@@tszhin814 in cash games, opening for larger bet sizes is sometimes advisable when playing at a table where your opponents are playing relatively deep and like to limp and call a lot preflop and see a lot of flops. Those types of tables require larger open sizes to thin the field. Just be sure you are balancing your ranges that you open with for those larger sizes so your opponents won’t be able to get any tells based on your bet sizing. In the early stages of NL tournaments, most players are also playing relatively deep and larger bet/raise sizes are subsequently optimal.
This content is gold!! I got the charts BTW! I’ll keep in touch with my progress in your next videos. I didn’t realize how poorly I was playing pre flop and how much of a massive negative impact it was having on my game!! I was one of the boomer plays (2003-2010) who just recently fell back into the game! Look forward to more amazing content from you Jonathan!!! 🎉
Thanks for the video! One recommendation would be to make your slides have a higher resolution. Your camera feed shows up with high resolution, but the images on your slides look blurry. Anyway, just a suggestion.
I play from 1/2 to 5/10 live and 90% of the mistakes I see are still pre flop mistakes. Even mistakes that look like they’re on the flop, turn or River can really be traced back to pre flop mistakes.
Would you expand on that a little? I hear this a lot, however we don't usually hear an example after that preflop comment. I understand it's an old comment, but I love learning
Jonathan this has been one of your best videos ever! You spoke slowly concisely and explained everything so well. Honestly I miss a lot of what you say in your videos because you do speak rather quickly but this video was perfect thank you so much for posting this!
Thank you for the charts! I immediately got to put into practice what you discussed. In my 1/2 NL session last night, I re-raised from the small blind with a hand I would normally just call (ATo). Ended up playing the hand for stacks after the flop (T high rainbow) and I tripled up in my first 5 minutes at the table (2nd hand dealt. I came in on the BB.) Thank you for all your instruction. I really appreciate learning all I can from whatever decent source I can find. The lesson helped with the rest of the session, too. In for 300 out for 1962! Thanks, Jonathan!!!
Downloaded the charts. I like the reminder to not play too passively. I find myself playing passively at the start of every game (tourney and cash) and I think that builds the wrong image initially and slows down my action later on until that image changes.
Thanks for the free pre-flop chart, JL. This video was desperately needed by me as a new small stakes tourney player. Specifically, tips 1 and 3. Thanks for the great content.
Thanks so much for the charts. Great stuff to work from. I certainly need to learn to play aggressively at higher stakes tables. This will really help.
Greetings from Poland Jonathan! Thank you very much for preflop charts! Your lessons really improved my game. Appreciate all you doing and keep up the great work!!!
I have been studying charts for last 2 hours, I get the general gist but I don't think I could remember the chart for all combinations. One big flaw with my game was that I never 3 bet always just call. Will try in cash games and see how it goes. Thank you for your wisdom
Thank you again for all you do. My game has improved so much! Last night I finished 3rd in a MTT, my biggest online cash to date. Your app if fantastic and the course material is so easy to apply. Looking forward to learning more and improving my game. Thank you.
My biggest preflop mistake is giving my OOP opponents a stronger range than they typically have. When I play cash games, I typically play NL $50 and you would assume not many recs cut their teeth playing for those stakes, so I assume my OOP opponents know what they are doing playing against me when I have position, but they frequently end up showing me junk that I would have never put them on.
The last session I played, the same opponent got me twice calling my 3 bet from the SB with tiny pocket pairs. One of the times he played pocket 2s! Who the F flats a $600 3 bet from the SB with pocket 2s? But of course he flopped a set and I flopped a combo draw with my A5 suited and he took a big pot off me. Then later in the session he did the same thing with pocket 4s and flopped a set. I bricked that flop but it went check check. Called a blocker size bet on the turn with AQ high as I had a gutter and an over card to the potential top pair on board. The river was an ugly runout for any made hands weaker than flushes or straights so it went check check again and he showed me the set 🤬
I just heard recently that the best players in any room play the second biggest game. The rich recs or whales with money play the biggest games... usually.
