February 2, 2025 • 18 mins
How can you learn how to be good at poker as quickly as possible? Some tips and strategies are here to help. Notes are below
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How To Learn Quickly
Identify spots that have most impact first. Devote all your time on them
Then second most etc. Until basic comprehension.
Ex.
Preflop. Most!
Raise and bet sizes. Most!
Flop. 2nd most
Turn 3rd most
River happens least
Then specific spots as they arise. Once you realize there is a spot you don’t understand devote your effort on that spot.
My AJ play two years ago etc
Current client specific board textures
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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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How To Learn Quickly
Identify spots that have most impact first. Devote all your time on them
Then second most etc. Until basic comprehension.
Ex.
Preflop. Most!
Raise and bet sizes. Most!
Flop. 2nd most
Turn 3rd most
River happens least
Then specific spots as they arise. Once you realize there is a spot you don’t understand devote your effort on that spot.
My AJ play two years ago etc
Current client specific board textures
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Transcript
Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, Welcome into another episode of the podcast. So glad
to have you here. For this free public facing version
of the podcast, we try to crank out a minimum
of one episode a month for you guys. If you
want a episode every single Sunday that doesn't have any
ads or any fluff or anything like that, you can
(00:22):
find out how. At the end of the podcast right now,
we're going to talk about how to learn quickly. So
one of the things I've learned since I've started the
well not just the pod, but really when I started
the Patreon as I got requested to do, never had
any intention of starting it. It's turned out to be good.
(00:42):
I've enjoyed it. It's like ninety nine percent enjoyable. And
then obviously working with people, so we coach a few people,
hand select people one on one. What I've learned from
that you're going to benefit from in this episode of
the podcast, and that's how to learn quickly. So it's
one thing to understand that, hey, I want to learn
how to play poker. Well, so you know, the first
(01:03):
step to anything is identifying what your goal is, what
your problem is. You know, goal is I want to
play poker. Problem I don't know how, So you learn
the rules and then goal I want to you know,
win win at poker. Problem I don't know how right,
So first one, you can learn the rules of poker
(01:24):
pretty easily. It doesn't take long. How to win can
take longer. Now, what I'm going to share with you
here will apply to anything in life. Anything in life.
This will apply to anything. Any pursuit you have. This
advice will so you know, this could be a multi
faceted episode, appod for you could change other areas of
your life if it's something you're not aware of. So
(01:44):
we're gonna talk about how you learn quickly at poker,
and then just in general, how you learn quickly and
master anything. And this is probably the most important. Now,
there's many references out there in the in the free
range world you can find the eighty twenty rule is
one of them. Whole book I read about it. This
is similar to that. So eighty twenty rule is basically,
you focus eighty percent of your time, energy and effort
(02:08):
on the top twenty percent of things that most impact
whatever it is you're trying to accomplish. Right, so if
it's starting a business, or if it's me you know,
anything if it's something in your job like you have.
You know, if you have a job and you show
up every day, you know probably like twenty percent of
what you do at your job is the most important stuff,
like it's just the most core or this has got
(02:30):
to be done right stuff, and then the other eighty
percent less important. Well, you should be focusing eighty percent
of your time, energy, effort, everything to that twenty percent
because if you get that core twenty percent right and
perfect it, then you get a little bit of leniency
while you catch upon the other less important eighty percent.
So this applies to everything in life. It's not just poker,
(02:51):
but you need to identify the spots or the points
that have the most impact on what you're trying to
achieve first and devote I say all your time. I
wrote that in my notes, But if you've listened to
my pods very much, you know that all never means all,
and never means never means never. In poker, all means
almost always, never means almost never. And when I say
(03:12):
to vote all your time, you know eighty twenty rule.
You know, I don't like it because it's kind of specific,
but you get the gist of it. You should be
spending most of your time on that that thing that
you need, the most important thing, most often thing right,
the thing you do most often that's most important, And
you get as good as you can, and that you
(03:35):
reach a level proficiency that you're comfortable with. And that's
not to say you've perfected it, but you've gotten to
wherey okay, boy, we've got this locked in and we
can still work on it. And then it's like, what's
the second most right, what's the second most important thing,
or what's the second thing that I do most often?
