January 22, 2025 • 21 mins
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Top 5 Most Asked Questions About Poker
1.Why does the solver recommend folding AQo to 3-bets?
A solver often recommends folding Ace-Queen offsuit (AQo) to a 3-bet due to several factors tied to game theory optimal (GTO) play, equity, and positional dynamics. But there are even more considerations when playing against your average low stakes player.
A. Equity Against 3-Bet Ranges
When running AQo in an equity calculator against typical low-stakes 3-bet ranges, it shows approximately 36% equity. This is not ideal when facing a 3-bet, as AQo is often dominated by stronger hands like AK, QQ+, and even suited Aces. If you are out of position, this problem becomes even worse, as it is difficult to realize the full equity of your hand. Playing out of position adds complexity, reduces profitability, and increases the likelihood of making costly mistakes .
B. Reverse Implied Odds
AQo has significant reverse implied odds, meaning it can lead to costly situations when dominated by hands like AK or AQ suited. This risk is amplified in multi-street play, as committing chips with a dominated hand often results in losing larger pots .
C. Positional Disadvantages
When out of position, AQo struggles to realize equity effectively. Even when facing a rare low-stakes opponent who includes some preflop “bluffs” in their 3-bet range, such as A5 suited, JT suited, and 65 suited, it remains difficult to realize your equity. Out of position, you will often be forced to navigate complex postflop decisions where opponents can leverage their positional advantage to deny your equity realization
2.What are some tells to identify weaker players or ‘fish’ at the table?
A.Playing Too Many Hands
Bad players often enter the pot with a wide range of weak hands, ignoring position and strength. They rarely fold preflop, making them easy targets for skilled players who tighten up and exploit their loose tendencies.
B.Mostly Limping and Being Passive
Frequent limping signals inexperience or fear of aggression. Passive players rarely raise, preferring to call or limp, which makes it hard for them to build pots or protect their equity. This playstyle is exploitable with aggression.
C.Not Buying in for a Full 100 Big Blinds
Short-stacked players who buy in for less than the table maximum often lack confidence or a proper bankroll strategy. This limits their ability to play effectively postflop and makes them more predictable.
3.How should I adjust my play when facing different bet sizes post-flop?
In live low-stakes no-limit hold’em cash games, players often telegraph the strength of their hands through their bet sizing. Here’s a concise breakdown of how you can exploit this tendency effectively:
A.Responding to Large Bets: Large bets typically indicate very strong hands. Against players who follow this pattern, you can confidently fold marginal hands, minimizing losses in situations where you are likely to be beaten.
B.Responding to Small Bets:
* With Strong Hands: When opponents bet small, indicating weakness, capitalize by simply calling or occasionally raising for value. This traps them into continuing with weaker holdings.
* With Weak Hands: You can use small bets as an opportunity to bluff with hands that have no showdown value. A well-timed raise can force them to fold weak holdings, allowing you to win the pot without a strong hand.
Recognizing and exploiting betting patterns helps you control the game flow. For instance, when opponents telegraph weak hands with small bets, you can either take the pot with aggressive raises or extract maximum value from your stronger hands by avoiding over-raising, which might scare them off.
4.How do I balance my range to remain unpredictable to observant opponents?
Unless you have observant studied players about table it’s isn’t necessary to spend much time worrying about balance. You will make far more money focusing on exploiting the weak players massive mistake. While good players would adjust to your exploits, making you exploitable, your average low stakes players never will adjust.
5.What adjustments should I make when playing against calling stations?
A. Value bet aggressively. Bet all of your top pair hands, solid second pair hands with good kickers, and extract values from their weak hands and draws.
B. Use large bet sizings with your strong value hands. Instead of betting 1/2 pot or 2/3
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Top 5 Most Asked Questions About Poker
1.Why does the solver recommend folding AQo to 3-bets?
A solver often recommends folding Ace-Queen offsuit (AQo) to a 3-bet due to several factors tied to game theory optimal (GTO) play, equity, and positional dynamics. But there are even more considerations when playing against your average low stakes player.
A. Equity Against 3-Bet Ranges
When running AQo in an equity calculator against typical low-stakes 3-bet ranges, it shows approximately 36% equity. This is not ideal when facing a 3-bet, as AQo is often dominated by stronger hands like AK, QQ+, and even suited Aces. If you are out of position, this problem becomes even worse, as it is difficult to realize the full equity of your hand. Playing out of position adds complexity, reduces profitability, and increases the likelihood of making costly mistakes .
B. Reverse Implied Odds
AQo has significant reverse implied odds, meaning it can lead to costly situations when dominated by hands like AK or AQ suited. This risk is amplified in multi-street play, as committing chips with a dominated hand often results in losing larger pots .
