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the pot. Today I'm talking about two ways to win well.
One of them is more enticing the other one, but
only one of them will win. Like really when I
was inspired by this by a session that I had
this past Friday night. So I'm playing in my local homeroom,
not traveling this particular time.
Speaker 2: So I'm playing in my local room.
Speaker 3: And I go in to be seated, and they coincidentally
seek me.
Speaker 1: At a table where there's a pretty wish fishy PUALI well,
it's probably not the right word fishy loose, you know,
not the most technically sound player, fun player in our area,
and you know, always enjoy being at a table with
this person because there's gonna be lots of plots played.
It's gonna be some big pots. This person goes in
quite an often amount. So even better than that, the
seat that's open is to the left of this player,
so I have position on this player. So it's going
to probably more often than not, be a good night.
Speaker 2: So I get to three bet this person a lot.
Speaker 1: In position late, which is one of the things you
should be doing. I don't want to get too deep
into the strategy part of it, because I mean I could,
but I do talk a lot of strategy. I want
to more talk about the concepts in one of the
big pitfalls of poker, because I think if you understand this,
not just understand it, I mean really understand it, late,
really grasp this deep into your soul, let it permeate
every sale of your being.
Speaker 2: It will make you a better poker player.
Speaker 1: For three and a half or four hours, I played
at this table with this person, and I could not
beat this person. Now, this person will buy in short,
they'll buy in a one to two game. They'll buy
in for one hundred dollars. So unless they go on
a winning streak and run it up, they'll usually just
have a round one hundred dollars in.
Speaker 2: Front of them.
Speaker 1: And I'll just run through down a few occasions that happened.
So one time I was in like cut off or something,
and they raised I three bet them to play them
heads up with pocket queens. So they'd raised to like
fifteen or something. I made it fifty, which was about
half their stack. But this is a standard raise for me,
Like I'm not gonna raise tiny just because their stack
is one hundred. First of all, this person doesn't care,
like they're just gonna call half their stack off of
whatever hands they want to play it doesn't really matter.
Speaker 3: And you know, I don't care if I.
Speaker 1: Just play them heads up and try to win one
hundred dollars stack, that's fine with me, sure enough.
Speaker 2: They're the only ones that call.
Speaker 1: And in this particular hand, I had quaint pocket queens.
The flop came like ten six four I think ten
six four, ten seven four or something like that.
Speaker 2: They checked.
Speaker 1: I put them all in. You know, the POD's like
one hundred dollars. They got like fifty left, you know,
so approximately something like that. They had like forty fifty
sixty left, something like that.
Speaker 2: So I just say all in.
Speaker 1: They call, and they fought to set a fours on me.
Very frustrating. This player put half their stack in with
pocket force. Half their stack they.
Speaker 2: Put in with pocket force.
Speaker 1: So I'm not going to detail every single hand like
that that happened, but just know that four different times
on this particular night, four different times they raised and
I three bet them in position with a payer higher
than theirs. Every single time my raise was approximately one
half their stack. They called off one half their stack
with a baby pair, and they hit a set and
they doubled through me. Now it should be not shl
It should not be lost on you that they always
had a short stack when I raised them.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 1: That means to all this money they're winning off me,
they're just losing and giving it away, right because they're
playing horribly. It's just they're running really good against me,
but they're still playing horribly at losing money. Another particular
hand was the only time I got aces. You know,
you're not entitled to get aces. I don't mean to
say I should have got it many times. I'm just
saying it was.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the best starting hand you can get.
Speaker 3: Same thing.
Speaker 2: They raised a three bet. We had two players call
this time.
Speaker 1: Actually the flop came like jack nine tiny jack nine
three jack nine four or something like that.
Speaker 3: Check check to me.
Speaker 2: I bet about.
Speaker 1: Sixty percent pot, fifty percent pot. I think it was
actually because there's three of us, yet I bet like halfpot.
Speaker 2: The other player folded.
Speaker 3: This player went all in, you know, for just you
know whatever, a little bit more or something whatever, and
I called.
Speaker 2: Ned jack nine.
Speaker 1: Anyways, I didn't beat this player in a single hand
that night, not a single hand. Now, if you were
an uneducated person about poker, and let's say you were setting.
Speaker 2: Watching from on the sidelines, or maybe you were watching
this on a.
Speaker 1: Stream, you would say, boy, that those little pocket pairs
are powerful, man, those those efforts are powerful. Man. Look
they stack aces in Queen, you know they double through races.
I mean it looks that way, But that's highly unprofitable.
Like that player is never going to make a profit
long term calling off half their stacks to three bets
with pocket deuces and pocket fours.
Speaker 2: They don't have nearly the odds to do that.
Speaker 1: They're gonna win one out of a four times, and
they're putting half their stack in the pot.
Speaker 3: The math don't math on that.
Speaker 2: The math don't math. I said one out of four times,
take one out of ten times.
Speaker 3: The math don't math on that. You can't make that work,
like you just long term.
