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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 on to this month's episode.

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Today's rule is value first, fancy play later, and I

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probably should put in parentheses if ever, at low stakes,

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the number one way you make money at low stakes

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hold them is by just taking your opponents to value town.

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What's the number one thing you here said about low

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stakes hold them players? If you were just running through

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your mind, you're like, wait, what what do hear people

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say about these games all the time? What's the most

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repeated thing about these games? Give you just a second

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to think about it, and I'll tell you what it

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probably is, and I think you'll agree with me. It's

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probably this. People just don't fold it. One two no limit.

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I can't get anybody to fold. People never fold what

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they've got. One three limit. Hold them is the worst.

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You can't get anybody to fold. Nobody ever folds. I

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mean that's pretty true that they won't ever fold. They

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don't like folding, right, they didn't come down to fold.

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They didn't work hard all week and save up two

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hundred and fifty or three hundred dollars to come to

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the poker room to fold. So if they got a pair,

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they're probably gonna call. They got to draw, they're probably

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gonna call. So what does this mean? The number one

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way to make money at low stakes hold them is

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too value. Bet make hands value, bet, make hands value. Bet.

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There should be like seventy percent of your profits conservatives,

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maybe seventy five. Let's just say seventy five percent of

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your profits should come from this. And I will go

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as far as to say this. You can make a

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reasonable hourly rate at one two, one, three eleven by

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doing nothing, but just be somebody who plays solid ranges

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see last episode or see two episodes back and then

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value bets those ranges when you have nice hands and

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you can just that's all you gotta do. It's just

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I see. I can name off the top of my

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head right now, three people from my local poker room

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who are profitable players, who don't do anything but play

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good hands and value. But them, they don't know a bluff.

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They don't check raised bluff, they don't they don't semi bluff,

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they don't do any of these other really, they just don't.

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They don't do any of that stuff, and they're just

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doing pretty well. I don't know if there hourally is

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I would looked at charts. I don't even if they

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keep charts, but I just know that I play with them,

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and I guarantee you they're one of them probably at

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least making ten dollars an hour, one of them maybe

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making fifteen dollars an hour. I don't know. They're just

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doing okay. They don't have to do the most, and

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they're not going to make thirty dollars a hour, twenty

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five dollars an hour. They'll never get there because there's

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a lot of tools that they don't have in their

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tool chest. But look if you're a losing player right now,

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if you listening to this episode of this podcast and

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you're a losing player, I'm telling you right now I've

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given you. Between the episodes that I've already given you

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and this one rule number four, I've given you enough

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information that if you start applying it, you could change

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from a losing player to the winding player over the

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course of the next twelve months. So low stakes players

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they just call too often, they just call too much.

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They don't like to fold, they call second pair, they

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call top payer, bad kicker, they call draws, even gut shots.

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So if you know they're going to do this, and

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this is very common knowledge, you should just really value

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at them pretty consistently when you have good hands. So

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if you get into this fancy play syndrome, right, you're

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just going to reduce your expected value unless your opponent

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is just a really thinking player. If you think you're

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going to get the guy to fold ace ten, when

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you've been in there semi bluffing the open ender, you

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know you're like, hey, he may have an ace, but

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it can't be a strong ace. I think I can

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get him to fold it by the river. He's not

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folding it by the river. That's not how you make

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The way you make money off the guy who will

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not fold ace ten on an ace high board is

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by betting him to death. When you have a king,

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ace queen and ace jack, that's how you make money

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off of that guy. If you have a guy in

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the game who's just not folding ACE ten on on

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Ace eight deuce, you don't get in there and try

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to buff them with your with your flush draw or

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you know you've dropped, you flop three doors straight three

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to a flush. Let's just say it's Ace eight deuce

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and you have ten to nine of one of the

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suits out there, right, so you've got three doers straight,

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you've got three doer of flush with your ten nine suited,

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and so we're just gonna semi bluff and then the

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turn comes and you could tell these kind of week

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he doesn't love his hands. So we're committing to it,

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like we'll get him to fold this term. But if

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he doesn't want get to fold river and you bet

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any calls and you get the river and you miss yes,

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and you're like, oh, I mean, I can just tell

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he's nothing that's wrong. I know, he just has a

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weak ace, I can make it. Bam, you bet pot,

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you bet bought the quartery, you bet pot and a half,

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and he just calls you with the ace with the

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ten kicker, And he just threw a lot of money

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away because you were playing somebody in the way you're

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not supposed to be playing. If that's not where you're

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supposed to be doing. That particular opponent, she's supposed to wait,

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do you have ace king? And he has a ten?

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And then you just bet him all three streets and

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he just never folds to you. So here's just a

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really simple golden rule of low stakes. Hold him. It's

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really easy. If they can call you with a worse hand,

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you should just be betting it. Shouldn't be trapping. You

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shouldn't be doing a lot of bluffing. You shouldn't be

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doing a ton of semi bluffing. Look, those are all

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tools that you can put in your tool chest later.

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But the reason you're here, the reason you subscribe to

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my podcast, is because you want to win more money.

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You're either a losing player who wants to become a

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winning player, and so all this extra stuff is not

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something you need to be focusing on. It's going to

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take a lot of development and study and stuff like

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that to get there. Or you're somebody that's maybe doing okay.

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Maybe you've been around break even and you've heard that

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you could make okay money at one, two, one three,

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and you're like, yeah, i've heard about this guy's podcast

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my friend Zone and Zoe told me about it, or

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what you know, I've stumbled across it, and so you know,

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you're maybe break even. Maybe you're losing a dollar an hour,

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maybe you're winning a dollar an hour. You know, you're

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just you're just right in there. You know it's a pastime,

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but you're not really like making money out at the

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end of the year. You're not going to have a

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Christmas fund set aside from the money you want, right,

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but you think it's possible, Well, Step number one is

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just bet your value hands when they call you with

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worse hands and they don't fold. Don't try to block foam,

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don't try to semi block foam, don't try to do

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any crazy kind of stuff. Just focus on having the

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best hand and getting them to pay you lots of

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money when they have a second best hand. This isn't

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rocket science, This isn't the level of poker that you'll

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see the best players in the world playing. This is

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the level of poker you should be playing in a

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one two and a one three game. I promise you

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if you'll start focusing on that, you will see your

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results change pretty quickly. All right, that wraps up today's

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rule on our twelve step plan to crush low limit

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cash games. Remember, keep it tight, keep it disciplined, and

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