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Garrett Adelstein has spent 15 years winning millions in live cash games, plus another 7 years crushing high-stakes online before that. He’s dedicated his life to knowing what the “right” play is, what the opponent across from him is up to, and how to merge the two into the best decision.
Destroy Live Cash is his entire approach, taught by him, for the very first time.
24 Years of High-Stakes Poker. Millions of Hands. Thousands of Hours of GTO Study. One Clear, Practical Approach.
For nearly 25 years, Garrett Adelstein has played the highest stakes in poker, from his early days as an online prodigy to the biggest televised cash games ever dealt.
On Live at the Bike and Hustler Casino Live, he sat down night after night, hundreds of big blinds deep, against Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Art Papazyan, Matt Berkey, and the toughest pros in Los Angeles.
He won. A lot. Millions and millions of dollars, over six years, in games where everyone at the table knew exactly who he was and what he was capable of.
Ask his recurring opponents what makes Garrett so dangerous and you'll hear the same things. He's always dialed in. He's relentless with his aggression. And when he puts you to the test for your entire stack, you never know whether he's got it.
That reputation wasn't built upon luck or small sample sizes. Behind every one of those hands are thousands of hours of solver study and years of piecing together when theory holds up, how live players break from it, and how to adjust optimally.
For the First Time, Garrett Is Opening Up the Book to His Process.
In Destroy Live Cash, he walks you through 50 of the most strategically absorbing hands of his career. He shows you how he differentiates the theoretically sound play from the highest EV decision against the actual player across the table. You'll see what he saw, the relative weight he placed on it, and why he pulled the trigger, or didn't.
This isn't a course 100 other strong players could make. It's one of one.
Know the GTO Baseline.Find the Exploitative Deviation.Punish the Mistake.
Destroy Live Cash gives you a repeatable process for working through the endless situations that make live poker so complex.
Not: “What would PioSOLVER do here?”
And not: “I have a feeling he’s weak.”
Instead, you’ll learn to answer...
- What does sound theoretical strategy look like in this spot?
- What's this player doing differently?
- How strong is the evidence?
- And if I deviate, how far should I take the exploit?
Use GTO as guardrails, not handcuffs
Build a strong theoretical baseline without trying to memorize endless solver frequencies.
Garrett teaches the practical heuristics (shortcuts) he relies on, including range groupings and Continue Threshold (aka don't fold) concepts, so you can digest the theory without hundreds or thousands of hours of solver study. You'll also see how his own game changed once he had these guardrails in place: the mistakes he made previously, and the increased edges they provided thereafter.
Adjust to the game you're actually in
Learn to recognize when player type, stack depth, bet sizing, psychology, and game dynamics give you a legitimate reason to move away from the baseline strategy.
The villains in these hands often mirror the players in your game, from recs to pros, even at $2/$5. Garrett shows you how he picks his targets, identifies their weaknesses, and attacks. He does this against every opponent, not just the worst players at the table. The goal isn't to find excuses to deviate with minimal data points. It's to quickly recognize when the evidence is strong enough to justify the exploit.
See the process under real pressure
Watch Garrett break down 50 of his most strategically absorbing hands from high-stakes livestreams. You'll see the live reads, the speech play, and the decision-making process happen on screen while he breaks it down.
Then learn how to recognize and execute the same opportunities in your own cash games.
What Destroy Live Cash Is and Isn’t
Destroy Live Cash is built to make elite-level strategy digestible and executable in real live games, whether you’ve spent years working with solvers or never opened one.
What It Is
Garrett largely focuses on the theoretical (or GTO) concepts that move the needle in live cash games: range groupings, Continue Threshold (aka don't fold) hands, digestible blocker logic, and easy-to-understand sizing strategies. He provides critical heuristics (or shortcuts) when teaching the theory.
Nothing esoteric; nothing you won't use. Just clean, simple rules to greatly improve your theoretical play.
From recs to pros to those who seem to play at random (button clickers), you'll learn how Garrett picks his targets, builds a profile, and attacks, while also learning how to avoid going too far with an exploit.
Deep stacks, straddles, antes, multiway pots, and unusual sizings. The stakes in Garrett's hands are huge. The decisions are the same ones you face.
Most hands Garrett reviews have 2 parts. Part 1 is the live hand review: the read, the ranges, the dynamics, and why he chose his line. This is where the exploits shine.
Part 2 is the GTO breakdown, where he analyzes the hand in PioSOLVER and shows you where theory backs the decision, and where it doesn't. Watch both. Or start with the live hands and come back for the theory.
Including the hands he got wrong, what they cost him, and how he adjusted thereafter. You'll see his approach evolve across six years of livestreams, from too-aggressive exploits to a more nuanced strategy incorporating GTO guardrails.
What It Isn’t
You don't need to own or know how to use PioSOLVER. You don't need to have a deep understanding of poker theory. Garrett does the work for you, clearly and concisely. He pulls out the heuristics, the threshold hands, and the takeaways that matter, then moves on.