Speaker 2: That will not work. That is a money losing proposition.
Speaker 1: So the reason I decided to make this podcast is
because it's kind of extreme what this player was doing.
But I find that even people that are trying to
be winners and trying hard to win often fall prey
to this mindset on minor levels, playing pseuded connectors where
they just shouldn't be playing them, playing off set connectors,
like ten to nine and jack ten.
Speaker 2: Offsuit and spots where they should just never be playing them.
Speaker 1: Why because one time they hit us straight with a
Jackson offsuit and stacked the eye with aces, and they
still remember that.
Speaker 2: It's very powerful.
Speaker 1: This mental thing is very powerful whereby you you either
see somebody else do a thing like this or you
do it yourself and it make you wind you a
big pot and it becomes indelible in your mind, like
it just just it's just burned and etched in there,
and you just keep repeating these really really bad habits,
like you should never ever put half your stack in
with pocket deuces to a three bet.
Speaker 2: You should never put your half your stack.
Speaker 3: In a pocket deus is like ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I could probably think up sometimes that
would be okay, I'm not gonna try to do that.
But like even in a tournament where you have deuces
and you're looking to play with them, it was probably
a shove scenario, right, you'd probably be down to us
act short enough that you wouldn't want.
Speaker 2: To put half your stack in.
Speaker 1: You just be wanting to shove it because of how
many big blinds you have, So like it's just not
a thing that's good, it's not profitable.
Speaker 2: It's not going to make you money. So you know,
I set all this to.
Speaker 1: Compare these two scenarios, But there's two ways to win
that really are two ways to win it poker, and
I'm going to differentiate between the two. But this experience
I had at the table and these other examples I
give you, I think highlight them very well. The first
way to win at poker is to play a lot
of hands, call a lot of raises, put lots of
your stack in with you know, baby paars and connectors
and stuff.
Speaker 3: And hit hands and just run it up. I mean,
it's you see it.
Speaker 1: You probably see it almost every time you play. There's
somebody that does that. You see it a lot, and
it's like, yeah, man, pseudo connectors are powerful. Yeah man,
those pocket fours are powerful. And on the surface it
looks that way, it really does it. Could you can
make a compelling argument for it. Like I said, if
you were an uneducated person about poker and you were
sitting in a chair watching people play poker and just
watching somebody just kill people with aces and kings and
queens with your deuces and fours and threes and six
or five offsuits. You'd be like, Wow, yeah, that's that
is a powerful way to play poker. They don't know
what you got, they don't see it coming, and you
get on you know.
Speaker 2: So it's one way to win.
Speaker 1: The other way to win is to play an appropriate range.
Don't really do much calling, be aggressive with mostly good hands,
play a ton of position, understand pot odds, understand implied odds,
and play appropriately. Now, this is two different ways you
can win at poker. One of these ways can crush
on any given night or any given week, or it
can even crush for a month. It can for sure
crush on any given night, just as this person I
was telling you about that I played with it can
it can crush on any week. You can go play
two three times in a week and play this way
and just crush that whole week. And you can even
play this way and to kill it for a month,
just slay every time you show up, but just kill, kill, kill.
But only one of these ways will you be a
winner at the end of a year or two years,
of five years, or ten years, and that is to
play the second way an appropriate range. Don't do a
ton of calling, be aggressive, play a lot in position,
play mostly good hands. That's the way to have the
balance sheet be in the positive at the end of
the year or at the end of five years, or
at the end of a decade, or at the end
of your life of poker.
Speaker 3: You get to choose which way you want to win.
Speaker 1: You want to win the exciting way, the wow, I'm
running over the table with all this stuff I'm playing
and just.
Speaker 3: Crushing it and frustrating everybody and running a stack up.
Speaker 1: Because most of the people that good players make good
long term money off of love that feeling.
Speaker 2: They love the hit.
Speaker 3: I hit this, I hit this, I got lucky to
hear bam bam, bam bam, and I ran a big
stack up because it's exciting, it's exhilarating, it's thrilling. So
if you want to be that player, it's fine. There's
nothing wrong with it.
Speaker 1: There's no wrong way to play poker as long as
it suits your goals. Goals there to have fun, direct
people to hit baby pairs, and you know, not have
the correct gods, not have the correct imply to odds.
Speaker 2: You know that is that is a perfectly fine way
to play.
Speaker 1: But if you want to play to win and show
a profit at the end of the year or the
end of the decade or the end of your life.
It's number two. Number two is the way to play.
So when you're one of these sessions, you're frustrated and
you're asking yourself, why should I.
Speaker 2: Play like this?
Speaker 1: Or you start taking too many chances, or you start
doing some of these things yourself, or maybe you played
with this way and hit a big hand like this
and you like always want to play that way.
Speaker 3: Now, just remember that as long as it suits your needs.
Speaker 1: What are your needs, goals and aspirations to play like
this and get lucky and hit and just crush can
run it up one night? Or is your goal, your dreams,
your aspirations to be a profitable poker player year over
year over year over year.
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