Small Stakes Tournament Exploits [MTT's]
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In this webinar, you will learn:
Common leaks to look for from small stakes players.
Exploits that you can immediately add to your game to make more money at the tables!
When to size up your bet sizes, how to check-raise the flop relentlessly, and when to bet thinly for value!
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So long as you understand that you get exactly what you pay for in small stakes your good. It all sounds great in theory but we all know bad players can make bad calls and still win.
Thank you for the content as always, Jonathan, much appreciated!
One of the things I'm learning playing small stakes is there are many total calling stations, so, the odd subtle bluff is just totally lost on them and they just call anyway. Strangely when I bet big they just don't believe me and call, or raise all-in, yet a small bet has them assuming I must have a big hand, so no money goes in, which can make for a very strange chech - check - check game. So I'm usually not afraid to bet bigger because they just never believe you have it.
What stakes are you playing. What site are you playing on. Doesnt it feel like they are calling you so hard to the point its like they see your cards? Bro ive placed a bluff so strong once and it was called by jack high. That was a point i knew that this guy either had my preflop raise chart on point (3x with 5d 6 d) on WSOP i dont bother playing because these 10 dollar tournaments even 30 or 55 cannot be presumed legit. Youd be more likely to win a 2k tourney just shipping it with the best lf it everytime. Game predetermines ur strategy too. You either run like a dragon or run like a trout.
If ur gonna keep playing "legal online poker" you should focus roght off the bat on running like god. And betting hands that are good and making sure ur also hitting. Sometimes you gotta make tough calls and somehow end up on top. Theres times where i feel i should fold a draw but the softwares sucks me out and im just like well i knew that guy had a set i didnt think i would hit. Just leave it to the poker gods bro try to hit in those tough situations. Not all the time but when instinctually u think fold take 10 more seconds. Remember its online poker and if ur cards comes out on the flop u could imagine them on the turn and river as well. Theres no point in hero calling in online poker that makes no sense. Low stakes. Yeah you should check raise i guess because the other guy could be completely tryna bluff u because he knows what ur holding lol. You might as well just keep raising to see where hes at and just go all in dependant on the ridiculousness of his sizings. Sometimes you gotta pay to find out wtf people are betting with.
I could just call with aces and everyo e will fold. I can raise with 10 9 or jack 10 or 8 6 or whatever hand bro and get raised or 5 callers the game is now called set up not poker
This is mostly very low stakes on Pokerstars or GGPoker. I generally only play good starting hands (17%) then bluff at a 25%ish rate of those that miss. Clearly it gets easier to bluff at higher stakes, as decisions to call light/bluff catch have more risk. I really want/need to move to higher stakes, because people just don't care about calling, because they aren't really losing anything if they lose, and might make any sort of call to try and catch you bluffing. I try and play deep stacked games as it seems like a much more thoughtful game, whereas short stacked games can just end up being a bun fight until you start to build a stack and get some respect. I try to vary my bet size, but not always bet the same with the same cards. But also I will deliberately play 'face up' for a while, until other players think they 'know my game', then play my best hands like I played when I had junk before and hope to stack them. Clearly this is easier to do deep stacked than short stacked.
I'd say maybe adjust your ranges. With draws you want callers anyway, and with big hands, bet big. Then you should get paid off, right? Just don't play total garbage hands. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Thank you Jonathan!
I admire your work ethic
I appreciate that, Thomas!
Only managed to watch half the video so far but used the techniques I’ve watched in the small comp I just played and came 60 out of 2200 entries so thank you for the great advice
Nice work!
Always enjoy the videos and great information, thanks again
Thanks for all videos like this. I have been applying this to tournaments. And have cashed 5 out of my last 6 tournaments!
Nice work, Zach!
This is exactly what i was looking for! Thanks JL!
I love this tutorial..thanks jonathan im learning a lot from you
Just to add, the check raise works in this specific configuration where it's Button vs BB, without looking at the solver, I suspect this is not a great play vs an early position opener when in the BB
Woohoo finally got my book "Mastering Small Stakes No-Limit Hold Em" to all of my Senior players this is a absolute "must" our charts are right there. We can touch them, we can see them. Pros... well... I've found every Pro will hammer a point that sets well with you, then I go back and chase Jonathan around to concrete my ideas on their ideas. And Jonathan I will no longer advertise for you, I was overwhelmed by their curiosity. I play midwest and their excitement sucked. Now I've got 6 to 8 people learning what I'm learning. Thanks Jonathan have a good Memorial day weekend...... Kansas
Awesome! I hope you learn a ton!
Really need to work on my sizing post flip thanks for the content!
Happy to help!
great content! this vid helped me plug some of my leaks. i finished 4th out of 1.5k in the micros yesterday and i realize still more work to be done to be better. thanks!
