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I've seen Hundreds of Poker Graphs. Here's What Each One Means. — Transcript

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  1. 0:00I've seen over 600 real poker graphs in
  2. 0:02my 16-year poker coaching career. I've
  3. 0:05seen students with graphs of all shapes
  4. 0:08and sizes. This one on your screen is
  5. 0:10the most common one, but we're going to
  6. 0:11go over five other ones today as well.
  7. 0:13So, keep watching until we get to your
  8. 0:14graph. I'm going to explain what all of
  9. 0:17these mean and how to improve them. If
  10. 0:19this is your graph, you are in the
  11. 0:20majority of struggling poker players
  12. 0:22with a downward red line, upward blue
  13. 0:23line, and losing green line.
  14. 0:26Rake is something like eight or nine or
  15. 0:2810 or 4,000 BB per 100 if you play on
  16. 0:31Ignition site, and it's it's very
  17. 0:33difficult to win
  18. 0:35in poker because you don't just have to
  19. 0:36be better than the competition, you have
  20. 0:38to be rake plus X better than the
  21. 0:40competition to have win rate X, and that
  22. 0:42is not easy at all. So, it's not that
  23. 0:44these players who are very common
  24. 0:47are terrible at cards. They're actually
  25. 0:49better than most people in their games,
  26. 0:50but they're not better by enough.
  27. 0:52They're not pulverizing the games enough
  28. 0:54to win post-rake. So, if you have this
  29. 0:56graph, first off, don't feel bad. It
  30. 0:58doesn't mean you're below average in
  31. 1:00your game. It just means you're not
  32. 1:01doing enough stuff. You're not making
  33. 1:02enough stuff happen. Most importantly,
  34. 1:05you're not scavenging enough. You're not
  35. 1:07winning enough pots. There's a stat you
  36. 1:10can find in your poker tracker if you
  37. 1:12use PT4 or Holdem Manager or whatever
  38. 1:14called WWSF. That's one win soft flop.
  39. 1:17And graphs like this are usually
  40. 1:19accompanied by a one win soft flop of 46
  41. 1:21or 47. Some cases even 44 or 45.
  42. 1:26This is a stat you want to see around 50
  43. 1:28to 52
  44. 1:30ideally. So, if you can check that out,
  45. 1:31have a look at that. What it comes down
  46. 1:33to is picking up the pots that no one
  47. 1:35wants and using using well-timed
  48. 1:38aggression to make people fold in
  49. 1:41situations where they kind of just shrug
  50. 1:43and move on with their life, you know?
  51. 1:44We're not talking about having to triple
  52. 1:47barrel or check-raise or river all-in or
  53. 1:48use a 4x pot overbet. Yes, those things
  54. 1:51are going to give you a better red line.
  55. 1:53You might do them irresponsibly and
  56. 1:54terribly. It might decimate your blue
  57. 1:55line in the process.
  58. 1:57What we're talking about today
  59. 1:59is just picking up pots left, right, and
  60. 2:01center. There's something I like to do
  61. 2:02in a multi-way pot as an example.
  62. 2:04When it gets to the turn and everybody
  63. 2:06has made a true range capping check, you
  64. 2:09know, they've checked in a way that
  65. 2:11isn't just procedurally checking to an
  66. 2:13aggressor on the flop, your fold equity
  67. 2:15in that spot is through the roof. And
  68. 2:17there's so many situations if you're
  69. 2:19playing low stakes
  70. 2:21where even heads-up, which is meant to
  71. 2:22be a more adversarial context, your
  72. 2:25opponents are check folding
  73. 2:28all the time. If small blind checks to
  74. 2:30you and you play 10 NL, stabbing the
  75. 2:33flop with any two cards is absolutely
  76. 2:35printing money. But how often do you
  77. 2:37just check down and lose with air? Do
  78. 2:39you know the theoretically mandatory
  79. 2:41bluffs that we talk about in the Carrot
  80. 2:42Poker School? If you get silver carrot
  81. 2:44and you embark on grade one of that, you
  82. 2:46will see that there are spots that are
  83. 2:48mandatory to bluff. All bluffs can be
  84. 2:50separated into optional, mandatory, and
  85. 2:53prohibited in theory. And that's before
  86. 2:56you even get to the exploitative side of
  87. 2:57things. So, to fix this graph, you need
  88. 2:59to win way more small and medium pots.