Second most often? I send second most amount of my time,
energy and efforts on this. So let's get proficient it.
(03:57):
And you just go down the list and you work
them off because you can't. You know, the old I
had a guy what this goes back, Man, good old LJ.
I Miss LJLJ was a dear friend of mine. He's
the only man I've ever known in history that beat roulette.
Now would he have continued to beat it his entire life,
I don't know, but I know for a five year
span he had a method of beating roulette that worked
very well. He was in a position where his wife
(04:20):
got really sick he had to actually give up working
to try to take care of her, and they had
medical bill problems, and so he tried. He had to
come way to pay medical bills, and over the course
for about five years, he beat roulette for about three
quarters of a million dollars. I was lucky enough to
get to know him during that period of time. I
(04:41):
made many trips to the casino with him and played
roulette with him, and he was an impressive person to watch.
I learned some things from him, but I also know math,
and I know that mathematically, roulette is kind of unbeatable
unless you have a kind of a hack, like a
bias twill can clock the wheel or something. But what
(05:02):
he did work for five years, and it was very brilliant,
and it was hard for me to understand. My point
is is that.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You when you apply things into life and go all
out and all this type of things, the things you
can achieve are kind of immeasurable right past levels of
basic comprehension.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Once we move into those levels. But look, whatever second
most should be second on your list, and you really
should move to it to really become proficient in first most.
And if we're talking about poker, it's very clear what's
most important, what thing happens, and what do you do
(05:45):
in poker that you have to know about every single hand,
every single hand you play in poker, and I don't
mean every hand that you decide to see a flop with.
When you get delta hand, you are playing that hand
every single hand. Pre flop. You have to make a
pre flop decision every time, every time. That's the thing
(06:09):
you do most often, and it is the foundation of
everything that happens from there. And if you're really crappy
at pre flop, it doesn't matter how much you study
flop play, turn play, river play, you're just gonna suck
at poker. So this's a great example of how to
apply this rule. When you're trying to learn poker. The
number one thing you should do is focus all of
(06:29):
your energy and efforts. By all, I mean, I don't
know eighty percent ninety percent of your efforts on getting
as good at pre flop as you can, because you
have to decide what cards to play and how to
play them on every single deal of the hand, one
hundred percent of ends dealt You have to make this
decision now on you'll wind up figuring out over time
(06:51):
as you're learning, that is, you know, somewhere in the
range of twenty five percent of hands, you'll play twenty
eight percent or something. You know, it can range from
can range from the game to how you're running, to
the position at the table, et cetera. You know, from
twenty two percent maybe on the low end, to thirty
percent on the high end. Maybe just depends, So we'll
(07:13):
just use twenty five as a round number there. Once
you've figured out pre flop and you've spent all your
time in effort only and you've got really good at
and proficient at it, now, what's the second most thing
that you play, Well, that's the flop. But look at
how different it is. If you're only playing twenty five
percent of hands on average, you're only seeing a flop
(07:36):
a quarter as many times as you are seeing a
pre flop. So it doesn't it make sense you should
just have spent when you started three months, three times
as much energy and effort figuring out the pre flop
as you did figuring out trying to work on flop stuff.
You just don't see flops that often in comparison to
pre flop, and so it's a hierarchy, it's a tree,
it's a level of importance. It's a level of what
(07:57):
I need to be most proficient at that most affect
my game. And as a side note, it's remarkable some
people that I've had conversations with over the past five
years that go from being a losing player to a
break even player or even maybe slightly winning player by
(08:18):
only doing one thing, fixing the pre flop. They still
don't really understand flops that well or turns that well
and rivers that well, but they just fixed the pre
flop and they went from being a loser to being
a round break even maybe slightly winning, which is which
is crazy if you think about it. If you can
go from being somebody loves to play poker but it
costs you a ton of money to being somebody loves
(08:38):
to play poker and you break even at it. So
it's a break even proposition. Wow, now suddenly my hobby
is free. That's just by fixing pre flop. Right. So
second most often thing encounters and most important I think
it would be flop. What I would mix in there.