@Mark Marcus ive played thousands already bro and have +20% over 5 years lol
@Mark Marcus some players just like to study theory cause of love for the game and play part-time, then use winnings to buy pizza or party. don't really understand poker jihadists who dont understand this can be a mere hobby too. its ok to not rush to push up to higher stakes. especially tournament players like me who experience more variance
@Mark Marcus also, if you watch streams without understanding the relevant theory then yeah, thats how you would interpret it. lex actually has these short explanations while he thinks through a hand which you can contrast with your own ideas. i like watching him to see what doesn't work in the higher buy-ins. you underestimate the quality of his stream too much and the viewers who bring thier own ideas to compare to the streamer
lost the thread where i was talking about the MOSS #4 tourney on ACR I'm in. 3rd break now, field has mushroomed to 3305 entrants, 1713 left, and i'm in position 387, so a little bump up from last report. 63.73 BBs i'm playing with, and right now paying out all the way to 495th place. a ways to go to the money and still with a little over average. holding the course and nitting now unless some interesting hand and position show up
Jonathan - I don’t really have a bankroll right now, so I’m just studying. I recently did the 3 day free trial on your site and I am completely in love with it. I’m wondering if there are any offers currently for discounts to your poker coaching. Am so grateful I came across you. I love your content. Keep up the great work :)
Thanks!
Don't have enough to pay for you right now, need every penny I make because, life happens. But definitely going to be paying for you eventually to fine tune my game. I was already a decent poker player before I found your content, but learning some more information from you has helped me go from and up and down player, would make some money, but not consistently. I'd give a bunch back before going on another run and making it back and then some. To now, the worst I do is go down 2-3 buy ins, and it's mostly just variance. I still some discipline issue's too, but I'm getting better at that every day. After all I've been learning off your TH-cam, at this point I just need to get the discipline to be more consistent and I'll be making even more.
I’m down 9k at 1/2 but I’m sure I’ll start wining been doing all these plays and they keep calling off light and not folding . Today got it all in with qq in 945 board 10 5 called off and hit 5 on River.
Just bad beats sometimes you have a black cloud for months
he had never may have seen the flop bro. raise big or go all in preflop. You shouldnt let them just call and fuck ur qq up..... Raise bigger and make them afraid, big raises like 8x or 12x , you will win more pots because they will call you less or ARE VERY SURE THAT U DONT PLAYING
@@kanaaleilanden raise bigger? he went all in or do you mean preflop
Down 9k at 1/2? Bro you’re doing something wrong
Hi Jonathan, quick question I can't find an answer to online. What do you typically do in early position post-flop after leading pre-flop with good pocket cards that miss on the flop? I feel like the late position I'm facing get to raise for free and put me in a hard position to call every time, but obviously don't always hit the flop either.
My assumption would be to just blocker cbet something like 1/4 pot, is that most common? Obivously the opponent's tendencies factor in here.
On small stakes SnG, the K4 hand against Q66 on the flop is a Very Common situation. Normally I Go against "fit or fold" players, so If they bet on that flop I check/fold because no betting would get him to fold a pair of Q or any 6s. Against solid players a check raise there usually Works well. My question is, what range of hands should we play on the blinds? Since I dont usually defend the blinds, is any hand worth It depending on the player? (Since my playstyle is more exploitable poker)
Great video! Thank you
No problem. I'm glad you liked it!
@@PokerCoaching I’ve been check raising more flops. I never realized how many amateur players fold to that move. Like you said, it’s printing money. You were one of the first coaches I listened to. I’ve become a profitable player to the point my family believes in me doing this. The extra money is fun but I really found something I love to do!
I find a lot of situations where my opponents love to bet when check to them on the river. I get more value from checking. If I bet, they fold their missed draws. I check they stab...
Every situation is different but comes up alot.
12:00 wow you are really recommending more river bets than I would do. I'll have to think about that. I would check back a lot and be happy if I won. The Button vs Blind dynamic may be a big factor, though. Ranges get so wide.
I am happy when I win the maximum.
@@PokerCoaching yeah i may be too scared of getting blown off a hand
I always calculate out % as "2% per out, per card to come". Basically the same as the 2-4 rule, just another way of looking at it
10 outs with 2 cards to come gives you 40% equity then right?
@@powerlifting1012 Yep!
@@brdobu1157 all right that's actually really helpful I'm playing poker tonight with my friends so I'll make sure to use it
Great stuff Jonathan! Would love a 1 month discount for us micro players
Every once in a while, we give completely free access!
You should chech raise a lot small stakes players are somewhat calling station but against flop chech raise they are really bad at defending check raises.