  89. 3:01You need to scavenge more. You need to
  90. 3:03increase your awareness of what is a
  91. 3:05mandatory bluff. It's basically a spot
  92. 3:07where your range is strong and your hand
  93. 3:09is weak, particularly on the river. You
  94. 3:11can counter spots like that. You
  95. 3:12actually have to bluff in theory. It's
  96. 3:14not merely optional. Your opponents are
  97. 3:17over folding naturally and theoretically
  98. 3:19when they're at a range disadvantage.
  99. 3:21So, look out for that. And then
  100. 3:22exploitatively, just all of the pots
  101. 3:23that no one wants. All of the range
  102. 3:25capping checks. Just attack capped
  103. 3:27ranges. Even if you feel a bit naughty
  104. 3:29doing it. Even if you feel a little bit
  105. 3:32sort of self-conscious, like we talked
  106. 3:34about in a recent video about bluffing,
  107. 3:36just bluff into capped ranges and just
  108. 3:37track your fold equity and your red line
  109. 3:39over time and trust the process. Do it
  110. 3:42for a few weeks. Don't worry about it
  111. 3:44and then look at your graph. Don't shy
  112. 3:46away every time your bluffs get called.
  113. 3:48A lot of these players that have this
  114. 3:49graph are just simply not comfortable
  115. 3:52bluffing. They don't like it. It makes
  116. 3:54them feel self-conscious. It makes their
  117. 3:56skin crawl. They need to have a very
  118. 3:58good comfort blanket like a draw to
  119. 4:00bluff or extreme evidence that their
  120. 4:02opponent is weak. There's not enough
  121. 4:04ambition here. So, this is the most
  122. 4:06common graph. So, I've spent 4 minutes
  123. 4:08on it. I'm not going to spend 4 minutes
  124. 4:09on all the others, but let's get on to
  125. 4:11graph number two.
  126. 4:13So, this graph is very similar, but this
  127. 4:17is like a blue lining winning reg rather
  128. 4:19than a a stuck reg. What this player is
  129. 4:22doing a bit better is that they know the
  130. 4:24mandatory bluffs, right? So,
  131. 4:25theoretically, they know where they have
  132. 4:27to bluff. They're probably good at
  133. 4:29exploiting some simple situations like
  134. 4:31the ones we talk about in cash injection
  135. 4:32will get you started. That's 10
  136. 4:34situations part of Silver Carrot, by the
  137. 4:36way, again, that show you where the
  138. 4:38population is grossly unbalanced. So,
  139. 4:41it's low-hanging fruit in the sense that
  140. 4:43if you learn the spots where people are
  141. 4:44very unbalanced, and you exploit them
  142. 4:46there first, you just add a lot to your
  143. 4:48red line and win rate without having to
  144. 4:50care about where people are a little bit
  145. 4:52unbalanced, right? You can get to that
  146. 4:53later. You want to learn the the big
  147. 4:55head lining spots for printing red line
  148. 4:57first.
  149. 4:58So, this student is doing really well.
  150. 5:00They're very good at value betting.
  151. 5:01They're very good at folding. Another
  152. 5:03thing this student's going to be doing
  153. 5:04better than the last one is that their
  154. 5:06blue line is actually better. You might
  155. 5:08not notice that. Your attention might
  156. 5:09just go to the less losing red line, but
  157. 5:11this blue line is better, too, which
  158. 5:13indicates that this student's more
  159. 5:15advanced. They're not getting stacked by
  160. 5:17reaching the river with a hand that
  161. 5:19looks good and feels good in objective
  162. 5:21terms, but it's actually just quite bad.
  163. 5:23And they're making big folds when their
  164. 5:24relative hand strength is way below
  165. 5:27their absolute hand strength. And that
  166. 5:29is important.
  167. 5:31Hopefully, I'm doing okay on this video,
  168. 5:32by the way. I'm just recovering from
  169. 5:34like a stomach bug and norovirus that
  170. 5:36struck the family. So, if I sound a bit
  171. 5:38weird or lacking in energy, that's why.
  172. 5:42Back on the grind though, talking about
  173. 5:43graphs. Here I am. If you want to get
  174. 5:46started for free at Carrot Corner, by
  175. 5:47the way, if you're not yet ready for
  176. 5:49silver or that stuff I talked about, we
  177. 5:50have a free starter kit that's basically
  178. 5:52three videos, 10 minutes long each, to
  179. 5:54help you diagnose your biggest leak.
