two hundred on the table, and then if whatever's happened
over the course of the day, and the next thing
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you know, you're sitting in a one two game with
seventy five dollars. Know the proper way to play that
seventy five dollars? Odds are you're gonna lose it. I'm
just gonna be honest with you right now. If you're
at a one two game and all all you got
left is seventy five dollars, the odds of you leaving
that poker room with that seventy dollars or more is,
I don't know, twenty five percent maybe. So that's if
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you play that seventy five dollars properly. If you don't
know what you're doing, it's near one hundred percent chance
you're just not leaving with any more than that. So
what can you do about it? Well, you can't do
a ton about your bankroll. It is what it is.
What you can do is understand the limitations that bankroll brings.
Understands that many nights is gonna end with you not
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having any more money left to play poker. Understand that
means you're gonna have to wait till you can save
up another four or five hundred dollars and just accept it.
Just accept that this is where I'm at right now.
And I know that it means that I'm going to
go home with nothing a lot of times, but you know,
and in the meantime, prepare yourself to do the best
you can. Study, study, study, do the very best you can.
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So I hope that these things help. Three simple rules
to start being profitable poker play type play aggressive play,
draw heavy boards aggressively with your value hands, your big
bay hands and your big draws. And don't tilt and
understand where til it comes from and do your best
to avoid it. I appreciate you being here. I would
like to take this moment to invite you to join
us over on Patreon if you will learn how absolutely
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crushed one two, one three limit. As you know, I
do one on one work with a very limited number
of people. I think it's limited to six now. That's
where I've got it maxed out at. I just don't
have more time than that in my life. It's not
something I care to do. And earlier today I had
a conversation with one of those six and uh, he
started doing one on ones with me a year ago,
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and you know, he wasn't the worst player ever, but
we had this hand come up. We're talking about it
and I'm like, you know, a year ago, you would
not have played that hand that way, and he's like,
I know. It's like it's I'm just such a different
player now, and he's just crushing. He's put in the time,
he's put in the work, and he went from being
a guy who eh was I don't know, breaking even
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or losing a tiny amount or winning a tiny amount
or something a year ago. So he's just the crusher
in his room now. He just crushes that room now.
It doesn't move quite that quickly or quite that dramatically
if you're in the twenty five dollars tier. However, we
have coached up many, many people in twenty five dollars
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tier to be winning, profitable, more knowledgeable players, and they
are just much more prepared to walk in and crush
the game. And it's just the most affordable quote unquote
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in the weeds. You don't hear us use big words
that you want to understand. We don't break out a solver.
I know you might saying, well, solvers is the new thing. Well,
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I do some work with solvers and stuff that I
extract from it, and things I learned from others that
extract information from solvs that apply to learning how to
start beating one two or one three oh limit. I
share it so you don't got to pay for a sovereign.
You don't have to run solvs, cause one, a lot
of it's not applical in games where most parts are
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multiway or super multiway. And two, if you don't understand
how to extract what the solver is telling you, you
can just wind up learning wrong stuff. This is one
of the things people don't know about solbers. So that's
the beauty of it is it's super affordable to come
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game and move you from losing to break even relatively
quickly if you'll apply the stuff, and we can move
you from break even into winning low or moderate pretty quickly,
depending on how willing and how well you apply the stuff.
And then if you hang around long enough and you
dive in and you participate in the discord and you
participate in the strategy discussions, and you participate in the
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hand history discussions, and you participate in the exercises that
we do, and you are vehemently activity. You can just
become a crusher. You can just become a person in
your local poker room playing one, two, one three. That
is the Crusher. Love to have you there, Low Limit
Cash Games dot com. And if maybe that's not your thing,
but you really miss getting an episode of the pod
(21:07):
every week, you're like, God, I really miss it when
I had an episode of this podcast every single Sunday. Well,
you get one a month, and I try to make
it as good as I can for you and as
actionable as I can for you. And then the other
three or four Sundays of the month, depending on how
long the month is, that is reserved for fans of
the pod. That is for folks who for the very
very small small price of five dollars a month, and
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it's even less than that if you just paid a
year to the time, they get full access to a
full blown episode every Sunday, and the ones that you
hear over on the Patreon doesn't have ads. None of
this fluff that you're hearing here is in it. There's
no intro to set it up, none of that kind
of stuff. And then you also get private access to
me via the Patreon messaging system, so I know that
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you're a member, and I know to try to prioritize
your questions. Whereas when you're just out here to listen
to the free pod, if you send me a message,
I'll get to it as quick as I can, but
it may be a day, maybe three days, maybe a week,
but I do try to get to everybody. All right,
links to everything I've talked about is going to be
down in the information section of this podcast, and well
that I hope that you've gotten from it. This is
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the last I believe this will be the last episode
of the year. I may do something New Year's Eve.
I'm not sure, but I think this may be the
last episode of the year, and if it is, thank
you so much for being here with me this year.
I just want to give a heartfelt thanks to everybody
that's been positive and written reviews like I've got so many.
(22:34):
I had one or two bad reviews this year on
Apple Podcasts, but so many killer five star reviews and
so many people saying nice things, and so many people
contacted me and saying how much the pot has helped.
And just had somebody contact me a couple of days
ago and they were like, I've now listened to every
episode four to I'm on my fourth time through every episode,
and i can't tell you how much it's changed my
(22:54):
game and how much it keeps changing my game. Like
all that stuff means the world to me. I'm glad
you've been here for it, and I look forward to
another year next year. I would love to have you
over as a fan of the pod so we can
talk to you every Sunday and really try to help
you help your game. But if that's not for you,
that's fine. We're going to try to continue in the
next upcoming year to crank out one high quality, actionable
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episode a month for you guys, and looking forward to it.
So if I do not speak to you again, I
hope that the end of this year and the holiday
season is a good one for you and we'll be
speaking to you again in the upcoming year.
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