Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Low Limit Cash Games podcast, where
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Speaker 2: Today's rule is position is power.
Speaker 1: This is a little low in fact by a lot
of people that play poker, but position is more important
than the cards you hold. So there's several different ways
of simulating hands as simulating such wastions with hands. Obviously
we've got solvers. If you know these them correctly, they
can be very very powerful. A few employe low stakes,
you're just gonna be deviating a ton from.
Speaker 2: What solver says is optimal play.
Speaker 1: So I don't recommend anybody start with Solver Her and
try to learn not the will play it, but you're
just gonna be deviating from it constantly, So let's just
learn the deviations. Then later, if you ever move up,
you can start to learn other stuff.
Speaker 2: But you you Solve Her, you can also there's.
Speaker 1: Some other poker simulation programs. One of them I use
the link to it is actually in the description or
information section of this podcast.
Speaker 2: We want to go click on it.
Speaker 1: I have a code that'll get you like I think
twenty five percent off or something if you use it.
But it's called Advanced Poker Trainer, And you can take
that piece of software and you can say, just steal
me pocket Jacks under the Gun, and I just want
to play pocket Jacks under the gun hand after hand
after hand, and in about thirty minutes or forty five minutes,
you know, or an hour or something. I mean, you
can play two hundred and fifty or three hundred or
four hundred hands of pocket jacks under the gun, which
is an amazing resource.
Speaker 2: That's an amazing tool.
Speaker 1: And what you'll learn if you do this is that
it is very, very hard to win with pocket jacks.
Speaker 2: From under the gun.
Speaker 1: Now you may be thinking, well, yeah, because jack suck,
I hate jacks. Man Jacks is a horrible hand. Well,
try doing it with queens. Try doing it with kings
and see how easy it is to win. Try doing
it with ace king and see how.
Speaker 2: Easy it is to win.
Speaker 1: And so if you use a program like that and
you simulate the hands and you start beginning to understand
pretty quickly, Holy cow, playing from out of position is very,
very hard. On the other hand, the easiest poker you'll
ever play is when you're in position, and there's several
reasons for that.
Speaker 2: That's why.
Speaker 1: One of the best things you can understand about poker
is that position is power.
Speaker 2: So in position, you're just gonna win bigger pots.
Speaker 1: You just are why cause you're going to be able
to see what other people have.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be able to judge how strong they are.
Speaker 1: When you have value hands, which you will allow you
to be even bigger than normal. Sometimes you're going to
be able to make bluffs on scary rivers. Sometimes when
you figured out approximately what range of hands your opponents had,
and you know that I don't know diamonds is going
to scare the shit out. More on the river and
now we've built this pot and you've arrived at the spot,
and you just ship it on them their fold and
you win big pots. Now, look, I'm not encouraging to
jump in there doing crazy stuff like that.
Speaker 2: A lot. That is a very, very teeny tiny portion
of the low stakes game. The low states game is
mainly making value hands and.
Speaker 1: Betting the hell out of them, but occasionally things like
that will happen. When you have the more information you have,
the more power you have, the more money you can make.
So in position you win bigger potts. Vice versa, outer
position you lose bigger pots. The math is undeniable, the
math is immutable. You can't argue with it, you can't
debate it. So I would rather have position than cards.
I'm just gonna want to ton of money in position,
you know, with seven six suited or ace five suited
or some kind of a hand like that, and it's
gonna be relatively easy because I'm gonna have a lot
of information to guide me what to do. Whereas out
of position, I'm just not gonna make that much money
with pocket jack's because I'm not gonna have that much
information on every street. My opponent's gonna have the advantage.
I'm gonna have to play very passively a lot of
the time. I'm gonna have to fold the best hand sometimes,
and so it's just very, very difficult. So position simplifies decisions,
and it increases the amount of times you can bluff
and be successful. And it also increases how much you
can make when you're value bedding, because you just have
more clarity about the strength of your opponent's hand. When
you don't have a ton of clarity about the strengths
of your opponent's hand, and you have to just go
with some kind of you know, just guess based on
your instincts and experience bet size. It may not be
the best best size, you may think the most you
can get them to call his half, and you just
go with the new ere half. Whereas if you were
in position, it would become abundantly clear to you that
they have a very strong hand because you've got to
see perfect information on them on every street, and now
you can know you just get bet pot and get
caught a lot of time. See anytime you can do that,
and you're in a hand where you're getting a bet
pot on the river versus where you you know, only
getting a bet paf.
