June 1, 2025 • 27 mins
Much like the early steps to doing better at blackjack than everyone else using basic strategy, poker also has a basic strategy that will instantly improve nearly everyone’s game. From absolute beginner to even long time players.
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Let’s break down the concept of **basic strategy** in poker and why it’s the foundation of becoming a winning player.
What’s Basic Strategy?
In games like blackjack, there’s a “basic strategy” that players memorize to minimize losses. For example, in blackjack, just by memorizing and following basic strategy can reduce your expected loss from 3-6% (if you’re just winging it) to 1% or less. Card counters take it even further by adjusting their play based on the cards left in the deck, allowing them to make smarter decisions and bet bigger when the odds are in their favor.
By keeping count of the cards and knowing the composition of the remainder of the deck, this allows them to do things like modify the basic strategy when the count says you should stand on hands you would normally hit. Or split tens which you would normally never do. Or bet 3x or 5x or 9x your base bet.
And if you happened to be at a table that accidentally flashed their down card 20% of the time you could massively deviate from basic strategy to crush even more.
Poker has its own version of basic strategy, and it starts with preflop charts. These charts tell you which hands to play (and how to play them) based on your position at the table. Unlike blackjack, where basic strategy still leaves you at a slight disadvantage, mastering poker’s basic strategy can turn a losing player into a break-even or even slightly winning player—fast.
Why Preflop Charts Matter
Preflop charts are like your poker GPS. They guide you on:
- Which hands to open (e.g., raising from under the gun vs. the cutoff).
- When to fold, call, or raise based on your position and the action before you.
By sticking to these charts, you avoid making costly mistakes early in the hand. For example, you’ll know not to play a weak hand from early position or to raise aggressively with strong hands in late position. This alone can transform your game from losing to break-even or better.
Now let’s put all of this into perspective and build a plan around it. I’ll use another analogy, cooking, to help us develop this plan.
Poker Basics: Build Your Game Like a Pro (Even If You’re Just Starting Out)
Alright, let’s simplify poker strategy so you can *actually* remember it and use it. Imagine you’re learning to cook: you need to master the recipe first before you start improvising. Poker’s the same way. Here’s your step-by-step guide:
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Step 1: Learn the “Recipe” (Preflop Charts)**
In poker, **preflop charts** are your recipe book. They tell you:
- What hands to play (e.g., “Should I raise Ace-King from early position?”).
- How to play them (fold, call, raise).
Why this works:
Most losing players hemorrhage money by playing too many weak hands. Preflop charts fix that. Memorize them, and you’ll instantly:
✅ Stop bleeding chips with junk hands.
✅ Make fewer “What was I thinking?!” mistakes.
Start with **tight ranges** (play fewer hands) until you’re comfortable. Think of it like training wheels—they keep you safe while you learn. What range you should play from each position can easily be found by searching for poker charts online. There are many places with free resources. Just choose one that is tailored to live game and not GTO ranges or online ranges.
Adjust to Your “Kitchen” (Table Dynamics)**
Once you’ve memorized the basics, it’s time to adapt. Poker isn’t played in a vacuum—your opponents matter!
Example Adjustments:
- If everyone’s folding too much → **Loosen up** (play more hands).
- If the table’s aggressive → **Tighten up** (only play strong hands).
- If someone’s a calling station → **Bluff less**, value bet more.
Key Insight: The best players aren’t robots. They tweak their strategy like chefs adjusting seasoning—*a little more salt here, less spice there*.
Master the “Knife Skills” (3-Betting and 4-Betting)**
This is where pots get big, and mistakes get costly. This allows you slice and dice your opponents stacks at will.
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Let’s break down the concept of **basic strategy** in poker and why it’s the foundation of becoming a winning player.
What’s Basic Strategy?
In games like blackjack, there’s a “basic strategy” that players memorize to minimize losses. For example, in blackjack, just by memorizing and following basic strategy can reduce your expected loss from 3-6% (if you’re just winging it) to 1% or less. Card counters take it even further by adjusting their play based on the cards left in the deck, allowing them to make smarter decisions and bet bigger when the odds are in their favor.
By keeping count of the cards and knowing the composition of the remainder of the deck, this allows them to do things like modify the basic strategy when the count says you should stand on hands you would normally hit. Or split tens which you would normally never do. Or bet 3x or 5x or 9x your base bet.
And if you happened to be at a table that accidentally flashed their down card 20% of the time you could massively deviate from basic strategy to crush even more.
Poker has its own version of basic strategy, and it starts with preflop charts. These charts tell you which hands to play (and how to play them) based on your position at the table. Unlike blackjack, where basic strategy still leaves you at a slight disadvantage, mastering poker’s basic strategy can turn a losing player into a break-even or even slightly winning player—fast.
Why Preflop Charts Matter
Preflop charts are like your poker GPS. They guide you on:
- Which hands to open (e.g., raising from under the gun vs. the cutoff).
- When to fold, call, or raise based on your position and the action before you.
By sticking to these charts, you avoid making costly mistakes early in the hand. For example, you’ll know not to play a weak hand from early position or to raise aggressively with strong hands in late position. This alone can transform your game from losing to break-even or better.
Now let’s put all of this into perspective and build a plan around it. I’ll use another analogy, cooking, to help us develop this plan.
Poker Basics: Build Your Game Like a Pro (Even If You’re Just Starting Out)
Alright, let’s simplify poker strategy so you can *actually* remember it and use it. Imagine you’re learning to cook: you need to master the recipe first before you start improvising. Poker’s the same way. Here’s your step-by-step guide:
---
Step 1: Learn the “Recipe” (Preflop Charts)**
In poker, **preflop charts** are your recipe book. They tell you:
- What hands to play (e.g., “Should I raise Ace-King from early position?”).
- How to play them (fold, call, raise).
Why this works:
Most losing players hemorrhage money by playing too many weak hands. Preflop charts fix that. Memorize them, and you’ll instantly:
✅ Stop bleeding chips with junk hands.
✅ Make fewer “What was I thinking?!” mistakes.
Start with **tight ranges** (play fewer hands) until you’re comfortable. Think of it like training wheels—they keep you safe while you learn. What range you should play from each position can easily be found by searching for poker charts online. There are many places with free resources. Just choose one that is tailored to live game and not GTO ranges or online ranges.
