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
affordable and it's a true targeted low stakes training site
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but let's jump into it on to this month's episode.
Today's rule is value first, fancy play later, and I
probably should put in parentheses if ever, at low stakes,
the number one way you make money at low stakes
hold them is by just taking your opponents to value town.
What's the number one thing you here said about low
stakes hold them players? If you were just running through
your mind, you're like, wait, what what do hear people
say about these games all the time? What's the most
repeated thing about these games? Give you just a second
to think about it, and I'll tell you what it
probably is, and I think you'll agree with me. It's
probably this. People just don't fold it. One two no limit.
I can't get anybody to fold. People never fold what
they've got. One three limit. Hold them is the worst.
You can't get anybody to fold. Nobody ever folds. I
mean that's pretty true that they won't ever fold. They
don't like folding, right, they didn't come down to fold.
They didn't work hard all week and save up two
hundred and fifty or three hundred dollars to come to
the poker room to fold. So if they got a pair,
they're probably gonna call. They got to draw, they're probably
gonna call. So what does this mean? The number one
way to make money at low stakes hold them is
too value. Bet make hands value, bet, make hands value. Bet.
There should be like seventy percent of your profits conservatives,
maybe seventy five. Let's just say seventy five percent of
your profits should come from this. And I will go
as far as to say this. You can make a
reasonable hourly rate at one two, one, three eleven by
doing nothing, but just be somebody who plays solid ranges
see last episode or see two episodes back and then
value bets those ranges when you have nice hands and
you can just that's all you gotta do. It's just
I see. I can name off the top of my
head right now, three people from my local poker room
who are profitable players, who don't do anything but play
good hands and value. But them, they don't know a bluff.
They don't check raised bluff, they don't they don't semi bluff,
they don't do any of these other really, they just don't.
They don't do any of that stuff, and they're just
doing pretty well. I don't know if there hourally is
I would looked at charts. I don't even if they
keep charts, but I just know that I play with them,
and I guarantee you they're one of them probably at
least making ten dollars an hour, one of them maybe
making fifteen dollars an hour. I don't know. They're just
doing okay. They don't have to do the most, and
they're not going to make thirty dollars a hour, twenty
five dollars an hour. They'll never get there because there's
a lot of tools that they don't have in their
tool chest. But look if you're a losing player right now,
if you listening to this episode of this podcast and
you're a losing player, I'm telling you right now I've
given you. Between the episodes that I've already given you
and this one rule number four, I've given you enough
information that if you start applying it, you could change
from a losing player to the winding player over the
course of the next twelve months. So low stakes players
they just call too often, they just call too much.
They don't like to fold, they call second pair, they
call top payer, bad kicker, they call draws, even gut shots.
So if you know they're going to do this, and
this is very common knowledge, you should just really value
at them pretty consistently when you have good hands. So
if you get into this fancy play syndrome, right, you're
just going to reduce your expected value unless your opponent
is just a really thinking player. If you think you're
going to get the guy to fold ace ten, when
you've been in there semi bluffing the open ender, you
know you're like, hey, he may have an ace, but
it can't be a strong ace. I think I can
get him to fold it by the river. He's not
folding it by the river. That's not how you make
The way you make money off the guy who will
not fold ace ten on an ace high board is
by betting him to death. When you have a king,
ace queen and ace jack, that's how you make money
off of that guy. If you have a guy in
the game who's just not folding ACE ten on on
Ace eight deuce, you don't get in there and try
to buff them with your with your flush draw or
you know you've dropped, you flop three doors straight three
to a flush. Let's just say it's Ace eight deuce
and you have ten to nine of one of the
suits out there, right, so you've got three doers straight,
you've got three doer of flush with your ten nine suited,
and so we're just gonna semi bluff and then the
turn comes and you could tell these kind of week
he doesn't love his hands. So we're committing to it,
like we'll get him to fold this term. But if
he doesn't want get to fold river and you bet
any calls and you get the river and you miss yes,
and you're like, oh, I mean, I can just tell
he's nothing that's wrong. I know, he just has a
weak ace, I can make it. Bam, you bet pot,
you bet bought the quartery, you bet pot and a half,
and he just calls you with the ace with the
ten kicker, And he just threw a lot of money
away because you were playing somebody in the way you're
not supposed to be playing. If that's not where you're
supposed to be doing. That particular opponent, she's supposed to wait,
do you have ace king? And he has a ten?
And then you just bet him all three streets and
he just never folds to you. So here's just a
really simple golden rule of low stakes. Hold him. It's
really easy. If they can call you with a worse hand,
you should just be betting it. Shouldn't be trapping. You
shouldn't be doing a lot of bluffing. You shouldn't be
doing a ton of semi bluffing. Look, those are all
tools that you can put in your tool chest later.
But the reason you're here, the reason you subscribe to
my podcast, is because you want to win more money.
You're either a losing player who wants to become a
winning player, and so all this extra stuff is not
something you need to be focusing on. It's going to
take a lot of development and study and stuff like
that to get there. Or you're somebody that's maybe doing okay.
Maybe you've been around break even and you've heard that
you could make okay money at one, two, one three,
and you're like, yeah, i've heard about this guy's podcast
my friend Zone and Zoe told me about it, or
what you know, I've stumbled across it, and so you know,
you're maybe break even. Maybe you're losing a dollar an hour,
maybe you're winning a dollar an hour. You know, you're
just you're just right in there. You know it's a pastime,
but you're not really like making money out at the
end of the year. You're not going to have a
Christmas fund set aside from the money you want, right,
but you think it's possible, Well, Step number one is
just bet your value hands when they call you with
worse hands and they don't fold. Don't try to block foam,
don't try to semi block foam, don't try to do
any crazy kind of stuff. Just focus on having the
best hand and getting them to pay you lots of
money when they have a second best hand. This isn't
rocket science, This isn't the level of poker that you'll
see the best players in the world playing. This is
the level of poker you should be playing in a
one two and a one three game. I promise you
if you'll start focusing on that, you will see your
results change pretty quickly. All right, that wraps up today's
rule on our twelve step plan to crush low limit
cash games. Remember, keep it tight, keep it disciplined, and
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