I think that fits in somewhere between pre flop and
(08:59):
flop because it happens on all streets, would be raising,
raised sizes and bet sizes, right, So raises and bet sizes,
like you really need to understand that because anytime you
enter a hand pre flop there is a bet or
a raise involved. Anytime you make a flop decision, it's
usually a bet or a raisin volves. You need to
understand bet sizes, raise sizes like these things that happen
(09:21):
a ton, Like, let's figure around. So if you follow
that string of thought down to its logical end, it's like,
flop the next most important thing to work on, turn
next most important, and then river is the thing you
should see the least. Like you're either folding a ton
before you get to the river or you're making everybody
else fold before you get to the river. So hopefully
(09:43):
we the percentage of hands we see on the river
pales in comparison to the one hundred percent of pre
flops we see. We see one hundred percent of cards
dealt to us, We see about twenty five percent of
those hands make it to the flop. And then I
don't know what percentage we see make it to the river,
ten percent, fifteen percent, I don't know honestly, I don't know,
(10:03):
but it's it's it's it's a sub subset of hands
for sure. So that's a good way to break things
down and understand where you need to be focusing your
time so that you all of this is to get
you up to speed as quickly as possible, because well,
a lot of people do. And I see this a
ton of time. People join me we're on the discord, right,
they join our Patreon and they get in on the discord,
(10:25):
and every day they're asking a ton of different questions
about a ton of different things, and they don't have
an understanding of any of them, and they're trying to
figure them all out at the same time. And I
get it, there's a lot of things we need to understand.
But oftentimes I'll see somebody that will have a clear thing.
They keep like, they'll keep posting a hand or they'll
keep asking a question and it's about the same thing,
but they keep asking a ton of questions about other things,
and the one thing has a pretty clear answer, and
(10:47):
I'll get them advice on how to fix it. And
to me, that's where least will be dropping everything else.
And look, here's a clear problem. I've identified in my game,
and this guy who I'm paying to help me has
given me some clear solutions and some content to fix it. Boy,
I should be spending all my time on that content.
I should be spending all my time on those solutions
(11:08):
until I cracked this code, right, Because it's something you've
you've have defined as being very specific, and it's something
that comes up often. Like just an example of this
is is board textures. So I have a current client
who who has demonstrated a clear inability to understand flop textures, right,
(11:28):
and I have a ton of content on flop textures,
and we'd had discussions about this, you know, for a
couple of days or something. I kept seeing the same
pattern occur, and I'd recommended this content. They still hadn't
consumed it, they still hadn't went to it, and they
were posting questions about a ton of other stuff. They're
asking questions about other spots. This turn, this river is
what I'm like, Man, We've identified a clear problem in
(11:49):
your game. It's this very specific kind of flop texture.
I've got content available on it. I've pointed you to it.
Let's get down to it. Let's we have identified something
we can fix, and it comes up often. Right, Flops
is the second most thing you see when you play
a hand pre flop is one hundred percent, flops around
twenty five percent, So this is hugely important. Now he
(12:10):
was talking about a specific flop texture. So while it's
not the twenty five percent of flops, it's whatever subset
of those flops fit this specific texture. But think about it,
if you crack the code to this specific flop texture,
you never have to worry about that. Again, that's something
you could check off the list. We're done with that.
We got that one figured out, and now we can
move on to other type flop textures and stuff. I've
(12:32):
experienced this down through my career along the way, and
I would say one of the biggest ones was was
this is like two years ago. It's like twenty I
don't know when you're listening to this, but at the
time I'm recording it, it was twenty twenty three or twenty
twenty two. It's a couple of years ago. And I'm
in game one night and I suddenly endgame becomes sickened
on my inability to understand how to play ace Jack.
