March 30, 2025 • 17 mins
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5 Reasons People Fail
Lack Discipline
Unreasonable Expectations
Tilt
Don’t Review Hands
Ego
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5 Reasons People Fail
Lack Discipline
Unreasonable Expectations
Tilt
Don’t Review Hands
Ego
Mark as Played
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, welcome into another episode of the Low Limit Cash
Games podcast. I'm here for you, the low stakes player one, two, one, three,
no limit. Maybe you get in two five no limit,
maybe you got a home game. I want to help
you improve your game. I get messages all the time
from people asking all kinds of questions. Obviously, I've been
working personally with people now for a few years now.
(00:23):
I guess I've started actually coaching people two and a
half years ago now. Of course, just have a ton
of people over on the Patreon, and I've learned some
things along the way. I've learned not just from what
I intuitively know, but just from actually working with people
why people fail at poker. And we're going to talk
about those things today. If you would like to be
(00:44):
a winner at poker, if you'd like to go beyond
winning and just crush at poker, I'll tell you how
you can join us in our little community where we
focus only on you, the one two player. I know
that's novel, right, I know if you look at all
the content that's out there, all the podcasts, all the
YouTube videos, all the vloggers, all the training sites, none
(01:05):
of them devote all their attention to you the one
two no limit player, the one three no limit player.
But I do I've been in these streets. I've been
in these streets for a minute, and we do very
well in them, and I would like to share things
we need to help you crush them. More info on
that at the end of this episode, but first let's
jump into it today. I'm going to be talking about
(01:25):
why most people just don't ever become successful at poker.
I'll give you some interesting made up statistics, if you
like made up statistics. So for years and years and years,
like since I seriously got into poker back in the
early two thousands, the old adage was about five percent
of the people that you see playing poker are winning,
(01:47):
and maybe half of those are winning what you would
consider like a reasonable amount of money, like a lot
of money. And that was just, you know, that was
said for years and years, and in my experience, I
don't know that that was that two far off right.
I'll tell you this, It's just an observation I've made.
I would say over the last two or three years,
(02:08):
I would say that that numbers not right anymore. I
think maybe ten or maybe even fifteen percent of people
playing the low stakes poker are let's put them in
the category of break even to profitable. In my opinion,
if you can go to the poker room and you
can sit down, you can play poker for five or
six hours, tip the waitress, tip the dealers, pay the rake.
(02:34):
You know, if you're playing in a room like I do,
or you got to buy your slice of pizza, or
you got to buy your hot dog, and you can
do all that stuff and you can leave the room.
Even then you've made a fair amount of money. I mean,
if you're winning, if you're winning a couple of pots
an hour, that's twelve dollars you're giving away plus you know,
you know, anywhere from two to four dollars for tips.
That's sixteen dollars plus tips for two or three drinks
(02:56):
for the waitress could be anywhere from twenty to twenty
five dollars, depending on how good of a tipper you are.
If you're like me, it could be an insane amount
because I tip way too much. I mean, you could
be you could be the system that you're playing in
could be draining you of you know, thirty forty dollars
a night or an hour. I'm sorry, don't fit on
(03:17):
the high end, but you know, maybe conservative conservatively, you know,
fifteen to twenty dollars an hour. So if you can
go play for four or five six hours and you
can leave even you've made a lot of money. It's
just you've had to pay out a lot of expenses.
But you've you've beaten the other players, right, you just
haven't beaten all the expenses that are built into the game.
(03:38):
I would say people that all break even a profitable mount.
I mean it may be as high as fifteen percent. Like,
they're still bad, man, the players at low stakes two, one, three, olive,
they're still really bad, but there's so much better now
than they were, Like so many more of them are
better that I'm seeing. So I just wanted to throw
that out there anyway, why most people are just not
making it, why they're not becoming long term probably ffitable
(04:00):
at poker. And I mean absolute number one on my
list is just lack of discipline. And you know, keep
in mind, I'm talking about live poker. I'm talking about
where you go to an actual card room, poker room, casino, whatever,
get on the list, sit down at a table and
play poker with other live humans with a live dealer.