  180. 5:56These last two graphs we looked at are
  181. 5:57students with what we call green leaks.
  182. 5:59So, that's under-investing, not bluffing
  183. 6:01enough, not putting enough money into
  184. 6:02the pot, missing out on the good stuff,
  185. 6:04basically. So, this student here is
  186. 6:06better at value betting than the last
  187. 6:08one, better at folding than the last
  188. 6:10one, and scavenges more and wins more
  189. 6:12pots, fueling the red line. There's
  190. 6:14nothing wrong with this distribution,
  191. 6:15guys. You can run a winning blue line,
  192. 6:18losing red line distribution, but you
  193. 6:20need to do it in a way where you're
  194. 6:22accurate in both aspects of the game,
  195. 6:24both with value betting and with
  196. 6:26bluffing.
  197. 6:27And the problem with this previous
  198. 6:29student is their red line's losing way,
  199. 6:31way more. Their blue line's not winning
  200. 6:32as as much if you compare these two
  201. 6:34graphs.
  202. 6:35This student here is
  203. 6:37averaging red line by just letting
  204. 6:39things go to showdown. They're the very
  205. 6:41high went to showdown. This student here
  206. 6:42will have a much lower went to showdown
  207. 6:44stat. If you look that one up in PT4,
  208. 6:46your went to showdown should be not
  209. 6:48sprawling upwards into the the mid-30s.
  210. 6:51That would be bad if it's at like 34 or
  211. 6:5336, generally.
  212. 6:55So, yeah. You've just got to fold a lot
  213. 6:56in games where people under-bluff in big
  214. 6:59pots, and you've got to scavenge a lot
  215. 7:00in games where people over-fold in small
  216. 7:02pots. And that is micro stakes and low
  217. 7:04stakes poker in a nutshell.
  218. 7:07>> [snorts]
  219. 7:07>> This graph is
  220. 7:10kind of the
  221. 7:12stereotypical
  222. 7:14tilted, gambly, can't fold
  223. 7:17Davis Life student. I've had quite a lot
  224. 7:19of these over the years.
  225. 7:21If this is your graph, this is not good
  226. 7:23news. I'm sorry. This is like you're
  227. 7:24going to the doctor, and the doctor is
  228. 7:25saying,
  229. 7:26"Okay, would you just take a seat for me
  230. 7:28over there? Just just
  231. 7:30Okay.
  232. 7:32Would you like to just, you know, come
  233. 7:33into this room and we'll just we'll just
  234. 7:34have a chat about the test results?"
  235. 7:37That's very much what's going on here.
  236. 7:38Um
  237. 7:40Yeah, you're really up against it. You
  238. 7:42are defaulting to not folding in big
  239. 7:44pots when your opponents have really
  240. 7:45strong ranges. You're making random bets
  241. 7:48that don't serve any real purpose.
  242. 7:50You're over investing.
  243. 7:52You don't lose much money not at
  244. 7:54showdown because frankly you go to
  245. 7:55showdown all the time or it's your
  246. 7:56opponent that folds.
  247. 7:58And you are very far from a winning
  248. 8:01player if you have this graph shape.
  249. 8:03The straight up red line and even worse
  250. 8:05blue line
  251. 8:07is uncurable sometimes because it comes
  252. 8:09from mental game afflictions that are
  253. 8:11just too great. That when someone rocks
  254. 8:14up on my doorstep for coaching with a
  255. 8:15scruff,
  256. 8:17I'll say, "Okay, you need to just start
  257. 8:18pressing the fold button all the time."
  258. 8:20And they'll be like, "Really?" I'll be
  259. 8:22like, "Yeah, if you're in doubt, you
  260. 8:23just need to hit the fold button for
  261. 8:24like a solid month. You need to cure
  262. 8:26yourself of this."
  263. 8:27And you know, we'll we'll review spots
  264. 8:29and I can get them to see that
  265. 8:31the calls and raises and spew turn shots
  266. 8:33they're making, the polarization
  267. 8:35mistakes they're making as well, you
  268. 8:36know. Polarization mistakes the term we
  269. 8:38use for
  270. 8:40over investing with a medium strength
  271. 8:41hand.