Adjust to Your “Kitchen” (Table Dynamics)**
Once you’ve memorized the basics, it’s time to adapt. Poker isn’t played in a vacuum—your opponents matter!
Example Adjustments:
- If everyone’s folding too much → **Loosen up** (play more hands).
- If the table’s aggressive → **Tighten up** (only play strong hands).
- If someone’s a calling station → **Bluff less**, value bet more.
Key Insight: The best players aren’t robots. They tweak their strategy like chefs adjusting seasoning—*a little more salt here, less spice there*.
Master the “Knife Skills” (3-Betting and 4-Betting)**
This is where pots get big, and mistakes get costly. This allows you slice and dice your opponents stacks at will.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, here we go with another episode of the Little
of the Cash Games podcast. Glad to have you here.
If you play the lowest stakes, maybe you're wanting to
play the low stakes, Maybe you play in a nice
home game. Maybe you're just looking into getting into poker.
This is another episode that I've kind of tailor made
that'll hit everybody in some kind of a way. Absolute newbie,
want to understand, a good place to start. Someone who's
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been playing a long time and has been losing a
long time, This is an episode for you. This a
little wondering. This is probably a little bit longer episode
one because I've managed to throw in a ton of analogies.
Sometimes I think analogies helped. It helps open up the imagination.
And once we get the imagination open, we can start
cramming useful bits of information in there. We can sneak it,
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sneak it in there and it kind of sticks, and
then we'll have a little bit of discussion about actual
strategy and how to implement it. So if you're looking
for an exact game plan you can use to start
to improve, this is for you. There's the one minute
I want to let you know that I'll have information
for you at the end of this podcast. If you're
somebody that's looking for some one on one coaching, maybe
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you're looking for training materials designed specifically for low stakes.
You know, there's not a lot of it out there,
not a lot of people doing it. Hardly anybody really
teaching you how to crush one, two, one to three,
no limit. They're just not doing it. Trust me. I look,
once twice a week, once twice a month, maybe's more accurate.
I look, I just don't see it. It just doesn't exist,
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But we do it. Details on that on the end
of the podcast. Not going to bore you with it.
Now we're gonna be talking about a poker basic strategy,
a basic strategy for poker. I'm gonna break this concept down,
explain why it's the foundation of becoming a winning poker player.
Let's get into it. What is a basic strategy. You
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may have heard the term basic strategy used in games
like blackjack. There's a basic strategy players memorized to help
some minimize losses. Like in blackjack, for example, if you
just memorizing all of this basic strategy, just memorize it
and follow it, you'll reduce the house's edge against you
from as much as three to six percent, depending on
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how bad you are, just sitting down and winging it
without a clue. Some people are just intuitively a little
bit better than others. But just giving away massive amounts
of edge to the casino, you could reduce it to
maybe as little as one percent or sometimes less depending
on what game you're playing. Now, you can go further
than this basic strategy, right, But basic strategy step one.
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Just memorize this basic strategies chart. I'll talk a little
bit about my own life. So way back in the
late nineties early two thousands, I was looking for a
way that I could gamble and win money because I
had a roulette problem. I've talked about this in some
private episodes over on my Patreon that members have heard.
I don't talk about it a ton, but I had
a roulette problem. One of my strategies to beat my
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roulette problem was to try to find a game I
can beat. And I got into Blackshack and I learned
how little that else edge was, and I learned about
this thing called card counting. But the very first thing
I did was memorized basic strategy. I just memorized it,
and it took a while, but I memorized it in
all these years later. You know, twenty years later, twenty
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five years later, I still go to the casino, and
I still sit down and play blackjack, and I still
know what the basic strategy is. I haven't memorized. So
that's step one. Step two. You can actually go from
the house not beating you for so much to flipping
the tables, turn it around on them and start beating
them if you know how to account cards. So basic
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strategy is memoring this, memorizing the set of rules and
using it. Just like that, you can reduce how much
the house beats you for by a factor of five
or six fold, which is amazing. And you run something
like card counters take it even further. You adjust your
play based on the cards that are left into the deck.
This will allow you to make spart mort decisions and
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bet bigger when the odds are actually in your favor.
So you got the basic strategy. Card counters use it,
and then when conditions change, composition of the deck changes,
and things like that, they start deviating from basic strategy
by keeping count of the cards, knowing what the composition
of the remaining of the deck is they modify the
basic strategy when the count says that they should. Sometimes
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they'll stand on hands that you'll normally hit. Sometimes they'll
split tens, which you really should never do if you're
just a basic strategy person. Sometimes you'll raise your bet
to three times it's normal size, five times, nine times,
just all these crazy kind of things that you can
do when you deviate from basic strategy. And then on
top of that, this happens. Sometimes you may happen to
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be at a table where there's a bad dealer who
will accidentally flash their down cards. You get to see
both of the dealer's cards. If you can see both
of the dealer's cards, you should just throw basic strategy
out the window, just completely ignore it, because you know
exactly what they have. Let's say that you know the
dealer has twenty seen that they have a Queen down
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because they flashed it to you, and they have a
king up. Well, basic strategy would say, if you have seventeen,
you should stand. Do you really think that that's a
smart move When you have seventeen that you should stand.
Let's say you have eighteen, should you really stand? If
you one hundred percent know that the dealer has twenty no,
because you're gonna lose one hundred percent of the time.
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Now when you hit eighteen, you're still gonna win close
to one hundred percent of the time. You're gonna lose,
but it's not gonna be one hundred percent, and so
this improves your strategy. So this may come a surprise
to you. But poker has its own version of basic strategy,
just like blackjack, it has a basic strategy and it's
called pre flop ranges pre flop charts. These charts or
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ranges tell you which hands to play and how to
play them, and it's based on what position you're sitting
in at the table. Now, unlike blackjack, where basic strategy,
if you memorize it, you're still going to be a disadvantage,
but it'll reduce the disadvantage you're at. If you memorize
poker's basic strategy. A lot of times this will turn
a player that's a losing player into a break or
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break even or slightly winning player immediately, just like that
snap of the fingers. It's very very powerful. Why does
this matter? Why do preflight charts matter? Well, thing of
charts like a GPS, you know, guiding you what to do,
giving you step by step instructions so you don't have
to think about it all that much. Which hands you
should open or raise from when you're under the gun
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or when you're a middle position, or when you're in
the cutoff, When to fold, when to call, when to raise,
and all these things based off the positions you're in,
when the three bat, when to four bat, all this
type stuff. If you stick to these charts, you're going
to avoid trying to wing it. Winging it is when
things are very subjective and you don't know what you're
doing or have her clue, and you're just going to
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try to wing it and do the best you can,
which is not going to work out very well for you.