C. Positional Disadvantages
When out of position, AQo struggles to realize equity effectively. Even when facing a rare low-stakes opponent who includes some preflop “bluffs” in their 3-bet range, such as A5 suited, JT suited, and 65 suited, it remains difficult to realize your equity. Out of position, you will often be forced to navigate complex postflop decisions where opponents can leverage their positional advantage to deny your equity realization
2.What are some tells to identify weaker players or ‘fish’ at the table?
A.Playing Too Many Hands
Bad players often enter the pot with a wide range of weak hands, ignoring position and strength. They rarely fold preflop, making them easy targets for skilled players who tighten up and exploit their loose tendencies.
B.Mostly Limping and Being Passive
Frequent limping signals inexperience or fear of aggression. Passive players rarely raise, preferring to call or limp, which makes it hard for them to build pots or protect their equity. This playstyle is exploitable with aggression.
C.Not Buying in for a Full 100 Big Blinds
Short-stacked players who buy in for less than the table maximum often lack confidence or a proper bankroll strategy. This limits their ability to play effectively postflop and makes them more predictable.
3.How should I adjust my play when facing different bet sizes post-flop?
In live low-stakes no-limit hold’em cash games, players often telegraph the strength of their hands through their bet sizing. Here’s a concise breakdown of how you can exploit this tendency effectively:
A.Responding to Large Bets: Large bets typically indicate very strong hands. Against players who follow this pattern, you can confidently fold marginal hands, minimizing losses in situations where you are likely to be beaten.
B.Responding to Small Bets:
* With Strong Hands: When opponents bet small, indicating weakness, capitalize by simply calling or occasionally raising for value. This traps them into continuing with weaker holdings.
* With Weak Hands: You can use small bets as an opportunity to bluff with hands that have no showdown value. A well-timed raise can force them to fold weak holdings, allowing you to win the pot without a strong hand.
Recognizing and exploiting betting patterns helps you control the game flow. For instance, when opponents telegraph weak hands with small bets, you can either take the pot with aggressive raises or extract maximum value from your stronger hands by avoiding over-raising, which might scare them off.
4.How do I balance my range to remain unpredictable to observant opponents?
Unless you have observant studied players about table it’s isn’t necessary to spend much time worrying about balance. You will make far more money focusing on exploiting the weak players massive mistake. While good players would adjust to your exploits, making you exploitable, your average low stakes players never will adjust.
5.What adjustments should I make when playing against calling stations?
A. Value bet aggressively. Bet all of your top pair hands, solid second pair hands with good kickers, and extract values from their weak hands and draws.
B. Use large bet sizings with your strong value hands. Instead of betting 1/2 pot or 2/3
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, Welcome into another episode of the Little m Cash
Games podcast where we talk exclusively about the low stakes
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different platforms. So here we go. Top five most ask
questions that I get about poker. I cheated a little
bit on this because I had asked several of these
in a previous episode they had come up. So we
have some questions you ask series that have already been published,
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if you want to go back and listen to those
in case you missed them. Actually also achieved a little bit.
I use an AI. It is kind of cool. So
I didn't really use AI to help me come up
with answers and stuff, but to come up with questions,
which I know is different than what the way most
people use it. But I actually had AI search the
poker reddit over on subreddit and compile me a list
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of the most asked questions, and that's where I got
two of these questions. From three of these or from
questions I get a lot, and then we came up
with two more from what AI tells me are the
most found questions over on the reddit poker subreddit. Here
we go. Number one. Why does solver recommend folding Ace
Queen to three bets? So often? First of all, as
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you know, I don't want to talk a lot about
SolV what is applies to low stakes hold them, low
stakes snow limit hold them is mostly a game of
mass exploitation. That doesn't mean that working with solvers and
understanding baselines can't help you. The more you understand what
a good, basic, solid, fundamental strategy is, the more you
can recognize when people deviate from it, and the better
you'll know how to exploit them. Not being said, mistakes
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at low stakes hold them are just so obvious. You
just really, you know, need to know a few things.
You need to have some guidance. Maybe listen to podcasts
like this one that'll help you figure out what the
right thing is to do, and it'll help you recognize
when people are doing things wrong and just exploit them.
So man, solvers are so expensive nowadays. I worked them
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quite a bit, talk to people that work with them
quite a bit. But if you're playing one, two, one,
three er olimit hole them, I just really don't think
it's a good. First of all, most people don't understand
what the outputs from solvers mean, so they misuse it.
They use it to justify their plays. They don't understand
the whys, and you don't need it all right, Why
does the solver recommend folding Ace clean off to three bets?