  272. 8:42But the player with a scruff will make
  273. 8:43up all kinds of reasons to do that,
  274. 8:45right? They'll be like, "I've got to bet
  275. 8:46the turn to find out where I'm at. I've
  276. 8:48got to rep the king." They'll just come
  277. 8:50up with reasons to invest money. They
  278. 8:51can't help themselves.
  279. 8:53If you have this graph, um
  280. 8:56probably
  281. 8:57a technical poker education will help in
  282. 9:00the sense it will show you where you can
  283. 9:02and can't invest money and which of your
  284. 9:04mistakes are actually really egregious.
  285. 9:07And it will point those out. But there
  286. 9:09may also be some mental game work just
  287. 9:11completely necessary here
  288. 9:13above and beyond that. If you have this
  289. 9:14graph, there's a very reasonable chance
  290. 9:16that you're the victim type player we
  291. 9:18talked about in the last video where we
  292. 9:19talked about three player types I've met
  293. 9:21and encountered many times in my
  294. 9:23coaching career that I've not really
  295. 9:25been able to help.
  296. 9:26And the victim player is one for whom
  297. 9:29folding just feels inaccessible,
  298. 9:31especially when it gets adversarial or
  299. 9:34it's a reg with an 11% three bet and you
  300. 9:36just
  301. 9:37you can just see these players
  302. 9:39constantly feeling like they're being
  303. 9:41bullied and like avoiding being bullied
  304. 9:43is more important to them
  305. 9:45than actually doing the right thing. And
  306. 9:47that's what's going on in this graph.
  307. 9:48You will not bully this guy. No chance.
  308. 9:50But this guy won't win either. So this
  309. 9:52one is not untreatable, but it requires
  310. 9:55a dramatic mind set shift as well as
  311. 9:57some
  312. 9:58proper poker education to help you see
  313. 10:00the true value of hands and the reasons
  314. 10:02for betting.
  315. 10:03We cover this
  316. 10:05right away in start to get and then in a
  317. 10:06major way in bronze carrot, the first
  318. 10:08pay tier.
  319. 10:09The carrot corner and if you don't know
  320. 10:11why you're betting
  321. 10:12you're very likely to run a graph like
  322. 10:14this because you can always come up with
  323. 10:16insufficient reasons for doing things.
  324. 10:18I have a famous analogy that I I like to
  325. 10:20use called eating my dog. I've got a
  326. 10:22couple of dogs and I've never eaten
  327. 10:23either of them.
  328. 10:24And if I said to you I'm going to eat my
  329. 10:26dog because I'm hungry and there's a lot
  330. 10:27of meat on the dog and it's very calorie
  331. 10:29dense and nutritious and lean protein
  332. 10:32therefore I'm going to eat the dog, you
  333. 10:33would look at me like I was insane and
  334. 10:35some sort of complete psychopath and
  335. 10:37rightly so.
  336. 10:38Because that's citing an insufficient
  337. 10:40reason for doing something as though
  338. 10:42it's sufficient.
  339. 10:43And when you hear someone say I'm going
  340. 10:45to bet the river to rep the king to make
  341. 10:47my opponent think I have a king
  342. 10:49like they might make they might think
  343. 10:50you have a king and they might fold for
  344. 10:52that reason. So in a sense that's a
  345. 10:54reason for doing something.
  346. 10:56But you have pocket sevens and your
  347. 10:58showdown value is 43%.
  348. 11:00And your opponent's folding hardly any
  349. 11:02hands that actually beat you even if
  350. 11:03they do think you've hit the king on the
  351. 11:04river. So it's not sufficient in the
  352. 11:06same way it's not sufficient for me to
  353. 11:07eat the dog. So comments about dog
  354. 11:10eating will no doubt ensue down below. I
  355. 11:12don't don't endorse this at all. I don't
  356. 11:14think it'd be very tasty either. Dogs
  357. 11:16strike me as like quite stringy animals.
  358. 11:19Like I don't know if the meat would even
  359. 11:20be good, but yeah, less less about that.
  360. 11:22Let me know if you've ever tried dog
  361. 11:24meat in the the comments. I'm I'm
  362. 11:25curious now. I'm not going to do it
  363. 11:26though. It's insufficient. Okay, this is
  364. 11:29an absolute beast in graph. If you have
  365. 11:30this graph you're probably a complete
  366. 11:32end boss already.