That's what I'm talking about at one, two, one, three
(04:21):
oh limit you know, two to five eliment whatever. You
get bored, man, you just you know, you see thirty
thirty three hands an hour, so you're not seeing a
ton of hands. Discipline becomes a problem. You want to
play more hands because you don't like just sitting there,
and you don't have the discipline to fold when it's
(04:43):
very clear that you're beat. You don't have the discipline
to not bluff every fifteen minutes because you know, you
don't you didn't make a hand, and bluffing is fun. Like,
you just don't have the discipline to do all the
right things. That's number one by far. You don't have
the discipline to study. You don't have the discipline to
you know, join like a site of the tier, and
(05:04):
like a lot of people don't even do that. Like
the most people's discipline some people have is they'll just
watch YouTube videos, you know, two three times a week.
That's that they consider that studying, you know, or or something.
So just lack of discipline probably is by far the
number one reason that I see people lose money. Number
(05:27):
two is people thinking that they're entitled to make a
lot of money every time they play, so they have
this entitlement syndrome, which is a form of tilt, which
is you know, spoiler alert is one of the things
on the list. But this idea that you know, you
sit down and you should just be making you know,
(05:47):
forty dollars. You know you've been here three hours, you
think you should be up to three hundred dollars. I
mean that's a crazy hourly rate. People go to the
poker room, they have like five hours. They're like, oh,
you know, I got five hours away from the wife.
I go to the poker room this Saturday, play poker
for five hours, and you know you didn't make five
hundred dollars. You're like, well, what, what's what's going on?
(06:08):
And you know, as their time on they're five hours
away from the wife rolls down, they start making more
moves because you know, I really wanted to come win
five hundred dollars. Well, news flash, nobody's making one hundred
dollars an hour playing one to no limit. Hold them,
they're just not like your Your expectations are ridiculous. Your
desires to make a lot of money are insane, and
(06:28):
so you're trying to make something unreasonable happen, and it's
just costing you money. And since this form of entitlement
is a form of tilt, I just go in and
throw the tilt thing in there. Now that's people just tilting.
Your aces got cracked, and now you're on tilt and
you're just playing every hand and you're brazen and bluffing
and doing all kinds of dumb stuff. By the way,
(06:50):
all these things fall under discipline. That's why discipline was
number one. The discipline did not tilt. The discipline did
not try to, you know, win five hundred dollars this trip,
you know, and this one to understand that you have
to play the game you're given. You have to take
the losing sessions, you have to play take the break
even sessions, you have to play slightly winning sessions. And
then of course there will be sessions where you will
(07:12):
win one hundred and fifty dollars an hour, but it
won't be every session, so it all averages out into
something reasonable, you know, twenty dollars an hour, twenty five
an hour. It depends on, you know, how soft the
room isn't that you're in is, and how deep that
the room plays. But all this comes under discipline, and
then I would say this also falls under discipline as well.
(07:34):
But people just don't review their hands, and they don't
make connections either, you know, make friends with somebody they
know that's the room, that's a winning player, and you know,
try to become friendly with them so that they have
somebody to talk hands with so they can review their
own hands, but also get advice from somebody this winning player,
or hire somebody like me to talk hands with you,
or join a site like mine where you can submit
(07:58):
your hands and you can get feedback from me and
other winning players. Like you're not doing any of that
kind of stuff. They just lead once they leave the
poker room, like they didn't take a note. They don't,
you know, they'll go home and they'll tell their buddies
how their aces got cracked and boy, it was crazy,
I were in so bad. But they don't have any
notes on any hands that happen, so they can't improve.
They can't figure out if raising this hand from the
(08:18):
spot was a good idea. They can't understand if this
you know, bluff check raised turn thing they tried was
a good idea, if it was suicide because they don't
have any notes on the hands, and they don't have
the associations with other people to talk about the hands with,
and so when you're talking about low stakes, hold them.
I know, solvers is the new thing, and computers and
tools are the new thing, and they for sure have
(08:39):
their place, and I've learned a lot from solvers and stuff.
You have to greatly adapt a lot of it, in
my opinion, to play one two because one two and
one three note limit is just massive exploits. And so
you know, I see people get into Soverei land and
they just follow the solver line and nobody at their
table is playing anywhere near equilibrium, and so they're playing
(09:01):
a sovereer line and they're just losing gobs of money.
So you know that comes it's on pace, taking notes
on hands and talking about people who are winning the
games you're playing in, or taking training for somebody that's
winning in the games you're playing in, or paying a
coach who has won in the games you're playing in.
You know, that's you know, whatever ways you can accumulate
(09:22):
to do that is what you should be pursuing. I
remember the very first friend that I made who was
playing the States I was playing, and we talked hands
and it was like, I mean, my game just improved
dramatically just for making that one friend. And he likes
talking about poker and I did. And you know, he
was a little bit better than me, but it wasn't
a ton better than me. But we both made each
other better because we were talking hands. I mean, that's
(09:43):
one of those powerful things you can do. It's free.
