How to Build a Gameplan for Poker — Transcript

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1. 0:00The flop comes jack eight deuce rainbow.
2. 0:02Look at that sweet baby. Wait, that's
3. 0:04not my intro. Breaking. No. Beautiful
4. 0:07human. Do you know what? I'm going to
5. 0:10stop trying so hard. I don't I don't
6. 0:12need to do this stuff that I've seen
7. 0:13other people do at the start of videos.
8. 0:15Like, not all of the audience is going
9. 0:17to be beautiful anyway. So, ugly,
10. 0:19disgusting humans. Welcome to a video
11. 0:22about something that really separates
12. 0:24professionals, experienced poker
13. 0:26players, and alike from aspiring poker
14. 0:29players playing 1 and L.
15. 0:32And that is that the professionals are
16. 0:33carving a path through the game tree for
17. 0:36themselves. They're playing to their
18. 0:37strengths and they are building a poker
19. 0:39persona. That means that they are
20. 0:40getting into situations intentionally in
21. 0:43which they play well and thrive and
22. 0:44avoiding the situations they don't know.
23. 0:47Whereas the amateur poker player will
24. 0:48look up a sim and randomly for bet some
25. 0:50hand and then just be completely lost in
26. 0:52a for bet pot. The first hand and only
27. 0:54hand in fact I'm going to show you today
28. 0:56will shock you. You will not believe how
29. 0:58I played this hand pre flop. But it all
30. 1:01comes down to the poker persona that
31. 1:04I've crafted for myself. The style that
32. 1:06I like to play, I call it the polar
33. 1:08bear. And the reason I call it that is
34. 1:10that it involves polarizing a lot from
35. 1:14the flop and pre flop as well. So pre
36. 1:17flop, I will flat more hands than
37. 1:19normal, leading me to have a more
38. 1:20polarized three-bit range than normal.
39. 1:23Earlier today, I flattated queens in the
40. 1:25small blind. That's right. Turn off the
41. 1:28video. You cannot possibly listen to a
42. 1:29man that flats queens in the small blind
43. 1:31against hijack. Some caveats. Don't do
44. 1:33this against fist. Don't do this against
45. 1:35passive regs that under four bet. Don't
46. 1:37do this at one three live. There's lots
47. 1:39of times when you just have to three bet
48. 1:40this hand. But in principle against a
49. 1:42decent enough rag. This is a valid
50. 1:44choice especially in a high rate game or
51. 1:46pre flop ranked game and I like to go
52. 1:48down this road a lot because I am a
53. 1:50specialist of single race pots as I've
54. 1:51been talking about. I have studied them
55. 1:53to death. It's my strength and so I play
56. 1:55to that strength and I do call this hand
57. 1:57if the circumstances are correct.
58. 1:58Especially if the big blind is a weak
59. 2:00player. I can get them into the pot
60. 2:02rather than just three betting against
61. 2:03the rag and just having like okay EV. I
62. 2:05can actually capitalize on a weak player
63. 2:07behind me. So anyway, we go three-way
64. 2:09here. Goes check, check, check. And on
65. 2:10the ace of diamonds turn, I go for a
66. 2:12small bet. And accuracy in single race
67. 2:14pots is something I pride my game on.
