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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Low Limit Cash Games podcast, where

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this year, for twenty twenty six, we're gonna break down

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one rule of month that will actually start making you

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money at one, two, and one to three no limit

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hold them. You're not gonna get any theory dumps here,

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no solver worship. This is just simple, actionable rules that

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will help you crush the games that you and I

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play every day. Low stakes, no limit hold them. And

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if you're looking for a poker training site that's affordable

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and it's a true targeted low stakes training site to

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help you crush these games, stick around to the end

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of the episode. I'll have more information about that, but

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let's jump into it onto this month's episode.

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Speaker 2: Today's rule is position is power.

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Speaker 1: This is a little low in fact by a lot

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of people that play poker, but position is more important

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than the cards you hold. So there's several different ways

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of simulating hands as simulating such wastions with hands. Obviously

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we've got solvers. If you know these them correctly, they

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can be very very powerful. A few employe low stakes,

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you're just gonna be deviating a ton from.

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Speaker 2: What solver says is optimal play.

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Speaker 1: So I don't recommend anybody start with Solver Her and

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try to learn not the will play it, but you're

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just gonna be deviating from it constantly, So let's just

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learn the deviations. Then later, if you ever move up,

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you can start to learn other stuff.

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Speaker 2: But you you Solve Her, you can also there's.

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Speaker 1: Some other poker simulation programs. One of them I use

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the link to it is actually in the description or

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information section of this podcast.

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Speaker 2: We want to go click on it.

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Speaker 1: I have a code that'll get you like I think

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twenty five percent off or something if you use it.

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But it's called Advanced Poker Trainer, And you can take

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that piece of software and you can say, just steal

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me pocket Jacks under the Gun, and I just want

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to play pocket Jacks under the gun hand after hand

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after hand, and in about thirty minutes or forty five minutes,

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you know, or an hour or something. I mean, you

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can play two hundred and fifty or three hundred or

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four hundred hands of pocket jacks under the gun, which

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is an amazing resource.

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Speaker 2: That's an amazing tool.

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Speaker 1: And what you'll learn if you do this is that

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it is very, very hard to win with pocket jacks.

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Speaker 2: From under the gun.

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Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking, well, yeah, because jack suck,

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I hate jacks. Man Jacks is a horrible hand. Well,

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try doing it with queens. Try doing it with kings

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and see how easy it is to win. Try doing

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it with ace king and see how.

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Speaker 2: Easy it is to win.

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Speaker 1: And so if you use a program like that and

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you simulate the hands and you start beginning to understand

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pretty quickly, Holy cow, playing from out of position is very,

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very hard. On the other hand, the easiest poker you'll

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ever play is when you're in position, and there's several

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reasons for that.

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Speaker 2: That's why.

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Speaker 1: One of the best things you can understand about poker

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is that position is power.

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Speaker 2: So in position, you're just gonna win bigger pots.

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Speaker 1: You just are why cause you're going to be able

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to see what other people have.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be able to judge how strong they are.

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Speaker 1: When you have value hands, which you will allow you

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to be even bigger than normal. Sometimes you're going to

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be able to make bluffs on scary rivers. Sometimes when

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you figured out approximately what range of hands your opponents had,

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and you know that I don't know diamonds is going

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to scare the shit out. More on the river and

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now we've built this pot and you've arrived at the spot,

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and you just ship it on them their fold and

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you win big pots. Now, look, I'm not encouraging to

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jump in there doing crazy stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: A lot. That is a very, very teeny tiny portion

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of the low stakes game. The low states game is

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mainly making value hands and.

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Speaker 1: Betting the hell out of them, but occasionally things like

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that will happen. When you have the more information you have,

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the more power you have, the more money you can make.

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So in position you win bigger potts. Vice versa, outer

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position you lose bigger pots. The math is undeniable, the

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math is immutable. You can't argue with it, you can't

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debate it. So I would rather have position than cards.

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I'm just gonna want to ton of money in position,

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you know, with seven six suited or ace five suited

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or some kind of a hand like that, and it's

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gonna be relatively easy because I'm gonna have a lot

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of information to guide me what to do. Whereas out

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of position, I'm just not gonna make that much money

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with pocket jack's because I'm not gonna have that much

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information on every street. My opponent's gonna have the advantage.

