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Avoiding Common Mistakes in Poker Tournaments

hello and welcome to tonight's presentation the three big mistakes most people make in small stakes tournaments my name is Evan Jarvis and I'll be your host and note if you have questions please write them down and I'll answer them at the end of the presentation because I have a feeling there's gonna be at least one or two questions we're going fairly deep on some pretty powerful concepts and there's a very high likelihood that some of this information is going to be new to some of you and you know I want to make sure that you get as much clarification as possible on the concepts so you can implement them into your game most easily and get the best results possible from applying them so with kind of the map of the territory laid out let's get into the action and let's get stacking oh and by the way by the end of this webinar you will have learned how to stop making mistakes which are costing you tournaments and start building stacks and winning more tournaments so quick introduction about me so you can know who I am if it's your first time meeting me my name is Evan Jarvis in 2004 after Chris Moneymaker you know won the old main event and we saw that epic bluff between he and Sammy Farah I started playing poker started playing with sit and gos felt like it was the easiest way to build a bankroll and it was the format that allowed me to get the most play for my dollar you know I could put in five bucks get a nice big start and stack and get thirty to sixty minutes of play and I just thought that was fantastic in 2008 after studying a lot of cash game content on card runners and some tournament stuff on poker X Factor back in the day I graduated college and I moved out to play cash games full time for my living with my roommate John Nixon who is become a very savvy investor himself 2012 my roommate who I had met the year before thanks to a lucky break Greg Merson won the main event and I had a 2% swap with him I also cashed the main event that year finishing two hundred and fortieth place for about forty thousand dollars and I was hooked on multi table tournaments for this event so in 2013 I decided to shift my focus from cash games to tournaments I found that after getting a really big score cash games had kind of lost their excitement and you know I wanted that thrill so I began studying empty teas so that I could recreate the feeling that I had in the summer of 2012 at this time I invited a lot of the best players in the world like Griffin bender and Calvin Anderson to move into my apartment so that I could study under their tutelage and become the best tournament player that I could be I also started teaching at this time on my youtube channel Grips because I knew that teaching is the best way to learn and I wanted to save what I was picking up from these master roommates I didn't want to lose it you know the same I'm encouraging y'all to write down your questions and your key takeaways from this presentation I thought that to put into video form was the best way to save as much that information as I could and you can find a lot of those videos and teachings on my youtube channel Grips so in 2016 I had my first major test of success when I chopped the World Poker Tour Falls view classic for one hundred and sixty two thousand dollars and that dream came true you know of wanting to get that big win experienced the rush and that feeling after having a couple of $10,000 scores in the previous two years and I know on the check it says ninety five thousand that's because on paper I took third place but we made a deal when I was three handed as the chip leader and I took home one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars for my efforts on a 1,000 dollar tournament investment it was an incredible feeling an incredible rush and still to this day I've done a lot of things and nothing quite compares to the feeling of winning a big massive multi-table multi-day tournament there were over a thousand I think there were 1600 entrants in that tournament something huge in 2007 I final tabled my first World Series of Poker event the hard work and studying continued to pay off I'll be in an online event it still felt pretty cool to final table a World Series of Poker event it's always been a dream of mine to play you know World Series of Poker final table and have a shot at a bracelet and they came pretty close finishing fourth play for 74,000 and once again I got you know that feeling that rush that I was craving from tournament poker and you know the money that came with it wasn't bad either and finally in 2018 things went full circle some of the guys who started out at micro stakes watching Grips videos when you know I started putting them out back in 2012 and 2013 they started breaking out becoming some of the biggest winners out there so you may have heard of them allium see urvich he's a poker master champion last year and Charlie Carroll who's just all over the place I think he's got over eight million in winnings at this point and Counting so now I saw the benefits of teaching and offering my knowledge to other people out there was that now I got to sit back and watch my students getting the results and I get to enjoy the show of kind of being that proud father figure you know seeing how the kids had grown up and now they're just running the show and I really hope that you know through the teachings that I offer you you're going to be able to do the same and I'm gonna be able to watch you on your big wins whether they're live final tables that are streamed or they're online events and I really look forward to receiving emails from you guys as well and you know maybe even joining you with the global poker Awards when you win your breakout Player of the Year award so we're about to get into the the meat and potatoes of it but I just like you to take a minute and imagine what it would be like to have a six-figure score and really feel that you know how how would your life change if you had a six-figure score and how would your life change if not only did you get a six-figure score but you also had the confidence that you could repeat that result whenever you entered a live tournament to know that every tournament that you entered was a profitable investment and that you were a favorite in the field to not only cash but to win what would life be like if you had that skill set and you were the most confident player on the poker table you know how would you feel about buying into your local main event or the World Series of Poker Main Event how would you feel about not having to play satellites anymore and to be able to buy indirect we're gonna be able to sell pieces if that's what you need because other people believed in your ability to take down that event just kind of connect with that feeling and carry that with you because that is what tonight's presentation is all about so the three big mistakes and why you need to know the reason you need to know about these three mistakes is that these mistakes are costing you chips probably without you even realizing it there's a lot of kind of almost invisible ways to lose money and lose expected value when playing poker that only when someone else points them out do you become wearing black oh I totally do that I didn't realize you know I was losing money they're losing chips there and just how significant those losses were I know I didn't realize there was a lot of places that I was passing up on expected value and missing out on opportunities to gain chips until my mentors pointed it out and said hey if you want to get results you got to change these things you know cuz I came from a background of sit and goes and cash games where it was all about you know being patient selecting your spots but in tournaments where there are antes and you know you're playing for those top three spots you got to get more involved in the action and it requires a different style of play and these situations that we're gonna talk about happen extremely frequently so despite the fact that they may seem like minor details they may seem like very small amounts of chips being passed up on here and there because these situations happen extremely frequently it makes them actually major issues to not be aware of them and to not be addressing them and another reason you need to know about these three make big mistakes is that when you get these three right it's you know it's about seventy percent of the battle these links are these leaks are slowly but surely sinking your battleship over and over and over and err the reason that you know you're having trouble running deep into the money you're having trouble building a big stack you're having trouble being you know the top stack going on the final table it's because of these three things when you get these three things right everything else will fall into place I learned in a book while I was you know just studying every single thing I could on poker tournaments reading voraciously every piece of content that much of successful tournament plays winning small pots it's about stealing effectively it's about resealing well and Gus Hanson's book every hand revealed really pointed out that winning a tournament has a lot to do with just not bleeding chips and picking up the chips that other people aren't protecting a lot of the big pots play themselves but when you're winning all the small pots you can withstand the variance of getting unlucky in a couple of big pots so a quick thanks to Gus for the insights here and now I'm gonna show you what I learned from this book and my mentors and my what is it now six years of experience firsthand playing poker tournaments so let's get started the three big mistakes most players making small tournaments begin with number one playing to loose especially from early position now this topic we're going to cover over the next few slides but also I go in super in-depth in this in my six hour class my WSOP winning formula this is a breakdown of the system I use to cash the World Series of Poker Main Event for years or in a row starting with that run in 2012 I talk about what hands to play from what position I also talk about when to play wider ranges and tighter ranges from those baseline ranges and I also talk about how to pick up tells on your opponent's which will allow you to adjust your ranges hugely to make the most of profitable spots and get to play way more hands and also to avoid trouble when it's very clear that someone else has been dealt a premium hand and you know when you're playing hands that are on the edge and mainly get their profit from stealing the blinds and everyone else folding well in those situations they become easy folds when you have a tell on your opponent's so more on that in that program now why it's a big deal to play to loose especially from early position the first thing is the positional disadvantage now we're talking about playing out of position post flop as opposed to in position preflop and if you don't know what I'm talking about the positional disadvantage and how much worse it is to be playing out of position post flop as opposed to in position post flop that's okay just write this down in your notes to search grips to Triple Threat on YouTube and you'll find a 45 minute video completely free that has some great graphics on the basics on you know what early position middle position late position out of position is and also talks about the two types of position relative position and absolute position so that's a great supplement if it's your first time hearing about the positional disadvantage and that's some extra study you can do on your own time now the second reason that playing to loose is a big deal is something to do with negative expected value okay so poker is all about making plus a V or positive expected value investments that's how we win in the long game we make a lot of positive expected value investments now when making plays with a negative expected value you're asking to go broke you know it may take a while but little by little every hand you play that shows a negative expected value or every line you take post flop that shows a negative expected value you're putting yourself in a losing trajectory and slowly bleeding chips whereas when you're only making plays with positive expected value and only playing hands that show a positive expected value from the positions you open them you are slowly gaining chips over the long run no I really want to make something clear because I've tried being an it and I've tried being a maniac and I always thought you know the maniacs had more fun and it was cooler to be maniacal and put people at a test and apply a lot of pressure and it just seemed more exciting but what I realized is when I came back to just playing solid ranges from all positions not only did I get more chips I experienced less stress and therefore had more energy because I wasn't out there fighting uphill so the truth is it's easy to play preflop well it's not hard to play preflop well you just need to keep it simple and and just be patient and you want to play profitable hands in the proper positions and when you start with that as your baseline you start with a + e V a positive expected value and you start with an advantage on every betting round of the game and that's how you win when you have a positive expected value your opponent has a negative expected value you own more than your fair share of the pie and with the positional advantage that that that that edge that slice of the pie is only bigger and you just apply that over and over and over again okay so talking a little bit more about positional disadvantage and the dangers of playing out of position so remember every time you act before your opponent you are at a disadvantage this is because poker is a game of imperfect information and in the land of the blind the man with one eye is king when you're out of position you're basically playing blind when you're in position you got to see one more action you're the man with one eye you're King you have you you have an advantage over your opponent every time you act after your opponent you are at an advantage in this game and if you had the choice between being at a disadvantage or an advantage which one would you pick right advantage and and and this applies every single street so it's not just you know on the flop you get the advantage it's the flop turn and river you have the advantage and what do we know about pot grows from my webinar on position is that every street we play the pot gets bigger and that means that having that one extra piece of information that one line of sight that one eye is worth more and more every street because the stakes are bigger so the higher the stakes the more this advantage or disadvantage is magnified and when you're playing out of position you're basically fighting an uphill battle sure you know if you're super strong you may be able to win that battle you know ie having a really good hand but it's gonna be a lot harder when you're fighting uphill you know this is you trying to play out a position find that uphill battle and it wouldn't be that much easier if you were playing in position and you were pushing this Boulder downhill that's just why it's so much easier to win chips playing in position now how big is that Boulder that depends how deep the stacks are but basically when you're playing deep stacked out of position you are pushing a huge boulder up a hill and it is a very difficult task to overcome play your pots in position and the bigger the stacks are when you're playing in position the faster that rock is gonna be rolling down hill and you're gonna be the one benefiting from that snowball effect so let's look at some some expected value to to illustrate this we've talked about the positional advantage and disadvantage and now we're gonna talk about positive versus negative expected value so here are some equity charts this is pulled from poker stove the program is now this is pulled from equi lab the newer version of Poker stove and it's completely free if you just google equi lab you will find the program you can download it I think it's fantastic and what I did here was I took the equities of Ace King on the bottom versus a 50% hand range which is the row above it a 15% hand rage two rows above it and a 10% range which is on the top and the reason I chose these ranges is because when