Garrett doesn't throw theory out the window. He uses it as the baseline that tells him what a sound strategy looks like, so he can recognize when an opponent gives him a reason to deviate.
You won't learn that a nose scratch means Aces. This isn't Rounders. You'll learn how Garrett combines physical information with sizing, history, and range logic, where a live read is just one variable in the decision-making process.
These 50 hands weren't just picked because the pot was huge or the clip went viral. Each one was carefully chosen because it teaches several concepts you can implement at the table.
50 Real Hands. One Repeatable Process to Think Through Them.
Explore the course content that will help you make sharper plays every session.
Lesson 1: Course Introduction
Garrett lays out how the course works: 50 of the most strategically interesting hands he's ever played on livestream, presented chronologically, with a theory/exploit hybrid breakdown for every hand. He also explains how to use the "Heuristic," "Takeaway," and "Review" labels, and why you should watch the videos in order.
Lesson 2: [Pio] Solver Setup and Tips
A crash course in studying with solvers efficiently, including how Garrett uses thresholds and extrapolation to learn from a sim without memorizing grids. This is your roadmap for getting the most out of every Part 2 in the course, even if you've never opened Pio.
Lesson 1: When Opponents Empty the Clip (and Metagame)
From one of Garrett's very first livestream sessions in 2017: a deep single-raised pot against Upswing co-founder Ryan Fee, who refuses to give up on any street. A masterclass in reading river sizing and asking the key metagame question: how often does this opponent empty the clip?
Lesson 2: [Pio] Solver Fundamentals - Thresholds, Heuristics and EV
The first Pio review of the course, using an MP vs HJ single-raised pot sim. Garrett establishes his study framework: key takeaways, threshold hands, and knowing when not to go deep on a node.
Lesson 3: Leveling Recreational Opponents in 3-Bet Pots
A single-raised pot against a recurring amateur who fights fire with fire postflop. Garrett breaks down an exploitative small check-raise on a terrible board for his range and the leveling war that follows through three streets.
Lesson 4: [Pio] 3-Bet Pots 550BBs Deep (Ranges and Thresholds)
An HJ vs BTN 3-bet pot sim focused on flop raising: which draws to raise, why gutshots with backdoor flush draws get priority, and where the fold thresholds sit on a two-tone board.
Lesson 5: Turning Body Language Into Big Bluffs
An intentionally out-of-line preflop call against an infamously transparent opponent. Garrett shows how to stack sizing tells, body language, and tape-review tendencies into one confident read, and asks whether the exploit goes too far.
Lesson 6: [Pio] C-Betting (and Defending) on Broadway Boards
An HJ vs BTN single-raised pot sim revealing why the population c-bets far too often on broadway textures. Includes one of the course's most important lessons: your play can be "solver approved" and still be losing.
Lesson 7: Multiway Pots: Leading Ranges Out of Position
A multiway single-raised pot against Matt Berkey that ends facing a 161% pot all-in. Garrett covers how leading ranges should change as more players enter the pot, and whether "if you call the flop, you have to call the turn" actually holds up.
Lesson 8: [Pio] Using Solvers for Multiway Pots
Garrett's first look at what sims can, and can't, teach you multiway. He uses an LJ vs BB configuration to approximate the spot and shows how to build balanced attacking ranges when no solver output exists.
Lesson 9: BvB 3-Bet Pot vs Art
Blind vs blind against Art Papazyan, the skilled recurring opponent who sent Garrett down the PioSolver rabbit hole. Limp-reraise ranges, playing a trip-jacks board, and an 87% pot metagame bet born from an overbluffed image.
Lesson 10: [Pio] BvB 3-Bet Pots
A blind vs blind limp-reraise sim covering both players' preflop construction and the flop raising thresholds on a paired board. Ends with the uncomfortable question: do humans actually bluff here with ace high?
Lesson 11: BETA Multiway 3-Bet Pots vs Pros and VIPs
A $200/$400 multiway 3-bet pot against Berkey and a former VIP. Garrett navigates a four-way flop with a vulnerable overpair and shows how to range multiple opponents at once when the board smashes everyone.
Lesson 12: BETA Solver Study: SB vs LJ 3-Bet Pots
An SB vs LJ 3-bet pot sim with an honest disclaimer about its limits multiway. The most valuable content here is the preflop work: how 3-betting ranges should tighten across different blind configurations.
Lesson 13: BETA - Heads-Up 4-Bet Wars vs a Studied Pro
The infamous "19 queens" hand, a heads-up 4-bet pot against Art that tilted Garrett into thousands of hours of solver study. A raw look at 4-bet range construction deep, plus what tilt actually costs you in-game.
Lesson 14: [Pio] 4-Bet and 5-Bet Ranges Deep
An SB vs BTN 4-bet pot sim covering 5-bet bluff construction and flop strategy with condensed ranges. Garrett highlights which non-intuitive hands make the best bluffs when nobody has air.