(12:56):
I'm like, you know what it seems like this is
always a problem for me. I don't have a very
clear understanding of ace Jack, and by god, I'm going
to figure it out. And I went home that night
or whatever, I made a note. I woke up the
next day and for the next I want to say,
for it was a long time, But initially up front
it was a ton of time. Like for the first
week or two, it was a ton of time. I
(13:16):
was obsessed with ah Jack, and I was doing all
the things on ah Jack. So this included consulting pro
friends of mine that played this, and consumed consuming content
and articles and stuff produced by you know, creators and
coaches and stuff that exist out there. This involved using
some sims, and involved using a trainer, involved using a
(13:36):
ton of stuff. And I would say, well, then, you know,
within that first week I had advanced greatly, with a
second week a ton But you know, within just a
few weeks time, I'm like, I feel really good about
as Jack. Now, like, why didn't I do this ten
years ago? Why didn't ten years ago? I go, Man,
ace Jack really befuddles me. I need to figure it out,
you know. So these are the things we do as
(14:00):
they come up right, you identify spots and like, so
when I work one on one and I coach for people,
and it's a very limited list and I don't think
there's an opening now, but you can go check over
at Lowland cashgames dot com if you're interested in it.
But I just don't work with that many people because
I don't have that much time and whatever. But I
do enjoy it. But the one thing that we always
start coaching calls with when we're talking about it, I
(14:22):
ask them, I'm like, you know, when you're coming up
with hands and spots, or when you're playing in game,
when you when you are in a hand between now
and the next time we speak, when you're in a
hand and you're lost and you're like, I'm in a
spot I'm lost in and you recognize what spot it
is and you're like, I'm lost in the spot a lot.
You need to write that down, like this is a spot,
(14:44):
I'm lost in the spot a lot and you bring
it back to the next coasing section because we can
fix it. We can work on it. Right. So this
is the hierarchy, right, so specifically for poker, like you
can apply this to life in general's image, but specifically
in poker, you learn pre flop, spend eighty percent of
the effort learning pre flop and being very proficient at it.
(15:05):
And then we moved to spending eighty percent of the
time on flop well, and the mix in there is
race sizes, bet sizes, race sizes, et cetera, and like
that just should be the most of your time. Like
we shouldn't be studying obscure river check raise spots like
that shit's gonna happen like once every six weeks or something.
I don't know, don't know how often you play, but like,
(15:27):
that's not that's not where the core of your money's
being won or lost at, right, And then we make
the progression through the flop. Then we just work more
on turns and rivers. But at some point, once we
get really prevent stuff that happens the most, then we
start recognizing spots and won't start recognizing spots and you
see it and you're like, shit, uh, partonly for the
(15:49):
explicative You're like, oh wow, is that better? Wow? Well,
I see this spot a lot like I see this.
This happens on the like the I'm just throwing something
out of there. This is a research that's literally has
rolled off the top of my head. But wow, I
keep getting to these spots where I see this third
flushing card coming on the turn when I'm out of position,
(16:11):
and I never know what to do. Well, we've learned,
We've we have figured out something that will happen fairly
frequently that impacts our game. That's where we should now
move the eighty percent of our effort too. By gosh,
over the next few weeks, I'm going to vote nearly
all my resources to trying to figure out how third
flush cards on turns when I'm out of position should
(16:34):
be handled, and what things to consider and how to proceed,
and let's get good at it. If that makes sense.
All right, I appreciate you being here today. I hope
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(16:54):
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(17:16):
selling point, but for sure, if I get a notification
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somebody's messaged me on Facebook or Instagram, DM like, I
may get to it today, I may read it tomorrow
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(17:37):
may be fifty ahead of it. So it's just a
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get these concise episodes and they're very specific strategy or
in and while you're over there, we have the Ace
King Masterclass. If Ace King is one of these spots
you need to work on kind of ties in hand
hand what I've talked about today. If you're like, man, no,
hey Day's King man drawing hand, I don't understand it. Well,
(17:58):
it's not a drawing hand and clearly you don't understand it.
We have the as King Mashed Class over there, so
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(18:19):
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you a little bit today and we'll see you in
the next one.