you open under the gun on a nine or ten handed table odds are with you know nine ants to get through a dance to get through someone's gonna have a top 10% hand most of the time when you open from mid position later position you're gonna run into a top 15 to 20% hand most of the time that's what happens when there are five to six people who still have hands odds are one of them's in that top 15 to 20 is percentile and the top 50 the reason I put that is because that's what a lot of players will defend from the blinds a lot of players will defend thirty of 80% of the plot so you'll often be up against this range and it's important to see that when the flop comes down and you know we have that pie which is the pot how much of that pie or pot belongs to you and that's what your equity is so if you have a sking and you're up against a 50% range you own almost two thirds of that pie if you play that hand over and over and over you probably what about two thirds of that pie if you're planning us to fifteen percent range you own about sixty percent of that pie and even against the top 10% range you still own 60% of that pie that's a significant advantage that's what twenty percent advantage difference between the two you know looking at another premium hand like pocket nines against that 50% range you're an even bigger favorite 65% against the top 15% range not quite as strong as ace king but pretty big 58% and against the top 10% range which as you can see is a pretty strong range you can see the actual hands there in the top row they're the ones that were selected you're looking at 54% equity so are you favorite do you own more than half the pot fantastic you're already starting at an advantage and when you're playing strong hands you're gonna win more than 50% of the pot on average so that means for every dollar you put in and your opponent puts a dollar in you're gonna get more than a dollar back and that is a winning proposition now as we move later in position we don't need hands quite as strong as ace king and pocket 9s as I'll show you on later slides but we do need hands that are a favorite to justify playing them and again the tool I used is equal AB I think it's really great write it down download it later thank me later so next up let's look at some marginal mediocre hands which you know is that when I was experimenting with loose play I was opening these hands every time I was dealt them because you know I thought I had to play looser there are antes in there I need to get involved the action mark but I found myself just bleeding chips and having trouble playing out of position and when I ran the numbers I realized why you know is too suited against a 50% range yeah it's favorite but a pretty slight favorite 51% as soon as you're up against that top 15 or top 10% range which is what you're gonna get cold cold by when someone calls you in position you're already starting the hand at a disadvantage for every dollar you put in you're only getting 90 cents back if they can call with the top 15% they call the top 10% for every dollar you put in you're only getting eighty cents back that's not a good long-run proposition is it another marginal hand that a lot of people play from early position because they're like oh I got Delta pair I'm supposed to play a pair of pairs a good hand well again looking at equities a small pair is not that great of a hand against a 50% range or a slight favorite at 52 but as soon as you get into those top 15 top 10 percent ranges even though top 15% has all the pairs you're still an underdog because rarely is fourth pair fifth pair on the river relative to the board gonna be the winner once all the cards are dealt so these are hands that you see we don't really want to open from early or even mid position in a lot of cases because they're a slight underdog against those stronger hands once you get into the cutoff and the button where you only you know you're only likely to get up against the top 25 or 33% of hands you can justify playing these hands because you're gonna have an equity advantage you're also very likely to be in position for the rest of the hand but otherwise and that without that being the case when you're in earlier position you just want to fold these hands because they're gonna be showing a negative expectation the same goes for hands like jack 10 off suit and Broadway hands that can make top pair very often but they're only a favorite against a wide range like that 30% 50% range they're not a favorite against those tighter ranges 10 to 15% and the key is we have this equity hand versus hand but to actually realize the equity we have to get to showdown and get in a showdown is another story so marginal hands when 50% of POD on average if we get to the showdown and it's much easier to realize equity and get to showdown well we are playing in position as opposed to out of position because we can check back flops or we can you know see bet small on the flop check back the turn get to the river we have all these plays like the free card play that we can do in position that we can't do out of position and that's just another reason why playing as many pots as possible in position is critical to your success in poker tournaments and poker in general now negative expected value really getting into it I just took one example here because you know all favourite hands are this so for this example I took seven five stood you know it's one of those pretty hands can make some stretches to make some flushes it's very sneaky it's very disguised and you know those fun Anne's well they're just losing hands even against a 50% range seventy-five suit is an underdog it only has 40% equity and once you get into those stronger ranges 1510 percent it has less than 40 37 34 percent this is a losing hand you're losing a ton of money when you play this hand in heads-up situations especially in early position especially out of position in general these hands should be avoided now most favourite hands your seven five suit is your six three suit it's your queen seven suited I don't know whatever your favorite hand is if it's not aces those favorite hands win less than 50% of the pot on average and it's usually way less than 50% so you may have the question well why have an open 75 suited on the button if it's a losing hand against top 50% range well that's because in position we have a lot of other things going for us we have that ability to control the pot size and manipulate it to get paid off this hannah's low equity but it has high potential for making a strong hand by the river and that's a hand that can extract a lot of value against a wide range now if we're talking speculative hand versus speculative hand the hand that's going to win all the chips versus seven five suit it is a stew suited because in a flush over flush situation the suited ace gets all of it or a seven suited versus seven five so who's gonna get all the money when it comes 7 7 X so the thought that these hands you know will make trips and stuff well we need to ask cool they'll make trips but will I get paid when I hit trips and what hands my getting paid by so this is why we need to be really cautious with these hands especially out of position because it's just not a winning proposition to play these hands and you're setting yourself up for failure by opening these hands into the field into the rest of the table the main takeaway from this is that big cards make big hands and those are the cards that are going to help you build your chip stack and if you just respect the opening range is suggested by myself and by Jonathan little for what hands to open by position you don't throw in these sneaky hands and these favorite hands you're gonna do way better in the long run then you will if you're unable to overcome temptation now comes to playing to loose I know there are some typical justifications like well number one you know I'm just gonna outplay my opponents they have a hard time reading me or number two I'm gonna get paid off on my sneaky and when I hit it right fair fair statements you've probably heard these around your card room before you may have even heard these words uttered from your own mouth I said them before when I didn't know as much about the game as I do now and so my response to that is oh really when it comes to question number one well how are you gonna help play your opponent's when you have worse position and less information and you also have the worst hand and less equity it's a major handicap to overcome if you can tell me how you can overcome those two things which are like two of the three main factors in poker then kudos to you and please teach me how to improve my game as for the second one I'll get paid off when I hit my sneaky hands well how exactly you know first to get paid off you need a strong hand you need your opponent to have a strong hand that you know will give you the implied odds and that would probably mean they're gonna three bet which means you now have to call us three about out of position also to build the pot when you hit your hand you want position want to have control over the pot size you can't be playing out of four this way they have control over the pot size and these days people can read the boards well they can read hands well they know when drawers come in and they know when to slow down so the truth of the matter is usually you you just don't have the implied odds that you might hope you have with a hand like that in fact you actually have a reverse implied odds and so it's really important to recognize am i wanting to play this hand because it's profitable or am i wanting to play this hand because I'm bored and I'm looking for action and if you're coming from the mind if I'm bored and looking for action you're gambling and if you're coming from the mindset I want to play it because of profitable hand you're investing and it's investors that make money in this game and gamblers who fund the investors in their poker pursuits so I really hope that you're more on the side of being an investor than a gambler cuz it's it's just better it may not be as exciting in the moment but it's a lot more satisfying and fulfilling in the long run I promise you let's keep going the three big mistakes most players making small stakes tournaments mistake number one playing too loose especially from early position and number two not defending their blinds properly and effectively yeah this is this is a big one because it's going to spin things a little bit on their head we just talked about not playing too wide and I'm gonna talk to you about how you can play wider but only from this very specific position of the big blind and the reason why is because of odds so how to defend your blinds two methods the first way to defend your blind is defensively which is just calling that's taking your price taking your pots closing the action seeing three cards seeing if you improve great the second way is aggressively which is three betting and you know there's the third option of course of folding but that's not defending that's surrendering it's like you know in blackjack when you get dealt I don't know like a six and the dealer's showing an ace you might want to surrender there which so it's okay with trash when you have a really bad hand in the big blind it's totally fine to fold it's totally fine to surrender but given the odds you're getting in the big blind most hands are playable most hands are justifiable now for both the defensive and aggressive defense notice that I have a star on them and that's because you got to make sure you follow the scientific method when you are defending you're blind you can't just defend you're blind because you feel like you have a game plan you want to follow the scientific method because the scientific method is where the profitability comes from in this game if you don't follow the scientific method you are very likely gonna end up like this guy so take a moment with me and and reflect on you know how often have you lost a huge pot from the blinds with a hand like top hair bad kicker or you know middle pair blind purse blind you know they even worse then then from the blinds like blind versus blind with some light middle bear how often have you grossly over played a hand from that position small blind big blind out of position at least once or twice right I've done it at least once or twice now when it comes to defending the blinds most players do one or the other they either don't defend their blind out enough and they miss out on their odds or they over defend so they'll defend every hand that's dealt to them because they think they're getting a great price but then post-flop they overplay their hand they continue defending really loosely post-flop when they're supposed to tighten up and that's how they end up in this position of WTF did I just do and when they do that they undo the value you know they got that great proposition preflop but then they made a bunch of errors post flop that way out did the value that they got preflop and they're just played incorrectly so fortunately I'm going to teach you how to play correctly from the blinds using some software scientific method defending your big blind so first we got a look at the math pokers a math game it's very important to know your numbers in this game and just maybe you want to save this chart and the chart that's going to come after maybe you want to write it down prtscn whatever works for you but when you are in the big blind facing a raised size of 2 X Simon raised you're getting three and a half to one odds which means you need about 22% equity to break even on your call not 50% 22% that means you can call out of the big blind lose the pot three times out of four and you're still making money if you're facing two and a half times raise you're getting one four to one and a half 27 percent equity required and facing even a 3x raise getting four and a half to two or what happy two point two five to one you need 31% equities so again you could defend your big blind to a 3x raise lose the pot two times out of three and you're still finding an edge there 31 percent 33 percent when you need it 31 now when the antes come into play the odds only get better now facing the two x rays you're getting four and a half to one you only need 18 percent equity to win you only need to win that pot eighteen percent of the time to be profitable facing a two and a half x rays again one and a one and a half to five twenty three percent equity required and facing a three X raise to two five and a half you only need 27 percent equity to show up profits so again even facing these slightly bigger raises if antes are in play you can lose the pot three times out of four and still show a profit so very important these numbers because that's it's just showing you that it's okay to see the flop and fold most of the time even though from a psychological perspective to lose more than half the time seems like it's a mistakes I'm putting in money and I'm and I'm not getting it back half the time that feels like I'm losing more often that I should but because those odds are there this is the difficulty of being a human being sometimes we don't understand numbers that well it's just just the way we're wired we miss out on the fact that oh we were getting odds was actually good play even though from an emotional perspective losing more often than winning percentage wise feels like a loss so you're losing two out of three or three out of four so emotionally it feels like you're losing but mathematically intellectually you're actually winning the crucial concept to get not just for defending the blinds but also for calling correctly on rivers yeah we got the numbers but so what right how does that help you help save you from dunking it off spewing it away when you hit top here with no kicker on the flop right great question great question so got the scientific method this hound of how to f it up we don't want to be doing that so this is Ed Miller's pyramids from pokers 1% where he discusses how to think and play like the one percentile or the 99th percentile in poker who make pretty much all the money you got 10% are waiting players total and then 10% and 10% make all the money and that's pokers 1% and what they're doing is they're following a defensive strategy where they defend the range preflop and then when they face a bet on the flop they fold some hands so they're now defending a smaller range on the flop