@@bennyblanco675 mid stakes games (IMO games like NL $10, NL $20 and NL $50…. although some NL $50 games can play pretty big) generally consist of the highest concentration of highly skilled grinders. Not that you don’t get pros playing the whale stakes, although whale stakes is more of a well represented mix of wealthy recs who look at poker like golf (a fun hobby that they generally expect to cost them money in the long run) and pros…. a high percentage of which are backed by high net worth people who recognize their skill want want to put them in bigger games. The wealthier recs are still much tougher to deal with than the low bankroll recs starting out at the bottom, as wealthy recs typically know they aren’t going to beat the pros with skill, so they like to pick spots with the nuts or air to just rip with at any point in a hand to put the pros in really gross spots for huge amounts of money. In contrast, the low bankroll recs will overfold in a lot of spots.
@@Gos1234567 not when they crush the flop with it. I’ve been trying to figure out why solid players don’t mind playing OOP against me lately and I think it’s because I don’t go for thin enough value on the river so they probably figure it will be easier to realize their equity against me OOP
Thank you for these awesome charts, they will absolutely help to bring my game into a sharper focus. So glad to have discovered your RUclips channel. Cheers!
I think you can trace 90% of mistakes in Poker back to your pre-flop play and making sure you play a good fundamental strategy pre will make every decision 100 times easier. It's the simplest and most powerful tool in your kit at the tables.
Well from My part, I stopped bleeding money in the cash games, when I realized that I needed to fold more often. After I implemented more bet/folds My win rate actually went upp. Also the call IP with top range also works really good against fish in small stakes games, they just love to try an bullie you around, so have Them splash money at you is a good strategy. Thanks for the video Jonathan. :)
I downloaded the charts! Will definitely be referencing these in the future. Btw I made it into the money today using these charts (online tourney - finished 91st out of 915 entrants), so thanks!
I really enjoy your videos. I'm having a hard time knowing when to fold a good hand, because a better hand is out there; When should you fold your high pair, besides the obvious possible straight, flush and full house?
Great presentation.. i gave you a thumbs up as it was one of the most easily applied lessons i have seen. I also downloaded the charts and will look to discover more goodies on your site. Thanks for all your efforts in educating us fish...
When you 3bet with like A5s and the flop is Ace high, do you play it aggressively or turn your hand into a bluff catcher? In small stakes I don't really see a lot of value in trying to squish value out of worst hands and feel like I always lose when called down. Any thoughts?
If I’m in position I’ll bet small like 1/3 pot. If called I can check the turn for pot control. It’s hard to get three streets of value on a weak Ace. I’d call any reasonable bet on the river and if they check I’d bet small again for value. If I’m out of position I check call it down in most cases. Obviously board texture and player type are considerations but this is loosely how I play it.
A5s is usually play as a bluffing type hand,ie good for betting BD flush draws and gutshots to the wheel on the flop. For value,well youll rarely win by betting it on a A hi board all the way.Play it for value as the post below describes
I like this comment. I really implement a lot of these tips and sometimes it works perfect sometimes I get rekt and sometimes I even do things he says players do wrong and I’m like why the hell did I just do exactly what Johnny says is a common mistake
Thank you for the charts! And for all these great, entertaining lessons available for free on youtube. And just thank you in general, you've helped me a lot learning more about the beautiful game of poker
I went to the site mentioned herein for the preflop charts. Extensive options on the site, but unable to find the charts. Appreciate the explanation anyway, just thought I'd let you know.
Thanks for the content again. At GGpoker in cashgames you pay a rake PF if there is Reraise. Does that mean that the charts specific for cashgames (for examples the JUSTGTO created charts) be tightened up even further --> so your weakest calling hands on the btn become 3bets and some of your bluffs become folds?
