When Playing With A Short Deck Is A Positive · S8E20
Short deck #poker is a hold'em variant in which the 2s through 5s are stripped from the deck. The variant has been popular in live high-stak...
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20 of 308 episodesPlaying And Defending Against The UTG Straddle · S8E19
Straddles used to be restricted to a fun element of live play, but an increasing number of online #poker sites have now added them to their...
A Novel Poker Play: Shoving With A Capped Range · S8E18
When you see big bets over multiple streets from an opponent, what do you conclude? Most studied #poker players would assume they are facing...
Poker Study: The Formations That Matter Most · S8E17
Most #poker players acknowledge that the more you study the better your results become. However, other life commitments mean that, in practi...
Befuddling Your Opponents With Micro Bets · S8E16
Do you tend to use a limited number of bet sizes in your strategy? Such simplified approaches have value, but many #poker players are missin...
The Fundamentals Of Heads-Up Hold'em · S8E15
Many #poker players regard heads-up play as the purest form of the game. You are locked in a duel of wits with a single opponent, constantly...
Poker As A Business: Managing Time And Costs · S8E14
If you play #poker to make money, you have more to manage than your bankroll. To get better at the game, you need to study. That takes time...
Grinding Poker In A Rec-Friendly Environment · S8E13
Online #poker is a very different beast to twenty years ago. Essentially all poker sites have taken the decision to clip the wings of the pr...
Realistic Expectations For Your Poker Decisions · S8E12
Any #poker session you play can be thought of as a series of decisions. The "correct" decision in any spot, such as whether to bet and how m...
Poker Tips From LLMs: How Bad Are They? · S8E11
An increasing number of people rely on ChatGPT summaries to explain complex topics. Is this a good idea if you're looking for tactical and s...
Live Poker Tells: Reading Your Opponents · S8E10
Hollywood promotes the notion that top players "read" their opponents from their body language, or their unique method of eating Oreo cookie...
Surviving The Variance Of Live Poker · S8E9
The element of luck in #poker means that weak players can having winning sessions and strong ones can go on extended downswings. One can arg...
Does The Block Bet Have A Place In Modern Poker? · S8E8
The block bet is a play from the pre-solver era of #poker which many players view with suspicion. Making a small bet in the hope of avoiding...
Ranging Analysis: When It Is And Is Not Useful · S8E7
Much of modern #poker strategy revolves around the battle between poker ranges; our own and that of our opponent. But is ranging always the...
Resilience and Optimization: Winning Poker's Mental Game · S8E6
Do you equate the mental game of #poker with tilt avoidance? Then this episode of the podcast will be a huge eye-opener. Sure mental resilie...
Maximizing Your Winrate Grinding Poker · S8E5
Maximizing your #poker hourly rate extends well beyond simply playing well. If playing online, for example, how many simultaneous tables giv...
Mixing And Randomization In Modern Poker · S8E4
In the previous episode of the podcast, we discussed how GTO #poker requires mixing. Typical solutions returned by solvers include using mul...
GTO Poker: Busting Some Myths · S8E3
Have you heard high-stakes #poker players claiming that they play a GTO strategy? That is a myth that is quickly disproved; the general GTO...
How EV Modeling Refines Your Poker Decisions · S8E2
Playing #poker well can be viewed as making the highest-EV decision at every opportunity. In some situations, such as facing an all-in, calc...
The Dangers Of Using Minimum Defense Frequency · S8E1
In the season premiere of season 8, w34z3l breaks down the concept of minimum defense frequency, with an emphasis on how MDF can lead to ina...