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.
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but let's jump into it onto this month's episode. Today's
rule is don't tilt away your profits. I can't stress
this enough. This is going to be our very first
rule of the series. It lays a solid foundation. Now,
as this twelve step plan continues, we're going to get
into lots of strategy for pre flop, flop bluffing, semi bluffing,
all these type things step by step. But I think
it's very important that we last solid foundation about tilting.
Tilder is responsible for more losses than bad strategy. I
see it happen over and over and over again. Like
you easily can just dust off a buy in or
two strictly from tilt in a session, and it's very
difficult to make that buy in back playing some fundamental poker,
you're basically doubling the work you have to do. So
you have to become comfortable with the way poker works
and the way equity is distributed. So let's think about
pocket aces for example, when you're against pocket tens any underpair.
I'm just gonna use this one thing as an example.
You expect to win. When you get it all in
with pocket aces versus pocket tens, you expect to win.
Your mind immediately goes to the fact, oh, I've got aces,
I'm gonna win this, and he's got tens. I've got
them dominated. And it's true, you do have pocket tens dominated,
but you're not going to win the hand one hundred
percent of the time because tens do have some equity
in the hand. They have about twenty percent equity in
the hand. Now, if poker were done fairly right, if
poker were done fairly here's what would happen. Let's say
you have a two hundred dollars stack in a one
two game, and you know, you raise with poget Ace's
and they three bet you with pocket tens and you
just ship the two hundred in and they call you.
If poker worked fairly, if poker were equitably, if justice
were dispensed on every action right on every hand, what
would happen is is the dealer would say, okay, turn
over your cards, and you would turn over your races,
and your opponent would turn over their tens, and the
dealer would pull out a calculator and they would go, okay,
the pot's four hundred dollars and pocket Ace's has sixty
percent equity in the hand, so they're going to get
one hundred twenty dollars and the other player has, well,
you have eighty percent equitand I'm sorry, so Pocket Asa
says eighty percent anquity the hand. So they're going to
get one hundred and sixty dollars out of the two
hundred dollars pot. And then the pocket Tens has twenty
percent equity to the hand, so they're going to get
forty dollars out of the pot, and they would ship
you one hundred and sixty dollars and they would ship
the pocket tens forty dollars and the hand would be
over and the equities would be divided up evenly. But
that's not how poker works. The way poker works, somebody
gets the entire pot. That's the way justice is dispensed
in poker is by one person winning an entire pot.
So when you have ass you can't win the pot
every time because that would be cheating. You can't win
with aces every time because you would be cheating. Why
would you be cheating? Because the pocket tens are due
to twenty percent of that pot they buy right by math,
by the immutable laws of math, they are due twenty
percent of that pot. How do they win that? How
do they get their twenty percent? They get their twenty
percent by winning the entire pot, all of the pot,
twenty percent of the time. That's the only way you
can chop the numbers up when you are in a
push the entire pot to one person system, and that's
what poker is. Poker is a we have to push
the entire pot to one person system. So the way
you give them their due deserts. They deserve it. They earned,
They earned money in the pot. Now, granted they earned
less than they put in. Right, they put in two
hundred dollars, they only earned forty, so they're due forty dollars.
The way they get that, it's about twenty percent of
the time the entire pot gets pushed to them. When
you get it all in with aces versus tens, you
need immediately take your brain to a place that goes,
I'm gonna lose this two out of every ten times,
which can feel like a lot, and it's gonna be fine.
I'm gonna be fine with it if I lose it.
It's not the end of the world. It's gonna be fine.
Eight out of ten times I'm gonna win it. But
two out of ten times I'm gonna lose this hand.
You need to immediately take your brain there to remove tilt.
Understand things that trigger you. Now could it could be
bad beats. It's called entitlement tilt. You feel entitled to
win that pot. You're not entitled to that pot. Let
the entitlement tilt go. You are not entitled to that pot.
When you put it all in with aces versus tens,
you are not entitled to that pot. You're entitled eighty
percent of that pot. So if you will let the
entitlement go and stop feeling entitled, it will help you
avoid the trigger of tilt. Now, there's other things that
can tilt you, right. It can be a player next
to you that's obnoxious. It could be somebody that's a
maniac and they keep three betting and four betting and bluffing,
and it can just put you on tilt. Because a
lot of things that can put you on tilt, you
need to spend a lot of time thinking about these
things and think about what they mean for the game.
If you have the maniac that's three betting and four betting,
you that's good for the game. That's good for you
because you don't need to get in there with you know,
four deuce. Right when you've got a guy that you
know is gonna be three betting and four bad, you
just fold. You don't got to get in there with
pocket threes. You should not be playing pocket threes in
a game where a guy is relentlessly three betting and
four betting like a maniac. You're just never going to
be profitable with those. But you can be very profitable
if you get it in there with like you know,
eights or nine's plus all the Broadway hands and potentially suited.
A says, I don't know. We could build a range out.
But my point is instead of hewing tilting you, you
need to go, oh, okay, well here's what's happening. I
need to adjust what I'm doing in response to that,
and I have to play different than the way I
normally play and don't get tilted by him. It's a
great opportunity. You got a guy heaping in piles of
money with bad hands, all right, and then once the
other things you can do. If you do get tilted, right,
you should immediately leave. At first, you need to recognize tilt,
and I want to tell you right now that tilt
presents it way itself in many ways. There's the steam
coming out of the ears, face red, cursing at the
dealer tilt, which is easily recognizable. But there's also this
just subtle I'm irritated right now, tilt, and I can't
believe this is happening to me. Like you may not
say anything to anybody, you may even be smiling, but
inside your head you're like, oh god, it is so lucky.