I feel like that cash game 100bb CO vs LJ chart needs an asterix. At least I was surprised to see that 22 to 77 are primarily folds. It might be true in very strong games, where the LJ is good enough to get away when you do hit a set, and/or the players behind squeeze 3bet correctly. That - for all three - is in my opinion and experience not the case in 99% of cash games, that isn't primarily pro's.
In your poker coaching course, do you talk about how to deal with 1/3 NL games? For example, a 2BB initial raise means absolutely nothing, or like you said in this video a 3BB raise isnt' going to run anyone off.
What does GTO stand for, or do I have to take the course? I'm doing my best to keep track of the samples and examples. Watching some twice or even 3 times.
@@PokerCoaching thank you, I play like 20 hours a week started tracking in January 1st +140% ROI 95% tournament play but I’ve never used charts or solvers or anything just have my 10,000+ hours of watching poker on RUclips the last 15-20 years n am trying to take my game to the next level
When is it good to buy add ons? I’ve been going reasonably far with decent stacks at the first breaks and I’ve saved lots of money not buying the add ons.
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What do you think your BIGGEST preflop mistake is?
Is liking to play from the Big Blind odd? I don't four bet, I tend to only reraise from the BB
Buying in
Small blind play
I used to defend my BB too wide and SB too tight.
Also I opened too big.
Currently I am working on my SB 3bet
@@tszhin814 in cash games, opening for larger bet sizes is sometimes advisable when playing at a table where your opponents are playing relatively deep and like to limp and call a lot preflop and see a lot of flops. Those types of tables require larger open sizes to thin the field. Just be sure you are balancing your ranges that you open with for those larger sizes so your opponents won’t be able to get any tells based on your bet sizing.
In the early stages of NL tournaments, most players are also playing relatively deep and larger bet/raise sizes are subsequently optimal.
This content is gold!! I got the charts BTW! I’ll keep in touch with my progress in your next videos. I didn’t realize how poorly I was playing pre flop and how much of a massive negative impact it was having on my game!! I was one of the boomer plays (2003-2010) who just recently fell back into the game! Look forward to more amazing content from you Jonathan!!! 🎉
Thanks for the video! One recommendation would be to make your slides have a higher resolution. Your camera feed shows up with high resolution, but the images on your slides look blurry. Anyway, just a suggestion.
Thanks for the tip!
I play from 1/2 to 5/10 live and 90% of the mistakes I see are still pre flop mistakes. Even mistakes that look like they’re on the flop, turn or River can really be traced back to pre flop mistakes.
Would you expand on that a little? I hear this a lot, however we don't usually hear an example after that preflop comment. I understand it's an old comment, but I love learning
Jonathan this has been one of your best videos ever! You spoke slowly concisely and explained everything so well. Honestly I miss a lot of what you say in your videos because you do speak rather quickly but this video was perfect thank you so much for posting this!
Thought the same thing haha. I will say that I usually speed up my videos so yes, he's like Twista and is thhpeeeeed talkin
Thank you for the charts! I immediately got to put into practice what you discussed. In my 1/2 NL session last night, I re-raised from the small blind with a hand I would normally just call (ATo). Ended up playing the hand for stacks after the flop (T high rainbow) and I tripled up in my first 5 minutes at the table (2nd hand dealt. I came in on the BB.) Thank you for all your instruction. I really appreciate learning all I can from whatever decent source I can find. The lesson helped with the rest of the session, too. In for 300 out for 1962! Thanks, Jonathan!!!
@Jonathan Little - Poker Coaching is there an easy way to memorize / remember the charts? Any tricks?
So when you 3 bet does that mean even if someone already 3 bet too? Or just when everyone has called the big blind?
Thankyou Jonathon for the Charts. Much appreciated
Thanks for the charts.👌🏼 Enjoying a lot of your content lately to increase my skills and with it my winnings. Best from Germany
Thanks for the charts, I've been using Ed Millers from The Course so I'm looking forward to seeing how they contrast with each other
These are GTO.