Jonathan! Mad props. Is there any way to make the chart examples viewable via cell phone? Must be a magnifying mechanism somewheres (in my best NJ accent).
I am grateful for your insight. Thank You. Can't see the charts via mobile, though and am not always with computer.
Later skater!
11:26 you shove when the river is a heart? I wouldn't. I would check back. He called two big bets and hearts makes a lot of sense. Although his check on the river makes it unlikely that he has the flush it is definitely possible and in the realm of hands he would be calling with.
You're a bad ass. Good shit! Thank You!
Watched this video twice now looking for this but I couldn’t find it. With Exploit #2 I had two questions. 1) what’s a “small” raise in a check-raise? 2) In the GTO charts, why are all the pocket pairs greyed out. Would you not check if you hold 66 for quads?
You should go all-in preflop with 66 here, so you wouldn't have it in range.
Also, a small check-raise is something like 3x vs a small bet. As the bet size gets bigger, your raise should get smaller though. So if someone bets 2/3 pot, you should just make a 2.2x range in most spots.
Took 1st in a tournament lastnight,Tks coach.
Pattern towards goals
Outs * 2 +2 for one card and outs * 4 minus one for every out above 8 for two cards that
Do you have any courses on spread-limit poker?
Nope.
You in Arizona Ryan?
@@HighTide_808 Minnesota
@@PokerCoaching Maybe someday. Maybe not.
Watching on Wednesday 26/06/21 and saying "Hello" :)
Hello, General!
Are you not leaving money on the table by only opening to 2.1BB when every players stack size are all 40BB. (In the KK example). I think it’s your tournament master class that says 2.5bb and the smaller size/min raise around 25bb or less? Thanks for the video
If your opponents will call larger raises with the same wide range, then raising larger could be better. In general though, when you min-raise, you get to play a wider range profitably and most opponents will play poorly from the big blind, so you want to give them the chance to call and mess up postflop.
@@PokerCoaching thanks for taking your time to give an explanation and thanks again for the videos
While I have leaks in several parts of my game, my biggest leak is my inability to "run good". Do you have any course that teaches you how to outdraw opponents when you are behind, or stay ahead when you are not.
I have constantly run 10-20+% below expected win rates when all the money goes in, for quite some time now.
This sounds like a mental game leak to me. Put in volume and stop complaining about short term variance or other things outside of your control. If you want to become a strong player, study hard and put in lots of volume.
@@PokerCoaching Thank for replying to what might be considered as a slightly trolling comment, as I think your point is accurate.
It becomes frustrating to constantly be on the wrong side of variance and it definitely tilts me.
Maybe getting a slap in face of reality from someone else will help keep the mental game strong. :)
@@fomori2 how many tournaments you played each day? to get decent, you gonna play like 50-60 mtt/satellites each day
You have to play ballsy. Play out of the ordinary get it in with draws and made hands balanced. But most of all. Stay away from online poker! 😂😂😂😂 go play 10 live tournaments and see if you see a difference bud.
@@fomori2 dont always listen to whatever anybody has to say bud something sus is going on woth the sites i could play 40 mtts and sattelites in one day and ill win at the start and get crushed when i should progress. Imagine you get to 140,000 chips usually 3rd or 5th position withing the first 30 minutes usually when you start a tournament. Then after beating those fools for their chips, every hand u play after is rigged to lose through the mid to late section or player thinning in the tourney. Ive won big on the sites but after that got smoked by "assumed variance" In this day its safe to say most sites are a sham. Check out magic612. Vids from 10 years ago. They werent hiding it then and at times they scam u right in the face and tell you to like it. Id pay 90 a month for your session jon but on these rigged sites that are recommended to be legit. It would be a huge waste of money and even more money if i played so ridiculously aggressive on these sites. But if u want u can spot me for some live tournaments and ill get you back x3 to 7 each investment. The moneys flowing into big business pocket. Always has been sorry not sorry for the spam comments
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If he defends tighter then im check raising with any 2 cards
On the KK hand... if we bet 2/3 pot into that draw heavy board and a heart or ace comes on the turn then opponent blasts it’s so tough bc we’re already invested 25% of our stack. Having overpairs I tend to play passive, with a lot of check behinds and allowing villains to hang themself. I prefer to do a lot of turn betting bc of the weakness shown on the flop and lowered variance with only 1 card to come. Still retain value without investing half my stack by the turn and stuck with impossible decision on opponent jams when the draws do get there on the river by bloating SPR without any significant blockers. If I had K hearts then I feel more comfortable with getting 3 streets of value or calling blast offs. Maybe I’m a nit, but suit blockers mean a lot to me in those situations. Or if I have 10’s/J’s i’ll go for 3 streets as well.
Dont play online. Play live. Your not a not your just not playing"balanced" in the eyes of the software you playing on (90 percent likely) you think your good right. Well so does the site your playing on. They are getting you invested bud.