facing another bat smaller range on the turn and facing bet smaller range on the river they get fewer and fewer hands is they have to invest more and more money that's the strategy and based on the bet sizing they're facing you'd either fold more hands facing a big bet or fold fewer hands facing a small bed and you always want to continue with the best hands that you have as for what they are we're going to look at that on the very next slide now from the blinds it's a different situation because preflop you were getting that really good price so you can defend many more hands than you could regularly you're getting better odds but once the flop comes down you're allowed to throw away a ton of those hands and a lot of people's mistake who over defend the blind is that they take this wider base of defending preflop on the right side but then they follow the pyramidal structure from the left and then they're just too wide the whole way so they have too many hands on the flop they're defending too many hands on the turn they're defending too many hands on the river they're defending and they're continuing with a lot of unprofitable hands but when you're following the scientific method you defend wider preflop because you're getting really good odds the big blind but then you play very solid on the flop because now the stakes are bigger now you're playing multiple streets out of position and you want to have a good hand in that situation so to reiterate in the blinds you get a great price so you can continue with a ton of hands but only because you got great odds and so you don't need to do the same on the flop where you're no longer getting amazing odds when facing a pot size bet for example and yeah where most people get it wrong is they continue to over defend post flop when that's when it's time to tighten up especially out of position if you don't hit a great and I mean great board you can just fold it's not only fine it's correct so scientific method how to do it right we know how to F it up now we want to look at how to do it right so on the left here this is a is from flop Zilla this program here I'm a big fan of this Alex Fitzgerald's a big fan of this he's the one who got me onto it it's awesome program I think it's like 35 dollars and with this program you can list the percentages of hands that you want to look at range you can run it on different boards and see how they hit and you can also put other hands and on the right side which I cut off for this picture that shows how a hand is doing against a range how often the hand is best on the flop that range is best on the flop and how often the hand or range will be best buy the super powerful tool super awesome study cannot more highly recommend it it's great so let's look at some flops on the Left I have a 50% approx defending range which is what a lot of the sharp players are going to be playing from the blinds we're gonna have all pairs almost all aces except for maybe a Stu all suited hands because of their ability to make flushes which are hands that can um you know they're robust they can do well in big pots and then the connectors the broad ways maybe reaching down to the nines and then the true connectors that can make straights and on the right side you'll see all these things like quads full house flush straight three of a kind to pair over pair top pair flush draw 2 card OB SD flush draw pair got shot all that so the purple section at the bottom is the combo the green section is the regular drawers and then the blue section is the made hands or pairs at the very bottom where it says major key you can see how often the range is hid and what I did the range that number is based on what boxes you check so you can see I've checked top pair and better I've checked the strong drawers flush drawers and open Enders and I've checked the combo drawers and that brings us to about twenty nine point four percent with a fifty percent range if you're playing a tighter range this number is going to be way higher the hands gonna hit a strong hand weight more often if you play a wider range it'll be less so now you remember remember these guys the equity we need to continue 22 percent twenty seven thirty one percent and with anti eighteen twenty three twenty seven percent perfect well if we look at the range here is hit twenty nine percent of the time that's pretty much meeting our minimum defense frequency for even facing a 3x raised without aunty we're almost there for without aunty we'd add maybe a couple of pocket pairs below top pair but you can see that we're gonna be able to defend thirty percent of time and we're only calling with top pair and better and our really strong drawers you do not need to continue with your second pairs in your bottom pairs and your gut shots and all those junk hands post flop when you defend it from your big blind you can call with a reasonably wide range because you're getting good odds and look for really good flops where you have top pair better or a strong eight to nine out draw or better you can fold everything else and you're playing correctly and this is with almost a 50% range top pair is thirty percent plus you do this with a thirty percent range or a twenty five percent range you're gonna see that the ranges hit way harder and you don't have to reach down to defend those middle and weak pairs it's only when you defend with a weak hand that you have to add those hands in to be defending correctly so let's look at a few examples shall be because this is a range perspective but I want to show you exactly what individual hands look like so first you know we have seven five suited doing the same selections top pair and better flush drawers and open under in combo drawers you see it's it 26.8% of time so it's about three percent lower than the top fifty percent because seven five just isn't in that top of range and so facing a two and a half x with no ante or a 3x with an T you could defend just your best hands and you're doing fine but if you're calling a 3x no ante or you know you're calling a three and a half x rays you may need to start defending with some middle pears as well just add some of those in there or some of your gut shots to justify defending with a hand like seven five suited but again that's the beautiful thing about this program is you can see exactly what the numbers are and make sure you're hitting that defense frequency you'll see that oh I don't need to go crazy with my defenses because I'm defending more than enough you know if someone's men raising you could you could only defend even half your straight drawers or half your flush draws and your top paramedic you're still defending enough so that's that's where the math is really powerful now let's take a hand like Jack 10 off suit which you know won't make as many flush draws in fact it won't make any flush crosses at all but it's gonna make top pair a lot more often so in this case again just plain top pair and better in the open end straight draws and combo draws already 31.7% you're meeting your minimum defense frequency even facing a 3x raised preflop by just defending top hair and better on the flop it's amazing right and that's because Broadway hands make top pair very often that's what makes King Queen such an awesome defend as opposed to a hand like 8 7 you know eight seven is gonna have to defend some middle pears to be able to justify continue but if you just defend Broadway's you can continue with top hair plus and you're doing fine um so you know you don't need to offend your Jack five off suits and King three off and junk like that alright let's look at ya ace two off suit now this is a interesting one because a lot of people think well I have an ace I'm supposed to defend an ace ace is a good hand but when you look at how often the ranges hit here top pair better 19.6% of time that's low that's dust it's because ace to off cannot flop open-end straight draws it's only got one way to make a stray that's a wheel it cannot flop flush draws because it's not suited and it only flops top here with the ACE and even then it's troublesome the rest time flops bottom pair and ever flops middle pair so ace two officers just a trouble hand and that's why when you're defending your constructor you're defending range you want to play suited aces and and straight drawing hands and Broadway ends the hands that potential because they have playability ace two off suit lacks playability and so it's very hard to defend enough post flop whereas connectors suited hands pairs high cards things like that have a ton of playability well they only ace to Asti you got us where are you gonna find your thirty percent we're at nineteen point six top here we got a reach to play some weak pairs in there to be defending off for some gun shots we don't want to have to be doing that and this is why you can fold the trash in your hands when facing a race but you probably want to call raises in heads up situations with pretty much all you're suited hands and most of your connected hands and all your high card hands if you prioritize pairs high hands connectors and suited hands in your defending range you will have an easy time defending enough and you do not have to put yourself in trouble some situations you just have to remember that it's okay to fold on the flop when you don't hit it hard even though you invested preflop and in terms of building your defending range out because you don't want to go too extreme too fast you don't need to defend super wide right away but I just want to make you aware of how wide you can defend and why mathematically it's not only fine but it's correct and also that it's only correct if you are playing post flop correctly if you're playing incorrectly post flop you're better off not defending wide because you're gonna keep yourself out of trouble I hope that makes sense I found that it didn't make sense until I saw it kind of displayed in front of me with some software and then it made complete sense when all the information was right there on the screen so let's talk a little bit about not to find the blinds of the typical fears and the typical reasons why people don't defend their blinds enough the first one is what if I flop a marginal hand well if you flop a marginal hand as you just saw in a previous slide you check and fold it no shame in that and no profit lost in that number two is well what if I'm short stacked and if you're short stacked then you're gonna want to play more aggressively with your high equity hands like top pairs drawers and gut shots and overs and what I mean by play more aggressively is play them faster just try to get the money in because winning a pot when your opponent bet folds and your very short stock is a huge chip up for you and when you can increase your stack twenty to thirty to fifty percent without a showdown that is one of the biggest gains that you can get in this game and I have a whole section on that in my MTT video guide because it's just this game is all about winning pots without showdown when you can cards are just there to break the ties when you're unable to get the job done with your chips now number three question is well what if I get it in behind and if that if you get in behind then be prepared to double up thirty to forty-five percent of time to an actual playable stack it's pretty rare a hand has less than thirty percent equity against a range you can see that in equal ab you can see that I'm flop Zillah you know I mean vs. aces and Kings only some hands have twenty percent but what opponent do you know that only plays aces and kings but doesn't play Ace King as well so I think when you get it in behind you should be proud you should be excited because I see people do this and I've been this guy you know I'm holding on to my tournament life I thought like Phil Hellmuth I want to be able to say I always get it in with the best hand when I get it in I have the best of it because you know I wanted to satisfy my ego to show myself that I was a good player and I was a smart player I was a responsible player but here's the thing and I got this one from Phil Ivey who's there's got some pretty good results and that's if you're never getting it in bad you're not getting it in enough and you're missing out on winning a ton of pots without showdown which is where it's all where it's at so what I see a lot with tournaments is people kind of acting like their tournament life they're holding on to it but really when they're playing this fashion their tournament life is on a downward trend and it's a matter time before they kind of whittle away and die off anyway but if you're playing in this other fashion you're moving the other direction if you get it in behind you double up well suddenly are at this peak at the top where now you're just cruising and you can use all the weapons at your disposal to pick up chips from the other people who are holding on to their tournament life for dear life not realizing that it ain't worth a whole lot and so I find what the real question is for a lot of people who are afraid to make plays like this what they're really saying is well what do I do if I get a big stack they don't know what to do if they get a big stack because it's more decisions there's more room for error there's also more room for making your opponents make errors and that's where studying the game and just learning how to use all the different tactics makes all the difference so if you have concern um before then get comfortable playing big stack poker and making some big-boy decisions and big-girl decisions too because if you aren't comfortable with making those decisions and playing those deep stack pots and handling pressure how do you ever expect to win a tournament not cash not squeak to the final table but win because that's where all the money is you gotta want to have a big stack you got to do what it takes to get a big stack and be ready and willing to use a big stack properly when you get your hands on it and I go super deep into that in my MTC video guide where I dive into both the five short stack weapons to help you get a big stack and the five big stack weapons to turn that big stack into a top three finishing stack where you get paid now scientific method we've looked at passive defending for the big blind now we're going to look at aggressive defending for the big blind three betting your big blind this is the magic formula that is going to make you all the money in poker tournaments okay get ready you got your pain you're ready write it down I hope so your expected value is x times pot size plus one minus x times stack size times two plus dead money times equity when called can you see what's going on here do you have a guess at what X is hint X is your opponent's folding frequency because when you go all-in and your opponent folds you win what's in the pot whereas when you go all in and your opponent calls you which is the opposite of the times they fold well now you double up your stack because you get your stack plus their stack plus the dead money in the pot and the frequency at which that happened is your equity one called so maybe you have 30% maybe a 40% maybe a 50% but you're gonna have a percent and it's not gonna be like 20 because you're probably gonna be doing this with seven deuce off suit but the most important variable here is the X the fold frequency because it's very significant now this X can unlock a huge amount of profit for you and the only time X doesn't exist is when your opponent is calling with 100 percent of the hands they open and that's just very rare that only happens when either you have no fold equity because you know they make it three blinds and you have five blinds so they're gonna they're gonna call you or if someone's just super tight and opening from early position that's why this play this this rishabh shouldn't be done from early position versus early position very often because those players off tight ranges you want to make this play against players who have wide ish raises ranges okay so got the formula write it down good because we're going to do some work and teach you how to three-bed and I hope you got that formula because I've got a calculator for you okay and this is to really demonstrate something here that this is it just it blew my mind when I finally understood it when I finally clicked it because in cash games no I was trying to make hands and get paid and trying to win money with my cards make a hand and get paid