You'll learn that you shouldn't be playing a lot of
week handsome early position. You'll learn that weaker hands you
can be played from later positions and played quite aggressively.
I mean, just learning this alone will just hugely transform
your transform your game, and you really can move from
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a losing player to a break even or slightly winning
player very quickly. Now, let's put all this in perspective.
How do we how do we plan around this? How
do we build a plan for this. How do we
turn this into something that can be useful? What's actionable?
What's an actionable step for this? So you'll pardon me
if I use another analogy, right, but I'm gonna use
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a cooking analogy. If you're not a fan of cooking,
I'm sorry. You're probably a fan of eating. So that's close, right,
Eating is cooking adjacent. So hanging there with me, poker basics, right,
how to build your game up just like a pro,
even if you're brand new, even if you're just starting out.
This little this little synopsis and little guideline and little
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tips I'm gonna give you here. We'll do it for you.
So we're gonna start thinking of it as cooking. So
imagine you're a cook, right, you try trying to learn
how to cook. You want to cook good food and stuff.
You're gonna the very first thing you need to do
is just learn the recipe. What is the recipe to
make banana bread? What are the ingredients? Like, that's number one.
This is basic strategy for cooking. Basic strategy for cooking.
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The bare minimum is you should know what ingredients go
into this recipe and what quantities teaspoon of this, grams
of this, tablespoon of this, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So what's the recipe for poker? You got to learn it.
It's pre flop charts, pre frop ranges. This is your
basic strategy for poker, just like a recipe is your
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basic strategy for cooking. It's gonna tell you what hands
to play. It's gonna tell you, you know, should I
raise ace king from this position? Should I raise ace
ten from this position? Should I raise pocket eights from
this position? Or should I call it pocket eights. I
can't express to you how important it is that you
get a hold of some really good pre flop ranges
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that are designed for the game you're playing, live games
or online games, either one. We'll talk a little bit
more about that at the end. And why does this work?
Why does this work most players? This is why most
players just hemorrhage money like it's nobody's business. They just
play too many hands pre flop. They play too many
and they don't know which ones to play or how
to play them. Just by memorizing a good, solid pre
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flop chart, you're going to stop the bleeding from all
these chips that you're just bleeding with junk hands, and
you're gonna make a lot of few of these stakes
where you just look back and go, what was I doing?
What was I thinking? You just fix all that instantly.
So just general rules, you want to start with tighter ranges,
playing fewer hands, and as you get more comfortable with
doing this, which will be hard by the way, you'll
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be bored, you'll want to play. You won't to understand
why you're folding his hand or that hand, but stick
with it. It's like training wheels. Playing really tight, it's
going to help you learn to play tighter. Now, if
you memberize actual ranges, you'll know exactly what hands to play.
But even if you don't have access to good live ranges,
you don't even know anything about it, and you want
to play poker today, Like I don't have time to
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memorize ranges today. I'm going to play poker in two hours. Well,
just play tight, just tighten it up, just tighten it up.
Play you know, really good payers, play really big cards.
Good payers and big cards. I mean, that's a good
place to start. But if you go with some pre
flop ranges, you'll find out what's to be playing from
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each each position. You can find these charts online. There's
many places or free resources. If you just go Google
search a poker pre flop ranges, you'll find just you'll
find hundreds of sources for them. So here's what I
would tell you. Try to find ones that are for
the game you play. If you play live, live, low
stakes and an actual casino, poker room, whatever. Try to
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find pre flop charts that are for live games, not
online games. And for heaven's sake, don't find gto charts.
Just don't use those. They're just no, you don't need them.
Side note, and we'll talk about this about the end
of the video. I do have hand raises that I
custom designed for my years of playing live. These are
a proprietary and we try to keep them that way
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so you can get access to them if you want
to join our patroon, but we'll talk about that at
the end. But you don't have to. There's tons of
free resource out there. You can start with any range.
You know. I take it back, if you can only
find one range, use it, even if it doesn't say
specifically for live programs. If you use any range, it'll
be better than you winging. I promise you. Now, once
you get all that down, you can start to adjust things.
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If we go back to our cooking analogy, this would
be like adjusting to the kitchen you're in. Some kitchens
are big and have better ovens, and some have those
big fancy mixers, and some of them don't have big
fancy mixers, and some of them had these, you know,
machines that need the dough for the bread, and some don't. Right,
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poker isn't in a a vacuum. You will make adjustments
base on the situation you find yourself in. So few examples.
If everybody at your table is just folding way too much,
you get to play a few more hands because they're
just gonna fold to you a ton. If your table
is really aggressive and they're doing a lot of three
betting and four betting, will you need to open a
lot tighter because you're just gonna get raised a lot
more so? Do you want to get raised when you
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have a junkie hand? Do you want to get raised
a lot when you have a medium strength hand? No,
you don't. Uh. If you find out somebody's a calling station,
just don't be bluffing them, just don'tly value bet them.
This is a wild variation. If you take bluffs one
hundred percent out of what you're doing, that's a huge deviation,
but it's an appropriate one. So you're just adjusting what's
going on. So look, the best players that play poker,
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they're not robots. You're going to be tweaking your basic strategies.
You like a chef adjust the seasoning in their recipe
to their taste. Chefs will throw in an odd ingredient
that may not be in a standard basic recipe because
they have this inspiration, they know what's going on. They're
trying to achieve a specific uh you know, outcome or
goal based on their creativity, their knowledge, their deviations. Like,
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it's kind of the same kind of thing. And then
if if I may one more time, use another chef
analogy master knife skills. Knife skills can have drastic effects.