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So look solver's ride a lot of time. I don't
care what solver says, but I know solver recommends this
a lot because you know it's it's tied into this
whole gto thing. It's based on equity and your position
and all these type things. Look your equity you have
against the low stakes three bet ranges. So these are
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three bet ranges that you see at typical one, two,
one three O limit games. When you run ace clean
off through an equity calculator and put in what typical
low stakes players are three betting win that range of hands,
you'll find that, you know, best case scenario, you have
about thirty five thirty six percent equity. That's best case.
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That's if they're just a tad on the wide side. Uh,
I find that three bet ranges that loose things hold
them are pretty snug, so you could actually have less equity.
This is not ideal when you're facing a three bet
off Ace went offs just dominated by a lot of
stronger hands like as King Queen's plus these type things. Uh,
you compound the problem when you're out of position. It
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just becomes even worse. It's so difficult to realize the
equity that you do have. So let's just say you
do have thirty six percent equity. If you get three
bet and you're out of position, you call and you
try to play as clean off out of position, are
you ever going to realize that thirty percent equity? No,
you're just not. That's just the way poker works. How
much are you going to realize at that point? Thirty
eight twenty seven percent? So it just becomes a difficult proposition.
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Playing out a position just adds so much complexity. It
increases the likelihood and making costs of mistakes. So what
I tell people is mostly just want to be folding
a clean a ton when you get three bet and
you're out of position, and then against certain players and
you need to know who these players are. You can
mix in some four bet quote unquote bluffs that kind
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of takes us back into gt O land, which I'm
not going to get into. There's a lot of reverse
imply to odds too as well. Especially if you're not
good at playing a good post flop, you can find
yourself against ace king suit and you just won't be
able to fold on ace little little boards, it'll just
be hard and you just get steamrolled. Makes it very difficult,
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you know, positional disadvantages what we talked about. You know,
even if it's a player that has some quote unquote
bluffs of the range, like the jack tin suiteds and
ase five suiteds and stuff like that, it's still just very,
very difficult to realize the raw equity of your ace
queen offsuit hand. And that's why you should just be
folded a ton to three bets or against certain players.
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Sometimes you give me four bet quote unquote bluffing with it.
I guess this is an interesting one. What are some
tails to identify weak players or who the fish are
at the table? This is good. I really like this question.
It's not hard, but these are pretty simple things. But
if you don't know them, you don't know them. So
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how do you tell who the bad players are? Who
are the weak players? Who are the fish? People that
play too many hands? They enter the pot with a
wide range of weak hands. They don't care about what
their position is, they don't care about the strength of
their hand. They rarely ever fold pre flop. You know,
if you play an appropriate range against these players, you
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play them in position, you raise them, three about them,
et cetera. Like this, you're just going to realize a
lot of profits. These are great players to be playing against.
Players that mostly limp and are passive. So you just
rarely see these players raise, and if they do raise,
one of two things has happened. They've either become tooled
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or upset or mad, and they're going to quote unquote
play real poker. Now, oorilayers have a really strong hand,
which is usually the case, they're just always otherwise really
passive and just limp a lot. So frequent limping means
he's just inexperienced players. They're passive, they don't raise. You
can spot this very very quickly, like you don't have
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to play with somebody very long to spot this trait.
And then lastly, players that just don't buy in for
full hundred big line stacks. So if you're at a
one two game and you find these players buying in
for one hundred dollars, mostly that's gonna be bad players.
It's gonna be inexperienced player, it's gonna be timid players,
scared players. Now, every now and then you'll run against
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somebody who is a short stack specialist. I've talked about
this before, but I actually worked with someone I'm not
going to say where they play at, but it's a
female and she wanted a simple strategy to supplement her
retirement income. And I taught her how to short stack
with a with a hundred dollars in a one to
two game, and she does very well with it. So look,
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occasionally run against a player that you know is short
stacking it and they're doing it in a confident way.
But for the most part, you see players buying in
short to a one to two game. They're just not
going to be that great of a player, and it'll
you know, give you a really quick oh spot that player,
you know, question number three, how should I adjust my
play when I'm facing different bet sizes after the flop?
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So this is one of the greatest things about low
stakes players is players really tend to kind of tell
you what they have a lot at the time with
their bet sizings. And it's by no means not all players,
but I would say the vast majority of them. And
then players that don't one to one, you know, have
a correlation bet size to strength the hand generally would
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have some type of betting tail. If you pay attention,
you'll figure it out. But and live low stakes hold
them players just they telegraph the strength by whatever their
bet size is. Let's take a look at what some
of this looks like and how you could respond to it.