You know, you got a network. You gotta find the guy,
you got to spot the winner. You got to try
to ingratiate yourself, become friends with them, you know. And
you know, I'm not saying that you'll just be able
to spot someone in your room that's a winner and
the next thing, you know, three which fro now you're
friends with when you're talking industries. I mean, it's it evolves.
These things evolved, but you should always be thinking about it.
(10:05):
That should be on your agenda of things to do.
You know, if I would throw in like a fifth one,
this would be ego. Like people just got egos about
they know everything about poker, and everybody out there at
the table with there's a bunch of fish. I mean,
I can't tell you how many people I play poker
with who just play the worst, But they will have
(10:29):
a serious conversation with you about how everybody at the
table is fish, like, oh god, these players are so bad.
And I'd be like, I know, man, but you know whatever,
I don't you know, you know what do I say
to them? You suck to No, I want to commiserate
with them. I want to them and to encourage them
to keep doing the things they're doing. So look, these
(10:49):
are the things that I would have been thinking about
if I were seriously trying to improve my game. You
may be saying, well, that's not specific advice. You didn't
give me any I mean, I just I did. I
gave you a ton of advice. These are tons of
things to work all. These are things I work on.
I work on discipline all the time. I work on
hand reviews and having a network of people to review
(11:12):
hands with all the time. I spent an entire year
doing nothing but focusing on my mental game. I read
so many books. I started doing meditation. I consulted with
somebody who you know has insights into the mental game.
I developed a mental game strategy that I use pregame.
Before I ever go into the poker room, I use
(11:34):
it hourly or similar hourly when I get up and
walk around. I use it after I take a beat.
I use it after I stack off, you know. And
I have all these strategies for mental game in place
that I've built up, like it's something I actively worked on,
and it's caused me to be a way better player.
I understand what a reasonable hourly is. I understand you
(11:55):
don't chase losses, so I don't go in here expected
to win five hundred dollars. And then this whole ego thing.
I just try to wash ego out of the door
and try to have as much humility as I can
about the game, because I stick, God, there's a trillion
people better at poker than me. There just are, like
just just a trillion people better at poker than me.
So you know, I just got to try to do
(12:17):
the best I can against the people I sat down
at the table with. And fortunately I find games, or
I'm lucky enough to be around games where I find
people at tables who aren't as good at poker as me,
and so you know, I get to make money. But
I'm not saying I'm an amazing poker player boy, just not.
I just have humility about all of it. So trust me.
(12:38):
All these things I give you, they're very specific. I
work on them all the time. And if you're going
to take the game seriously, you got to take this
part of the game seriously, the study components seriously, whether
it be working with a tool, whether it be running
ranges and stuff, whether it be a memorizing pre flop ranges,
learning how to deviate from them, understanding sizings, whether it
(12:59):
be you know, raise four bat sizings. I mean, on
and all. I could go all the technical stuff that
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learning all of it. But these things I've given you
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Hey, welcome into another episode of the Low Limit Cash
Games podcast. I'm here for you, the low stakes player one, two, one, three,
no limit. Maybe you get in two five no limit,
maybe you got a home game. I want to help
you improve your game. I get messages all the time
from people asking all kinds of questions. Obviously, I've been
working personally with people now for a few years now.
(00:23):
I guess I've started actually coaching people two and a
half years ago now. Of course, just have a ton
of people over on the Patreon, and I've learned some
things along the way. I've learned not just from what
I intuitively know, but just from actually working with people
why people fail at poker. And we're going to talk
about those things today. If you would like to be
(00:44):
a winner at poker, if you'd like to go beyond
winning and just crush at poker, I'll tell you how
you can join us in our little community where we
focus only on you, the one two player. I know
that's novel, right, I know if you look at all
the content that's out there, all the podcasts, all the
YouTube videos, all the vloggers, all the training sites, none
(01:05):
of them devote all their attention to you the one
two no limit player, the one three no limit player.
But I do I've been in these streets. I've been
in these streets for a minute, and we do very
well in them, and I would like to share things
we need to help you crush them. More info on
that at the end of this episode, but first let's
jump into it today. I'm going to be talking about
(01:25):
why most people just don't ever become successful at poker.
