Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Low Limit Cash Games podcast, where
this year, for twenty twenty six, we're going to break
down one rule of month that will actually start making
you money at one two, and one to three no
limit hold them. You're not going to get any theory
dumps here, no solver worship. This is just simple, actionable
rules that will help you crush the games that you
and I play every day low stakes no limit hold them.
And if you're looking for a poker training site that's
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end of the episode. I'll have more information about that,
but let's jump into it onto this month's episode. Today's
rule is fold pre flop more than you want to.
My goal is to give you twelve very simple, very distinct,
very easy to understand, and very easy to follow principles
this year, so by the end of the year you
will have a twelve step foundation to beating your local
one two, one three no limit game. So the biggest
leak at one two, one three is just playing too
many hands. It's by far the biggest leak that anybody
that I ever see playing these steaks makes even the
people who are too tight the quote unquote knits aren't
making as big a mistake as people who are playing
way too loose. Now the knits, most knits are with
like you know, these rake back promotions.
Speaker 2: So what's rake back? Well, when they're doing.
Speaker 1: The high hand promotions or splash the pod or aces cracked,
that's just a way of them giving you some of
the rake back, right, some of that money they dropping
that hole under the table, They're giving you some of
that back. So these nittiest of knits, they're probably breaking
even or making a couple of dollars an hour, you know,
playing knitting. And then when you add the amount of
money that they get back from these promotions, they're making money.
Speaker 2: For sure. They can be making a lot more money.
Speaker 1: But the way they play it's pretty risk free. It's
pretty low variants. And a lot of these people that
play this way are older, they're retired, they're.
Speaker 2: On fixed income.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, for sure, and
that's not the best way to play, but it's sure
by far and away, not the biggest leak that you
see at low stakes, playing too many hands, entering the
pot pre fop far too often, so folding pre fop
an appropriate amount of the time protects you from something
called reverse implied odds that will just drain your bankroll
to no end.
Speaker 2: What is reverse implied odds? Well, it's where you have.
Speaker 1: Some kind of a hand that's not a great hand,
and then you flop some kind of a hand with
it that seems pretty strong, but by the time the
river gets here, your hand is no good anymore, and
you're claiming, how.
Speaker 2: Bad beat you got, Like I just got bad beat?
Speaker 1: Bed? Why I'm always getting bad beat? I see these
players from time to time. They love to play these hands, like, well,
I have one of them myself, but I play it
very sparingly, and I only play it in the right conditions,
and I kind of play it to have fun and
know I'm probably not gonna make.
Speaker 2: Money with it.
Speaker 1: Mineus nine to seven, not a good hand, but yeah,
players that have all these hens, they like to play
the nine six. They like to play the seven five,
They like to play the deuce three, they like to
play the three four, They like to play the ace
seven off, you know, to a raise or to a
three bet like and then so many times by the
time the river gets there. Even when they flop a
big hend uh, their hand just gets beat because you
know deuce three is in there, and the flop comes
like king three deuce and the other person bets and
they call and the rivers like a I don't know,
a seven, and there's a bet and they just and
then you know, the rivers an ace or a king
or a seven right, and they just get counterfeited because
their hand was so weak to start with. Even when
they make a strong hand, it's still very vulnerable because
of much better hand started than them. So these are
things that you need to take control of. You need
to only play speculative hands in the right spots, when
you're getting the right in plot odds and hopefully in
position most.
Speaker 2: Of the time, and that should be very rare.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you can't ever play them, but you
need to play them in the right spots and at
the right times, and then otherwise you just be playing
appropriate ranges. What are appropriate ranges? There's a billion range
charts online that you can go look up. All of
them will improve your game. I don't care where you
get the chart from. I don't care if it's a
gto chart for nine handed and you're playing seven handed.
I don't care if it's a GT chart for eight.
Speaker 2: Handed and you're playing nine handed.
Speaker 1: Just take it, look at it, look at the kind
of hands you should be playing, and learn some stuff
from it. And I mean you don't have to memorize it.