Great book
Downloaded the charts. I like the reminder to not play too passively. I find myself playing passively at the start of every game (tourney and cash) and I think that builds the wrong image initially and slows down my action later on until that image changes.
Thanks for the free pre-flop chart, JL. This video was desperately needed by me as a new small stakes tourney player. Specifically, tips 1 and 3. Thanks for the great content.
Taking the charts, thank you 😊
Got the charts.. thank you Jonathan 🙏👍
This is such an interesting game. Still learning, but it's fun going and taking some money to the 1/3 and trying to apply what you've learned.
This is very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much for the charts. Great stuff to work from. I certainly need to learn to play aggressively at higher stakes tables. This will really help.
Wow, this was extremely helpful! I'm not a good player yet, and I could easily recognize myself in all three mistakes. All the advice seems on point!
Excellent, I always get help info from your videos. I'll get the charts shortly.
Thanks for the charts, Jonathan!
Newish to poker. This video changed my whole perspective of the game. Amazing. Thank you
Glad to hear it!
Thank you for the charts!
Excellent video, Jonathan! I stepped down in stakes to experiment with my preflop agg level, and am LOVING it!!
Fantastic!
Greetings from Poland Jonathan! Thank you very much for preflop charts! Your lessons really improved my game. Appreciate all you doing and keep up the great work!!!
My pleasure!
I have been studying charts for last 2 hours, I get the general gist but I don't think I could remember the chart for all combinations. One big flaw with my game was that I never 3 bet always just call. Will try in cash games and see how it goes. Thank you for your wisdom
Thx for the charts Boss👍💪🙏😎
No problem 👍
I got dem charts thanks Jonathan !
Thank you for the Charts Jonathan!!
Great advice, I’ll try. (Downloaded the charts)
Thank you for the charts Jonathan!
You're welcome!
Just Snagged Your Charts, Ty Sir, trying to step my game up
great content as always ty. Jonathan your team of coaches and Bart are transforming me into a crusher
Thank you very much for the charts, immediatly downloaded.
Thank you again for all you do. My game has improved so much! Last night I finished 3rd in a MTT, my biggest online cash to date. Your app if fantastic and the course material is so easy to apply. Looking forward to learning more and improving my game. Thank you.
Nice work!
My biggest preflop mistake is giving my OOP opponents a stronger range than they typically have. When I play cash games, I typically play NL $50 and you would assume not many recs cut their teeth playing for those stakes, so I assume my OOP opponents know what they are doing playing against me when I have position, but they frequently end up showing me junk that I would have never put them on.
The last session I played, the same opponent got me twice calling my 3 bet from the SB with tiny pocket pairs. One of the times he played pocket 2s! Who the F flats a $600 3 bet from the SB with pocket 2s? But of course he flopped a set and I flopped a combo draw with my A5 suited and he took a big pot off me. Then later in the session he did the same thing with pocket 4s and flopped a set. I bricked that flop but it went check check. Called a blocker size bet on the turn with AQ high as I had a gutter and an over card to the potential top pair on board. The river was an ugly runout for any made hands weaker than flushes or straights so it went check check again and he showed me the set 🤬
I just heard recently that the best players in any room play the second biggest game. The rich recs or whales with money play the biggest games... usually.
@@bennyblanco675 mid stakes games (IMO games like NL $10, NL $20 and NL $50…. although some NL $50 games can play pretty big) generally consist of the highest concentration of highly skilled grinders. Not that you don’t get pros playing the whale stakes, although whale stakes is more of a well represented mix of wealthy recs who look at poker like golf (a fun hobby that they generally expect to cost them money in the long run) and pros…. a high percentage of which are backed by high net worth people who recognize their skill want want to put them in bigger games. The wealthier recs are still much tougher to deal with than the low bankroll recs starting out at the bottom, as wealthy recs typically know they aren’t going to beat the pros with skill, so they like to pick spots with the nuts or air to just rip with at any point in a hand to put the pros in really gross spots for huge amounts of money. In contrast, the low bankroll recs will overfold in a lot of spots.
