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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 going to break

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down one rule of month that will actually start making

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you money at one two, and one to three no

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limit hold them. You're not going to get any theory

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dumps here, no solver worship. This is just simple, actionable

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rules that will help you crush the games that you

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and I play every day low stakes no limit hold them.

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

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

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to help you crush these games, stick around to the

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

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

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rule is fold pre flop more than you want to.

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My goal is to give you twelve very simple, very distinct,

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very easy to understand, and very easy to follow principles

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this year, so by the end of the year you

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will have a twelve step foundation to beating your local

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one two, one three no limit game. So the biggest

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leak at one two, one three is just playing too

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many hands. It's by far the biggest leak that anybody

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that I ever see playing these steaks makes even the

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people who are too tight the quote unquote knits aren't

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making as big a mistake as people who are playing

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way too loose. Now the knits, most knits are with

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like you know, these rake back promotions.

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Speaker 2: So what's rake back? Well, when they're doing.

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Speaker 1: The high hand promotions or splash the pod or aces cracked,

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that's just a way of them giving you some of

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the rake back, right, some of that money they dropping

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that hole under the table, They're giving you some of

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that back. So these nittiest of knits, they're probably breaking

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even or making a couple of dollars an hour, you know,

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playing knitting. And then when you add the amount of

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money that they get back from these promotions, they're making money.

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Speaker 2: For sure. They can be making a lot more money.

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Speaker 1: But the way they play it's pretty risk free. It's

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pretty low variants. And a lot of these people that

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play this way are older, they're retired, they're.

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Speaker 2: On fixed income.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, for sure, and

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that's not the best way to play, but it's sure

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by far and away, not the biggest leak that you

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see at low stakes, playing too many hands, entering the

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pot pre fop far too often, so folding pre fop

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an appropriate amount of the time protects you from something

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called reverse implied odds that will just drain your bankroll

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to no end.

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Speaker 2: What is reverse implied odds? Well, it's where you have.

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Speaker 1: Some kind of a hand that's not a great hand,

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and then you flop some kind of a hand with

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it that seems pretty strong, but by the time the

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river gets here, your hand is no good anymore, and

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you're claiming, how.

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Speaker 2: Bad beat you got, Like I just got bad beat?

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Speaker 1: Bed? Why I'm always getting bad beat? I see these

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players from time to time. They love to play these hands, like, well,

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I have one of them myself, but I play it

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very sparingly, and I only play it in the right conditions,

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and I kind of play it to have fun and

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know I'm probably not gonna make.

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Speaker 2: Money with it.

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Speaker 1: Mineus nine to seven, not a good hand, but yeah,

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players that have all these hens, they like to play

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the nine six. They like to play the seven five,

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They like to play the deuce three, they like to

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play the three four, They like to play the ace

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seven off, you know, to a raise or to a

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three bet like and then so many times by the

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time the river gets there. Even when they flop a

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big hend uh, their hand just gets beat because you

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know deuce three is in there, and the flop comes

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like king three deuce and the other person bets and

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they call and the rivers like a I don't know,

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a seven, and there's a bet and they just and

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then you know, the rivers an ace or a king

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or a seven right, and they just get counterfeited because

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their hand was so weak to start with. Even when

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they make a strong hand, it's still very vulnerable because

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of much better hand started than them. So these are

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things that you need to take control of. You need

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to only play speculative hands in the right spots, when

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you're getting the right in plot odds and hopefully in

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position most.

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Speaker 2: Of the time, and that should be very rare.

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't ever play them, but you

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need to play them in the right spots and at

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the right times, and then otherwise you just be playing

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appropriate ranges. What are appropriate ranges? There's a billion range

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charts online that you can go look up. All of

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them will improve your game. I don't care where you

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get the chart from. I don't care if it's a

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gto chart for nine handed and you're playing seven handed.

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I don't care if it's a GT chart for eight.

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Speaker 2: Handed and you're playing nine handed.

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Speaker 1: Just take it, look at it, look at the kind

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of hands you should be playing, and learn some stuff

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from it. And I mean you don't have to memorize it.

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You don't have to sit down and do it exactly.

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Just understand about what you should be playing from, about

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what position at the table.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it'll just it'll fundamentally change your game.