Hello, Welcome into another episode of the podcast. So glad
to have you here. For this free public facing version
of the podcast, we try to crank out a minimum
of one episode a month for you guys. If you
want a episode every single Sunday that doesn't have any
ads or any fluff or anything like that, you can
(00:22):
find out how. At the end of the podcast right now,
we're going to talk about how to learn quickly. So
one of the things I've learned since I've started the
well not just the pod, but really when I started
the Patreon as I got requested to do, never had
any intention of starting it. It's turned out to be good.
(00:42):
I've enjoyed it. It's like ninety nine percent enjoyable. And
then obviously working with people, so we coach a few people,
hand select people one on one. What I've learned from
that you're going to benefit from in this episode of
the podcast, and that's how to learn quickly. So it's
one thing to understand that, hey, I want to learn
how to play poker. Well, so you know, the first
(01:03):
step to anything is identifying what your goal is, what
your problem is. You know, goal is I want to
play poker. Problem I don't know how, So you learn
the rules and then goal I want to you know,
win win at poker. Problem I don't know how right,
So first one, you can learn the rules of poker
(01:24):
pretty easily. It doesn't take long. How to win can
take longer. Now, what I'm going to share with you
here will apply to anything in life. Anything in life.
This will apply to anything. Any pursuit you have. This
advice will so you know, this could be a multi
faceted episode, appod for you could change other areas of
your life if it's something you're not aware of. So
(01:44):
we're gonna talk about how you learn quickly at poker,
and then just in general, how you learn quickly and
master anything. And this is probably the most important. Now,
there's many references out there in the in the free
range world you can find the eighty twenty rule is
one of them. Whole book I read about it. This
is similar to that. So eighty twenty rule is basically,
you focus eighty percent of your time, energy and effort
(02:08):
on the top twenty percent of things that most impact
whatever it is you're trying to accomplish. Right, so if
it's starting a business, or if it's me you know,
anything if it's something in your job like you have.
You know, if you have a job and you show
up every day, you know probably like twenty percent of
what you do at your job is the most important stuff,
like it's just the most core or this has got
(02:30):
to be done right stuff, and then the other eighty
percent less important. Well, you should be focusing eighty percent
of your time, energy, effort, everything to that twenty percent
because if you get that core twenty percent right and
perfect it, then you get a little bit of leniency
while you catch upon the other less important eighty percent.
So this applies to everything in life. It's not just poker,
(02:51):
but you need to identify the spots or the points
that have the most impact on what you're trying to
achieve first and devote I say all your time. I
wrote that in my notes, But if you've listened to
my pods very much, you know that all never means all,
and never means never means never. In poker, all means
almost always, never means almost never. And when I say
(03:12):
to vote all your time, you know eighty twenty rule.
You know, I don't like it because it's kind of specific,
but you get the gist of it. You should be
spending most of your time on that that thing that
you need, the most important thing, most often thing right,
the thing you do most often that's most important, And
you get as good as you can, and that you
(03:35):
reach a level proficiency that you're comfortable with. And that's
not to say you've perfected it, but you've gotten to
wherey okay, boy, we've got this locked in and we
can still work on it. And then it's like, what's
the second most right, what's the second most important thing,
or what's the second thing that I do most often?
Second most often? I send second most amount of my time,
energy and efforts on this. So let's get proficient it.
(03:57):
And you just go down the list and you work
them off because you can't. You know, the old I
had a guy what this goes back, Man, good old LJ.
I Miss LJLJ was a dear friend of mine. He's
the only man I've ever known in history that beat roulette.
Now would he have continued to beat it his entire life,
I don't know, but I know for a five year
span he had a method of beating roulette that worked
very well. He was in a position where his wife
(04:20):
got really sick he had to actually give up working
to try to take care of her, and they had
medical bill problems, and so he tried. He had to
come way to pay medical bills, and over the course
for about five years, he beat roulette for about three
quarters of a million dollars. I was lucky enough to
get to know him during that period of time. I
(04:41):
made many trips to the casino with him and played
roulette with him, and he was an impressive person to watch.