Btw its paytherent23, you got me soooo tilted bro you have no idea. The software was probably giving us the same hands and at times u would have kicker or whatever. Im sure there was times i tilted you as well but im off wsop i play correct on there and they screw me hard body
The licensed/legal/regulated sites are not rigged. You are just not putting in enough volume and you are only remembering the bad beats. When you play live, they happen less often in terms of time so you experience and remember them far less.
@@georgotheturtle you must play on ACR too. I’ve been playing less often bc I’m worried whatever bots or regs are on there start recognizing tendencies and adjust to my strategy accordingly. Plus I don’t use a HUD bc fuck that haha Seems like the more days I play the more often I lose and vice versa. ACR is tilting especially in high ICM spots. The risk/premium is so unbalanced. But I’m sure you’ve tilted me too haha I’ve had to fold top pair marginal kicker on static boards so many times just bc of position. That’s the one thing Charlie Carrell and BenCB said that will stick with me... you need to play your position more than good hole cards. Still trying to understand high ICM implicated spots though. GL to you!
@@PokerCoaching have to agree.. although I’ve been so emotionally exhausted and delirious after sessions I thought ALL the sites were rigged 😂 been learning to dial back my amount of time played and investing more into study sessions. Helps alleviate the frustration when you see top tier pros getting sucked out too. Like you always say; you need to focus on the process and not the results! Thanks for everything you do JL.
Your bank roll page is down. I tried to check it out the other day. FYI.
Which url? JLPoker.com/bankroll and PokerCoaching.com/bankroll are both working for me.
@@PokerCoaching the Jonathan little poker /bankroll.
@@PokerCoaching looks like it is back up now. But for the last I'd say 4 days or so I'd been trying and getting getting page does not exist message. Then tried Googling your name plus bankroll which brought the same message after clicking the link. Excited it's up though! Been enjoying your vids been helping a bit as I'm new to the game in terms of not dicking around with friends poker but playing it seriously.
Not asking about tourney winnings that are publicly known, but how much you net career cash game winnings are. You know, the amount that most pro players cut in half or more when reporting on their income taxes.
I was just at a casino and tried bluff raising the flop after watching this video (although there was a 3rd player invovled). Funny thing. I had 6 5 off and the flop came 10 6 4 rainbow. The preflop raiser put $20 into a pot of $60 (as did villain #2) and I raised $60 more to make the pot $160. Preflop raiser REALLY hemmed and hawed for like 3 minutes and finally folded (he had A 10!) but mainly because the guy to his right was rushing to shove. When I saw that I knew I was beat.
Anyhow preflop raiser folded and 2nd villain shoved $95 forcing me to put $35 more into the pot or fold. I decided to call hoping for salvation on the turn/river. It was just 2 blank cards. So what did he have? J 4 off, LOL. My "bluff" ended up netting me $285
This video is about tournament play… not cash
When is "secrets to professional tournament poker" coming out? Revamped edition
July.
2 many 2 2 boards in this 2rney
When you say "people don't fold pairs or draws against any reasonable bet", is that based on your observation of the small stakes player pool? And is that recent experience? I don't feel like it matches my (admittedly still fairly limited) experience, which tells me that some small stakes players will fold e.g. some draws to a 75%-80% pot bet but call 50% ish. I'm not saying all of them. I'm just saying that I think it might vary more than you're admitting here.
JL, kids are so much fun aren't they??
Oh yes!
@@PokerCoaching It's such a magical time you have coming too, I'm really genuinely pleased for you, and those boys have a great Dad, so be proud of yourself and your Mrs too, cos James and Thomas seem much better behaved than my 4 were lol
Tried something like the first example today at Ocean's 11. Pocket aces UTG, raised 5bb and got five callers (!). Flop gave me inside draw to a wheel and backdoor to a flush. Bet 50% pot, got one caller. Didn't improve, guy called my all in, he flopped trip 3s, I'm out. Boo.
check raise even more as an exploit
Not sure if you can always trust google. It says Jonathon Little has 60 M in total tournament earnings. seems a bit excessive.
Low stakes players that can see your hands are bluffing.. If they know they can get you off your hand... But they are also value betting if they know they are ahead. Theres no solver for that!
...you can input whatever strategy into the solver you want...
check-raise 2.5X his bet.
Is Thomas still having afternoon naps, if so, time to put an end to them.
James is still having afternoon naps and he is 4.5 years old!
@@PokerCoaching I thought he was older. Guess he still has a few naps coming to him.
Tried it on a 2$ on gg ,bet big on the flop--> getstacked by 2p, checkraise-- get called by ace high. thin value- get called by better pair. Online poker be dead.