I'll give you some interesting made up statistics, if you
like made up statistics. So for years and years and years,
like since I seriously got into poker back in the
early two thousands, the old adage was about five percent
of the people that you see playing poker are winning,
(01:47):
and maybe half of those are winning what you would
consider like a reasonable amount of money, like a lot
of money. And that was just, you know, that was
said for years and years, and in my experience, I
don't know that that was that two far off right.
I'll tell you this, It's just an observation I've made.
I would say over the last two or three years,
(02:08):
I would say that that numbers not right anymore. I
think maybe ten or maybe even fifteen percent of people
playing the low stakes poker are let's put them in
the category of break even to profitable. In my opinion,
if you can go to the poker room and you
can sit down, you can play poker for five or
six hours, tip the waitress, tip the dealers, pay the rake.
(02:34):
You know, if you're playing in a room like I do,
or you got to buy your slice of pizza, or
you got to buy your hot dog, and you can
do all that stuff and you can leave the room.
Even then you've made a fair amount of money. I mean,
if you're winning, if you're winning a couple of pots
an hour, that's twelve dollars you're giving away plus you know,
you know, anywhere from two to four dollars for tips.
That's sixteen dollars plus tips for two or three drinks
(02:56):
for the waitress could be anywhere from twenty to twenty
five dollars, depending on how good of a tipper you are.
If you're like me, it could be an insane amount
because I tip way too much. I mean, you could
be you could be the system that you're playing in
could be draining you of you know, thirty forty dollars
a night or an hour. I'm sorry, don't fit on
(03:17):
the high end, but you know, maybe conservative conservatively, you know,
fifteen to twenty dollars an hour. So if you can
go play for four or five six hours and you
can leave even you've made a lot of money. It's
just you've had to pay out a lot of expenses.
But you've you've beaten the other players, right, you just
haven't beaten all the expenses that are built into the game.
(03:38):
I would say people that all break even a profitable mount.
I mean it may be as high as fifteen percent. Like,
they're still bad, man, the players at low stakes two, one, three, olive,
they're still really bad, but there's so much better now
than they were, Like so many more of them are
better that I'm seeing. So I just wanted to throw
that out there anyway, why most people are just not
making it, why they're not becoming long term probably ffitable
(04:00):
at poker. And I mean absolute number one on my
list is just lack of discipline. And you know, keep
in mind, I'm talking about live poker. I'm talking about
where you go to an actual card room, poker room, casino, whatever,
get on the list, sit down at a table and
play poker with other live humans with a live dealer.
That's what I'm talking about at one, two, one, three
(04:21):
oh limit you know, two to five eliment whatever. You
get bored, man, you just you know, you see thirty
thirty three hands an hour, so you're not seeing a
ton of hands. Discipline becomes a problem. You want to
play more hands because you don't like just sitting there,
and you don't have the discipline to fold when it's
(04:43):
very clear that you're beat. You don't have the discipline
to not bluff every fifteen minutes because you know, you
don't you didn't make a hand, and bluffing is fun. Like,
you just don't have the discipline to do all the
right things. That's number one by far. You don't have
the discipline to study. You don't have the discipline to
you know, join like a site of the tier, and
(05:04):
like a lot of people don't even do that. Like
the most people's discipline some people have is they'll just
watch YouTube videos, you know, two three times a week.
That's that they consider that studying, you know, or or something.
So just lack of discipline probably is by far the
number one reason that I see people lose money. Number
(05:27):
two is people thinking that they're entitled to make a
lot of money every time they play, so they have
this entitlement syndrome, which is a form of tilt, which
is you know, spoiler alert is one of the things
on the list. But this idea that you know, you
sit down and you should just be making you know,
(05:47):
forty dollars. You know you've been here three hours, you
think you should be up to three hundred dollars. I
mean that's a crazy hourly rate. People go to the
poker room, they have like five hours. They're like, oh,
you know, I got five hours away from the wife.
I go to the poker room this Saturday, play poker
for five hours, and you know you didn't make five
hundred dollars. You're like, well, what, what's what's going on?
(06:08):
And you know, as their time on they're five hours
away from the wife rolls down, they start making more
moves because you know, I really wanted to come win
five hundred dollars. Well, news flash, nobody's making one hundred
dollars an hour playing one to no limit. Hold them,
they're just not like your Your expectations are ridiculous. Your
desires to make a lot of money are insane, and
(06:28):
so you're trying to make something unreasonable happen, and it's
just costing you money. And since this form of entitlement
is a form of tilt, I just go in and
throw the tilt thing in there. Now that's people just tilting.