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I'm gonna have to play very passively a lot of

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the time. I'm gonna have to fold the best hand sometimes,

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and so it's just very, very difficult. So position simplifies decisions,

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and it increases the amount of times you can bluff

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and be successful. And it also increases how much you

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can make when you're value bedding, because you just have

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more clarity about the strength of your opponent's hand. When

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you don't have a ton of clarity about the strengths

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of your opponent's hand, and you have to just go

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with some kind of you know, just guess based on

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your instincts and experience bet size. It may not be

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the best best size, you may think the most you

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can get them to call his half, and you just

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go with the new ere half. Whereas if you were

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in position, it would become abundantly clear to you that

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they have a very strong hand because you've got to

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see perfect information on them on every street, and now

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you can know you just get bet pot and get

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caught a lot of time. See anytime you can do that,

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and you're in a hand where you're getting a bet

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pot on the river versus where you you know, only

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getting a bet paf.

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Speaker 2: Pot on the river.

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Speaker 1: Just I mean that just exponentially plays out over time.

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So how do we adjust to this, how we use

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this information? Well, it means when you're on the button,

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you're gonna be raising more ends.

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Speaker 2: You're gonna be three betting more ends.

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Speaker 1: Whereas you can't get super crazy with jack Tin suited

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under the gun. Let's not saying it's not playable, but

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you just can't get crazy wild with it. I mean

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you can go hand with jack Tin suited on the

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button a lot in the right circumstances, right conditions, right opportunities,

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and so it's just a whole different set of circumstances.

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And then obviously, out of position, you're gonna be defending less.

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So you know, you raise the ace jack off from

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under the gun and you get three bet by the

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I don't know, a hijack, and then the button flats

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and it gets back around to you. I mean, I'm

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just tossing ace jack off there a ton of the

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time playing somebody who's indicated they have a pretty strong range,

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who has position on me along with another player who

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came along.

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Speaker 2: I mean me trying to navigate.

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Speaker 1: Ashjack off out of position is not an appealing thing

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that I want to try to do.

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Speaker 2: Now, a lot of people go, well.

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Speaker 1: You're a knit man, you're getting three bet and you

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got ace jack, you're folding it. Well, I mean me

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and you know different things. Now, I'm not saying I

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always fold it. There's gonna be certain times when the

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three bet size is a certain size and stack depths

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are a certain stack depth, and the opponent is a

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certain opponent, And for sure I continue with it sometimes,

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but I do a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of folding with it. Man, I do a lot

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of folding with it.

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Speaker 1: And it's just it's just once you understand like just

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how bad it is to play with like marginal even

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marginal value hands out of position, and then obviously from

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the blind you should be playing way less, way less

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from the blinds because you're going to be impossibly hard.

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I can't tell you how many times I watch people,

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let's say, like an under the unpersonal raise, a middle

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positional call, a button'll call, and now the small blind

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comes in with like some dumb hand that they just

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shouldn't be in there with like ten eight off suit

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or you know, nine eight off suit They're never going

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to make that hand profitable unless they're at the softest,

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juiciest people are stack off happy you've ever seen. They're

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just not going to make nine eight offsuit profitable in

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that spot. Not only that, probably not nine.

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Speaker 2: Eight suited in that spot. You just should be.

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Speaker 1: Folding a ton there. And so it goes back to what, Well,

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it's your hand. I mean, that's sure, that's a part

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of it, but the main thing is your position. There's

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there's two different kinds of equities, right, so a lot

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of people will grab one of these equity calculators. Like

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one of my favorite tools that's on my iPhone and

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my iPad is called poker cruncher. It's a phenomenal tool.

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I use it quite often. What it gives you is

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like raw equities. It gives you the raw equity.

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Speaker 2: Of your hand.

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Speaker 1: Like if you, you know, plug in your range of

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hands and you plug in your opponent's range of hands

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on a flop, and then you put the flop out

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there and you tell it to run the simulation and

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tell me and it'll be like, oh, yeah, you have sixty.

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Speaker 2: Two percent equity in this hand. Well, that's if you

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get to the river and don't fold. If you're out of.

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Speaker 1: Position and your hand is a hand that is just

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going to run into some resistance on a lot of

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turns and a lot of rivers, you will be folding

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the best hand by the river a lot of the time,

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which means even though your hand has you know, sixty

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two percent raw equity and realized equity, you know it

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may be forty eight percent, it may be less than

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fifty percent, maybe forty five percent wine just because of

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the amount of times you're gonna have to fold when

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you have the best hand and you don't know or

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you're not going to be it'll make appropriate bet sizes

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to get the maximum when you have value. It's just

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going to be incredibly different, too difficult to do and

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achieve all that you can achieve where the exact opposite

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is true when you have positioned. If I could get

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you to just get something to sink deep into your

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soul and really begin to breed in and digest and

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make this a part of your DNA. Position is power,

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and start playing poker in a way that acknowledges position

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is power. You will see phenomenal changes to your poker game.

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