in full but in tournaments because stacks are shallower because big hands are made less frequently because you don't have as much time and the antes are bigger and things happen faster the main thing that's gonna win you a tournament is not your cards it's your chips to succeed in tournaments you have got to believe that the main thing that's gonna win you a tournament is your chips not your cards okay so looking at this calculator here this is ICM Iser another amazing program the cost is eight to twenty dollars a month to planning on the plan you choose I just go with basic option it gives me everything I need and you can punch in stock size raised size person's opening range calling range and then run the numbers so in this situation we are 25 blinds deep facing a 2.2 X open from the button who is opening the top 30% of hands and he's calling with the top 15% so he's calling half the time X is 50% and this is what we should be riche oven with all pairs ace 9 offsuit suited connectors down to 10 9 a safe suited all stood at Broadway's king queen an ace 5 reasonable range if you're not shoving these hands you're missing out on some value I assume that most of you are shoving these hands now let's see what happens when X drops to 67 instead of 50 so instead of column of 15% of hands he's calling with 10 meaning he's folding 20% hands suddenly our shelving reigns gets really wide and it's still profitable the green hands are profitable the red hands are unprofitable and the number below is exactly how many chips its profitable for so if someone's opening the button to point to X with 30% hands and calling with 10% of them you can properly shove any two cards above 1/8 any pair any suited Queen King ace almost any suited jack and a very wide generous range of suited Gabor's and to gamers okay now let's take it one step further and see what happens if they're only calling with the top 5% of hands so X is now 83 you can profitably shove any two cards and even three deuce off suit is showing more than a full big blind of profit why because X is so big in this situation and your chips are getting so much job done and it's working so often that the cards just don't matter you're only getting into that right side of the equation seventeen percent of the time and even when you get there you're gonna win about 1/3 of the time that you get there so you can shove anything in this spot and this is when we're dealing with an opener who plays 30 percent of hands imagine if someone is opening 50 70 100 percent of hands which big stacks often do on bubbles I'm how much more profitable it's gonna be - chef extremely wide on 25 lines and that's a lot of blinds to shoving you know 25 is on the high end of a reshef stack now let's switch it up to 15 big blinds which is kind of the sweet spot for a rishabh stack because of that huge reward that 30% chip up I kind of hinted at earlier that we're going after we're looking for so in this spot same situation player opens 2.2 X 30% opening range 16% calling range so he's defending half the time to is open on 15 blinds you can still shove any ace any pair any suited King ace pretty much any suited Queen Jack suited gap errs any two cards above name you can shove super wide because the risk to reward ratio is so good X is 50 now let's switch it to a 10% defending range where X is 67 you shove any two cards profitably profitably because you have that perfect reshef stack size 15-month and this players just folding too much of the time after they open and most players are going to be doing that some are really sharp players if both players every chef stack might only open 15% planning to call with all 15 of it known as a low raise fold gap that's just not gonna happen that often so recognize this is against e yeah I could do this with top 5% but there's no point you already see that you can shove with any two and it's against a pretty tight opener from late position 30% from late position is pretty tight you make it 50 70 or more you're just printing money printing money by making this plain you're getting the job done with your chips but I caution you to just do this freely because you got to recognize that everything that matters here is the opponent's range we're looking at a late position opener whereas an early position openers another story an early position opener is gonna have that top 10 15 20 percent range where they're gonna be defending enough and that's why you shouldn't run this play against early position openers and tight players your opponent's ranges both their opening range and they're continuing range which you can play with on ICM eyes are everything and the beautiful thing about ICM is you can take with the opening range the defending range and the raised size and the stack size to find exactly what the sweet spots are and your minds just going to be blown you at all the profitable spots you're gonna unlock through doing this kind of study yeah I know that's what happened to me so let's get stacking the three big mistakes most players make in small state tournaments mistake number one playing to loose especially from early position mistake number two not defending their blinds properly and effectively and mistake number three miss playing the bubble after studying with Calvin Anderson and Tony Gregg in 2016 I came back and played a live tournament and I brought some I brought some new things to the mix with some bubble play I'd learned from Calvin and using a big stack to play loose and apply a lot of pressure on the bubble and that got me into the money with an even bigger stack and I did the same when I had a big stack going to the final table bubble and guess what happened I won the tournament well as I told you on the first lie technically we chopped it when I had the chip lead so I got the most money but I ended up finishing third on paper hence the 95 instead of the 162 but as far as I'm concerned I won the tournament I got the most money and I never would have had this result if I played my usual style on the bubble because I was missing out on the most lucrative part of the tournament which is the bubble and I was failing to use my chips to pick up more chips when they were the most valuable most powerful they would be the entire tournament on the bubble by the way in this program a life-changing score I review every single hand from that WPT Niagara run I went on and I go over my pregame postgame and break time routines as well which were all essential elements to getting the result that I did because it's not just how you play your cards on the table it's how you play your cards and make your decisions off the table as well that leads to getting big wins and life-changing scores so how most people play the bubble well how most people miss play the bubble first way most people miss play it is either playing to cache which is folding everything you know just trying to squeeze every little penny and get every little dime they can because they just want to get to the money you know that old saying I'll get to the money I'll cash and then I'll loosen up then I'll play cool you and everyone else and you know I get it we're all human we want money money equates to survive all money equates to getting a lot of things there's nothing wrong with that it's just know that when you're playing to get that little bit of money you're often missing out on the opportunity to get the big money the life-changing money that could completely reinvent your entire paradigm instead of keep you maintaining the status quo that you're at and know that when you're playing the strategy it's very obvious and it's really easy for other people to exploit it and what you're giving up is what's getting them big stacks and the big scores the people who are playing just to cash all the time are never getting the win and the people who are taking advantage of the people who are playing cash are the people you see with the big stacks in the money on the final table get in the wins the other way that people miss play the bubble is mindless aggression just playing to win right now they're thinking that the bubble is the time to win the tournament no matter what their stock size is they see when the bubble approaches it's time to go crazy and the bubble is a great time to amp up the aggression when the right factors are in place but it should still be done within reason or else you can get really hurt kind of like skydiving without a parachute and you know what they say about chip stacks in the hands of reckless players the bigger they are the harder they fall and the bigger the feeling of regret is afterwards as well if you've ever had a big stack in a tournament and lost it you probably know what I'm talking about it doesn't feel good and it can haunt you for a long time but you know you're playing correct and following the right factors you don't have those feelings of self-doubt anymore because you can run the numbers and ensure you made the right play so talk about how professionals cash in on the bubble that's what I learned from some of the greatest minds in the game pros consider the following four factors on the bubble to help them make the most plus EB play and I want to invite you in your next tournament be it online or live to pay attention to all of these things okay all of these things factor one stack size and opponents stack size every single opponents on your table stack size matters if you're big and they're small amp it up if you're small in their big chill it out number two the closer how many players are mania until the bubble bursts the closer you get to the bubble the more you should dial it up or dial it down based on what you found in factor 1 factor 3 is the payout structure of the event how much is a min cash versus a max cash really matters what is the multiplier here and the smaller the gap between the two the more important cashing is think like you know a sit and go where first is only 2 to 2.5 times what second place gets paid and versus a big field tournament where first can be a hundred times what second is and the thing is if you come from sitting goes like I did you have the caching mentality because it's important to cache the tournament and then I play to win correct but in an M TT where first place pays way more caching doesn't matter and that's why I sucked at multi table tournaments at first because I had that min cache mentality that would give me in the money a lot of times but slowly and steadily I was losing my money on my buy ins because I wasn't playing correct tournament strategy which is going for it when you have the chips to do so and factor number four the total number of chips in play because the percentage of chips in play matters an example of this there was a time in the 2014 World Series of Poker where I'd like five blinds on the bubble I was under the gun one we were hand for hand one away from the money and I knew we were in the money next hand I'd literally make $18,000 to buy ins if I just waited a hand so I said you know I'll fold Queens if I get Queens and I meant it that's exactly what I got I got I got two queens in my crown I actually gonna fold Queens found five blinds like what I might not have any fold equity after this and I'm like yeah but if I put this in and get called even if I'm a 70% favor I'm gonna make no money 30% of time and if I just fold it I'm gonna make eighteen thousand a hundred percent of time and I thought well okay well caching with five bigs is important but what about my chances of winning the Tournament and because even if I doubled if I get the chef's through I have seven blinds if I double up I have eleven and a half blinds but because there's still so many players left and I have such a small percentage of the chips in play whether I have five lines or ten blinds my odds of making it deeper in the payout structure and doubling my payout are very small even if I double up here so in this case cashing is very important and it was correct for me to fold pretty much everything because not cashing 30% of time when I'm guaranteed to cash fight his fault is a huge blunder and so I folded another example is the most recent one cat Niagara where I finished two off the money because with 12 blinds on the button I had Queen Jack suited and I decided that I wanted to play the Hansa Queen Jack suits good-looking hand strong hand favor against two random hands jammed ran into Ace King lost now it's not that I ran a nice King it's not that I lost but it's a question of if I get the chef's through I get from 12 blinds to 14 blinds 14 1/2 how much do I increase my chance of winning the tournament and also do I want to gamble to try to double up to get 25 blinds at this point no I just want to get the shove through now if I'm guaranteed to cash and I can just find another hand in the next orbit or to orbit's anyway why would I even play the hand in the first place afterwards I'm like God could have been raised could have limped Queen Jack suited and a message to Ally and he said dude just fold fold getting the money and then play her hands because the amount of equity you gain by picking up those two and a half blinds is meaningless compared to the importance of cash when you're literally two players off the money and it's not for a huge percentage of the chips in play so sometimes it's not worth the risk and by looking at all these factors in order you'll be able to make your decisions correctly now I know this is short we don't have time to go into all of X we're getting pretty close to our time here but I dive really deep into this in my MTT video guide my live mt c winning formula and my World Series of Poker winning system because it's such a crucial time in the tournament it's one of your best opportunities to make chips also one of my mentors Mike Wasserman and good friends go super deep into this topic and his program small edges big Offutt and this one of those small edges is just massively exploiting the bubble be at the regular bubble and the final table bubble so how you can cash in on the bubble on the right is a picture of the bubble factor this is a concept that was introduced by Lee Nelson and Tysons tribe in their kill fill series and it just shows at the beginning there's kind of no pressure and as you get farther along the pressure increases until the bubble bursts and then it decreases again and then it rise again going up to the final table and then decreases as everyone's making a lot of money and basically what the bubble factor is is kind of like a multiplier you want to put on a situation when facing a call to skew the odds to actually factor in the bubble factor basically you need to play tighter on the bubble when someone can bust you and to really make the most of bubble you've got to believe all the little details matter and it's worth paying attention to everything that's what poker is all about is getting all the information using it to your advantage when I'm in a live tournament I'm looking at every table on the bubble I'm counting every stack not because I want to know how many more players until I get paid that's only if I'm a very short stack I want to know how many players and how many more hands do I think I'm going to get where I can take advantage of this prime opportunity to make chips and online it's easier because you have to lobby and without this in but without this info you can't play perfectly on the bubble and the closer you get to playing perfect the closer you'll get to making profit and that's what that's what I want for you it's just to make more money every time you play poker okay so when we're looking at the bubble you got to look at it differently as a big stack a middle stack in a short stack all the situations are very unique so as a big stack because you have the highest bubble factor against the other stacks the middle stack has the highest bubble factor against you because you can bust them and the short stack can also be bust by soon when you can bust people their experience higher bubble factor as a big stack you want to go after the middle stack you want to go after the short stack because they're experiencing this hi bubble factor and therefore they need even higher equity in odds to continue against you likewise as a middle stack you want to go after the short stack because they have a high bubble factor against you but the middle stack the big stack does not have a high bubble factor against you because you can't bust him he can bust you and so you