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I am excited to announce that I am combining all my podcasts into one feed, The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little. This podcast will now include: Weekly Poker Hand – A weekly 10-minute show dissecting an interesting poker hand. An interactive poker learning experience from 2-time WPT Champion Jonathan Little. Instant access to 400 quizzes, 30 recorded coaching webinars, and open ended homework assignments to improve your poker.

1. Jonathan is a 2-time World Poker Tour Champion and the WPT Season VI Player of the Year. He has over $7 million in live and online tournament cashes and recently won a $2,200 NL Event for $97,160. Jonathan is the creator of PokerCoaching.com.
2. Jonathan Little demonstrates one of the quizzes from his interactive poker training site, PokerCoaching.com. Check it out and le.

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It is important to realize that in poker, as in life, things are not always as they appear. In poker, one way this concept manifests itself is in the form of bluffing. The vast majority of poker players, especially those who frequent small-stakes cash games and tournaments, think the optimal winning strategy is rigid, tight, and aggressive.

While winning most of the pots that belong to you, plus a few more when your opponents play poorly, is a nice way to keep variance low and to have an edge, that edge will consistently be small. When playing against players who are not world-class (which will almost always be the case), you will win significantly more money by playing in a manner that exploits their sub-optimal tendencies. This usually means getting maximum value from your premium hands (as many recreational players already do) while also stealing pots that do not belong to you (which many recreational players do not do).

I do not want you to get the idea that playing in a generally tight, aggressive style is bad. The problem is that this straightforward strategy does not maximally exploit other tight, aggressive players. At this point in time, almost every poker player has studied one of the now-outdated books that advocate playing mostly premium hands. These players are excellent at being patient and getting paid off when they are fortunate enough to make the nuts against their oblivious opponents. These sporadic large wins are enough to beat the worst players in the small-stakes games for a small amount.

As you move up, however, you will face fewer and fewer bad players to the point that when you reach the medium and high stakes, there will rarely be an obvious, terrible player at your table. Most middle- and high-stakes players strive to ensure they do not make the blunders that the worst players make. But this tendency to avoid appearing dumb opens the door for you to steal pots when these tight, aggressive players do not have a strong hand, and occasionally when they have a strong hand but become convinced that you have the effective nuts.

When looking at graphs of winning online poker players, tracking programs display a green line (the total profit), a red line (the non-showdown winnings), and a blue line (the showdown winnings). Most winning small-stakes cash game players have a highly positive blue line (when they go to showdown) and a breakeven or negative red line (when they win by making their opponents fold). This implies that to beat the worst players, they play tightly (giving up small pots and letting your red line go negative) and get paid off with premium hands (making for a largely positive blue line).

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Those who win at the middle- and high-stakes games often have a similar, but inverse, graph, with a positive red line and a negative or break-even blue line. These players win by making their opponents fold incorrectly, meaning they successfully bluff way more often. When they happen to play large pots, they will frequently be an underdog, but they steal enough small pots to more than make up for their losses.

In general, you will find that each specific player has a point in the hand where they act in an honest manner, betting with strong hands and checking with marginal and weak hands. Some players act honestly as soon as they put a chip in the pot. They raise their strong hands, limp their marginal hands, and fold their junk. Others raise preflop with all hands they deem respectable but then only continuation bet the flop when they have what they believe to be a strong holding. Many players in today’s game continuation bet the flop with a wide range but then play the turn in an honest manner, only betting when they are confident that they have the best hand, opting to check with their trash and marginal hands. More maniacal players are willing to play in an aggressive manner all the way to the river.

All you have to do against these players is figure out when their checks indicate weakness, and then apply an amount of pressure that will result in them folding the vast majority of their range, which will result in your red line (non-showdown winnings) going through the roof. ♠

Jonathan Little is a professional poker player with over $7 million in live tournament earnings, best-selling author of 15 educational poker books, and 2019 GPI Poker Personality of the Year. If you want to increase your poker skills and learn to crush the games, check out his training site PokerCoaching.com. Click here to try PokerCoaching.com for free.

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I am excited to announce that I am combining all my podcasts into one feed, The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little. This podcast will now include:

Weekly Poker Hand – A weekly 10-minute show dissecting an interesting poker hand.

A Little Coffee – A tri-weekly 60-minute morning show where I present on a topic and then answer viewer questions.

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Little Poker Advice – A weekly 1-minute show where I present a simple tip that you can use to improve your poker or your life.

Individual pieces of educational strategy content and interviews that work well in the audio format. This will result in you getting a new podcast episode about five times each week. I realize that is a lot of content, so please do not feel like you have to listen to all of it. Listen to what you want and delete the rest. I will not be offended!

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If you are already signed up to the previous Weekly Poker Hand podcast feed, you do not need to change anything. You should start getting new episodes immediately. If you are now signed up, search “The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little” in your podcast player and it will come right up.Much of this content (and a whole lot more) is available in the video format on YouTube, so be sure to go there and subscribe.If you have any feedback, please let me know by emailing me here. Thanks for listening!

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This podcast feed has been merged into The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little. Subscribe to The Poker Coaching Podcast with Jonathan Little for new episodes of A Little Coffee with Jonathan Little.