  367. 11:34The flat red line here takes a hell of a
  368. 11:36lot of work. The thing to understand is
  369. 11:38that the natural trajectory of a red
  370. 11:40line is steeply downward if you're a
  371. 11:41human playing poker, because you post
  372. 11:43blinds and you fold and people take your
  373. 11:46blinds, right? From in position, and
  374. 11:48then you've got to fight back. You've
  375. 11:49got to find flop check raises just to
  376. 11:50stay alive, that kind of thing.
  377. 11:52So,
  378. 11:53this graph is somebody who
  379. 11:56is very good at value betting, is not a
  380. 11:58complete out and out
  381. 11:59micromaniac, but they're very, very
  382. 12:01accurate and they use aggression in
  383. 12:03extremely
  384. 12:05good ways to just keep their red line
  385. 12:07afloat, keep it off the ground, right?
  386. 12:10Because
  387. 12:12if you think about it, low stakes poker
  388. 12:14and micro stakes poker are these realms
  389. 12:16where there are just so many
  390. 12:18unintentionally over folded spots by the
  391. 12:20population.
  392. 12:21They're checking, they're folding,
  393. 12:22they're capping their range, they're
  394. 12:23folding, they're not probing the turn,
  395. 12:26they are folding so much to double to
  396. 12:28delayed C bet, double delayed C bet, all
  397. 12:31of this stuff. Like, there's just so
  398. 12:32many lines that once you know what they
  399. 12:33are and how to use them,
  400. 12:35you can just print
  401. 12:38very reliably when it comes to red line.
  402. 12:41But, printing when it comes to red line
  403. 12:43means keeping the graph off the deck a
  404. 12:45lot of the time, not having this soaring
  405. 12:48upward red line. There is a type of
  406. 12:49poker player we're going to talk about
  407. 12:50in a minute. We're going to see their
  408. 12:51graph
  409. 12:52who has that soaring upward red line,
  410. 12:54but this is like a blue lining player
  411. 12:56that's very good at reliably scavenging.
  412. 12:58They just know when to invest money.
  413. 13:00They're super accurate. They don't waste
  414. 13:02money on bad bluffs or bad value bets
  415. 13:04that are too thin or anything like that.
  416. 13:06They just
  417. 13:07make accurate decisions,
  418. 13:09but very aggressively. They're just
  419. 13:11chipping away at opponents, harvesting
  420. 13:14fold equity with lines that are just
  421. 13:15devastatingly effective for the risk
  422. 13:17reward that they generate.
  423. 13:20And yeah, this is a player that's got it
  424. 13:21absolutely nailed. This is a graph to
  425. 13:23aim towards. If you can get this graph,
  426. 13:25you'll be just untouchable. This is a
  427. 13:27great red line blue line
  428. 13:29configuration to have. I've admitted
  429. 13:30like even when I played professionally
  430. 13:32like back in the day and played high
  431. 13:33volume,
  432. 13:34I managed to get a red line that was a
  433. 13:35little bit losing
  434. 13:37and I was really happy with that. I've
  435. 13:38never had one that's like just a little
  436. 13:40bit off the deck like this. It's never
  437. 13:41been my style to be all out complete
  438. 13:44attack in every single spot as we're
  439. 13:46going to see a player who does this in a
  440. 13:47minute likes to do. These aren't real
  441. 13:49graphs by the way when I say likes to
  442. 13:51do. These are just like visual
  443. 13:52representations of of real graphs, you
  444. 13:54know. They do look very realistic. Like
  445. 13:56I've seen graphs that look like this.
  446. 13:59But obviously this one's rarer than the
  447. 14:01ones that came before. So yeah, let's
  448. 14:02move on to the next kind of graph then.
  449. 14:06This Okay, this one doesn't look so
  450. 14:08realistic. Like has anyone ever seen a
  451. 14:10red line like this?
  452. 14:11Um yeah, I had to get AI to to edit this
  453. 14:13a couple of times. It didn't quite know
  454. 14:15what I was getting at with my
  455. 14:16description.
  456. 14:17So ignore the specifics of this. I don't
  457. 14:20think you'll get a graph that looks
  458. 14:21quite like this in real life, but the
  459. 14:23idea here
  460. 14:24is that if you have a jagged downward
  461. 14:26red line,
  462. 14:27what's happening is that you are
  463. 14:29spewing.
  464. 14:30This graph is someone who is spewing
  465. 14:33terribly.