So if they bet a large bet sizing, so you know,
two thirds pot, three quarters plot, something like this just
typically indicates they have a very strong hand. And against
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players who bet like this, you could just fold your
marginal hands. You don't have to get involved, you don't
have to lose money. You don't have to try to
quote unquote bluff catch or call down and greatly minimize
your losses in these situations when you can just recognize
when you're beat. Now when they have small bet sizings
with your strong hands, when they bet small, you know
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they're just typically weak. And there's several ways you can
capitalize this. You can occasionally raise for value if you
think you can get them to continue to call with
their weaker holdings that you know are just weaker. This
kind of traps them into continuing across multiple streets with
a weaker hand. And then also you can just use
this is a strategy to bluff them when you know
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they just have weak hands in you just want to
apply maximum pleasure, maximum pressure, and you want to make
them fold. When you know there's range is really capped
with this call and they're just really really weak, you
can just get a lot of folds. You can apply
a ton of pressure, big bet sizings things like this,
and you can take the pot away without having a
strong hand. So when you can recognize and exploit these
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patterns with their bet sizes, you just take the pot
a lot when you just don't have a lot of hands,
And on the flip side, you get to extract maximum value.
You know, when you know the type of hands that
they have, especially as it relates to you decide to
raise or call or things of this nature. Number four,
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how do I balance my range to remain unpredictable at
the table? So it kind of goes back to what
I started about it back at the end of this episode.
You don't need to be worried about balancing your range
at a one to two no limit holding table. If
you are at a no limit holding table where there's
enough players at it that you need to be worried
about balancing your range, you need to request a table change,
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you need to get on the transfer list to a
different table, because you just don't have to do all
that at low stakes. I don't know ten years from now,
fifteen years from now, twenty years from now, will everybody
at low steaks be good enough that you have to
start working in some violence. Possibly, I don't know, but
I can tell you I played about sixteen hundred hours
of poker last year. Year before last, we played over
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seventeen hundred hours of poker. Year before that, I think
it was like twelve hundred hours of poker. I mean,
you just go on and on. I play a ton
of poker. It's pretty much all I do. And I
just don't run into tables where I need to worry
about quote unquote balancing my range to remain unpredictable. Unless
you wind up at a table with a really observant,
studied player, just don't worry about it. And when you
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do run into a table like that, and if you
find yourself in hands with them heads up, and that's
happening frequently over the course of a section or a session,
then of course you can implement some stress just if
you like, and do some things like checking back some
of your stronger hands to now have a protected check
back range and all the types of stuff. But I
just don't want to get deep into that because I
just don't think it's necessary and I think it's a
waste of time. There's much other things that will get
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you a higher hourly that you can be focusing on,
like proper value betting and folding, the uncharacteristic river aggression
and all these other things that just print money. And
the last question, what adjustment should I make when I'm
playing against calling stations and boy people. I get so
many messages. By the way, if you want to shoot
me a message, I'm happy to get it. You can
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follow me either on Facebook or on Instagram. It's slow
them the Cash Games podcast and shoot messages. I'm happy
to try to answer. But just one of the most
heard things out hear from people that shoot me messages
about how frustrated people are because people don't fold. People
don't fold at this game. They'll say, I'd prefer to
play higher stakes where people respect your bets and folds. Well, no,
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you don't. You know you don't want to play at
a Higer's day game where people are playing better that's ridiculous.
The problem is is that you not adjusting properly to
people that don't fold. That's on you. That's not on them.
They're not the problem. You are. So if you find
yourself playing heads up or two ways, or at a
table with a ton of calling stations or whatever, look
just value bet aggressively when you have top pair, top
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kicker hands or top pair you know, good great kicker hands.
Sometimes when you have a really solid second pair hand,
whether with like top kicker or a great kicker itself,
you could just bet for value and they would just
call you down to the river with draws and bottom
pair and third pair just all kind of a nonsense.
Just bet them when you have your value hands. Bet bet, bet,
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bet bet. Second thing you can do, use larger bet
sizings when these people aren't folding their flush draws, and
they aren't folding their straight draws, and they aren't folding
gut shots, and they aren't folding second pairs and stuff.
You know, instead of just betting a generic half pot
or even two thirds pott like bet three quarter pot
bet pots. Sometimes try to figure out when you're in
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the game, how much can you out and them call
you down because you're just printing money. Whatever their limit is,
you need to find it and be betting it so
they'll continue to call you down with all of this
type stuff. Next thing, don't bluff. I mean, that's on you.
If you're going to try to bluff a calling station,
that's on you. If you're against a guy who won't fold,
gut shots won't fold, straight draws, won't fold, flush draws,
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won't fold, second pairs and stuff, and you're in there
where they are trying to bluff them and they're not folding,
and you're getting frustrated that it's one hundred percent on you.