You can slice the end of your thumb off if
you don't know how to chop up onions correctly. If
you don't have good form of your knife, you don't
how to use your knife correctly. And poker knife skills
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is again to three betting and four betting. This is
where things and stakes rise. Right, just like when you
got a knife in your hand, the stakes have been
elevated because injury and death is possible. Three betting and
four betting mistakes, the cost everything rises. Benefits rise as well.
This is where plots get bigger, where mistakes get more costly.
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But if you're really good at this, you just get
to slice and dice your opponent stacks up almost at will,
and just greatly improve your profits and bottom line. Now,
if you don't know what a three better or four
bet it is, if you're one of the newbies, and
I promised that this would be newbie friendly, the three
bet is when somebody has raised and then you put
in another raise. So one person at the table has
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raised and you raise over them. Afore bet is the
next progression. Right, So somebody's raised, another person has raised them.
That's a three bet, and now you now raised the
person who three bet. That is a four bet. Why
does all this matter? Why does this matter? It matters
what you three bet with, It matters who the people
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are in the game are with It matters. There are
you in a game where you should have occasional three
bet bluffs, or you in a game where you probably
should just never have three bet bluffs because they're not necessary.
You just print money to look simple basic strategy rules.
Simple basic strategy rules. Start with a basic three bet range.
If you want to be like, well what do I
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do for three betting? It's just ten percent of hands.
You can go download a program like poker Cruncher, the
programs like Flopzilla. There's all kinds of pieces of software
who have the the range charts in them, and you
can do a little slider and it'll just show you
ten percent of hands. You can also just start in
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the top left corner and just start ticking off the
biggest and best hands until it gets to ten percent.
Ten percent is a nice, effective, tight three bet range.
If you don't know anything about your table, you don't
know that much about poker, and you're like, I know
I should be three betting some because I know that
poke good player players do it, but I don't know.
Just start with a ten percent range. Go memorize what
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a ten percent range is, and just three bet with that. Now,
as you get better, you start understanding opponents more, you
start understanding opponent tendency is more, you can alter that
three bet range, you can go a little bit wider.
And then the thing nobody likes is study. Study like
a scientists, study like your life depends on it. Poker
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really does reward homework and people willing to do it.
It does study and drill this preflop charts. Like I mentioned,
there's apps out there for this. You can find pre
flop flash cards, you can make your own flash cards,
you can find pre flop drills, you can find prefloped trainers.
There's just a lot of things you can do. I'll
actually recommend one to you. It's a bit pricey and
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it's a little bit too tight, but if you're a
newbie and a losing player, going too tight is good
for you. It will turn you into a break even
a winning player, almost immediately. But it's called pre Flop
Wizard and it's in most app stores. It's a bit pricey,
but it's pretty good, and it makes it really easy
to drill. And you can tell you you can tell
it how much you want to drill every day, five minutes,
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twenty minutes, thirty minutes, you can tell it you want
to drill cash games. You can tell it to remind
you and it'll literally remind you, hey, aspiring poker players
time to do a drill today. So I do recommend it,
although it is just a tad pricey, but just go
check it out. You should also be reviewing hands. If
you aren't taking notes on hands and sessions, you need
to start trying to do that. It's a little bit
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of advanced, but it's never too early to start learning.
Start paying attention to your opponents. Find out what their
leaks are. Leaks are things that they're doing poorly. If
you can find out things are doing poorly, you get
to exploit it. And just think of it like weightlifting, right. Weightlifters,
they're in there consistent, they're hitting you know, arms on
Monday and legs on Tuesday, and you know it's just
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got this thing. They rotate it out and they do
it every day. The same thing with poker, man. Just
get in there and do it every day. Give even
if you just do ten to fifteen minutes every day,
do it. So what have we learned? Right? How hopefully
what we've learned start out by losing the basics right,
learn poker's basics strategy or I guess if you're wanting
to go to the scene and play blackjack sometimes for fun.
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Keep in mind it'll just be for fun because you're
going to lose unless you get lucky. Learn basic strategy.
This is the first step to stop losing. Start learning
to adapt to your opponents. This is how you improve
your win rader. Move into the wind category after you
learn basic strategy, and then practice because your opponents aren't practicing,
they aren't studying, they aren't memorizing squat. So the more
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you practice, the more you study, the more you're going
to consistently start to crush them. So I got homework
for you. You're on actual tips. I got homework for you.
So find you some good preflock brains charts, preferably those
for live games, because I'm assuming that's what you're wanting
to play, because you found me, and that's what I
talk about the most. That's what we teach here is
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how to crush live in an actual casino or an
actual live home game, that kind of poker, not the
sell on line stuff. So you find you some pre
flop charts for a live poker and just start out
tonight with ten or fifteen or twenty or thirty minutes
devoted to memorizing one position, and I highly recommend you
make that under the gun because under the gun is
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the most costly. Under the gun is the hardest position
to play because you're out of position to everybody for
the rest of the hand. Unless small blind or big
mine come in, you'll have some position on them. Basically,
just be out of position to everybody. So this is
where you're going to cost yourself the most money with mistakes.
So start there with the under the gun range and
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memorize it. Memorize this opening range for under the gun.
Now take as many nights as you need. You start tonight,
but it may take you two nights. It may take
you five nights, it may take you fifteen nights, it
may take you twenty nights. I don't know how many
nights it'll take you. But just stick with that one position,
that under the gun position, and memorize that range and
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get it down pad until you know it. When it's
on you and you're not under the gun, you should
instantly look at your hand and go nope, don't play
this here. That should be it. Just look down at
your hand and go nope, this is in my under
the gun range. Unfold it and once you memorize that
under the gun range. Then you add another one on
to it, under the gun one, the next most important range,
the next range where it's hardest to win, the next
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range where it's hardest to navigate, and memorize that under
the gun one range. And you do this wash Rents repeat,
wash Rents repeat. This is how you learn basic strategy
of poker. This is how you lay a solid foundation,
solid groundwork. I'm going to share some insight with you.
As a person who has a quote unquote training site
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and who works with people and coaches them one on one.
I'm also a person who gets sent tens of tens
of tens of hand histories every month on social media
for people want me to look at them. I'm a
man who reviews hand histories in our private discord is
a part of our private training and coaching, and I
look at them every day. And I can tell you
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with one certainty that if you don't have the very
first thing you do, downpack everything after it becomes harder.