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Speaker 1: And then if all else fails, right, you can apply

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this very simple rule. Man.

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Speaker 2: You look down at your hand and you're like.

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Speaker 1: Uh, it's kind of close. Man, you know, I kind

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of want to play it.

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Speaker 2: But I mean it's not that. Just fold it.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you look down at a hand and you're like, yeah, torment,

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just fold it. Why I'm playing, Why I play marginal hands.

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You're not gonna win a lot of money playing marginal hands.

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The most hands that are on the CUSP, right, Like,

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even if you know what hands you're supposed to play

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and you have the CUSP, be part of that range.

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So let's let's say that you have let's say that

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you have the under the gun one opening range memorized right,

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and whatever the weakest hand on that range is, I

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don't have one in front of me, and I don't

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have a memorized because I don't memorize range charts. I

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just know approximately what I should be playing, and then

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I tweak it one way or the other, depending on

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what kind of game I'm in. Well, let's say you

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have that chart and you look down and the hand

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you look down at is on that chart, but is

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the weakest hand on that chart. If you fold that hand,

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it's going to be fine. You're not making money with

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the weakest hand on that chart.

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Speaker 2: That hand is the bottom.

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Speaker 1: Of the range where you can hope to break even

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and then sometimes profit a little bit. That's what that

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bottom hand is, and it's put in there so you

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don't become so predictable by only playing stronger hands, and

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that whatever that bottom hand on that range is is

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typically going to be a break even hand and the

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perfect game, it's going to be a slightly losing hand

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in a not so perfect game, a game that has

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bad conditions for you to be opening that light, and

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then it's going to be a winning hand where you're

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in games where the games are so good and so

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soft and so juicy that that hand can be profitable.

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But it's a cuspy hand and it can just be folded.

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So anytime you look at a hand and you're like,

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I don't know about this just folded, you shouldn't have

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to think about it. It'd be pretty obvious that you

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should be playing this hand. And if you'll just do

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these things, your game will improve dramatically. So we'll talk

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about more about this at the end of the podcast. Right, So,

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Speaker 2: So I just did an episode of the pod.

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Speaker 1: Over there, and we were talking about spots exactly like this,

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Spots exactly like this, where you know, you get in

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these spots where it's where it's close, or you get

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in these spots where you're not really sure what to do,

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like folding.

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Speaker 2: Just prints money.

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Speaker 1: Folding just prints money in those spots, and sure nobody

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likes folding.

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Speaker 2: Showed up to the Poker Roo to play some poker.

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The guy next to you is telling you what a

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knit you are.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I mean some sessions you will look knitty

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because you're getting a below average distribution of cards. But

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I'm telling you, if you plan appropriate range.

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Speaker 2: It's plenty of cards to play.

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Speaker 1: It's somewhere on the average about twenty five percent of hands,

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which means on average, you'll be playing one out of

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four hands. That means if you're at a eight handed table,

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you'll be playing about two hands in orbit. So I

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mean you're playing plenty of hands. But you know, the

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cards don't evenly distribute every time you sit down at

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the table. So some days you'll sit down and you

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won't see those two hans in orbit. You won't even

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see it. You won't even be able to play one

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hand every three orbits, and you're just gonna look like

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a knit. But it's gonna even itself out, because you know,

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two weeks from now, you're gonna show up and you're

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gonna be getting smacked in the face with a bunch

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of playable hands, and you're gonna be playing six hands

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of orbit, six out of eight hands, and you're gonna

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like a maniac and people are gonna think you're crazy

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because you're coming in with so many hands. So you know,

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just know why hands played best. Where you can go

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find range sharts. There's so many free resources for rain

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sharts online.

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Speaker 2: You know any of them will work. Ones that are

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for live games are a little bit better.

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Speaker 1: But even if you just find ones for these gto

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online games, I mean, it's better than nothing, and it

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will get you headed in the right.

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Speaker 2: Direction, fold pre flought more than you want to. All Right.

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Speaker 1: That wraps up today's rule on our twelve step plan

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to crush low limit cash games. Remember, keep it tight,

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keep it disciplined, and keep stacking players who refuse to

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learn these lessons. If you did get value from today's

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