68. 2:16And I feel like although you could bet
69. 2:17bigger here, you could check here, both
70. 2:19options are really wrong. I think
71. 2:21checking is wrong because this is an
72. 2:22unbluffed climate. People do not go
73. 2:24after this enough. This is an extremely
74. 2:25placidly played node where people play
75. 2:27face up and you do not want to bluff
76. 2:29catch or hope to get value from terrible
77. 2:33hands in those nodes. You want to get
78. 2:35value from second best hands. So we bet
79. 2:37small. The other reason we bet small and
80. 2:38not big is that this is a very elastic
81. 2:40node. If somebody has a hand like two
82. 2:42pair here or a bad flush, they can
83. 2:44easily just fold to a big bet because
84. 2:45you've just come out and blasted a four
85. 2:47flush turn three-way and they can easily
86. 2:49fold sixes with a diamond here or
87. 2:51something like that. So when I go small
88. 2:53here, I ensure that I do get a call from
89. 2:56low flushes and two pair and sets sets
90. 2:58of call anyway because of the redraw,
91. 2:59but I ensure a call from two pair and
92. 3:01bad flushes in a climate where people
93. 3:03are quite elastic with these hands in my
94. 3:04opinion. on the river. I think that
95. 3:06elasticity goes away quite a lot,
96. 3:08meaning that people are now just likely
97. 3:10to bluff catch or not if they have a bad
98. 3:12flush here. And I just pick a normal
99. 3:14sizing about seven into 10 like a B70.
100. 3:17If I over bet the spot, I think it gets
101. 3:18really elastic again. I think people are
102. 3:20folding close to range. I think that's a
103. 3:21great idea when you're bluffing. I think
104. 3:23when you've got value hand, you just
105. 3:24want to go kind of small here. Villain
106. 3:25actually folded the hand was a non-
107. 3:27entity. I just wanted to show you that I
108. 3:29flatted queens here because I've
109. 3:31practiced thinking about single race
110. 3:33pots with very wide ranges to death and
111. 3:35I've become good at that. And that is my
112. 3:38that's where my attribute points went,
113. 3:40right? To use a geeky analogy of like an
114. 3:41RPG computer game. I put loads of my
115. 3:43stat points into single race pots and
116. 3:45bigger SPRs and wider ranges. And so I
117. 3:47seek them out and I play to those
118. 3:49strengths. It's that simple. I'm going
119. 3:50to talk to you now about the rest of the
120. 3:52style that I play, this polar bear, and
121. 3:54the other three styles that are
122. 3:55available to you. So you can pick
123. 3:57between them and carve a path for
124. 3:58yourself through the game tree. On the
125. 4:00flop, I will use very big bets. Not on a
126. 4:02paired board like we looked at there.
127. 4:03That's a spot where I actually use one
128. 4:04big blind. But blind versus blind,
129. 4:07button versus big blind. I then play
130. 4:08this very big CB bet style on the flop,
131. 4:12which means that I almost always check
132. 4:13the flop in a lot of cases. Like I might
133. 4:15have an 80% or 70% check back frequency
134. 4:18on the flop and I'm just betting thick
135. 4:20value hands and certain bluffs. They
136. 4:22don't need to be great bluffs, but
137. 4:23certain bluffs and I know where the
138. 4:24thresholds are for these things. I've
139. 4:26studied it to death and began building a
140. 4:28course on it. That's how I construct my
141. 4:30game plan. I seek out single race pots
142. 4:32more than a Sim does and then I play
143. 4:35massive bet or check strategies on flops
144. 4:38that lead me to loads of delayed CB bet
145. 4:40and turn probe and double delayed CB bet
146. 4:43notes. If you don't know what that
147. 4:44means, it's fine. It just means the
148. 4:46stuff that happens after the flop goes
149. 4:47check check. And I've become a
150. 4:48specialist in those turn and river
151. 4:50spots. The other styles that you can
152. 4:52play, there's one that I like to call
153. 4:53the menace. When you play a menace
154. 4:55style, you frequently reopen the action.
155. 4:57So, you bet really small. You bet more
156. 4:58margy hands like thinner for value. You
157. 5:01deny a lot more equity. You cause your
158. 5:03opponent to have to face bets left,
159. 5:05right, and center. You don't bet the
160. 5:06absolute middle of your range for no
161. 5:08reason, but you do just bet a bit more.
162. 5:10That is the menace style. You can study
163. 5:12that way. You can plug in smaller C bets
164. 5:14on the flop and turn and practice
165. 5:16reaching the river having bet twice lot.