I can't tell you how many times people were on
the turn and then an impossibly hard decision to make
and I didn't know what I should do here, and
I'm lost, and I'm confused and did I do it right?
Did I do it wrong? And I can't tell you
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what a high percentage of time is. If we would
just went back to pre flop and they had just
done pre flop correctly, they would not be having a
problem in the sub passing possibly hard turn spot where
there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars at stake.
Whereas if they would have just made the right preflop
decision where there was only two or five or ten
dollars at steak or twelve dollars at steak, if they
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would have done that part correctly, they would have never
got themselves in this difficult and possible hard position on
the turn where hundreds and hundreds of dollars are at stake.
It's like building foundation to a house. I don't care
how amazing you are building rafters and trusses and you know,
all this kind of stuff. I don't care how good
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your plan is building studs in the walls and all
this kind of stuff. If you don't have the foundation square,
solid and level, everything that you put on top of
it is going to be complete garbage, basic strategy, guys.
I hope that have inspired you a little bit. I
hope that we've opened your mind of imagination, and I
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hope that we've given you the basics of a game
plan to get starts. If you are a player who's
been playing a while in losing, or you've been trying
to learn and get better, if you're a player that's
been playing ten years and losing, if you've been a
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You're not gonna find me given examples of what happened
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examples of basics, simple actionable information and strategies that you
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in a long time, but hopefully one of the most helpful.
We'll talk to you in the next one.
Hey, here we go with another episode of the Little
of the Cash Games podcast. Glad to have you here.
If you play the lowest stakes, maybe you're wanting to
play the low stakes, Maybe you play in a nice
home game. Maybe you're just looking into getting into poker.
This is another episode that I've kind of tailor made
that'll hit everybody in some kind of a way. Absolute newbie,
want to understand, a good place to start. Someone who's
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been playing a long time and has been losing a
long time, This is an episode for you. This a
little wondering. This is probably a little bit longer episode
one because I've managed to throw in a ton of analogies.
Sometimes I think analogies helped. It helps open up the imagination.
And once we get the imagination open, we can start
cramming useful bits of information in there. We can sneak it,
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sneak it in there and it kind of sticks, and
then we'll have a little bit of discussion about actual
strategy and how to implement it. So if you're looking
for an exact game plan you can use to start
to improve, this is for you. There's the one minute
I want to let you know that I'll have information
for you at the end of this podcast. If you're
somebody that's looking for some one on one coaching, maybe
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you're looking for training materials designed specifically for low stakes.
You know, there's not a lot of it out there,
not a lot of people doing it. Hardly anybody really
teaching you how to crush one, two, one to three,
no limit. They're just not doing it. Trust me. I look,
once twice a week, once twice a month, maybe's more accurate.
I look, I just don't see it. It just doesn't exist,
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But we do it. Details on that on the end
of the podcast. Not going to bore you with it.
Now we're gonna be talking about a poker basic strategy,
a basic strategy for poker. I'm gonna break this concept down,
explain why it's the foundation of becoming a winning poker player.
Let's get into it. What is a basic strategy. You
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may have heard the term basic strategy used in games
like blackjack. There's a basic strategy players memorized to help
some minimize losses. Like in blackjack, for example, if you
just memorizing all of this basic strategy, just memorize it
and follow it, you'll reduce the house's edge against you
from as much as three to six percent, depending on
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how bad you are, just sitting down and winging it
without a clue. Some people are just intuitively a little
bit better than others. But just giving away massive amounts
of edge to the casino, you could reduce it to
maybe as little as one percent or sometimes less depending
on what game you're playing. Now, you can go further
than this basic strategy, right, But basic strategy step one.
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Just memorize this basic strategies chart. I'll talk a little
bit about my own life. So way back in the
late nineties early two thousands, I was looking for a
way that I could gamble and win money because I
had a roulette problem. I've talked about this in some
private episodes over on my Patreon that members have heard.
I don't talk about it a ton, but I had
a roulette problem. One of my strategies to beat my
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roulette problem was to try to find a game I
can beat. And I got into Blackshack and I learned
how little that else edge was, and I learned about
this thing called card counting. But the very first thing
I did was memorized basic strategy. I just memorized it,
and it took a while, but I memorized it in
all these years later. You know, twenty years later, twenty
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five years later, I still go to the casino, and
I still sit down and play blackjack, and I still
know what the basic strategy is. I haven't memorized. So
that's step one. Step two. You can actually go from
the house not beating you for so much to flipping
the tables, turn it around on them and start beating
them if you know how to account cards. So basic
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strategy is memoring this, memorizing the set of rules and
using it. Just like that, you can reduce how much
the house beats you for by a factor of five
or six fold, which is amazing. And you run something
like card counters take it even further. You adjust your
play based on the cards that are left into the deck.
This will allow you to make spart mort decisions and
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bet bigger when the odds are actually in your favor.
So you got the basic strategy. Card counters use it,
and then when conditions change, composition of the deck changes,
and things like that, they start deviating from basic strategy
by keeping count of the cards, knowing what the composition
of the remaining of the deck is they modify the
basic strategy when the count says that they should. Sometimes
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they'll stand on hands that you'll normally hit. Sometimes they'll
split tens, which you really should never do if you're
just a basic strategy person. Sometimes you'll raise your bet
to three times it's normal size, five times, nine times,
just all these crazy kind of things that you can
do when you deviate from basic strategy. And then on
top of that, this happens. Sometimes you may happen to
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be at a table where there's a bad dealer who
will accidentally flash their down cards. You get to see
both of the dealer's cards. If you can see both
of the dealer's cards, you should just throw basic strategy
out the window, just completely ignore it, because you know
exactly what they have. Let's say that you know the
dealer has twenty seen that they have a Queen down
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because they flashed it to you, and they have a
king up. Well, basic strategy would say, if you have seventeen,
you should stand. Do you really think that that's a
smart move When you have seventeen that you should stand.
Let's say you have eighteen, should you really stand? If
you one hundred percent know that the dealer has twenty no,
because you're gonna lose one hundred percent of the time.