Well you should be beating them easy if they play junk.
@@Gos1234567 not when they crush the flop with it. I’ve been trying to figure out why solid players don’t mind playing OOP against me lately and I think it’s because I don’t go for thin enough value on the river so they probably figure it will be easier to realize their equity against me OOP
Thank you for the charts..really helped me :) keep up the video..do you have giveaways of memberships?
Occasionally. Be sure to get on my email list be signing up at pokercoaching.com/free.
Thx for the charts bruv
Thank you for these awesome charts, they will absolutely help to bring my game into a sharper focus. So glad to have discovered your RUclips channel. Cheers!
Glad you like them!
I think you can trace 90% of mistakes in Poker back to your pre-flop play and making sure you play a good fundamental strategy pre will make every decision 100 times easier.
It's the simplest and most powerful tool in your kit at the tables.
Downloaded the charts. Thank you!
Thanks for this video; been playing poker for years, used some of these strategies in our tourney this week (35 people), and crushed and won!
Great information as always.
Did not go to the site for the ranges but I have multiple screenshots on my phone from your videos so kind of the same thing?
It's helpful!
Well from My part, I stopped bleeding money in the cash games, when I realized that I needed to fold more often. After I implemented more bet/folds My win rate actually went upp. Also the call IP with top range also works really good against fish in small stakes games, they just love to try an bullie you around, so have Them splash money at you is a good strategy. Thanks for the video Jonathan. :)
Love the charts. Thank you.
Thx for the chart’s love the vidz
Awesome, glad you like it :)
Best Poker Coacher 2022
Just started following you. I’m an instant fan.
Welcome!
Thanks for the free charts Jonathan! Have needed them for a long time have just been working with fold/shove charts. Game changer!
I'm going to download sir... thank you
Downloaded the charts. Already have the membership :)
Thank you Jon. ..so Interesting
I downloaded the charts! Will definitely be referencing these in the future. Btw I made it into the money today using these charts (online tourney - finished 91st out of 915 entrants), so thanks!
I can't get the charts...
Nice work!
Thank you Jonathan! downloaded the charts.
I really enjoy your videos. I'm having a hard time knowing when to fold a good hand, because a better hand is out there; When should you fold your high pair, besides the obvious possible straight, flush and full house?
I have a video coming out shortly that might just help you with that John! Watch this space 😅
Great presentation.. i gave you a thumbs up as it was one of the most easily applied lessons i have seen. I also downloaded the charts and will look to discover more goodies on your site. Thanks for all your efforts in educating us fish...
You're welcome!
Thanks for the charts.
Glad you like them!
Thanks for the charts! 🤙
When you 3bet with like A5s and the flop is Ace high, do you play it aggressively or turn your hand into a bluff catcher? In small stakes I don't really see a lot of value in trying to squish value out of worst hands and feel like I always lose when called down. Any thoughts?
If I’m in position I’ll bet small like 1/3 pot. If called I can check the turn for pot control. It’s hard to get three streets of value on a weak Ace. I’d call any reasonable bet on the river and if they check I’d bet small again for value. If I’m out of position I check call it down in most cases. Obviously board texture and player type are considerations but this is loosely how I play it.
A5s is usually play as a bluffing type hand,ie good for betting BD flush draws and gutshots to the wheel on the flop.
For value,well youll rarely win by betting it on a A hi board all the way.Play it for value as the post below describes
I like this comment. I really implement a lot of these tips and sometimes it works perfect sometimes I get rekt and sometimes I even do things he says players do wrong and I’m like why the hell did I just do exactly what Johnny says is a common mistake
Thank you Jonathan for your helpful videos
Glad you like them!