Your aces got cracked, and now you're on tilt and
you're just playing every hand and you're brazen and bluffing
and doing all kinds of dumb stuff. By the way,
(06:50):
all these things fall under discipline. That's why discipline was
number one. The discipline did not tilt. The discipline did
not try to, you know, win five hundred dollars this trip,
you know, and this one to understand that you have
to play the game you're given. You have to take
the losing sessions, you have to play take the break
even sessions, you have to play slightly winning sessions. And
then of course there will be sessions where you will
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win one hundred and fifty dollars an hour, but it
won't be every session, so it all averages out into
something reasonable, you know, twenty dollars an hour, twenty five
an hour. It depends on, you know, how soft the
room isn't that you're in is, and how deep that
the room plays. But all this comes under discipline, and
then I would say this also falls under discipline as well.
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But people just don't review their hands, and they don't
make connections either, you know, make friends with somebody they
know that's the room, that's a winning player, and you know,
try to become friendly with them so that they have
somebody to talk hands with so they can review their
own hands, but also get advice from somebody this winning player,
or hire somebody like me to talk hands with you,
or join a site like mine where you can submit
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your hands and you can get feedback from me and
other winning players. Like you're not doing any of that
kind of stuff. They just lead once they leave the
poker room, like they didn't take a note. They don't,
you know, they'll go home and they'll tell their buddies
how their aces got cracked and boy, it was crazy,
I were in so bad. But they don't have any
notes on any hands that happen, so they can't improve.
They can't figure out if raising this hand from the
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spot was a good idea. They can't understand if this
you know, bluff check raised turn thing they tried was
a good idea, if it was suicide because they don't
have any notes on the hands, and they don't have
the associations with other people to talk about the hands with,
and so when you're talking about low stakes, hold them.
I know, solvers is the new thing, and computers and
tools are the new thing, and they for sure have
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their place, and I've learned a lot from solvers and stuff.
You have to greatly adapt a lot of it, in
my opinion, to play one two because one two and
one three note limit is just massive exploits. And so
you know, I see people get into Soverei land and
they just follow the solver line and nobody at their
table is playing anywhere near equilibrium, and so they're playing
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a sovereer line and they're just losing gobs of money.
So you know that comes it's on pace, taking notes
on hands and talking about people who are winning the
games you're playing in, or taking training for somebody that's
winning in the games you're playing in, or paying a
coach who has won in the games you're playing in.
You know, that's you know, whatever ways you can accumulate
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to do that is what you should be pursuing. I
remember the very first friend that I made who was
playing the States I was playing, and we talked hands
and it was like, I mean, my game just improved
dramatically just for making that one friend. And he likes
talking about poker and I did. And you know, he
was a little bit better than me, but it wasn't
a ton better than me. But we both made each
other better because we were talking hands. I mean, that's
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one of those powerful things you can do. It's free.
You know, you got a network. You gotta find the guy,
you got to spot the winner. You got to try
to ingratiate yourself, become friends with them, you know. And
you know, I'm not saying that you'll just be able
to spot someone in your room that's a winner and
the next thing, you know, three which fro now you're
friends with when you're talking industries. I mean, it's it evolves.
These things evolved, but you should always be thinking about it.
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That should be on your agenda of things to do.
You know, if I would throw in like a fifth one,
this would be ego. Like people just got egos about
they know everything about poker, and everybody out there at
the table with there's a bunch of fish. I mean,
I can't tell you how many people I play poker
with who just play the worst, But they will have
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a serious conversation with you about how everybody at the
table is fish, like, oh god, these players are so bad.
And I'd be like, I know, man, but you know whatever,
I don't you know, you know what do I say
to them? You suck to No, I want to commiserate
with them. I want to them and to encourage them
to keep doing the things they're doing. So look, these
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are the things that I would have been thinking about
if I were seriously trying to improve my game. You
may be saying, well, that's not specific advice. You didn't
give me any I mean, I just I did. I
gave you a ton of advice. These are tons of
things to work all. These are things I work on.
I work on discipline all the time. I work on
hand reviews and having a network of people to review
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hands with all the time. I spent an entire year
doing nothing but focusing on my mental game. I read
so many books. I started doing meditation. I consulted with
somebody who you know has insights into the mental game.
I developed a mental game strategy that I use pregame.
Before I ever go into the poker room, I use
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it hourly or similar hourly when I get up and
walk around. I use it after I take a beat.