I learned some things from him, but I also know math,
and I know that mathematically, roulette is kind of unbeatable
unless you have a kind of a hack, like a
bias twill can clock the wheel or something. But what
(05:02):
he did work for five years, and it was very brilliant,
and it was hard for me to understand. My point
is is that.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
You when you apply things into life and go all
out and all this type of things, the things you
can achieve are kind of immeasurable right past levels of
basic comprehension.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Once we move into those levels. But look, whatever second
most should be second on your list, and you really
should move to it to really become proficient in first most.
And if we're talking about poker, it's very clear what's
most important, what thing happens, and what do you do
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in poker that you have to know about every single hand,
every single hand you play in poker, and I don't
mean every hand that you decide to see a flop with.
When you get delta hand, you are playing that hand
every single hand. Pre flop. You have to make a
pre flop decision every time, every time. That's the thing
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you do most often, and it is the foundation of
everything that happens from there. And if you're really crappy
at pre flop, it doesn't matter how much you study
flop play, turn play, river play, you're just gonna suck
at poker. So this's a great example of how to
apply this rule. When you're trying to learn poker. The
number one thing you should do is focus all of
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your energy and efforts. By all, I mean, I don't
know eighty percent ninety percent of your efforts on getting
as good at pre flop as you can, because you
have to decide what cards to play and how to
play them on every single deal of the hand, one
hundred percent of ends dealt You have to make this
decision now on you'll wind up figuring out over time
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as you're learning, that is, you know, somewhere in the
range of twenty five percent of hands, you'll play twenty
eight percent or something. You know, it can range from
can range from the game to how you're running, to
the position at the table, et cetera. You know, from
twenty two percent maybe on the low end, to thirty
percent on the high end. Maybe just depends, So we'll
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just use twenty five as a round number there. Once
you've figured out pre flop and you've spent all your
time in effort only and you've got really good at
and proficient at it, now, what's the second most thing
that you play, Well, that's the flop. But look at
how different it is. If you're only playing twenty five
percent of hands on average, you're only seeing a flop
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a quarter as many times as you are seeing a
pre flop. So it doesn't it make sense you should
just have spent when you started three months, three times
as much energy and effort figuring out the pre flop
as you did figuring out trying to work on flop stuff.
You just don't see flops that often in comparison to
pre flop, and so it's a hierarchy, it's a tree,
it's a level of importance. It's a level of what
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I need to be most proficient at that most affect
my game. And as a side note, it's remarkable some
people that I've had conversations with over the past five
years that go from being a losing player to a
break even player or even maybe slightly winning player by
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only doing one thing, fixing the pre flop. They still
don't really understand flops that well or turns that well
and rivers that well, but they just fixed the pre
flop and they went from being a loser to being
a round break even maybe slightly winning, which is which
is crazy if you think about it. If you can
go from being somebody loves to play poker but it
costs you a ton of money to being somebody loves
(08:38):
to play poker and you break even at it. So
it's a break even proposition. Wow, now suddenly my hobby
is free. That's just by fixing pre flop. Right. So
second most often thing encounters and most important I think
it would be flop. What I would mix in there.
I think that fits in somewhere between pre flop and
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flop because it happens on all streets, would be raising,
raised sizes and bet sizes, right, So raises and bet sizes,
like you really need to understand that because anytime you
enter a hand pre flop there is a bet or
a raise involved. Anytime you make a flop decision, it's
usually a bet or a raisin volves. You need to
understand bet sizes, raise sizes like these things that happen
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a ton, Like, let's figure around. So if you follow
that string of thought down to its logical end, it's like,
flop the next most important thing to work on, turn
next most important, and then river is the thing you
should see the least. Like you're either folding a ton
before you get to the river or you're making everybody
else fold before you get to the river. So hopefully
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we the percentage of hands we see on the river
pales in comparison to the one hundred percent of pre
flops we see. We see one hundred percent of cards
dealt to us, We see about twenty five percent of
those hands make it to the flop. And then I
don't know what percentage we see make it to the river,
ten percent, fifteen percent, I don't know honestly, I don't know,
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but it's it's it's it's a sub subset of hands
for sure. So that's a good way to break things
down and understand where you need to be focusing your
time so that you all of this is to get
you up to speed as quickly as possible, because well,
a lot of people do. And I see this a
ton of time. People join me we're on the discord, right,
they join our Patreon and they get in on the discord,
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and every day they're asking a ton of different questions
about a ton of different things, and they don't have
an understanding of any of them, and they're trying to
figure them all out at the same time. And I
get it, there's a lot of things we need to understand.