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Now when you hit eighteen, you're still gonna win close
to one hundred percent of the time. You're gonna lose,
but it's not gonna be one hundred percent, and so
this improves your strategy. So this may come a surprise
to you. But poker has its own version of basic strategy,
just like blackjack, it has a basic strategy and it's
called pre flop ranges pre flop charts. These charts or
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ranges tell you which hands to play and how to
play them, and it's based on what position you're sitting
in at the table. Now, unlike blackjack, where basic strategy,
if you memorize it, you're still going to be a disadvantage,
but it'll reduce the disadvantage you're at. If you memorize
poker's basic strategy. A lot of times this will turn
a player that's a losing player into a break or
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break even or slightly winning player immediately, just like that
snap of the fingers. It's very very powerful. Why does
this matter? Why do preflight charts matter? Well, thing of
charts like a GPS, you know, guiding you what to do,
giving you step by step instructions so you don't have
to think about it all that much. Which hands you
should open or raise from when you're under the gun
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or when you're a middle position, or when you're in
the cutoff, When to fold, when to call, when to raise,
and all these things based off the positions you're in,
when the three bat, when to four bat, all this
type stuff. If you stick to these charts, you're going
to avoid trying to wing it. Winging it is when
things are very subjective and you don't know what you're
doing or have her clue, and you're just going to
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try to wing it and do the best you can,
which is not going to work out very well for you.
You'll learn that you shouldn't be playing a lot of
week handsome early position. You'll learn that weaker hands you
can be played from later positions and played quite aggressively.
I mean, just learning this alone will just hugely transform
your transform your game, and you really can move from
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a losing player to a break even or slightly winning
player very quickly. Now, let's put all this in perspective.
How do we how do we plan around this? How
do we build a plan for this. How do we
turn this into something that can be useful? What's actionable?
What's an actionable step for this? So you'll pardon me
if I use another analogy, right, but I'm gonna use
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a cooking analogy. If you're not a fan of cooking,
I'm sorry. You're probably a fan of eating. So that's close, right,
Eating is cooking adjacent. So hanging there with me, poker basics, right,
how to build your game up just like a pro,
even if you're brand new, even if you're just starting out.
This little this little synopsis and little guideline and little
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tips I'm gonna give you here. We'll do it for you.
So we're gonna start thinking of it as cooking. So
imagine you're a cook, right, you try trying to learn
how to cook. You want to cook good food and stuff.
You're gonna the very first thing you need to do
is just learn the recipe. What is the recipe to
make banana bread? What are the ingredients? Like, that's number one.
This is basic strategy for cooking. Basic strategy for cooking.
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The bare minimum is you should know what ingredients go
into this recipe and what quantities teaspoon of this, grams
of this, tablespoon of this, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
So what's the recipe for poker? You got to learn it.
It's pre flop charts, pre frop ranges. This is your
basic strategy for poker, just like a recipe is your
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basic strategy for cooking. It's gonna tell you what hands
to play. It's gonna tell you, you know, should I
raise ace king from this position? Should I raise ace
ten from this position? Should I raise pocket eights from
this position? Or should I call it pocket eights. I
can't express to you how important it is that you
get a hold of some really good pre flop ranges
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that are designed for the game you're playing, live games
or online games, either one. We'll talk a little bit
more about that at the end. And why does this work?
Why does this work most players? This is why most
players just hemorrhage money like it's nobody's business. They just
play too many hands pre flop. They play too many
and they don't know which ones to play or how
to play them. Just by memorizing a good, solid pre
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flop chart, you're going to stop the bleeding from all
these chips that you're just bleeding with junk hands, and
you're gonna make a lot of few of these stakes
where you just look back and go, what was I doing?
What was I thinking? You just fix all that instantly.
So just general rules, you want to start with tighter ranges,
playing fewer hands, and as you get more comfortable with
doing this, which will be hard by the way, you'll
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be bored, you'll want to play. You won't to understand
why you're folding his hand or that hand, but stick
with it. It's like training wheels. Playing really tight, it's
going to help you learn to play tighter. Now, if
you memberize actual ranges, you'll know exactly what hands to play.
But even if you don't have access to good live ranges,
you don't even know anything about it, and you want
to play poker today, Like I don't have time to
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memorize ranges today. I'm going to play poker in two hours. Well,
just play tight, just tighten it up, just tighten it up.
Play you know, really good payers, play really big cards.
Good payers and big cards. I mean, that's a good
place to start. But if you go with some pre
flop ranges, you'll find out what's to be playing from
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each each position. You can find these charts online. There's
many places or free resources. If you just go Google
search a poker pre flop ranges, you'll find just you'll
find hundreds of sources for them. So here's what I
would tell you. Try to find ones that are for
the game you play. If you play live, live, low
stakes and an actual casino, poker room, whatever. Try to
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find pre flop charts that are for live games, not
online games. And for heaven's sake, don't find gto charts.
Just don't use those. They're just no, you don't need them.
Side note, and we'll talk about this about the end
of the video. I do have hand raises that I
custom designed for my years of playing live. These are
a proprietary and we try to keep them that way
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so you can get access to them if you want
to join our patroon, but we'll talk about that at
the end. But you don't have to. There's tons of
free resource out there. You can start with any range.
You know. I take it back, if you can only
find one range, use it, even if it doesn't say
specifically for live programs. If you use any range, it'll
be better than you winging. I promise you. Now, once
you get all that down, you can start to adjust things.
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If we go back to our cooking analogy, this would
be like adjusting to the kitchen you're in. Some kitchens
are big and have better ovens, and some have those
big fancy mixers, and some of them don't have big
fancy mixers, and some of them had these, you know,
machines that need the dough for the bread, and some don't. Right,
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poker isn't in a a vacuum. You will make adjustments
base on the situation you find yourself in. So few examples.
If everybody at your table is just folding way too much,
you get to play a few more hands because they're
just gonna fold to you a ton. If your table
is really aggressive and they're doing a lot of three
betting and four betting, will you need to open a
lot tighter because you're just gonna get raised a lot
more so? Do you want to get raised when you
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have a junkie hand? Do you want to get raised
a lot when you have a medium strength hand? No,
you don't. Uh. If you find out somebody's a calling station,
just don't be bluffing them, just don'tly value bet them.
This is a wild variation. If you take bluffs one
hundred percent out of what you're doing, that's a huge deviation,
but it's an appropriate one. So you're just adjusting what's
going on. So look, the best players that play poker,
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they're not robots. You're going to be tweaking your basic strategies.