Thank you for the charts! And for all these great, entertaining lessons available for free on youtube. And just thank you in general, you've helped me a lot learning more about the beautiful game of poker
I went to the site mentioned herein for the preflop charts. Extensive options on the site, but unable to find the charts. Appreciate the explanation anyway, just thought I'd let you know.
Just got preflop charts 🤯
Thanks so much for that chart bro, it is brilliant !
Downloaded charts and signed up for Free class time to treat this like a business 💪🏻
Great content, thank you
My pleasure!
I went for the charts, thanks!
Charts on point. Are these Michael Acevedo's?
Yes, they are in the PokerCoaching app.
The god has posted
I just go my charts💪 thanks coach
No problem, hope you enjoy them!
I've been having success at 2-5 and mostly 5-10NLH cash games and I'm about to jump. The areas I need to work on is middle and late stages of MTT
4:11 With the 60bb LJ RFI tourney chart, what makes QJo open so much less than QTo?
Thanks fantanstic info much appreciated.
Glad it was helpful!
24:13 So what should the big blind do if he has AQs? What about 1010 or JJ? (Against the action obviously)
Probably 4-bet A-Q, fold JJ and TT.
Thanks. I will download the charts
Thanks for the content again. At GGpoker in cashgames you pay a rake PF if there is Reraise. Does that mean that the charts specific for cashgames (for examples the JUSTGTO created charts) be tightened up even further --> so your weakest calling hands on the btn become 3bets and some of your bluffs become folds?
Most likely.
I went and got the charts, thank you!
I watched this video during an online tourney, and saw INSTANT improvement.
I feel like that cash game 100bb CO vs LJ chart needs an asterix. At least I was surprised to see that 22 to 77 are primarily folds. It might be true in very strong games, where the LJ is good enough to get away when you do hit a set, and/or the players behind squeeze 3bet correctly. That - for all three - is in my opinion and experience not the case in 99% of cash games, that isn't primarily pro's.
The charts presume your opponents play well. If they don't (and especially if they do not 3-bet often enough) then adjust and exploit them.
got the charts! Thanks
Glad you like them!
In your poker coaching course, do you talk about how to deal with 1/3 NL games? For example, a 2BB initial raise means absolutely nothing, or like you said in this video a 3BB raise isnt' going to run anyone off.
hey Jonathan, thank you for the free charts!
it took me 1 milisecond to deside! Offcourse i downloaded it! Thank you
I’m confused by the chart. Trying to follow rfi and see the SB and following flow would the BB be considered UTG??
In cash game do you tip the dealer after each win hand, or at stand up when leaving the game?
Each hand.
My biggest mistake is not defending the BB with 72s 🤪
And not folding AJo in position.
What does GTO stand for, or do I have to take the course? I'm doing my best to keep track of the samples and examples. Watching some twice or even 3 times.
Game Theory Optimal
Thanks for the charts. Just left Biloxi up 22,000 $ playing ultimate Texas hold em against the house & roulette
Well played.
I dont know how people are thankung you sitting behind a phone.
I personally thank you jonathan for giving us all the poker wisdom.🙏😞
I downloaded the charts… thanks!!
Enjoy!
Downloaded the tables
I got the charts. Love your play on poker after dark.
great channel
got he charts thanks Jonathan
Got em thank you
I hope you enjoy them!
@@PokerCoaching thank you, I play like 20 hours a week started tracking in January 1st +140% ROI 95% tournament play but I’ve never used charts or solvers or anything just have my 10,000+ hours of watching poker on RUclips the last 15-20 years n am trying to take my game to the next level
Got the charts and made a free account yesterday! Hoping for another good sale soon so I can subscribe 🤞
When is it good to buy add ons? I’ve been going reasonably far with decent stacks at the first breaks and I’ve saved lots of money not buying the add ons.
New player here very good video.
Got the charts
I took advantage of free charts. Ty
You're welcome!
You should add a little bit of acoustic treatment to the room you record in. The sound will be SO MUCH BETTER!!