But oftentimes I'll see somebody that will have a clear thing.
They keep like, they'll keep posting a hand or they'll
keep asking a question and it's about the same thing,
but they keep asking a ton of questions about other things,
and the one thing has a pretty clear answer, and
(10:47):
I'll get them advice on how to fix it. And
to me, that's where least will be dropping everything else.
And look, here's a clear problem. I've identified in my game,
and this guy who I'm paying to help me has
given me some clear solutions and some content to fix it. Boy,
I should be spending all my time on that content.
I should be spending all my time on those solutions
(11:08):
until I cracked this code, right, Because it's something you've
you've have defined as being very specific, and it's something
that comes up often. Like just an example of this
is is board textures. So I have a current client
who who has demonstrated a clear inability to understand flop textures, right,
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and I have a ton of content on flop textures,
and we'd had discussions about this, you know, for a
couple of days or something. I kept seeing the same
pattern occur, and I'd recommended this content. They still hadn't
consumed it, they still hadn't went to it, and they
were posting questions about a ton of other stuff. They're
asking questions about other spots. This turn, this river is
what I'm like, Man, We've identified a clear problem in
(11:49):
your game. It's this very specific kind of flop texture.
I've got content available on it. I've pointed you to it.
Let's get down to it. Let's we have identified something
we can fix, and it comes up often. Right, Flops
is the second most thing you see when you play
a hand pre flop is one hundred percent, flops around
twenty five percent, So this is hugely important. Now he
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was talking about a specific flop texture. So while it's
not the twenty five percent of flops, it's whatever subset
of those flops fit this specific texture. But think about it,
if you crack the code to this specific flop texture,
you never have to worry about that. Again, that's something
you could check off the list. We're done with that.
We got that one figured out, and now we can
move on to other type flop textures and stuff. I've
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experienced this down through my career along the way, and
I would say one of the biggest ones was was
this is like two years ago. It's like twenty I
don't know when you're listening to this, but at the
time I'm recording it, it was twenty twenty three or twenty
twenty two. It's a couple of years ago. And I'm
in game one night and I suddenly endgame becomes sickened
on my inability to understand how to play ace Jack.
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I'm like, you know what it seems like this is
always a problem for me. I don't have a very
clear understanding of ace Jack, and by god, I'm going
to figure it out. And I went home that night
or whatever, I made a note. I woke up the
next day and for the next I want to say,
for it was a long time, But initially up front
it was a ton of time. Like for the first
week or two, it was a ton of time. I
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was obsessed with ah Jack, and I was doing all
the things on ah Jack. So this included consulting pro
friends of mine that played this, and consumed consuming content
and articles and stuff produced by you know, creators and
coaches and stuff that exist out there. This involved using
some sims, and involved using a trainer, involved using a
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ton of stuff. And I would say, well, then, you know,
within that first week I had advanced greatly, with a
second week a ton But you know, within just a
few weeks time, I'm like, I feel really good about
as Jack. Now, like, why didn't I do this ten
years ago? Why didn't ten years ago? I go, Man,
ace Jack really befuddles me. I need to figure it out,
you know. So these are the things we do as
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they come up right, you identify spots and like, so
when I work one on one and I coach for people,
and it's a very limited list and I don't think
there's an opening now, but you can go check over
at Lowland cashgames dot com if you're interested in it.