You don't have to sit down and do it exactly.
Just understand about what you should be playing from, about
what position at the table.
Speaker 2: I mean, it'll just it'll fundamentally change your game.
Speaker 1: And then if all else fails, right, you can apply
this very simple rule. Man.
Speaker 2: You look down at your hand and you're like.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's kind of close. Man, you know, I kind
of want to play it.
Speaker 2: But I mean it's not that. Just fold it.
Speaker 1: Anytime you look down at a hand and you're like, yeah, torment,
just fold it. Why I'm playing, Why I play marginal hands.
You're not gonna win a lot of money playing marginal hands.
The most hands that are on the CUSP, right, Like,
even if you know what hands you're supposed to play
and you have the CUSP, be part of that range.
So let's let's say that you have let's say that
you have the under the gun one opening range memorized right,
and whatever the weakest hand on that range is, I
don't have one in front of me, and I don't
have a memorized because I don't memorize range charts. I
just know approximately what I should be playing, and then
I tweak it one way or the other, depending on
what kind of game I'm in. Well, let's say you
have that chart and you look down and the hand
you look down at is on that chart, but is
the weakest hand on that chart. If you fold that hand,
it's going to be fine. You're not making money with
the weakest hand on that chart.
Speaker 2: That hand is the bottom.
Speaker 1: Of the range where you can hope to break even
and then sometimes profit a little bit. That's what that
bottom hand is, and it's put in there so you
don't become so predictable by only playing stronger hands, and
that whatever that bottom hand on that range is is
typically going to be a break even hand and the
perfect game, it's going to be a slightly losing hand
in a not so perfect game, a game that has
bad conditions for you to be opening that light, and
then it's going to be a winning hand where you're
in games where the games are so good and so
soft and so juicy that that hand can be profitable.
But it's a cuspy hand and it can just be folded.
So anytime you look at a hand and you're like,
I don't know about this just folded, you shouldn't have
to think about it. It'd be pretty obvious that you
should be playing this hand. And if you'll just do
these things, your game will improve dramatically. So we'll talk
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Speaker 2: So I just did an episode of the pod.
Speaker 1: Over there, and we were talking about spots exactly like this,
Spots exactly like this, where you know, you get in
these spots where it's where it's close, or you get
in these spots where you're not really sure what to do,
like folding.
Speaker 2: Just prints money.
Speaker 1: Folding just prints money in those spots, and sure nobody
likes folding.
Speaker 2: Showed up to the Poker Roo to play some poker.
The guy next to you is telling you what a
knit you are.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean some sessions you will look knitty
because you're getting a below average distribution of cards. But
I'm telling you, if you plan appropriate range.
Speaker 2: It's plenty of cards to play.
Speaker 1: It's somewhere on the average about twenty five percent of hands,
which means on average, you'll be playing one out of
four hands. That means if you're at a eight handed table,
you'll be playing about two hands in orbit. So I
mean you're playing plenty of hands. But you know, the
cards don't evenly distribute every time you sit down at
the table. So some days you'll sit down and you
won't see those two hans in orbit. You won't even
see it. You won't even be able to play one
hand every three orbits, and you're just gonna look like
a knit. But it's gonna even itself out, because you know,
two weeks from now, you're gonna show up and you're
gonna be getting smacked in the face with a bunch
of playable hands, and you're gonna be playing six hands
of orbit, six out of eight hands, and you're gonna
like a maniac and people are gonna think you're crazy
because you're coming in with so many hands. So you know,
just know why hands played best. Where you can go
find range sharts. There's so many free resources for rain
sharts online.
Speaker 2: You know any of them will work. Ones that are
for live games are a little bit better.
Speaker 1: But even if you just find ones for these gto
online games, I mean, it's better than nothing, and it
will get you headed in the right.
Speaker 2: Direction, fold pre flought more than you want to. All Right.
Speaker 1: That wraps up today's rule on our twelve step plan
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