You just don't bluff them. You don't have to. That's
not how you make money off of these people. The
next thing, throw your sea bet. You know your flop
seabt frequencies, Just throw them out of the window. They
don't matter anymore. They're irrelevant. Your frequencies when you have
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air should be zero against the calling station, and your
frequencies when you have a value hend should be one
hundred percent of the time. That's your frequencies of sea
betting when you're in a against calling stations. Next to
something I mentioned earlier, This goes back to these messages
that I get on social media. Look, don't tilt when
they draw out on you. Like sometimes you'll get in
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a game or a calling station's just running like a god,
and there's nothing you can do about it. They just
keep drawing and drawing out on you. I was telling
this story in my discord, which is a part of
our training package over at lowlandmc cash games dot com.
I was telling this story about New Year's Eve at
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my poker room. They were having big New Year's Eve promotion.
The place was packed. Every table in the room was full,
and so transfers to different tables wasn't really a problem.
Just pretty much when you got a seat, you were
kind of stuck there. But I was at a great
table and this woman to my left, who as the
night went on, drank more and more and more. She
never folded once to my raise pre flop. She didn't
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fold any bets on the flop, she didn't fold any
bets on the turn. She rarely ever folded on the river,
which is great, except she just always got there. She
bought in for a hundred dollars and when I finally
had enough of it and decided you know what, I'm
just going to leave because I didn't want to leave.
The table is so great, but I'm like, you know what,
I think I've donated enough to this woman tonight. But
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she had around three thousand dollars in front of her,
and about fifteen hundred dollars of it was mine. Boy,
she just drew out on my top set. She drew
out on some flop top twos, she drew out when
I had a top pair of top kicker like she
just it just happened over and over and over again,
and I was just value betting the heck out of her,
and then she would just get there, and you know,
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it was very frustrating. So you got to avoid tilt,
and if it starts to tilt you you just need
to elude. Now, I didn't leave because I was tilted.
I just left because I was tired and I'd already
dumped way more money in a one two game than
I ever carried it up into a one to two game.
So the room was packed and it was loud, and
you couldn't you know, change tables, and it was just
you know, I left anyway. Lastly, don't pay a calling
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station off. Look when they changed from me passive and
just call, call call, and they switch that up to
betting or raising. Just fold. You're just you're behind, like
unless you have the nuts, you're just behind. You got
the second nuts, you're behind. They don't raise third nuts.
They're not gonna bet aggressively third nuts, and they're gonna
gonna raise third nuts. They're just gonna mostly call with
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third nuts. You know, occasionally you'll be ahead with some
kind of a second or third type nutted hand, like
a pretty nutted hand that's not the nuts. But for
the most part, when they switch from being a passive
calling station to being a betting station or a raising station, especially,
just fold. Just don't give them any more money. And
I find that a lot of people are like, well,
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I couldn't fold. I was quote unquote top of range. Well,
you've been using solvs too much. You've been using solvags
way too much. I don't care what your top of
range is. If you're not nutted, your top of range
is not good enough. On a calling station switches to
be a betting station or a raising station, you need
to fold. I hope that answering these five questions helped you.
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The amount of money that I make from the things
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There's playing tons of two five now, and one of
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Hello, Welcome into another episode of the Little m Cash
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Its glad to have you here. If you're one of
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don't know what all of them are. We're only fifty
different platforms. So here we go. Top five most ask
questions that I get about poker. I cheated a little
bit on this because I had asked several of these
in a previous episode they had come up. So we
have some questions you ask series that have already been published,
(01:28):
if you want to go back and listen to those
in case you missed them. Actually also achieved a little bit.
I use an AI. It is kind of cool. So
I didn't really use AI to help me come up
with answers and stuff, but to come up with questions,
which I know is different than what the way most
people use it. But I actually had AI search the
poker reddit over on subreddit and compile me a list
(01:50):
of the most asked questions, and that's where I got
two of these questions. From three of these or from
questions I get a lot, and then we came up
with two more from what AI tells me are the
most found questions over on the reddit poker subreddit. Here
we go. Number one. Why does solver recommend folding Ace
Queen to three bets? So often? First of all, as
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you know, I don't want to talk a lot about
SolV what is applies to low stakes hold them, low
stakes snow limit hold them is mostly a game of
mass exploitation. That doesn't mean that working with solvers and
understanding baselines can't help you. The more you understand what
a good, basic, solid, fundamental strategy is, the more you
can recognize when people deviate from it, and the better
you'll know how to exploit them. Not being said, mistakes
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at low stakes hold them are just so obvious. You
just really, you know, need to know a few things.
You need to have some guidance. Maybe listen to podcasts
like this one that'll help you figure out what the
right thing is to do, and it'll help you recognize
when people are doing things wrong and just exploit them.
So man, solvers are so expensive nowadays. I worked them
(03:00):
quite a bit, talk to people that work with them
quite a bit. But if you're playing one, two, one,
three er olimit hole them, I just really don't think
it's a good. First of all, most people don't understand
what the outputs from solvers mean, so they misuse it.
They use it to justify their plays. They don't understand
the whys, and you don't need it all right, Why
does the solver recommend folding Ace clean off to three bets?