You like a chef adjust the seasoning in their recipe
to their taste. Chefs will throw in an odd ingredient
that may not be in a standard basic recipe because
they have this inspiration, they know what's going on. They're
trying to achieve a specific uh you know, outcome or
goal based on their creativity, their knowledge, their deviations. Like,
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it's kind of the same kind of thing. And then
if if I may one more time, use another chef
analogy master knife skills. Knife skills can have drastic effects.
You can slice the end of your thumb off if
you don't know how to chop up onions correctly. If
you don't have good form of your knife, you don't
how to use your knife correctly. And poker knife skills
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is again to three betting and four betting. This is
where things and stakes rise. Right, just like when you
got a knife in your hand, the stakes have been
elevated because injury and death is possible. Three betting and
four betting mistakes, the cost everything rises. Benefits rise as well.
This is where plots get bigger, where mistakes get more costly.
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But if you're really good at this, you just get
to slice and dice your opponent stacks up almost at will,
and just greatly improve your profits and bottom line. Now,
if you don't know what a three better or four
bet it is, if you're one of the newbies, and
I promised that this would be newbie friendly, the three
bet is when somebody has raised and then you put
in another raise. So one person at the table has
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raised and you raise over them. Afore bet is the
next progression. Right, So somebody's raised, another person has raised them.
That's a three bet, and now you now raised the
person who three bet. That is a four bet. Why
does all this matter? Why does this matter? It matters
what you three bet with, It matters who the people
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are in the game are with It matters. There are
you in a game where you should have occasional three
bet bluffs, or you in a game where you probably
should just never have three bet bluffs because they're not necessary.
You just print money to look simple basic strategy rules.
Simple basic strategy rules. Start with a basic three bet range.
If you want to be like, well what do I
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do for three betting? It's just ten percent of hands.
You can go download a program like poker Cruncher, the
programs like Flopzilla. There's all kinds of pieces of software
who have the the range charts in them, and you
can do a little slider and it'll just show you
ten percent of hands. You can also just start in
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the top left corner and just start ticking off the
biggest and best hands until it gets to ten percent.
Ten percent is a nice, effective, tight three bet range.
If you don't know anything about your table, you don't
know that much about poker, and you're like, I know
I should be three betting some because I know that
poke good player players do it, but I don't know.
Just start with a ten percent range. Go memorize what
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a ten percent range is, and just three bet with that. Now,
as you get better, you start understanding opponents more, you
start understanding opponent tendency is more, you can alter that
three bet range, you can go a little bit wider.
And then the thing nobody likes is study. Study like
a scientists, study like your life depends on it. Poker
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really does reward homework and people willing to do it.
It does study and drill this preflop charts. Like I mentioned,
there's apps out there for this. You can find pre
flop flash cards, you can make your own flash cards,
you can find pre flop drills, you can find prefloped trainers.
There's just a lot of things you can do. I'll
actually recommend one to you. It's a bit pricey and
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it's a little bit too tight, but if you're a
newbie and a losing player, going too tight is good
for you. It will turn you into a break even
a winning player, almost immediately. But it's called pre Flop
Wizard and it's in most app stores. It's a bit pricey,
but it's pretty good, and it makes it really easy
to drill. And you can tell you you can tell
it how much you want to drill every day, five minutes,
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twenty minutes, thirty minutes, you can tell it you want
to drill cash games. You can tell it to remind
you and it'll literally remind you, hey, aspiring poker players
time to do a drill today. So I do recommend it,
although it is just a tad pricey, but just go
check it out. You should also be reviewing hands. If
you aren't taking notes on hands and sessions, you need
to start trying to do that. It's a little bit
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of advanced, but it's never too early to start learning.
Start paying attention to your opponents. Find out what their
leaks are. Leaks are things that they're doing poorly. If
you can find out things are doing poorly, you get
to exploit it. And just think of it like weightlifting, right. Weightlifters,
they're in there consistent, they're hitting you know, arms on
Monday and legs on Tuesday, and you know it's just
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got this thing. They rotate it out and they do
it every day. The same thing with poker, man. Just
get in there and do it every day. Give even
if you just do ten to fifteen minutes every day,
do it. So what have we learned? Right? How hopefully
what we've learned start out by losing the basics right,
learn poker's basics strategy or I guess if you're wanting
to go to the scene and play blackjack sometimes for fun.
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Keep in mind it'll just be for fun because you're
going to lose unless you get lucky. Learn basic strategy.
This is the first step to stop losing. Start learning
to adapt to your opponents. This is how you improve
your win rader. Move into the wind category after you
learn basic strategy, and then practice because your opponents aren't practicing,
they aren't studying, they aren't memorizing squat. So the more
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you practice, the more you study, the more you're going
to consistently start to crush them. So I got homework
for you. You're on actual tips. I got homework for you.
So find you some good preflock brains charts, preferably those
for live games, because I'm assuming that's what you're wanting
to play, because you found me, and that's what I
talk about the most. That's what we teach here is
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how to crush live in an actual casino or an
actual live home game, that kind of poker, not the
sell on line stuff. So you find you some pre
flop charts for a live poker and just start out
tonight with ten or fifteen or twenty or thirty minutes
devoted to memorizing one position, and I highly recommend you
make that under the gun because under the gun is
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the most costly. Under the gun is the hardest position
to play because you're out of position to everybody for
the rest of the hand. Unless small blind or big
mine come in, you'll have some position on them. Basically,
just be out of position to everybody. So this is
where you're going to cost yourself the most money with mistakes.
So start there with the under the gun range and
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memorize it. Memorize this opening range for under the gun.
Now take as many nights as you need. You start tonight,
but it may take you two nights. It may take
you five nights, it may take you fifteen nights, it
may take you twenty nights. I don't know how many
nights it'll take you. But just stick with that one position,
that under the gun position, and memorize that range and
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get it down pad until you know it. When it's
on you and you're not under the gun, you should
instantly look at your hand and go nope, don't play
this here. That should be it. Just look down at
your hand and go nope, this is in my under
the gun range. Unfold it and once you memorize that
under the gun range. Then you add another one on
to it, under the gun one, the next most important range,
the next range where it's hardest to win, the next
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range where it's hardest to navigate, and memorize that under
the gun one range. And you do this wash Rents repeat,
wash Rents repeat. This is how you learn basic strategy
of poker. This is how you lay a solid foundation,
solid groundwork. I'm going to share some insight with you.