Speaker 2: Pot on the river.
Speaker 1: Just I mean that just exponentially plays out over time.
So how do we adjust to this, how we use
this information? Well, it means when you're on the button,
you're gonna be raising more ends.
Speaker 2: You're gonna be three betting more ends.
Speaker 1: Whereas you can't get super crazy with jack Tin suited
under the gun. Let's not saying it's not playable, but
you just can't get crazy wild with it. I mean
you can go hand with jack Tin suited on the
button a lot in the right circumstances, right conditions, right opportunities,
and so it's just a whole different set of circumstances.
And then obviously, out of position, you're gonna be defending less.
So you know, you raise the ace jack off from
under the gun and you get three bet by the
I don't know, a hijack, and then the button flats
and it gets back around to you. I mean, I'm
just tossing ace jack off there a ton of the
time playing somebody who's indicated they have a pretty strong range,
who has position on me along with another player who
came along.
Speaker 2: I mean me trying to navigate.
Speaker 1: Ashjack off out of position is not an appealing thing
that I want to try to do.
Speaker 2: Now, a lot of people go, well.
Speaker 1: You're a knit man, you're getting three bet and you
got ace jack, you're folding it. Well, I mean me
and you know different things. Now, I'm not saying I
always fold it. There's gonna be certain times when the
three bet size is a certain size and stack depths
are a certain stack depth, and the opponent is a
certain opponent, And for sure I continue with it sometimes,
but I do a.
Speaker 2: Lot of folding with it. Man, I do a lot
of folding with it.
Speaker 1: And it's just it's just once you understand like just
how bad it is to play with like marginal even
marginal value hands out of position, and then obviously from
the blind you should be playing way less, way less
from the blinds because you're going to be impossibly hard.
I can't tell you how many times I watch people,
let's say, like an under the unpersonal raise, a middle
positional call, a button'll call, and now the small blind
comes in with like some dumb hand that they just
shouldn't be in there with like ten eight off suit
or you know, nine eight off suit They're never going
to make that hand profitable unless they're at the softest,
juiciest people are stack off happy you've ever seen. They're
just not going to make nine eight offsuit profitable in
that spot. Not only that, probably not nine.
Speaker 2: Eight suited in that spot. You just should be.
Speaker 1: Folding a ton there. And so it goes back to what, Well,
it's your hand. I mean, that's sure, that's a part
of it, but the main thing is your position. There's
there's two different kinds of equities, right, so a lot
of people will grab one of these equity calculators. Like
one of my favorite tools that's on my iPhone and
my iPad is called poker cruncher. It's a phenomenal tool.
I use it quite often. What it gives you is
like raw equities. It gives you the raw equity.
Speaker 2: Of your hand.
Speaker 1: Like if you, you know, plug in your range of
hands and you plug in your opponent's range of hands
on a flop, and then you put the flop out
there and you tell it to run the simulation and
tell me and it'll be like, oh, yeah, you have sixty.
Speaker 2: Two percent equity in this hand. Well, that's if you
get to the river and don't fold. If you're out of.
Speaker 1: Position and your hand is a hand that is just
going to run into some resistance on a lot of
turns and a lot of rivers, you will be folding
the best hand by the river a lot of the time,
which means even though your hand has you know, sixty
two percent raw equity and realized equity, you know it
may be forty eight percent, it may be less than
fifty percent, maybe forty five percent wine just because of
the amount of times you're gonna have to fold when
you have the best hand and you don't know or
you're not going to be it'll make appropriate bet sizes
to get the maximum when you have value. It's just
going to be incredibly different, too difficult to do and
achieve all that you can achieve where the exact opposite
is true when you have positioned. If I could get
you to just get something to sink deep into your
soul and really begin to breed in and digest and
make this a part of your DNA. Position is power,
and start playing poker in a way that acknowledges position
is power. You will see phenomenal changes to your poker game.
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