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So look solver's ride a lot of time. I don't
care what solver says, but I know solver recommends this
a lot because you know it's it's tied into this
whole gto thing. It's based on equity and your position
and all these type things. Look your equity you have
against the low stakes three bet ranges. So these are
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three bet ranges that you see at typical one, two,
one three O limit games. When you run ace clean
off through an equity calculator and put in what typical
low stakes players are three betting win that range of hands,
you'll find that, you know, best case scenario, you have
about thirty five thirty six percent equity. That's best case.
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That's if they're just a tad on the wide side. Uh,
I find that three bet ranges that loose things hold
them are pretty snug, so you could actually have less equity.
This is not ideal when you're facing a three bet
off Ace went offs just dominated by a lot of
stronger hands like as King Queen's plus these type things. Uh,
you compound the problem when you're out of position. It
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just becomes even worse. It's so difficult to realize the
equity that you do have. So let's just say you
do have thirty six percent equity. If you get three
bet and you're out of position, you call and you
try to play as clean off out of position, are
you ever going to realize that thirty percent equity? No,
you're just not. That's just the way poker works. How
much are you going to realize at that point? Thirty
eight twenty seven percent? So it just becomes a difficult proposition.
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Playing out a position just adds so much complexity. It
increases the likelihood and making costs of mistakes. So what
I tell people is mostly just want to be folding
a clean a ton when you get three bet and
you're out of position, and then against certain players and
you need to know who these players are. You can
mix in some four bet quote unquote bluffs that kind
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of takes us back into gt O land, which I'm
not going to get into. There's a lot of reverse
imply to odds too as well. Especially if you're not
good at playing a good post flop, you can find
yourself against ace king suit and you just won't be
able to fold on ace little little boards, it'll just
be hard and you just get steamrolled. Makes it very difficult,
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you know, positional disadvantages what we talked about. You know,
even if it's a player that has some quote unquote
bluffs of the range, like the jack tin suiteds and
ase five suiteds and stuff like that, it's still just very,
very difficult to realize the raw equity of your ace
queen offsuit hand. And that's why you should just be
folded a ton to three bets or against certain players.
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Sometimes you give me four bet quote unquote bluffing with it.
I guess this is an interesting one. What are some
tails to identify weak players or who the fish are
at the table? This is good. I really like this question.
It's not hard, but these are pretty simple things. But
if you don't know them, you don't know them. So
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how do you tell who the bad players are? Who
are the weak players? Who are the fish? People that
play too many hands? They enter the pot with a
wide range of weak hands. They don't care about what
their position is, they don't care about the strength of
their hand. They rarely ever fold pre flop. You know,
if you play an appropriate range against these players, you
(06:38):
play them in position, you raise them, three about them,
et cetera. Like this, you're just going to realize a
lot of profits. These are great players to be playing against.
Players that mostly limp and are passive. So you just
rarely see these players raise, and if they do raise,
one of two things has happened. They've either become tooled
(07:00):
or upset or mad, and they're going to quote unquote
play real poker. Now, oorilayers have a really strong hand,
which is usually the case, they're just always otherwise really
passive and just limp a lot. So frequent limping means
he's just inexperienced players. They're passive, they don't raise. You
can spot this very very quickly, like you don't have
(07:22):
to play with somebody very long to spot this trait.
And then lastly, players that just don't buy in for
full hundred big line stacks. So if you're at a
one two game and you find these players buying in
for one hundred dollars, mostly that's gonna be bad players.
It's gonna be inexperienced player, it's gonna be timid players,
scared players. Now, every now and then you'll run against
(07:43):
somebody who is a short stack specialist. I've talked about
this before, but I actually worked with someone I'm not
going to say where they play at, but it's a
female and she wanted a simple strategy to supplement her
retirement income. And I taught her how to short stack
with a with a hundred dollars in a one to
two game, and she does very well with it. So look,
(08:03):
occasionally run against a player that you know is short
stacking it and they're doing it in a confident way.
But for the most part, you see players buying in
short to a one to two game. They're just not
going to be that great of a player, and it'll
you know, give you a really quick oh spot that player,
you know, question number three, how should I adjust my
play when I'm facing different bet sizes after the flop?
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So this is one of the greatest things about low
stakes players is players really tend to kind of tell
you what they have a lot at the time with
their bet sizings. And it's by no means not all players,
but I would say the vast majority of them. And
then players that don't one to one, you know, have
a correlation bet size to strength the hand generally would
(08:49):
have some type of betting tail. If you pay attention,
you'll figure it out. But and live low stakes hold
them players just they telegraph the strength by whatever their
bet size is. Let's take a look at what some
of this looks like and how you could respond to it.
