Poker Strategy
Garrett Adelstein’s 5 Live Poker Tips To Boost Your Win Rate
Do you play live poker? Then this one’s for you. Garrett Adelstein is the most feared livestream player of all time. He started at the lowest stakes online and worked his way up to $1,000/$2,000 games in Los Angeles. Along the way, he became one of the biggest winners in live poker history. (He just…
Read MoreSneak Peek Inside Destroy Live Cash by Garrett Adelstein
Most live pros wait for the fish to make a mistake. Garrett Adelstein attacks the whole table. Here’s how he does it. Garrett’s brand new Destroy Live Cash course hands you his entire decision-making process, from GTO baseline to exploits, across 50 of the most strategically significant hands of his career. You’ve probably watched Garrett…
Read More3 Flop Mistakes You’re Making Without Knowing It
The flop is the second most common node you will play (after preflop), and decisions here have big ramifications for how the rest of the hand plays out. Betting or checking, calling or raising with a certain hand means that you’re going to face an entirely different range on the following streets. Not only does…
Read More$500,000 Poker Champs Tournament (ft. xQc, Sodapoppin, Alexandra Botez)
Eight of the biggest names in the live streaming world compete for a $500,000 prize pool on ClubWPT Gold this month, and you can watch all of the action from your favorite creator’s channel. Poker Champs brings together eight content creators for a heads-up tournament unlike any poker event you’ve ever seen. The winner walks…
Read MoreGarrett Adelstein Had the Perfect Bluff-Catcher. He Folded Anyway.
Garrett Adelstein had reached the river with Ks Jc on Jd 2d 2s 9h Kc and bet $25,000 for value when Jackie Wang raised to $110,000. In theory, Garrett had an excellent bluff-catcher. But after hundreds of hours playing together, he couldn’t remember seeing Jackie pull the trigger on an enormous bluff like this. Jackie…
Read MoreAces vs Kings, 500 Big Blinds Deep: Can Garrett Get Away?
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Garrett Adelstein has Kh Kc in a 4-bet pot; the flop comes 9-high, and there are no real draws to speak of. For most players, that’s all that needs to be said. The money is going in, and a cooler in a 1,000bb pot is inevitable. But…
Read MoreToo Weak to Call, Strong Enough to Raise: Garrett Adelstein’s $60K Bluff
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Garrett Adelstein had already become one of the biggest winners on Hustler Casino Live when he played this epic hand in September 2022. He knew his pocket queens were no good on this river. Aaron Zhang had just overbet $15,000 on the river, and the board had run out…
Read MoreGarrett Adelstein Was Sure His Opponent Couldn’t Bluff. He Was Wrong.
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Garrett Adelstein had already become one of the biggest winners on Live at the Bike when he played one of the most consequential hands of his career in March 2018. The game was $100/$200 with a $200 ante, and Garrett and regular opponent Art Papazyan were roughly…
Read MoreHow Garrett Adelstein Used a Weak Player to Bluff Patrik Antonius
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Garrett Adelstein had not played poker in more than a year when he sat down in a $100/$200/$400 game with a $200 ante in December 2023. Rather than ease back in, he immediately found himself in a massive pot against Patrik Antonius, a player he admired growing…
Read MoreGarrett vs Dwan: 4 Lessons From a High-Stakes Cash Game Hand
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Garrett Adelstein recently broke down a fascinating hand against Tom Dwan from a $200/$200/$400 ($200 big blind ante) cash game in 2021. Watch Garrett’s video on YouTube. The hand has all the ingredients you’d expect from these two creative and aggressive players. Garrett takes an unusual preflop…
Read MoreWhy Milestone Satellites Require a Different Poker Strategy
Moneymaker. The Poker Boom. Do you know what they have in common? Satellite tournaments. Moneymaker’s historic run began in an online qualifier. However, that was in a traditional satellite. If you’re chasing your own Moneymaker moment, you need to know how satellites work — and today, that means understanding milestone satellites. In this article, you’ll…
Read More3 Times You Should Bet Big on the Turn (And 3 Times You Shouldn’t)
Sizing your bets optimally on the turn can help you win more money when you are ahead and lose less when you are behind. Knowing when to choose one size over the other is thus important for maximizing your win-rate. There are many ways to reach the turn (in position vs out of position, single…
Read More3 Cash Game Exploits That Print Against Today’s Regs (Backed By Data)
I shouldn’t be giving this away for free, but you’re getting lucky today. If you want to make money playing poker, you have to craft your strategy in a way that takes advantage of certain deficiencies in your opponents’ way of playing. In this article, I’m not going to go down the rabbit hole of…
Read MoreMystery Bounty Strategy: How to Attack Once the Bubble Bursts
A sigh of relief. A thrill of hope. Could this be the day? That’s how surviving a money bubble can feel. But the feeling is even more pronounced in Mystery Bounty knockout (MB or MBKO) tournaments. Because making ITM in a Mystery Bounty means a lot more than the min-cash you’re guaranteed. Eliminating just one…
Read MoreGarrett Adelstein Breaks Down His $390K Payback Hand Against Dylan Gang
By Duncan Smith · Online Cash Game Pro Some poker hands become memorable because of the money. Others stick around because of the players involved, the table dynamic, and whatever history happens to be sitting underneath the surface. This one has all of that. In February 2022, Garrett Adelstein and Dylan Gang played one of…
Read MoreUnlocking the Mystery: Early Stage Mystery Bounty Tournament Strategy
Over the last five years or so, Mystery Bounty tournaments (MBs) were introduced to the live poker ecosystem. They continue to rise in popularity, having considerable representation in the online tournament scene as well. They’re here to stay. And they’re grossly misunderstood. Aside from being a total luckbox, is the Mystery Bounty format beatable? In…
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