  466. 14:34And the jagged downward red line means
  467. 14:35you invest loads of money, but
  468. 14:37ultimately don't like going to showdown.
  469. 14:40So you lose all of your red line
  470. 14:42pre-showdown. This is a pretty rare
  471. 14:43graph,
  472. 14:44but it does exist. I've seen students
  473. 14:46that have this
  474. 14:47and they have very bad control over
  475. 14:49where they invest money. Again, like
  476. 14:51insufficient reasons are an issue here.
  477. 14:53They come up with reasons to be
  478. 14:54aggressive early. They like to make
  479. 14:55their opponent fold, but ultimately
  480. 14:57they're choosing terrible spots and they
  481. 14:59end up just having to like check fold
  482. 15:00the next street. This is a rarer one. I
  483. 15:02won't spend too much time on it, but if
  484. 15:04you do have this, it's caused by early
  485. 15:06street spew, calling flops too wide to
  486. 15:08fold turns, calling turns too wide to
  487. 15:10fold rivers,
  488. 15:11ultimately folding a lot and giving up a
  489. 15:13lot, but spewing on the way. It's It's a
  490. 15:16specific type of player who does this.
  491. 15:18It's not going to be that many of you,
  492. 15:19but I thought I'd throw it in there.
  493. 15:21And finally, we have the complete
  494. 15:24warrior red line crusher. This is a
  495. 15:28player who defaults to bluffing
  496. 15:31and running the bill over in spots where
  497. 15:33they don't hit defense frequencies.
  498. 15:35When I built Greedy of the Carrot Poker
  499. 15:37School, which is the main mass data
  500. 15:38exploited of course in the Golden
  501. 15:40Carrot, which is our highest tier, our
  502. 15:42field tier,
  503. 15:43I worked with this guy who
  504. 15:46had
  505. 15:47done this himself. He'd run a graph like
  506. 15:49this up to 100 NL. And this was back on
  507. 15:51PokerStars playing Zoom
  508. 15:53a few years ago now, but you know, not
  509. 15:56an easy game to do that in. Like 100 NL
  510. 15:58Zoom on Stars, definitely like a game
  511. 16:00that could be quite tough at times. Had
  512. 16:02200 regs, you know, depping into it,
  513. 16:04that sort of thing.
  514. 16:05And the guy that I first got the data
  515. 16:07from when we built Greedy and who showed
  516. 16:09me how Hand2Note works and all of that,
  517. 16:11gave me reports for lots of different
  518. 16:12spots.
  519. 16:14Obviously, I paid him for this, but
  520. 16:15yeah, legend of a guy. He was a I would
  521. 16:17say a good, but not like end boss poker
  522. 16:19player, but he was able to run a graph
  523. 16:21like this at 100 NL because he just had
  524. 16:24all the data. He had all the all the hot
  525. 16:26spots, and he just defaulted to
  526. 16:27bluffing. Like closed his eyes and just
  527. 16:29bluffed in those spots, ran over a
  528. 16:31reggie pool that wasn't hitting defense
  529. 16:32frequencies, and this is the end result.
  530. 16:35You don't win any blue line doing this.
  531. 16:36Like of course, you get you get gifts
  532. 16:38back when you run into fish that just
  533. 16:39pay you off when you've got it, and your
  534. 16:41blue line stays afloat because some
  535. 16:43people start to pay you off more because
  536. 16:46you're always attacking, and you've got
  537. 16:47that image.
  538. 16:48But what this graph does is it just
  539. 16:50accepts that you're going to lose loads
  540. 16:52of stacks. Like you fire up a session,
  541. 16:54you are going to bluff off a few stacks
  542. 16:56when you play this style. By the way,
  543. 16:58this is very much a do not try this at
  544. 17:00home style.
  545. 17:01It will get you destroyed if you don't
  546. 17:03know what you're doing. You need data
  547. 17:04for this. You need hot spots. You need
  548. 17:05to know exactly where people are
  549. 17:06over-folding, and ideally, you need a
  550. 17:08big enough pool that they can't just
  551. 17:10look at you and say, "Oh, it's that
  552. 17:11crazy guy." Because guess what? When the
  553. 17:13guy that I worked with that did the
  554. 17:14Greedy data for me moved up to 200, it
  555. 17:17didn't work anymore. Partially because
  556. 17:20the regs were better at hitting defense
  557. 17:21frequencies at those stakes. Partially
  558. 17:24because it was a smaller pool and they
  559. 17:25could see what he was up to.