So if they bet a large bet sizing, so you know,
two thirds pot, three quarters plot, something like this just
typically indicates they have a very strong hand. And against
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players who bet like this, you could just fold your
marginal hands. You don't have to get involved, you don't
have to lose money. You don't have to try to
quote unquote bluff catch or call down and greatly minimize
your losses in these situations when you can just recognize
when you're beat. Now when they have small bet sizings
with your strong hands, when they bet small, you know
(09:34):
they're just typically weak. And there's several ways you can
capitalize this. You can occasionally raise for value if you
think you can get them to continue to call with
their weaker holdings that you know are just weaker. This
kind of traps them into continuing across multiple streets with
a weaker hand. And then also you can just use
this is a strategy to bluff them when you know
(09:54):
they just have weak hands in you just want to
apply maximum pleasure, maximum pressure, and you want to make
them fold. When you know there's range is really capped
with this call and they're just really really weak, you
can just get a lot of folds. You can apply
a ton of pressure, big bet sizings things like this,
and you can take the pot away without having a
strong hand. So when you can recognize and exploit these
(10:17):
patterns with their bet sizes, you just take the pot
a lot when you just don't have a lot of hands,
And on the flip side, you get to extract maximum value.
You know, when you know the type of hands that
they have, especially as it relates to you decide to
raise or call or things of this nature. Number four,
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how do I balance my range to remain unpredictable at
the table? So it kind of goes back to what
I started about it back at the end of this episode.
You don't need to be worried about balancing your range
at a one to two no limit holding table. If
you are at a no limit holding table where there's
enough players at it that you need to be worried
about balancing your range, you need to request a table change,
(11:04):
you need to get on the transfer list to a
different table, because you just don't have to do all
that at low stakes. I don't know ten years from now,
fifteen years from now, twenty years from now, will everybody
at low steaks be good enough that you have to
start working in some violence. Possibly, I don't know, but
I can tell you I played about sixteen hundred hours
of poker last year. Year before last, we played over
(11:27):
seventeen hundred hours of poker. Year before that, I think
it was like twelve hundred hours of poker. I mean,
you just go on and on. I play a ton
of poker. It's pretty much all I do. And I
just don't run into tables where I need to worry
about quote unquote balancing my range to remain unpredictable. Unless
you wind up at a table with a really observant,
studied player, just don't worry about it. And when you
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do run into a table like that, and if you
find yourself in hands with them heads up, and that's
happening frequently over the course of a section or a session,
then of course you can implement some stress just if
you like, and do some things like checking back some
of your stronger hands to now have a protected check
back range and all the types of stuff. But I
just don't want to get deep into that because I
just don't think it's necessary and I think it's a
waste of time. There's much other things that will get
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you a higher hourly that you can be focusing on,
like proper value betting and folding, the uncharacteristic river aggression
and all these other things that just print money. And
the last question, what adjustment should I make when I'm
playing against calling stations and boy people. I get so
many messages. By the way, if you want to shoot
me a message, I'm happy to get it. You can
(12:32):
follow me either on Facebook or on Instagram. It's slow
them the Cash Games podcast and shoot messages. I'm happy
to try to answer. But just one of the most
heard things out hear from people that shoot me messages
about how frustrated people are because people don't fold. People
don't fold at this game. They'll say, I'd prefer to
play higher stakes where people respect your bets and folds. Well, no,
(12:53):
you don't. You know you don't want to play at
a Higer's day game where people are playing better that's ridiculous.
The problem is is that you not adjusting properly to
people that don't fold. That's on you. That's not on them.
They're not the problem. You are. So if you find
yourself playing heads up or two ways, or at a
table with a ton of calling stations or whatever, look
just value bet aggressively when you have top pair, top
(13:14):
kicker hands or top pair you know, good great kicker hands.
Sometimes when you have a really solid second pair hand,
whether with like top kicker or a great kicker itself,
you could just bet for value and they would just
call you down to the river with draws and bottom
pair and third pair just all kind of a nonsense.
Just bet them when you have your value hands. Bet bet, bet,
(13:37):
bet bet. Second thing you can do, use larger bet
sizings when these people aren't folding their flush draws, and
they aren't folding their straight draws, and they aren't folding
gut shots, and they aren't folding second pairs and stuff.
You know, instead of just betting a generic half pot
or even two thirds pott like bet three quarter pot
bet pots. Sometimes try to figure out when you're in
(13:58):
the game, how much can you out and them call
you down because you're just printing money. Whatever their limit is,
you need to find it and be betting it so
they'll continue to call you down with all of this
type stuff. Next thing, don't bluff. I mean, that's on you.
If you're going to try to bluff a calling station,
that's on you. If you're against a guy who won't fold,
gut shots won't fold, straight draws, won't fold, flush draws,
(14:21):
won't fold, second pairs and stuff, and you're in there
where they are trying to bluff them and they're not folding,
and you're getting frustrated that it's one hundred percent on you.