want to stay away from him or her now as a short stack the ironic thing is you want to go after the big stack because when the big stack is attacking you to use leverage the bubble factor he's gonna be playing a really wide range and therefore you can get a lot of folds from him using the magic formula that I showed you earlier now key thing about the bubble factors it really comes into play when you are calling the last bet and showing down the cards whether it's preflop or post flop whereas if you can be the Shover preflop or the riche of or preflop and you're gonna get folds a lot of the time the bubble factor is not in play so you know when you get on the on the bubble and you know these big stacks are opening fifty seven hundred percent of hands this is the short stack it's your opportunity to play back at them and take advantage of your fold equity as a micro stack where you have no fold equity and you know you're gonna get called if you're close to the money you should just fold and take your payout your chance of lathering up is very small your chance of busting if you play a hand is very high but your chance of getting paid if you're just patient and cautious is very high and you want to maximize that pay o when you're a short stack whereas when you're big stack you want to maximize your chances of winning no don't play to end up as a micro stack with something that Dan Harrington warned in his book but if some event happens that leaves you being like micro stacked very short it's okay to squeak in and fold your way to the money and again in my MTT video guide I go way deeper in this and you know 5 to 10 minutes on each stack size and in small ledges big profit might goes even deeper into it as well because it's just this is this is your time to shine when you know what you're doing talk a little bit about the multiplier and payouts matter on the left here we have AA Liam Savage when he was playing a super high roller Bowl London and on the right we have Greg Merson and playing the main event so in the super high roller Bowl London main cash was 1.1 million Max couch was 2.6 million and the by him was 300 thousand so we got a max cash that's only two two and a half times the min cash and we have a min cash that is almost four times the buy-in that's huge and it feels like this caching is very important much more so important than going for the win this is when you try to cash and try to win that's exactly what Ali did cash tournament for 1.1 million ended up playing a sick cooler on the last hand where he turned asset and mr. Katz river to flush they were both committed at that point and he end up getting second place but he got a huge payday eight hundred thousand dollar profit almost for buy-ins and one of the biggest buy-in tournaments in the world where is in the main event 2012 where the main cash was twenty thousand and the max cash was eight point five million playing for the win was more important than playing to cash playing for the win and taking chances to build a stack that could be applied on the bubble and get to use that bubble factor as a weapon against other players it's more important than moving up the payout structure with folding so in tournaments where I'm in cash is only one and a half two extra buy-in but the max cash is a hundred or a thousand times you're buying you should be using the bubble as a chance to accumulate chips to propel you deeper into the field and as Charlie Carroll says I was watching in stream last year you said when you have a big stack on a high buying bubble you want to go absolutely Mendte on your punch you wanna go mental on your opponent's and just go insane because people want to cash and you've seen from bubble factor that it's correct if they're close to cash to play for the cash and something remembers that because of satellites even if the bubble doesn't mean a lot to you you're like oh it's 2x my money because of satellites most bubbles feel like big bubbles to people because it may be 20 X 15 X their initial investment because they gotten off a satellite and it's your job as a professional to know who these players are and to take advantage of their perceived need to cash as a chance to build up your stack so that you can cruise through the money section in the tournament and propel yourself to the final table all right congratulations to both the boys by the way it was really awesome watching both these events Hollie on poker go and Greg right there at the Rio one of the best moments of my life sweating then so much fun and I hope one day in the future I'm gonna be sweating you doing the exact same thing I'll be front and center Oh trust me I'll be right there all right so to recap what we learned today so we can get stack in four days the three big mistakes most players make in small stakes tournaments are mistake number one playing to loose especially from early position mistake number two not defending their blinds properly and effectively mistake number three miss playing the bubble and because I'm a nice guy and I like to give and I love to teach her I'd love to share everything I can to give you the best chance of getting results because student successes are what I live for added a bonus one mistake number four which is failing to plan for the marathon at hand which is effectively planning to fail and I'd love to go deep into this topic like I did on the other ones but I'm I'm at my time I'm already over time and I respect your time so I won't take another hour of yours so I hope you enjoyed and took a lot from this information I'd like to ask you a question now would it be okay with you if I told you about the program that I've put together which gives a more comprehensive teaching of everything I introduced tonight including the live MTT system please let me know in the chat box I know some of you are tight on time but I promise this won't take five to 10 minutes max and we've already had an incredible 75 minutes so what's 5 to 10 minutes more I've got some sure please do Evan yes yes of course mate thank you sure sure let us know yes yes if you're talking I'm listening yep yes would love it sure of course go for it do it okay cool we're gonna do it I'm gonna tell you guys about ooh the ultimate grips MTT bundle and also for all you guys and girls were nice enough to stick around tonight appreciate all you I'm also going to take questions afterwards so I'm going to tell you about the program that I put together and I'll field your questions so if you have questions from earlier you know you wrote them down get them ready and I'll get to them in about 5-10 minutes and I'll happily stay on for a stand for as long as you guys want pretty much to answer your questions yes I'm loving this and yeah I love to keep going okay so let me present the ultimate scripts MTT bundle in partnership with Jonathan little and the great people at poker coaching com I created the ultimate grips bundle and the ultimate grips bundle is a compilation of all my best training programs from over the years and it is for anyone who wants to master the fundamentals of both cash game poker and tournament poker and eliminate the biggest mistakes that most players make by going deep deep deep onto all these topics so let's take a look at what's inside this 20 plus hour training program known as the ultimate grips bundle first we have the live MTT winning system it's a four-hour training program that I just released this summer in preparation for the World Series of Poker one of my students use this program to ironically cash the online events so I guess the training carries over to online as well it's an inside look at the system I've developed for cashing live main events so consistently these would be the main events at your local casino events at the World Series of Poker or even side events at all those circuit events and wptz and whatnot it's the exact same system I use to win multiple five-digit cashes in tournaments including that 160 $2,000 score at the WPT falls you poker classic it is the ultimate mindset program I have a ton of experience in mental game coaching meditation holistic lifestyle coaching yoga therapy I know mindset it's my favorite topic and I packed everything I had in this program so includes four webinars the first of which is perfecting the pregame the second one which is peak performance poker so once you are in state you can maintain that state and the third one is playing like a champion which is really about going for that win getting that title getting that trophy getting that big payday not just getting that mean cash I also have a bonus webinar which is planning your World Series of Poker trip so you can minimize your cost minimize your time lost and maximize your time at the tables and maximize your odds of winning so live MTT system is a 199 dollar value so the ultimate grips bundle total value 199 and Counting next up we have my WSOP winning formula which is the program I made right after I cashed the main event for the fourth year in a row which was one shy of Ronnie barda's record the all-time record five in a row it's a must-have for all live MTT players it's how I catch the main event four years in a row it's got the art of adjusting to your table which is very important because that's adjusting it terrain that you're battling on it's a mental game masterclass where I've got even more information in there this was fresh off reading thinking Grow Rich so I packed a lot of that stuff in there too really powerful stuff and a peak performance program all in one sweet package in the six hour training program in six parts it includes these seven elements for success in poker and life and there's also three bonus ones it includes how to boost motivation confidence and energy which is you can hear tonight I have a whole lot of it's got how to create a chip accumulation plan going into day two three four five six seven and then how to adapt that plan as the day goes on and you collect more information it's got decision-making tactics to protect your tournament life and it also has my preflop and post flop strategies and the variables that affect them as I said earlier you can know you're starting ranges and deviate from them towards ranges that support you whether it's playing more hands or fewer hands so my WSOP winning formula is also a $200 training program bringing the total value of the ultimate grips training bundle to three hundred ninety-eight dollars next up we have probably my best selling course of all time it was also the first course that I ever made so maybe I have a gift for teaching I don't know lucky me maybe I found my calling this is a 10 part series that explores all aspects of tournaments both live and online when I made this program I wanted it to just be complete well it's just ok here's the foundation you follow this you know exactly how to approach tournaments and how tournaments are different from sit and goes and how tournaments are different from cash games and what you need to know to get results 10 part series that begins with introductory lesson including the mind sets and the main goals for multi-table tournaments parts two three and four we go through early middle and late stage play parts five and six we go through the five weapons of short stack play and the five weapons a big stack play part seven you can see is much longer than the others because it is the most crucial time of the tournament which is the final pay final table where you'll learn how to move up those payout structures and also how to approach bubble play for the final table and adjust for short handed play which is crucial in part eight talk about satellite strategy and how it differs from regular tournament strategy so you can get into more events for cheaper buy-ins part nine I talked about massive field tournaments which is how to adjust those strategies for those high multiplier tournaments like the World Series of Poker Main Event or the poker star Sunday million and finally part ten which was one of my favorite parts is live tournaments talked about a lot of live reads you can get on your opponent's how to profile your opponents and how to apply everything from the first nine lessons to the live setting as well so this was kind of my introduction into live tournaments and then my live MTT winning system and my WSOP winning formula are where I go deeper on live play all told this is a four hour training program so you're going to get my live MTT winning system two hundred our value WSOP winning formula 200 our value and the MCG video got $100 value total value today 497 dollars we got a little bit more a little bit more for my cash game players out there and also because tournament poker is similar to cash games it's just got a couple extra variables so the cash game guide is an e-book that includes everything you need to know to play poker like a pro and this is the second book it's the second book that I wrote and I wrote it after Jonathan littell had invited me to write a chapter and excelling at No Limit Hold'em I wrote kind of the intro there chapter 1 the triple threat six ingredients for a winning form for a winning recipe for poker and I realized I wanted to write more I wanted to write more about preflop I want to write about post flop I want to write about equity I wanted to write about you know how to really think about situations and BET sizing and so I just kept writing I wrote the one chapter for Jonathan and I just kept writing and this ebook was the result so this extensive ebook the cash game guide will teach you the fundamentals and understandings of successful cash gameplay this is a result of me playing cash games full time it's my primary source of income for wow what was it about eight years and also studying tons of videos during that time everything on card runners everything on run at once everything on blue fire poker back when that was a thing deuces cracked I watched them all I even took a $5,000 training program from Aaron Jones and lucky chewy and I bought a one thousand dollar ebook from Cole South let there be range because that's what you had to pay for information back then and this this ebook distills all that information from those programs plus the training videos I watched plus my first-hand experience so it's really awesome and I really enjoyed writing this book so cash game guide is $20 value which adds to the bundle you got the live MTT winning system WSP winning formula the empty video guide and the cash game guide total value five hundred sixteen dollars next we have my first ebook which was the multi table tournament guide and if you've been looking for a comprehensive kick-ass guide twinning poker tournaments look no further this has everything you need to become a great tournament player it's included in this empty guide this was the guide I created for people who didn't feel they were ready to afford in the video MTT guide they didn't think they could justify it so I made this program that included a lot of the key concepts for how to think about tournament play and made it much more accessible at you know nine dollar price so we add that to the mix you got two ebooks to go with the three video training programs and finally I'm adding one more thing to the ultimate grips bundle which is the bankroll building Bible this is my most recent ebook that I wrote just around January just around January so it's a recent 1 2019 edition and it's the 12 commandments for building the bankroll you know you deserve and the reason I wrote this book is because well I realized that well a lot of people I had that I was giving them the strategies and they knew how to play the game well I was getting a lot of emails about people saying you know they were building up their bankroll and and busting it and I realized people were playing too aggressively with their bankroll and they weren't they just weren't respecting the importance of bankroll management because they didn't realize how critical it was to success and that's why I made it the first lesson in the first course I ever did on YouTube is because it's the most important thing and it's what was missing your bankroll is your lifeblood in poker and to honor it is all-important so you know when you're playing outside your bankroll you're flirting with going busto every single session it's a very stressful very intense way to play and if you can't keep your bankroll together then you might as well not even bother with learning poker strategy