166. 5:18Like if you're the menace, you need to
167. 5:20know how to triple barrel a lot because
168. 5:21you're going to bet, flop smaller, turn
169. 5:23smaller, arrive on the river, then you
170. 5:25get really good at river play in that
171. 5:26node. That's another way that you can
172. 5:28build. You can also be the warrior,
173. 5:30which is an allout attack red line style
174. 5:32where you're basically just seeking out
175. 5:34the most confrontational aggressive
176. 5:36lines you can. You're bluffing off
177. 5:38stacks left, right, and center. You're
178. 5:39content with that. You're unsettling
179. 5:41your opponents. You're being a nightmare
180. 5:42to play against. And of course, you
181. 5:44start getting paid off more in the long
182. 5:45term when you play that way. That's not
183. 5:47really my cup of tea. I like to have a
184. 5:48bit more control. I like to sit back and
185. 5:50have wide range spots where I can just
186. 5:52outsmart my opponent in a lower variance
187. 5:54way. That's just like the way I like to
188. 5:56play. But obviously there are times
189. 5:57after Bluff hub stacks in that polar
190. 5:59bear strategy as well. And then the
191. 6:01final way that you can play is something
192. 6:03I call the weasel, which is where you
193. 6:06are intentionally pretty nitty, but
194. 6:08you're a bit of a wolf in sheep's
195. 6:09clothing. You avoid a lot of spots pre
196. 6:12flop that are just meh. They're just
197. 6:13whatever spots. You just stay the hell
198. 6:15away. You've got a lower VPIP EPFR.
199. 6:17You're very selective about which spots
200. 6:19you play, which opponents you tangle
201. 6:20with. You purposefully overfold to three
202. 6:22bets in certain situations under three
203. 6:25bet other situations where you don't
204. 6:26think you've got much of an edge. And
205. 6:28then after the flop, you're going to
206. 6:30just keep pot smaller. You're going to
207. 6:31play smaller bets. You're not going to
208. 6:34play like the giant polar bear strategy.
209. 6:36You're you are going to be bluffing
210. 6:37still sometimes, right? I'm not saying
211. 6:38you're playing like an other net, but
212. 6:40you're just airing on the side of being
213. 6:41super accurate with your value bet game,
214. 6:43with your defense game, and you're
215. 6:45keeping pots a bit smaller. It's a lower
216. 6:47variant style. It's very viable. It's a
217. 6:49blue lining style. Planty aka Luke
218. 6:51Johnson.
219. 6:51>> From my experience, I've done a lot of I
220. 6:53call this bullying [music] basically.
221. 6:54And uh I've done a lot of bullying in my
222. 6:56lifetime. And I just think on the ace
223. 6:59high textures, king high textures. I
224. 7:02just realized what I said.
225. 7:03>> I love it.
226. 7:04>> Uh yeah, I've done so much bullying in
227. 7:06my lifetime
228. 7:06>> and actually recorded a three-part
229. 7:08series for us. It's part of the golden
230. 7:10tier and it is on building hero,
231. 7:12training hero, and beating villain. all
232. 7:14about the options that he thinks you can
233. 7:16take when you're building your poker
234. 7:18persona. Do have a poker persona. Figure
235. 7:20out what you like and what you're good
236. 7:21at. Play to your strengths. Don't just
237. 7:23be a random poker player. That is a key
238. 7:25difference from how professionals think
239. 7:27about the game and how amateurs think
240. 7:30about the game. Amateurs lack a clear
241. 7:32style and direction. I'll leave you with
242. 7:34that thought. Check out Bronze Carrot at
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245. 7:40need and the basic exploits you need to
246. 7:42make an initial surge through the lowest
247. 7:45stakes in poker. If you're playing 5 and
248. 7:47L, 10 and L, 25 and L, this is a really
249. 7:49good place to start with your poker
250. 7:50education before you get into serious
251. 7:52training with silver. And I'll catch you
252. 7:54on the next video. All right, get out of
253. 7:57here, guys. See you later.