  560. 17:28And also because they were just better
  561. 17:29at adapting to things that they saw.
  562. 17:32At lower stakes, regs are very bad at
  563. 17:34adapting. They might see that you're
  564. 17:35aggressive, but they don't know what to
  565. 17:36do about it and they're still not going
  566. 17:38to call you. They're just going to wait
  567. 17:39for a hand. I'm going to get this guy as
  568. 17:41soon as I've got a hand, god dammit. And
  569. 17:42that's exactly how you pay off
  570. 17:45how you allow the warrior reg strategy
  571. 17:47to pay off, I should say. Because
  572. 17:49waiting for a hand in no limit hold'em
  573. 17:51is kind of like waiting for a bus on a
  574. 17:53Sunday
  575. 17:54in Scotland. It's not a good idea. They
  576. 17:58don't show up. I've not been on a bus
  577. 17:59for many years. Pride myself on that.
  578. 18:02Living in the countryside now. No more
  579. 18:03buses, just cars, just driving. But man,
  580. 18:06hated waiting on buses. Not a good way
  581. 18:08to stand up for yourself against this
  582. 18:10sort of player. Anyway, I digress. The
  583. 18:12point is that at 200
  584. 18:14the regs were better at saying, "Oh,
  585. 18:15wait. It's that guy."
  586. 18:17and adapting to it. And if you're
  587. 18:18playing 10 and L
  588. 18:20zoom pool, Russian cash, whatever it is
  589. 18:23you're going to be able
  590. 18:24to get away with strategies like this
  591. 18:26against loads of a pool who is 600 or
  592. 18:29700 people large, you know.
  593. 18:33So, this graph is it takes a lot of
  594. 18:34know-how. It's a devastatingly effective
  595. 18:36way to play poker still even in 2026.
  596. 18:40But, you need to be comfortable getting
  597. 18:42stacked by bluffing multiple times. And
  598. 18:43it's the absolute opposite
  599. 18:45of first one we looked at, right?
  600. 18:48So, we go full circle here.
  601. 18:50We started with this graph.
  602. 18:52This player feels queasy just stabbing
  603. 18:54the turn
  604. 18:55as a bluff, you know, when someone
  605. 18:57checks twice.
  606. 18:58Whereas this player knows what textures
  607. 19:01they gain a thin edge by.
  608. 19:03This player, sorry, knows which textures
  609. 19:05they gain a thin edge by triple
  610. 19:07barreling or raising a river bet all in.
  611. 19:09They're just not worried about taking
  612. 19:12obscenely aggressive lines that get them
  613. 19:14stacked often
  614. 19:16but not often enough to make it not
  615. 19:18profitable. That's what's going on here.
  616. 19:20So, yeah, not everyone's cup of tea,
  617. 19:22certainly not my cup of tea this style.
  618. 19:23It takes a hell of a lot of mental
  619. 19:25fortitude, know-how,
  620. 19:28and you need to be able to deal with
  621. 19:29like 18 buying losing days when like you
  622. 19:31get called in every spot and run into
  623. 19:33the nuts cuz you're just throwing stacks
  624. 19:34in left, right, and center. What style
  625. 19:36would I recommend?
  626. 19:38I think you should aim towards this. I
  627. 19:40think this should be what you try to
  628. 19:41make your graph ultimately, but if you
  629. 19:44have something between that
  630. 19:46and this one, that's also completely
  631. 19:48fine.
  632. 19:49This graph is not to be confused with
  633. 19:52the one at the end. This graph is
  634. 19:53someone who just completely
  635. 19:56blanket invest money in terrible ways
  636. 19:58over and over again and can't fold,
  637. 20:01whereas this is someone using data to or
  638. 20:04using their own experience to know when
  639. 20:06to do that exactly and respecting
  640. 20:08polarization. This player knows how to
  641. 20:10check the middle of their range, right?
  642. 20:12The other person doesn't. So, I hope
  643. 20:14this has been helpful. I hope it's been
  644. 20:16a good insight into what your graph
  645. 20:18might mean,
  646. 20:19and there's a very good chance that your
  647. 20:20graph is in between some of the graphs
  648. 20:22we looked at today, and that's fine. You
  649. 20:24can just extract different elements from
  650. 20:25this video.
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