because all the poker strategy in the world is not going to save you if your bankroll management strategy isn't in place but if you can keep starting bankroll together then you can apply the teachings of all the other training in the program and you can win big so the bankroll building Bible truly is the foundation that all other knowledge should be built upon and it's it's a great read it's like 50 pages super quick super breezy you can blaze through it in like a couple hours and so I'm adding that to the bundles so what you're gonna get the complete grips ultimate MTT bundle includes the live MTT winning system $199 value my World Series of Poker winning formula $199 value the MTT video guide $99 value cash game guide $19 value the multi table tournament guide a nine dollar value the bankroll building Bible nine dollar value total value of 534 dollars this is what these courses all sell for in my store now let me ask you a question if all this did this program would give you a solid grasp of the fundamentals of Poker and tournament poker would it be worth it and if all this did was help you make just one deep run in your local hundred dollar $200 $500 thousand dollar main event and get deeper in the payout structure make more money would it be worth it and if all this program did was help you play with more confidence focus and energy so that you can play your a game more often and have the energy to hop back in there the next day to play the next tournament would it be worth it see we got some yeses in the chat got some of course so you know that's that's why I put this together because I realized you know as much as I love my programs I think they're great one thing was missing and it was that they weren't all together and so that's why I'm really thankful to Jonathan and the guys at poker coaching premium who suggested that I put everything together and just put it in one solid package so that it just covers all the bases so it's back to suit back-to-school season and I want to see you get back to stacking so that's why today in partnership with poker coaching com most grateful to them we are offering this bundle the Grips ultimate MTT bundle which includes the live MTT winning system junior dollar value my WSP winning formula at 200 ollar course MC video guide hundred dollar course cash game guide $20 eBook multi stable tournament guide $10 ebook and the bankroll building Bible ten dollar ebook total value 534 and you can get everything now for just 99 bucks 99 dollars that's four hundred thirty-five dollars in saving that's over 80 percent off the price that I normally charge for these courses and I think I think I could be wrong but I think they may even have some more bonus at the website so if you check out poker coaching com forward slash grips bundle you can see the offer and see what other extra items they may have thrown into the mix and yeah to get that discount just use the coupon code grips GRI P sed and you will get the maximum discount you can get all this for less than $100 and that wraps up my presentation so I am more than happy to field your questions now if you have any questions or comments please put them in the chat box and let's get stacking yes fed lana asks how do I join your program hit up that website poker coaching com forward slash grips to bundle I'm gonna have to maximize this question box there are a lot coming up okay Kevin says I am the director of a sales and marketing for a digital media agency if you ever want to trade professional expertise please email me okay I'll take a note of your email Kevin we'll save that for later maybe we can maybe we can chitchat hope you enjoyed my presentation sir Jerry says folding big blind to a gutshot seems weak and losing out on big implied odds on the flop well okay so two considerations when it comes to that if you are dealing with a tight range then correct calling with gut shots is a good idea because you have implied odds in you're likely to get paid well we were looking at in this presentation was mostly situations where we are facing a wide range and therefore our opponents don't have a hand that's likely to pay us off when we make our hand in that case we're opponent is very unlikely to have a hand we're gonna make our money by getting them to fold and fold out their equity in the pot fold out their share of the pot which is why if we're gonna play on with hands we want to play by cheque raising and we only need to continue with straw we can Bluff with all our weekends and call with all our strong hands or as if our opponent has a very strong range by all means it's fine to fast play our strong hands and slow play our weekends you know take one off but if we don't hit our hand on the turn and our opponent doesn't give us a free river generally it's going to be correct you check fold on the term because the price is too expensive so again implied odds depend on how strong your opponents range is and how likely they are to make a big hand when you make your hand or how likely they are to already have a big hand in absence of those being true most your money is gonna come from either check raising them off their hands or just floating and then taking it away on later streets yeah but then we're not playing for the implied odds we're just playing for our bluff equity Omar says got to go win this tourney thanks coach well I guess I'll catch this on the replay you're welcome brother I hope you took what you learned you went out there and you got stacking Douglas says hey Evan does this method help you in cash games thanks for all your info very helpful yes Douglas this stuff definitely applies to cash games so the stuff we talked about on bubble factor does not apply to cash games because bubble factors not a thing but the stuff we talked about on the defending frequency from the blinds and what percentage of hands to continue post-flop definitely apply so if you take that chart for no aunty defense frequencies that applies completely and also while the reshef stuff would only come into play if you're playing against the short stack which there aren't a ton of but also just the equity in general yes and the stuff about fighting the uphill battle yes I cover a lot more of this in my triple threat series but yeah the position stuff applies completely the minimum defense frequencies apply completely the only thing that doesn't carry over to cash games is the bubble factor stuff and the short stack stuff I'm says what is the best way to play heads up get to know your opponent very well profile your opponent and then try to figure out the best strategy to play against them I remember I watched a training series on deuces cracked by Jay Rosencrantz back when he was crushing the heads up games series called pretty rating and he basically profiled every single opponent that was the different types you'd run into and how to beat them you know how to trap them how to put pressure on them and all that good stuff and I don't think that series is around anymore because well the site got sold and went under but fortunately when I made my first course on YouTube how to win at poker complete course which is completely free I have I included a section on the five different player types you're gonna run into and how to play against them and a lot of the information carried over so I would study the five videos I have on how to play against Nitz tags lags mice and loose passive players and then I would just practice a lot if I were you Adam the best way to learn how to do something is to practice it and then study and practice and study and practice and study so just get a lot of reps in play some small stakes where you're comfortable with the money that you're risking and then you'll be able to think about things from a strategic perspective as opposed to kind of getting wrapped up in emotions which is what happens when we play for too much money so hope that helps Richard recreational player here 3betting from the big blind versus late two-to-three x-rays I know what I should do but fail to execute because of the mental aspect of poker what I call the walk of shame yes knocked out of attorney before cashing yes this thought impacts negatively yes my play would offend my big blind versus three Benny yes when conditions indicate I should three bet just completing any insight to overcome this state of mind yes Richard I love this question so I have a question for you you don't need an answer in the chat you can just think about it do you play poker to feel good you play poker to make friends or do you play poker to make money and regardless of what the answer that question is next question is if it were a perfect world would you play poker to have fun to make friends or to make money and if the answer is to make money even if it's not now but it's what it would be in a perfect world then that gives you the motivation to move towards that and the real key to getting this result is to take the ego and emotions away from the game ego can get us into a lot of trouble that's where we overplay hands blind versus blinds we're thinking it's a one-on-one battle and people are testing our wits but it's a math game and it's numbers and when we could take the emotions out of it the fear of what's gonna happen the fear of the feeling then we can make the best decisions and we also know that you know feelings come and go but results are permanent and you know you can think of you know the the walk of shame the fear of what's it going to feel like if I have to walk out and people say I didn't cash but what would it feel like if you'll want what would it feel like if your three back got through what'd it feel like there and you know humans negative feelings are stronger than positive feelings so we're more fearful of doing something that hurts then moving towards something that feels good which is why it's better to just take the emotions out of it altogether but it is worth considering the other side of the coin too so the best advice I can give is to just do everything you can to cut the emotions out of it and remember that you're playing a card game you're playing a betting game you're playing a math game and your job is to make the best mathematical decisions as possible and if at the end of the day you go home having made as many correct mathematical decisions as possible you'll be happy you'll feel good about yourself you'll feel proud of your performance because you know you did the right thing and when you start doing that you can separate yourself from the financial results of whether you won or lost and in the short run it may mean you cash less but in the long run it will mean that you make a lot more money because tournaments are a long run game that require Taking Chances going for it in gambling and if you're not willing to take some risk that's ok too but then you'd probably be better off you know playing tennis or you know golf then poker and that's the things to consider so I hope that helps I hope that gives you a few things to think about a few things to look at the main piece of advice though is just call a spade a spade poker is a math game it's not a test of you know who's the man who can feel the best or some emotional thing it's just a math game and we're trying to take advantage of other people's psychology as opposed to letting our own psychology take advantage of us and when you do that you'll feel good because hey hey brother it's more fun when you win and when you're playing like that you're gonna win more often Adam asked is it possible to get a copy of this webinar I'm not sure I would speak to the guys at poker coaching email support at poker coaching com to ask them they often put up the replays so my guess would be yes but I can't say with a hundred percent certainty so I would email them to find out Adam Granville says thanks several really good points several are not intuitive thanks brother I completely agree the software is really just what blew my mind when I saw the numbers in front of me I'm like okay well I can argue with opinions and ideas but I can't argue with mathematics and numbers and when I saw I'm just like okay this is this is the way this is the correct way to play and it's when I started playing that way fall of 2015 that it really started getting results if you look at my online results from fall 2015 onward you'll see they are a lot better than they were prior to JEP budget Joe says how do you handle multiple four to one favorite losses in a row that destroys your MTT stack I remind myself that shi t happens and then I put myself in a state to remember how lucky I am to even be getting to play this game in the first place and I get into a state of gratitude and I put myself into a positive state because obviously losing those things is frustrating and disappointing and it's not fun and it's easy to get into a negative thought pattern as a result of it you know entitlement comes in I deserve to win that PHA and playing great I should get all these results that's that's fair to think that way but being in a negative mindset doesn't serve you in the long run so I just immediately refer back to a state of gratitude and I put things in perspective that even if things aren't going great in this tournament I'm still in the tournament I still have a chance to play I'm still doing well enough in life that I get to play poker at all live in a country where you know pokers legal in live settings and I realize you know I've got things pretty good and I say okay what's my stack size what's my situation what's my position what my play and I play from there and I always just bring myself back to what is my stack size what is my position in the field was my position on the table what are my cards I go through my preflop checklist and I get to work by the way if you haven't heard about my preflop checklist search it up on YouTube it's my most watched video of all times 420 thousand views or something and it is the factors to consider other than your cards in fact prior to your cards before entering a pot and deciding what you want to play so hope that helps JP budget Joe and I can also say I feel you I feel you it's it's not enjoyable it's not fun but it's part of what we sign up for and being able to be resilient in those situations when other people are not able to be resilient in those situations is going to give you another edge in the long run because it's not how you do day-to-day that matters it's how you do relative to the other players if they were in the same situation as you and if you play a situation be it a card situation or a mental game situation better than your opponent's would have in the same situation in the long run you'll gain because one day you're gonna win multiple four to one underdog situations in a row and the guy across table might not be able to deal with it and he'll blow off some extra chips but you my friend won't so take take the long view and reconnect with gratitude okay daniel says as a regular member non-member PC do I already have access to these nope no these are all these are all products from my website grips calm that the guys at poker coaching reached out and said hey do you want a part do a partnership do you want to offer your stuff to our community I said 100% love the poker coaching community I've had nothing but good experiences since I started doing videos for them and so we put together this package of all my old products and new products the mix of the the olds and the news so as a poker coaching premium member you'll have access to my series the triple threat my three-part series the triple threat which is like hour-long webinar each on position selection and aggression but for non-premium I don't think you have access to that and premium or non premium no one no one is gifted access to these that was one part of the deal was I gave them permission to sell this stuff in their store but they couldn't just give it away because I worked really hard to create these products and you know I need to be supported for the effort I put in so I can put food on the table and pay my rent and buy into my tournaments go on my trips whatever it is that I feel so inclined to do get my massages talk to my therapist visit my parents visit my sister help pay for my nephew school things like that so that was the deal we set up and so they're gonna be available in store but they will not be part of the memberships kevin says loved it I've been grinding and learning and caching lately