As a person who has a quote unquote training site
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and who works with people and coaches them one on one.
I'm also a person who gets sent tens of tens
of tens of hand histories every month on social media
for people want me to look at them. I'm a
man who reviews hand histories in our private discord is
a part of our private training and coaching, and I
look at them every day. And I can tell you
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with one certainty that if you don't have the very
first thing you do, downpack everything after it becomes harder.
I can't tell you how many times people were on
the turn and then an impossibly hard decision to make
and I didn't know what I should do here, and
I'm lost, and I'm confused and did I do it right?
Did I do it wrong? And I can't tell you
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what a high percentage of time is. If we would
just went back to pre flop and they had just
done pre flop correctly, they would not be having a
problem in the sub passing possibly hard turn spot where
there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars at stake.
Whereas if they would have just made the right preflop
decision where there was only two or five or ten
dollars at steak or twelve dollars at steak, if they
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would have done that part correctly, they would have never
got themselves in this difficult and possible hard position on
the turn where hundreds and hundreds of dollars are at stake.
It's like building foundation to a house. I don't care
how amazing you are building rafters and trusses and you know,
all this kind of stuff. I don't care how good
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your plan is building studs in the walls and all
this kind of stuff. If you don't have the foundation square,
solid and level, everything that you put on top of
it is going to be complete garbage, basic strategy, guys.
I hope that have inspired you a little bit. I
hope that we've opened your mind of imagination, and I
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hope that we've given you the basics of a game
plan to get starts. If you are a player who's
been playing a while in losing, or you've been trying
to learn and get better, if you're a player that's
been playing ten years and losing, if you've been a
player that's been playing fifty years and losing in live
environments at a local card room or casino or home game,
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I specifically create content for you. There's no content in
there about beaten five to ten, no limit. There's no
content in there about beating twenty five to fifty, no limit.
You're not gonna find me given examples of what happened
in this one hundred two hundred game. You're gonna find
examples of basics, simple actionable information and strategies that you
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take straight to your card room, straight to your home game,
and do better than the other people there. And it's
the most affordable. I've made it intentionally affordable for two reasons. One,
this isn't my job, and I don't want it to
be a job. Because it's fun and I love it
and it keeps my passion for poker at all time highs.
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I'm playing more poker than I've ever played in my
life because I'm so passionate about it, because I'm always
involved in it with people helping them learning. I love
light bulb moments. I love when somebody's light bulb flicks
and they go, oh my god, I understand this, that
I get it now, and their poker game changes. That
has been one of those rewarding things for me. So
it's a four to it's twenty five bucks. That's what
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that's the cost of entry, twenty five bucks. I know
people who will go to a casino on a Saturday
night and open rays to twenty five dollars in a
one to two game, but will balk at me because
I give you an entire month's access to me helping
you become a player for just that one green chip.
And if you live in California, it could be any
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weird color chip, because California is bizarre and they have
the strangest colors and I don't know why, but in
most parts of the country, it's a green chip. Uh.
If you want one on one coaching, if you want
to really get down to just crushing the game. If
you want to go from being a person like many
people that I've worked with, many people I've worked with
were just slightly losing or break even like one two players,
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and fast forward later they're moving up to five five
and five five ten and they're just crushing it. One
on one coaching is going to be your path to that,
because I can teach you to beat five five, I
could beat you to beat teach you to beat five
to ten. Now that's not what the twenty five dollars
tier is about. I just try to teach you how
to crush this one, two, one, three new limit games
at your card room. It'll apply to two five Mostly
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there's some rooms for the two five game is really
really tough, but in most areas of the country, the
two to five game isn't that much tougher than the
one three game. So we get you geared up for
this low stakes. That's low stakes, right one two, one
three two five two two two two is the same
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dot Com. And the last thing I would say is
if you enjoy like the stuff that's delivered, you know,
once a month. And if you go back to the
old seasons like season one, season two, season three, et cetera,
where we were delivering content every Sunday and it was
really good stuff, and you're like, I miss that. You
just do stuff once a month. Now I miss that.
You can get that. You just be a fan of
the pod and give me five bucks one red chip.
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That's what I give the waitress when she brings me
a bottled water, I give her a red chip. It's
a nothing burger. Five dollars for a month of education
and insight and learning and actual advice on how to crush.
That's fans of the pod. Fans of the pod. Not
only that, there's none of this fluff. There's no ads,
there's no breaks, there's no any of this stuff in it.
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It just jumps straight into it. We get straight to
the concept, we explain it, we give actuabal advice, and
we're out. I'd say most episodes are ten to twelve
minutes at most. Sometimes they run fifteen minutes. Rarely will
they be twenty minutes. Usually it's somewhere around ten to
fifteen or less. It's bite sized stuff. That you just
can just use to just crush and just get better
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at aspects. It's five bucks to be a fan of
the pot. So all these options are available at lowlanmit
cash games dot Com. I haven't really gone on a
tangent about that and really wanted a deep dive because again,
it's not a business. I don't care if I have
ten people over there or ten thousand. I don't well,
ten thousand would I be a bit of a chore,
But I'm not. In other words, I'm not trying to
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build a business over there. Most of these poker coaches
that's their livelihood, that's how they make their money. I
don't make my money from Patreon. I don't make my
money from this. I like to be compensated for my time.
What I do has value. But you know, I'm retired.
I sold my business way back in twenty seventeen. It
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was a long time ago. I ain't hit a lick
at a stick, as my grandma used would say, since
twenty seventeen because I don't have to. But I love
doing this. I love to make it affordable and I
would love to have you over there. Lowlanmit cash games
dot Com will get you there, lowlanmit cash Games. We'll
get you there, and if for some reason the forwarding
or something doesn't quite work, you can just go to
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Patreon and search for low limit cash games and you'll
find it. Thank you for being here. I hope that
this was helpful. Maybe the longest pod and I've done
in a long time, but hopefully one of the most helpful.
We'll talk to you in the next one.
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