But I just don't work with that many people because
I don't have that much time and whatever. But I
do enjoy it. But the one thing that we always
start coaching calls with when we're talking about it, I
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ask them, I'm like, you know, when you're coming up
with hands and spots, or when you're playing in game,
when you when you are in a hand between now
and the next time we speak, when you're in a
hand and you're lost and you're like, I'm in a
spot I'm lost in and you recognize what spot it
is and you're like, I'm lost in the spot a lot.
You need to write that down, like this is a spot,
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I'm lost in the spot a lot and you bring
it back to the next coasing section because we can
fix it. We can work on it. Right. So this
is the hierarchy, right, so specifically for poker, like you
can apply this to life in general's image, but specifically
in poker, you learn pre flop, spend eighty percent of
the effort learning pre flop and being very proficient at it.
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And then we moved to spending eighty percent of the
time on flop well, and the mix in there is
race sizes, bet sizes, race sizes, et cetera, and like
that just should be the most of your time. Like
we shouldn't be studying obscure river check raise spots like
that shit's gonna happen like once every six weeks or something.
I don't know, don't know how often you play, but like,
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that's not that's not where the core of your money's
being won or lost at, right, And then we make
the progression through the flop. Then we just work more
on turns and rivers. But at some point, once we
get really prevent stuff that happens the most, then we
start recognizing spots and won't start recognizing spots and you
see it and you're like, shit, uh, partonly for the
(15:49):
explicative You're like, oh wow, is that better? Wow? Well,
I see this spot a lot like I see this.
This happens on the like the I'm just throwing something
out of there. This is a research that's literally has
rolled off the top of my head. But wow, I
keep getting to these spots where I see this third
flushing card coming on the turn when I'm out of position,
(16:11):
and I never know what to do. Well, we've learned,
We've we have figured out something that will happen fairly
frequently that impacts our game. That's where we should now
move the eighty percent of our effort too. By gosh,
over the next few weeks, I'm going to vote nearly
all my resources to trying to figure out how third
flush cards on turns when I'm out of position should
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be handled, and what things to consider and how to proceed,
and let's get good at it. If that makes sense.
All right, I appreciate you being here today. I hope
this episode the pod helps you so much. I allude
to it the beginning of the program. But if you
want to get an episode of the Pot every week
that doesn't have any intros, doesn't have any fluff, you know,
there's no ads that play or anything like that, and
(16:54):
it comes right down the pipe, right straight into really
the same thing. You're listening to them the podcast on now,
or you can also just listen to it over on
the podcast on the Patreon platform. Whichever you choose. You
also pick up the ability to private message me over
on the Patreon, which I do try to respond to
a little bit quicker than I can. Like, it's not
a huge perg. I'm not selling that as a big
(17:16):
selling point, but for sure, if I get a notification
I'm email that you know, Susan has messaged me over
on the Patreon platform, I'm going to go there and
try to help Susan. Whereas when I get notifications that
somebody's messaged me on Facebook or Instagram, DM like, I
may get to it today, I may read it tomorrow
or whatever day I log in to read it. There
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may be fifty ahead of it. So it's just a
different kind of thing. But mainly it's just so you
get these concise episodes and they're very specific strategy or
in and while you're over there, we have the Ace
King Masterclass. If Ace King is one of these spots
you need to work on kind of ties in hand
hand what I've talked about today. If you're like, man, no,
hey Day's King man drawing hand, I don't understand it. Well,
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it's not a drawing hand and clearly you don't understand it.
We have the as King Mashed Class over there, so
if you don't want to become a recurring member of
the Patreon or whatever, you can just sign up and
just get that Ace King Mashed Class. It's about an
hour and a half video where we talk about all
these spots with as King. What else. Oh and then
of course we got the full blow on Training Tier
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package that's just for helping you crush the game. And
then of course there's a few coaching spots. Rarely, if
ever is there're a spot open, but there may be.
You can check all that is at Low Limitcashgames dot
com Low Limit Cash Games dot Com. I appreciate you
being here, appreciate you being subscribed. I hope we helped
you a little bit today and we'll see you in
the next one.
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