but no I am leaving much money behind i bubble way too much in tourneys our main cash to to plan too tight well Kevin I'm really glad you tuned in today I hope that bubble stuff was really eye-opening for you and made sense and showed you both how to play the bubble here the short stack but how to take advantage of other people when they are the short stack and that's the real beauty of it is when you know how to play the big stack you take advantage of that opportunity when it comes to you're not always gonna have a big stack but at least when you do you'll make the most of the opportunity and when you're short or micro stack you'll also make the most of that opportunity too even if it just means being cashing as opposed to not cashing cuz you know all those min cash is out up - David asks will you be making this available that download as a podcast to listen to also interested in what you do on break that you see as vital my routine is to go to the restroom and that's it yeah that's where it's not included in this pack but I believe in the membership the course I did with jonathan is included a life-changing score the hand by hand recap of my WPT run that when I've got everything I do on breaks pregame postgame and during the game as well so check that out if you already a member you may have access to them not a hundred percent but if not I'll see I'll see if maybe Dan can like throw it in as like a bonus or something with this program so you can get that because like man the the break time routine is everything that 10 to 15 to 20 minutes is so precious it's very important to just clear your mind and process everything that happened earlier on so you can go in fresh as opposed to carrying accumulated emotions or tilt or frustration and so I find it's very important to get away from other people and just just relax sometimes talking to myself is a way to kind of talk through my thoughts and get it out but I find if I go and talk to other people then I just have their crap in my head too and I don't want that so Jonathan I wrapped about that for about 20 minutes and the five pillars of peak performance poker - and its really helpful and then the dinner breaks just an even bigger one like my secret weapon on dinner breaks is taking a nap and then meditation and intention setting and I go through that deeply in that program so so definitely check it out life-changing tournament score now as we asked how do you calculate your big blinds post ante for things like push fold are using em just a big blind amount of something else I generally do I kind of check in on my M every orbit and then just for ease I just count how many big blinds that I have I just find it's an easier thing to keep track of yeah I just do that and then I try to keep a loose idea of what everyone else's stack is so definitely on breaks I'll count everyone else to stack on the table so I have that baseline and then I'll pay attention during the level to you know see who's chipping up or who's tripping down so if a general idea of kind of where everyone's at yeah I just find keep track of big blinds is easiest and the more frequently you do it it's very helpful because it ensures you're keeping your head in the game it keeps you very present any activity you can do that involves you know keeping track of something keeps your mind in the game keeps you attentive and that's um that's what's going to keep you sharp and making better decisions than your opponent's Grandville asks any notable differences to small casino daily attorneys that are very fast structured or changes yeah in those tournaments where the structure is very fast there's a lot of incentive to play more aggressively to try to build a bigger stack early because when this structure never really speeds up and everyone ends up really short on the bubble people get really shortened those things you have an opportunity to pick up so many chips by just raising the blinds and applying that pressure on the bubble so since the bubble factor is really high there's a lot of incentive to building up a big stack early and then the other adjustment in those tournaments if you have not built a big stack is that caching is often gonna be fairly valuable relative to winning because the multiplier is low typically you know you get a term of 50 100 people top prize is not gonna be hundreds of buy-ins so caching has more value than it would you know in a term of a thousand people but because they get so shallow I like to take advantage of those early levels to play a lot of hands and try to build a stack especially if it's a reentry tournament because having chips when everyone else is shallow and everyone else is correctly playing to cash is an opportunity to just pick up a stack through just min racing the blinds that will allow you to cruise to the final table and you know get to that deal-making portion of the term and also the fact that people are more willing to make deals in tournaments like that means making the final table or making the top 5 with just an average stack or a small stack is more valuable than it would be in a bigger tournament tougher field tournament where people aren't as inclined to chop because suddenly just getting to fifth might get you an even chop whereas in another tournament you know you get to fifth five handed left with a short stack you're not gonna get a favorable deal so those the adjustments I offer you Granville Carlos says I had Queens and 40 blinds and a Big M TT 4 days ago day 1 I raised two opponents call flop with low cards I see that both call turn with small card again no big draws in place I bet larger when opponent full and young regular chefs 70 blinds I folded but I don't but I think I was exploited what do you think umm well generally the hands that people are going you call flop and raise turn as a bluff with especially for a big shove is going to be drawers open and straight draws flush draws and more often it's gonna be combo draws if someone's shoving 70 blinds after calling a CE bet you're raising early okay first off it's a multi-way pot so he's calling with a stronger rein she's not calling with nothing and he's calling your flop in and then shoving over your turn bet I would definitely guess the guy had a set set or two pair if there's no draws possible what else can he have he's not gonna do that with top Harry's I'm gonna do that with the gutter is the spot where I would just check the ego drop the entitlement if I had a big pair I'm supposed to win or if I have to fold a big pair probably got exploited just sometimes it's correct to fold a big pair and when you're facing a line of someone who's calling you and then shoving on you or calling calling and then shoving on you they can usually beat one pair when they do that it's more like if you're shallow stacked and you raised and he shoved over your CE bet now he might just have top pair but when he calls and then shoves especially in a multi-way pot he probably has it people have much stronger hands in multi way pots than they do in heads-up pots so I would guess that you made the correct fold Carlos with the information you gave me Svetlana I just purchased your program thank you is it online or will I get the books you will get download links for the books or they will be available in your members area I'm not sure how Dan's delivering it it's one under the other and the video programs the three video programs will be available in your members area in the poker coaching membership so thank you for the support Svetlana I really appreciate that and I hope you enjoy the content feel free to send me an email Evon at grips calm after you've had a chance to go through the material to let me know your thoughts on it and let me know what shifts you've seen in your game as a result of going through it Chuck asks what is a mice player a mice player is a tight and passive player also you know kind of we type player they play very few hands but even then they fold them fold more hands than they should kind of a the over defender type we talked about on the blind defense section Harleen says understanding being attentive to opponent's play from hand hand is their more specific details that we determine an opponent's opening frequency yeah yeah I talked about that in my winning formula for sure I also talked about that in part 10 of the MTT guide where I talk about the live players the way someone dresses is gonna give away something their mannerisms is gonna give away something and you know generally their inclinations towards action are they watching sports are they engaging in risky behavior like drinking smoking cigarettes on breaks things like that shows a bit more risk inclination another really helpful thing to do is just pay attention to show downs and when you see what hands someone open from a certain position mark that down because if someone opens say I don't know six five suited under the gun you can believe they're opening six seven suited eight seven suited nine eight shooter from one of the gun as well if someone opens King five suited in the hijack or the LoJack you can believe that they're opening all suited kings from that position if you see someone call a raise from early position in early position with six three suited you can guess they're playing all suited connectors and suited gaffers I mean so or if someone like calls are raised with ace to offsuit or they open ace five offsuit in middle position that's a big thing to note so note the hands you see it show down and when you see a hand that's really low just assume they're raising that and everything above that as well and you'll slowly be able to profile just how wide someone's opening frequency is and you'll also be able to notice if their position alia where are they playing seems like any suited hand from any position cool they're an extremely loose maniacal player are they showing down you know nine two suited but only on the button and under the gun they seem pretty tight okay they're positionally aware and they're just widening the range in position as opposed to just playing wide from all positions so pay attention to what hands they're showing down but also what position they're opening from and that will help you their baseline opening frequency and from there you know just just observe your opponents and the information will come i'm k says thank you sir you are welcome Joel James says thanks for the dedication take time to do this webinar you're welcome Richard says something to do retired fun then a woot woot helps a lot thanks you're welcome brother ok ok you're answering the questions there you go dollars alright Richard your minimum defense frequency and frequency to continue as example using flotilla is drastically lower than what Jael teaches which is usually close katene seventy percent remaining range on each street usually including backdoor draws not speak many pairs or teaching these to be in contradiction to jails Heller's approach Richard that was giving you a baseline just like maximum safety perspective it's if you go all the way there you're gonna be okay now what they're referring to with going that seventy percent continuing from flop to turn to river and all that is assuming you're facing a half pot to a pot size bet where you're getting good odds on the flop and you're getting good odds on the turn so you can defend a good portion of your range and you're still gonna be doing fine what I was showing is that very very minimum just based on what you contained with preflop with the odds to get to the flop is still going to be fine and what they're showing you at that seventy percent defend is basically the other side of the spectrum which is how loose you can defend with it still being profitable so they showed you the loose end of the spectrum I showed you the tight end of the spectrum and if you play anywhere in the middle of that spectrum you're going to be doing fine and you're going to be seen a profit I'll double check with Johnathan to be sure because I know his approach Dino Miller support approach I've gone through his course pokers one percent as well as this book so I'll have a convo with them but I'm quite confident that there's is the as loose as possible approach without it being too loose and - the as tight as possible approach without it being too tight and anything in the middle of that is just fine Carlos says do you do private coaching does it include technical and mind coaching how much do you charge thank you yes I you private coaching all the information is available on my website grips comm GRI PS CD comm forward slash coaching I do 45 minute sessions for $100 and 90-minute sessions for $200 so typically the first sessions 45 minutes we kind of go through everything you need I give you an intake form you answer all these questions we get clear on your goals what you want from poker how I can best serve you whether it's in mental game coaching or strategic coaching playing in the directions of programs that will support you in your study practice and then you decide if you want to do one-hour sessions or two-hour sessions and we rock with that and also if you're interested in doing multiple sessions like buying five pack of sessions I also do offer a discount for that and for more info on that you can just email me Evan evn at grips GRI PS IDI calm okay Daniel says well buy this as many points resonate to my game thanks Daniel appreciate the support brother means a lot man thank you Graham Bell cool all your material I've experienced has been valuable thanks brother you are welcome Granville thanks for tuning into all the webinars man it's a pleasure to have you here Douglas also asks do you do private coaching as I mentioned just a minute ago the answer is yes Nazareth thanks for everything Evan you are welcome Chuck do you include antes in calculating number of big blinds no I just count my number of big blinds and yeah I don't factor it in if I'm doing em and I want to get really tight with my ranges then you know I would include the ante in there to figure out what my M is but at this point I've looked at so many shove charts and played so many short stacks in online tournaments that I have a pretty good feel for what I can shove with from all the positions ranging from you know five blinds up to thirty blinds because you know you can open shove a pair of two's for 30 blinds on the button you might not always want to do it but you can show some profit does the temperate MTT video guide include now common big blind anti structure no when I made the MTT video guide big blind aunty didn't exist but the size of the auntie is still the same so in terms of adjusting to aunty versus non auntie the information is going to carry over it's just assuming that everyone puts in a point one BB aunty which back in the day would have been called a large aunty JP says really appreciate your time it's very much worth it thanks for tuning in man appreciate it was a pleasure to do this Arlene thanks very much you are most welcome Granville just haven't seen who is position since been valuable every additional be me all the information counts every little bit adds up that's what makes all the difference in this game the more you pay attention the more information you have the more of an advantage we have all your opponents and the more money you're gonna make it's just that simple Richard says thank you I'll be purchasing your bundle you are welcome brother and thank you so much for the support really hope you enjoy the material man it's it's fun and it's got the same kind of energy the same kind of vibe that you got in tonight's presentation I just I just love teaching poker I love teaching I love this game I've just got so much knowledge that I love to share and like this is what I do have for is because they're people out there like yourself who are as excited to learn it as I was when I first found it and you know I get to be the excited teacher that's you know I wish I had when I started out Adam says often have trouble figuring out what hands to 3bet light and went to three but for values that mainly opponent based position based in hand base okay so first consideration is what is their opening range and what is their continuing range to a three but because that determines how often your three bets gonna work if they're folding to your three bet more than 67% of the time and you don't have anyone left out behind you you know like they open the small blind you're in the big