You just don't bluff them. You don't have to. That's
not how you make money off of these people. The
next thing, throw your sea bet. You know your flop
seabt frequencies, Just throw them out of the window. They
don't matter anymore. They're irrelevant. Your frequencies when you have
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air should be zero against the calling station, and your
frequencies when you have a value hend should be one
hundred percent of the time. That's your frequencies of sea
betting when you're in a against calling stations. Next to
something I mentioned earlier, This goes back to these messages
that I get on social media. Look, don't tilt when
they draw out on you. Like sometimes you'll get in
(15:06):
a game or a calling station's just running like a god,
and there's nothing you can do about it. They just
keep drawing and drawing out on you. I was telling
this story in my discord, which is a part of
our training package over at lowlandmc cash games dot com.
I was telling this story about New Year's Eve at
(15:28):
my poker room. They were having big New Year's Eve promotion.
The place was packed. Every table in the room was full,
and so transfers to different tables wasn't really a problem.
Just pretty much when you got a seat, you were
kind of stuck there. But I was at a great
table and this woman to my left, who as the
night went on, drank more and more and more. She
never folded once to my raise pre flop. She didn't
(15:50):
fold any bets on the flop, she didn't fold any
bets on the turn. She rarely ever folded on the river,
which is great, except she just always got there. She
bought in for a hundred dollars and when I finally
had enough of it and decided you know what, I'm
just going to leave because I didn't want to leave.
The table is so great, but I'm like, you know what,
I think I've donated enough to this woman tonight. But
(16:11):
she had around three thousand dollars in front of her,
and about fifteen hundred dollars of it was mine. Boy,
she just drew out on my top set. She drew
out on some flop top twos, she drew out when
I had a top pair of top kicker like she
just it just happened over and over and over again,
and I was just value betting the heck out of her,
and then she would just get there, and you know,
(16:32):
it was very frustrating. So you got to avoid tilt,
and if it starts to tilt you you just need
to elude. Now, I didn't leave because I was tilted.
I just left because I was tired and I'd already
dumped way more money in a one two game than
I ever carried it up into a one to two game.
So the room was packed and it was loud, and
you couldn't you know, change tables, and it was just
you know, I left anyway. Lastly, don't pay a calling
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station off. Look when they changed from me passive and
just call, call call, and they switch that up to
betting or raising. Just fold. You're just you're behind, like
unless you have the nuts, you're just behind. You got
the second nuts, you're behind. They don't raise third nuts.
They're not gonna bet aggressively third nuts, and they're gonna
gonna raise third nuts. They're just gonna mostly call with
(17:17):
third nuts. You know, occasionally you'll be ahead with some
kind of a second or third type nutted hand, like
a pretty nutted hand that's not the nuts. But for
the most part, when they switch from being a passive
calling station to being a betting station or a raising station, especially,
just fold. Just don't give them any more money. And
I find that a lot of people are like, well,
(17:37):
I couldn't fold. I was quote unquote top of range. Well,
you've been using solvs too much. You've been using solvags
way too much. I don't care what your top of
range is. If you're not nutted, your top of range
is not good enough. On a calling station switches to
be a betting station or a raising station, you need
to fold. I hope that answering these five questions helped you.
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If Jordia Say episode the bonus episode of the podcast
that I decided to do on this really really snowy,
wintery day that never happens where I live. Look, if
you're one of those people looking for some one on
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I don't know why I do it. I do know
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And of course you just you don't want the one
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that one spot back up. I had closed it down.
I had somebody that decided to leave towards the end
of last year, and I closed that last spot down
because I just felt like I was doing too much
talking to too many people. But New Year knew me
feel refreshed. I'm going to open that spot back up.
So I don't know how long it'll be open. I
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have people that have been working with me for a year.
I have people that have been working with me for
two years. I have people that have been working with
me in one on one for two and like two
and a half years. And so typically speaking, those spots
don't come open that often because people get so much
value from it. I was talking just had a session
day before yesterday, and one of the people I was
talking to was like, Yeah, I'm going to stay with it.
The amount of money that I make from the things
(20:27):
that I learned from working with you and reviewing hands
and reviewing strategy and cleaning up leaks and stuff way
more than pays for it. Like it just I'm free
rolling you. So when a spot comes open, it's rare.
If that's something you were looking for. Do you want
to become a crusher and you want to just dominate one, two, one, three,
no limit even up to two five no limit. I've
got two players now in the one on one coaching tier.
There's playing tons of two five now, and one of
(20:50):
them can't move up till five to ten because those
one of those doesn't really run in his room and
the other one does have that that runs into the room.
Maybe you will, but look, I'd love to work with
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