I use it after I stack off, you know. And
I have all these strategies for mental game in place
that I've built up, like it's something I actively worked on,
and it's caused me to be a way better player.
I understand what a reasonable hourly is. I understand you
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don't chase losses, so I don't go in here expected
to win five hundred dollars. And then this whole ego thing.
I just try to wash ego out of the door
and try to have as much humility as I can
about the game, because I stick, God, there's a trillion
people better at poker than me. There just are, like
just just a trillion people better at poker than me.
So you know, I just got to try to do
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the best I can against the people I sat down
at the table with. And fortunately I find games, or
I'm lucky enough to be around games where I find
people at tables who aren't as good at poker as me,
and so you know, I get to make money. But
I'm not saying I'm an amazing poker player boy, just not.
I just have humility about all of it. So trust me.
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All these things I give you, they're very specific. I
work on them all the time. And if you're going
to take the game seriously, you got to take this
part of the game seriously, the study components seriously, whether
it be working with a tool, whether it be running
ranges and stuff, whether it be a memorizing pre flop ranges,
learning how to deviate from them, understanding sizings, whether it
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be you know, raise four bat sizings. I mean, on
and all. I could go all the technical stuff that
you can try to learn, like you need to be
learning all of it. But these things I've given you
today their concepts, but they're hugely important. I hope you've
enjoyed today's episode. I appreciate you being here. Actually a
bonus episode every time there's five Sundays and a month.
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Instead of just given you one Sunday episode like normal,
I give you two. But now if you want an
episode every single Sunday, you can become a fan of
the pod. It's just five bucks a month. I don't
even get the whole five dollars. Patreon takes a good
chunk of that, and it just motivates me to crank
out content every Sunday, which is very difficult because I
don't want it to be half asked content. I don't
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want it to be content that's not helpful. You can
make an argument that I don't hit it out of
the park every time, but you can't say that I
don't try, like I'm always trying to use my interactions
for people to come up with content. So if you
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There's no training side out there charging twenty five dollars.
So there's a few ways I'm able to do this. One,
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have to overcharge you. That's one number. Two. I use
Patreon as my platform, so I didn't have to hire
website designers and technicians and code and hosting and all
this type stuff. So we just made it really simple
and very affordable and very effective. It's funny. I just
yesterday got an email from Josh. Josh is somebody that
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joined the Patreon a year and a half ago in
the one two streets or may it's one three streets
down in South Florida. But he just sent me an email.
Just recently. We had been talking about him moving up
in state, and he's now one hundred and forty hours
into moving up to two five and he's doing very well.
And of course I've tried to answer some of his
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questions about the differences between the lower you know, one two,
one three and two five. But I mean, he was
a guy that started out over on the Patreon, you know,
a year and a half ago, and I love Josh,
but he wasn't the best player, just gonna be honest
with you. He was in there trying, though. So I'm
there for you twenty five bucks and then one on
one coaching. I keep that very limited, like my time
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is limited. Again, this isn't my job. Most of these
coaches out here, that's their job. That's how they make
their living. I don't make my living doing this. I
do it for two reasons, maybe three. I really enjoy it.
I would say that. I don't say I had enjoyed
as much as playing poker, but it's close, man, I
enjoyed a lot. And the other reason is it keeps
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me on top of my game because I have to
try to always help keep people on top of their game,
and I'm always having to analyze the game and analyze
my own play and analyze what I'm doing. And I
had to tell you along the way, I've discovered things
I wasn't the owner right about. I've understood things I
could do better because I've been delving into these subjects
and spots and trying to help people and it's just
helped me a ton. So look, if you want to
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come over and to be a part of it, we'd
love to have you there. The Discord community is fabulous
if you want to get into the twenty five dollars
tier and higher. There's not a lot of spots in
the one on one coaching because I keep it limited,
but if you check it and it's full and you
know you want to get on the list. Because Patreon
doesn't really allow a list. You can private message me,
hit me up on the socials, either on the Instagram
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or the Facebook, and I'll try to put your name
on the list and let you know if a spot
comes open. I also let you know if I decide
to add spots, which I reserve the right to do,
but I typically don't because my time is important to me,
and I just again, this isn't my job, this isn't
my career. I do this as a hobby. I do
this is because I'm passionate about it, and so you know,
I don't want to be training people five days a
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week like a lot of these coaches do. So all
that being said, Lolimitcashgames dot Com is the place to go.
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