I can't believe you get that river card. You're muttering
this as yourself or you're just frustrated. You're like, oh,
it's like the fourth time I got it in as
an eighty percent favorite, and I've lost it in the
past week or two. I can't believe it when you
that is very subtle tilt. But it's tilt, and it's
going to affect your game. It affects everybody's game. I
don't care how good you are. Tilt fock's your game.
So you need to be very sensitive to sense it,
recognize when it's there. It's very important that you recognize
when it's there, and when it is you need to
take a break. You need to get a walk around.
You need to walk it off. You need to take
a five minute break. Just leave the table and walk
it off. Go outside, breathe some fresh air. Go talk
to your buddy at another table, and don't go over
there and whine about the bad beat. Ask him how
he's doing, and congratulate him if he's up, and wish
him good look if he's down. Don't whine about your
bad beat. You don't need to do that. Like you
don't have to do that. I'm not saying that you
can't do it like if it genuinely will help you
move past the tilt, then vent to him. I have
a friend I vent to about bad beats. It can
be beneficial, but you can't labor it. You can't be
doing it to just belabor it over and over again.
Get it out and move on, and then talk yourself
through it. Talk yourself through the thought of it. Okay,
there's another time that I got it in as eighty
percent favorite this year. At the end of the year,
if I add all those times up, I will win
eight of them, which will be a lot of money.
I will only win two of them. I just made money.
It's theoretical money pot ain't get pushed to me. But
I made money in that hand. I made a great decision.
I'm making good decisions. I'm making good moves. I'm doing
the right thing. I'm doing things that are profitable. I
am winning at poker right now. I didn't win that hand,
but I am winning the game of poker right now.
And make yourself understand what happened and put it into
context and put it into perspective, and then and only
then come back and sit down at the table again.
When you're smiling and you're happy because the game is good.
You know you just got a profitable spot that's going
to yield results by the time of the year ends,
and move on from that. Bizarre things can happen at
the table. I'll just end this episode with a personal
experience I just recently had in Shreeport, Louisiana at ballets.
I was getting crushed, just getting crushed. I had ace
king on a king high board. This unbelieving player with
tins didn't fold my flop bet. He didn't fold my
turn bet. There's nothing scary about the board. A ten
comes on the river and he you know, there's not
of money left behind a fold. I don't know what
he's got. As a matter of fact, I think we
might I don't remember. I think we might have even
been all in on the turn. If I'm not mistaken,
I think we were actually all in on the turn.
I don't even think there was a river bet. But anyway,
he hits the ten on the river. He two outs me.
It was, you know whatever, it was brutal. I just reloaded.
And then there was a hand a little bit later
where you know, we had I think the overpair against
the underpair, same type thing. Meanwhile, it's not just that,
you know, the frustrating part wasn't just that, you know,
my hands weren't holding up. While all this is happening,
I met a table with some of the worst players
I've ever seen, who were getting the most unlikely hands
to hold up. I remember very clearly this hand where
ace ten held up on a ten high board where
two people had a straight draw and two more people
had flushtraws. By the way, it was seven hand to
do a flop, it's seven handed to a flop, he
has to fade six other hands, four of them which
all had crazy draws against him, and he just faded
it with the ace ten like it was no big deal.
Top pair, top kicker. Man, it's the nuts and he wins. Meanwhile,
you know if I ran the math on that, like
what the math was against him, being the winter by
the time the river came with as ten in that scenario,
it's probably thirty percent, might be twenty five percent, very low. Meanwhile,
I can't win the eighty percenters right, very frustrating. I
saw several cases that where these players were in this
just piling money and with these super marginal hands where
you know the pool of players that are against them
have more equity than they do winning, and it was
it wasn't tilting like I was never tilted. I mean
I wound up winning a lot of money in that session.
I think that was one of the biggest sessions I
had while I was in Shreetport. I want to say
I left plus nine something plus nine thirty five or
something in a one three game. It wound up being
a very profitable game. But for that period of time,
I was just sitting there amazed. So if you're waiting
for justice in poker in one hand, if you're looking
to find justice in poker in one hand, it ain't
gonna happen. Sometimes it will, but it still won't be justice. Right.
What you perceive is justice is still not justice to you.
Justices when you have aces versus tens all in pre flop.
Justice to you is when the aces win. That is
not justice. That is not justice. That's not justice for
the guy with the tens, who, by mathematical rights, is
entitled to twenty percent of that plot. You stole his
twenty percent from him. When the entire pot was pushed
to you. Justice did not happen. So if you're looking
for justice that just suits your need, it isn't gonna
happen in any one hand, It isn't gonna happen in
anyone session, and it isn't gonna happen in any one month.
But at end of the year, you will see that
the math works itself out. And you need to understand
that every time you take a beat, every time there's
a draw out, a suck out, something bad happens, you
need to step away and you don't need to till
it and you go, you know what, at the end
of the year, all of this will work in my favor,
Like I will see the results of all this at
the end of the year. It's this. What happened there
is completely irrelevant to the outcome of my year. And
don't let till get you down, because once you tilt
off a stack, once you start trying to win it back,
we're trying to get that money back. And you're in
there and now you start doing things you wouldn't normally
do and you tilt off another stack. Now you've got
to win the money back that you lost in the beat.
Pleasure got to win now the money back that you've
just tilted off. So rule number one and are twelve
rules for the year. Don't hilpt your stack off to
bad players. Don't do it. Just keep playing your game
and the end of the year will show you positive results.
I promise you all right. That wraps up today's rule
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