line you could technically through bet any two cards because you're gonna succeed with your three bet often enough based on the math but because often were three betting from the button because we want to be in position we have a couple hands that can small blind big blind can wake up so we want to be a little bit tighter you know we don't want to go as wide as any two cards also if your opponent is you know calling three about 50% of time they're you know or they're continuing 75% of time now you're gonna need a stronger hand because you're gonna be taken to the streets playing post flop more often so first thing is what's their opening range second is what's their continuing range so how often are they going to fold when they continue what hands do they continue with next consideration is when they continue do they continue by calling or they continue by for betting if they continue by calling you want hand step flop really well you know you're suited connectors suit of broadway's big hands if they continue by for bedding or folding then three betting with blockers becomes a lot of value you know three betting with a a sex hand or a king queen hand because they're only gonna four bet you with those premium hands and blockers jacks plus ace king and typically the a sex blocker so if you have a ACE blocker they're less likely to have an ace in their hands so they're less likely to for bet you so you're three that's going to work more often so you have that that the way your opponent continues determines how you should construct your range now in terms of what hands to three bet you know your value hands typically gonna be Jack's plus ace king is always safe you might want to widen it two 9s plus ace Queen and get in with that against super wide players who would like three bill and five bet with like pairs you can you can do it with ace you can do it 7s plus an ace Jack for value king queen suited and in terms of the hands you want to Bluff with typically the best candidates are your you're suited wheel ace is a stew ace three days four days five so you did you're suited Broadway's because they flop well you know Jack ten suited Queen ten suited King ten suited King Jack suited things like that and some student connectors are okay ten nine suit at nine eight suit at eight seven suit at seven six two d you generally don't want to go too far down if you're dealing with opponents who are continuing to your three bet by for betting or folding you know King Jack is okay blockers King Queens great blockers ACE Jack's great blockers ACE Queens blockers aced hens even okay blockers but you don't really have to take it too wide you know you can be using your better pairs your your better Broadway skin Queens ace Jack plus you're suited Broadway's you're suited ace is and that's gonna get you a pretty wide range you know you could be using just those you're easily hitting a fifteen percent three bet that's already pretty wide the the general consideration when you're kind of constructing a range preflop is often you want to three bow with your best hands you want to call with your next best hands you want to then three bow with the hands that are not quite good enough to call with but too good to fold and then you want to fold everything else so you can ask yourself what is the worst hand I feel comfortable getting it all within with after I three bet that's the bottom of your three betting for value range what is the best hand that I don't quite feel is good enough to call a race with maybe it's a snide suited King nine suited six five suited King ten off Queen Jack off and then you three bet those as a bluff and then you fold everything else so that's kind of a way you can construct your three betting range so that you're not three betting your worst hands but you're also not three betting in the hands that are good enough to continue with my calling so maybe I could do a whole lesson on that one time currently I don't have one but that's that's kind of the theory behind it so yeah the factors are your opponent's range your opponent's range for continuing how your opponent continues which determines what hands you shop and then whether you're in position or out of position and then how deep the stocks are those are like the five considerations to constructing your three betting range okay how about where big blind antes in play I don't quite understand that question doctor says Evan thank you you were the best I always learn a lot from listening to you thank you again you are so welcome Douglas man thanks for tuning in and thanks for this comment in all capitals I can tell just how excited you are man like this is awesome thank you thanks again and Carlos says thank you for your answers I asked a question about private mind and poker coaching and my sound stopped working exactly answered it would you mind repeating again thank you sure Carlos no problem I do offer coaching for both poker and mental game and just lifestyle coaching my rates are $100 for a 45-minute session which is typically what the first session is and then $200 for hour and a half sessions so typically what we do is we have the first session 45-minute session which also involves I sent you a questionnaire you fill out the questionnaire it's got your goals your dreams your vision what you want to get from poker how you want to get there how committed you are who can support you what your obstacles are going to be all the important stuff and then I read through that in my off time in preparation for the session so well our first session is 45 minutes really it's more like an hour and a half because I do all the prep work to read your form and kind of figure out a game plan then we talk through that in the first session and determine if the best course of action is to have multiple sessions with me if you'd be better off working with another coach for specific areas if you want to be studying training material if you want to practice by playing or you want to use the tools whatever it is we kind of map out that plan and then follow up sessions typically I do 90-minute sessions for the follow-ups but people are more than welcome to just book quickies if they just want a 45 minute here and there and for multiple sessions if you book five or more I do also offer discounts so full information about that is available at grips com forward slash coaching or you can email me at Evan evn at grips comm GRI PSE decom and as I mentioned I'm certified yoga teacher and meditation instructor holistic life coach as well as a very experienced poker player and I've also gone through every mental game training program out there on the market and read every book and listen to every book metal game poker so you'll you'll be in good hands 100% okay so thanks again brother you have a great skill of teaching and simplifying of the concepts thanks Adam I really appreciate that man means a lot means a lot I do feel like this is kind of what I'm supposed to be doing in life so it's an honor to get to do it and share it with so many great people like yourselves okay do we have any more questions we're way over time as usual two hours in ten minutes great show a little bit of Marathon right here so open the floor for just kind of last questions or comments Finny wants to share and if we don't we'll wrap it up and if we do you know we can hang for about five more minutes I think then I should probably eat some sleep ten fifteen getting past my bedtime and I want to keep my roommate up you know got to be considerate Chuck says FYI not a question just FYI $99 is the maximum amount that my budget can afford okay social security respect also I think that I already purchased when the included products can't find right now they decided I'll probably purchase your bundle great webinar you too man thanks Chuck thanks Chuck I can say I mean even if you've got one of them that discounts just so absolutely massive that you're still getting like incredible savings by uh taking advantage of bundle like I've I've never offered it at this price ever maybe they suggest some like me and I don't know man that's a big disc like I've just trust us man most the most important thing is not making the most money for every product you sell it's getting as many people as possible to have your content so they can learn from it and get results and give you feedback so you can make more content that will help them know Mike okay that makes sense but normally like the biggest sale the biggest sale ever is like the World Series of Poker sale we do like 50% off so that still be like to sort of be 267 so 99 is just like massive discount I'm still kind of shocked but I'm like it's it's a great deal how do you turn it on steel it's a great deal so and that's it's kind of if I want to teach as many people as possible I should give as good of a deal as possible right so that's what we did here you know thanks Chuck I appreciate the support brother Granville says sign of great teachers to make profound simple the simple profound yes thanks much you are welcome Joseph thank you very much everything was very helpful greets from Brazil greets Carlos at the ocean hi Richard thanks to Nina says how many current coaching clients do you have just working with like three or four guys right now I keep my schedule pretty light doing a lot of work on grips getting grips up and running building that out also doing a lot of work getting my socials going Instagram YouTube getting back on the YouTube grind so my priority is really reaching as many people as possible and I do love private coaching but it also it's a big investment of time and that's actually why I started with YouTube was that I thought if I do one hour of coaching with someone my one hour becomes one hour of value for someone else but if I do a YouTube video and a thousand people see it my one hour of work became a thousand hours of value and that's why you know I felt that doing the YouTube approach and doing the course approach and doing the mass approach was was more valuable to everyone in the long run it was a greater net gain so that's my focus I'll pretty much never turn down a client if they come my way and I think it's a good investment for them sometimes after the first session and it turns out pokers not the best thing for people so I've also like encouraged a lot of people to you know focus on more important things in their life so we do one session that's kind of it but I'm always always happy to do coaching sessions but I don't push it hard you know I'm not out there promoting my coaching trying to get tons of signups because I actually like working on the courses and the social media and stuff and reaching a wider audience and doing webinars like this so it's why my coaching numbers they're not very high but yeah I'm completely fine with that now as rs says your passion for teaching us is inspiring thank you again you are welcome sir chefs let's keep rocking it is it always worth fighting a K in cash tourney games no no sometimes it is not worth fighting a K in cash attorney games I blew out $5,000 in a 5-10 game because there was a Mississippi straddle on and I was living with some tournament players you told me always got again within get it in with ace king especially if it's suited and you're getting in 250 blinds usually your opponent's gonna have Kings Plus so you do not just want to get in with Ace King sometimes you can play it defensively actually if you search how to play Ace King grips you'll find a really sweet youtube video on that where I talk about the fast plane and the slow plane of Ace King and when to do each one having a drink for you great lesson thanks Douglas okay so anyone who buys in to a table or tourney for $100 or more should have no problem buying this I guess I guess that's why they picked this price point there's a reason you aren't consistently winning in these lessons will help thanks give appreciate a myth all right bye brother Knight Grandville thanks tuning in kisses are you still playing catch games daily no no no I'm not playing gosh games daily I go to the casino like once a week once every two weeks you know folks down the business it's my top priority takes a lot of time and I found when I try to do multiple things at the same time both of them suffer and since I really just want to be the best teacher and the best businessman that I can be I'm making that my top priority so I go to the casino you know once a week once every two weeks stay sharp staying rhythm get some reps in get some quizzes for the site but by no means is cash games my daily grind I gave that up it's my daily grind a long time ago and I gave up my MT T's is my daily grind a couple years ago after I had the big score and realized okay now it's for me to study up on health and wellness and yoga and you know addiction recovery and all these things that I think are essential to you know the kind of clients we're gonna be coming my way so I can help them in every way possible I don't want to just be able to help people with their poker game I want to be able to help them with their life game and so that required me to immerse myself fully in other areas which meant less poker but I felt like I had done well enough in poker that it was okay and I still feel sharp every time I go cuz I spend a lot of time studying the content on the side to make sure I'm up to date with the latest trends and that balance works for me Darren says thanks Evan for all that you do you're welcome Darren and Chuck says I buying it now thanks Chuck I think you're gonna love the content man and some really awesome stuff and please please send me an email after you've had a chance to get through the material Evan it grips calm evn @gr IPSC decom and i would love to hear your feedback on it and if you find there's anything anything at all I didn't cover in the programs that you are having trouble with after going through it please included in the email and I'll make sure to include it in you know the next webinar the next teaching Granville says if you have your life right you are much more likely to get your poker right that is exactly our brother my motto is feel your best play your best and right now I feel like I'm doing both speaking of which we're at 10:15 boys and girls it is my bedtime I'm gonna get to sleep so I can keep my circadian rhythm in order I just want to say thank you so much one more time from the bottom of my heart and the top of my brain for tuning in today really hope you enjoyed the material you learned a lot from it you can take these tips to your game and apply them immediately stop making those three big mistakes and start making those three big moves that are gonna make you a whole lot more money thanks for tuning in I'll see you guys for the next webinar and if you want to get in touch you can tweet at me at grips poker on Twitter or to stop by my youtube channel youtube.com forward slash grips I'm even actually giving away a free one-month membership to polka cochem premium to anyone who leaves the comments on my latest video reviewing Jonathan littles cash games so if you want some more free stuff feel free to drop by there leave a comment and I'll let you know tomorrow if you're the winner Carla says it possible to go through all the screws bar materials still not make money in poker MTTs if you actually apply everything in the bundle it's gonna be pretty hard to not make money in Mt T's you just got to put in the volume and apply the science over and over and over it's not guaranteed because you know you gotta put in the volume and do things properly but this is the complete strategy this is the strategy that will get you the results it's just a matter of sticking to it and executing an execution is everything and that's where you know the mental game coaching that I bring to the table really makes a difference and ensures that you're performing at your peak at all times so okay once again guys this has been Evan Jarvis for poker coaching comm thank you so much for tuning in it's been such a pleasure and such a joy and an honor sharing this information with you look forward to hearing from you and look forward to seeing your pictures I had a big stack of chips making those final tables hit me up on Twitter at grips poker look forward to connecting with you and I will see you next time until then you know what to do take what you learn go out there and get stacking the ultimate grips MTT bundle is how we can make it happen peace out