Lesson 1: Playing Tighter Ranges in Loose Multiway Games
A rare five-way pot mixing four pros and a rec. Garrett explains why five-handed strategy is nothing like three-handed, how to balance a betting range with that many players behind, and why his big fold without a key blocker was correct.
Lesson 2: Solver Study: HJ vs BTN with Multiway Caveats
An HJ vs BTN sim used sparingly. Garrett is upfront that solves barely help five ways. The useful nodes are the heads-up turn and river, where he extracts sizing lessons before setting the sim aside.
Lesson 3: Squeeze or Call? 3-Betting with a Third Blind
A 4-bet pot against Art featuring one of the strangest nodes in the course: a turn donk designed to fold out overpairs. A deep dive into leveling wars and why live poker is about outwitting, not memorizing outputs.
Lesson 4: Board Coverage in 4-Bet Calling Ranges
An SB vs BTN 4-bet pot sim where pocket queens, near the top of the range, becomes the folding threshold. Garrett explains the blocker logic and asks whether it holds up against real humans.
Lesson 5: Setting Up the River Shove: Geometric Bluffing
A 4-bet pot hero bluff against Andy with ace-queen suited, built on precise sizing math (47% turn, 138% river shove) and a read on a transparent opponent. Ends in a "humble pie" moment that changed Garrett's entire attack strategy against him.
Lesson 6: Why Position Wins: The 3:1 EV Edge Deep
The 4-bet pot sim behind Hand 10, revealing a massive 3:1 EV edge for the in-position player at 400 big blinds. A warning against dismissing an opponent's "mistake": Andy's flop check turns out to be a brilliant exploit.
Lesson 7: QQ Bluff vs Andy
A four-way 3-bet pot cooler featuring quads and one of the toughest ranging exercises in the course. This is one of the few hands with no Pio companion, because no sim on earth can teach you to range three opponents in a multiway 4-bet tree.
Lesson 8: Wide-Range Spots: Where the Money Leaks
Blind vs blind against Andy in a limped pot where both ranges are enormous. Garrett shows why metagame reads trump blockers and hand strength in wide-range spots, culminating in a "call with 444 and pray" river decision.
Lesson 9: Limp-Reraise Ranges and RNG Calibration
The only blind vs blind single-raised pot sim in the course. Full coverage of raising vs the limp, the limp-reraise defense, and how smaller sizings drive higher betting frequencies.
Lesson 10: Button Flatting with a Rec in the Blinds
A single-raised pot against Art on a monotone-turning board where flush blockers dominate every decision. Garrett also revisits Art's history of "cheating" with sizings, including the $51K bluff that once cracked his kings.
Lesson 11: Betting Ranges on Multiway Flops
An HJ vs BTN sim following the hand three ways to the flop and heads-up beyond. Key material on raising less multiway, slowplaying more, and why you can't bluff when you're hoping your opponent doesn't hold the card you'd want to bluff with.
Lesson 1: Bet or Fold: Isolating VIPs with Pros Behind
A 3-bet pot against a transparent opponent whose betting patterns give away his entire range. Garrett demonstrates how to build a checking line purely to gather information, then combines sizing and physical tells into a confident river decision.
Lesson 2: Betting vs Recreational Buttons
A BTN vs SB 3-bet pot sim vs a rec. Garrett validates the in-position player's line as "GTO approved" and shows how a breakeven solver call is still useful as a guardrail for real-game decisions.
Lesson 3: Defending vs Huge Preflop Sizings
A 3-bet pot against Matt Berkey that ends facing a river overbet. Covers adjusting to unusually large preflop sizings and a critical exploit note: some opponents simply have it in the biggest spots.
Lesson 4: Tightening Up vs Large Open Sizings
An SB vs LJ 3-bet sim on a flush-completing runout with elite-level blocker work: why jack-ten of clubs beats king-ten of clubs as a bluff catcher, and which spade combos continue against the all-in.
Lesson 5: Adjusting to Overbets and Odd Lines
Another 3-bet pot against Berkey, this time facing a 127% pot c-bet. Garrett unpacks when massive c-bets make sense, why gameflow shaped his read, and how the sizing actually made his later-street decisions easier.
Lesson 6: Unique C-Bet Strategies in Position
A BTN vs HJ 3-bet sim with a huge 1.9:1 EV edge for the in-position player, and a counterintuitive lesson on why that doesn't mean betting small. Includes the threshold logic for defending against overbets.
Lesson 7: Folding Good Hands in Underbluffed Nodes
A three-way 3-bet pot against Berkey exploring one of the most underbluffed line types in live poker. Garrett explains why aggressive players must protect their nut range, and why the funky preflop action makes this a no-sim hand.
Lesson 8: Underbluffed Lines in Single-Raised Pots
A single-raised pot against Andy built on an exploitative T7o preflop call. The centerpiece takeaway: you can ignore theory when you truly "know", but "knowing" requires a bigger sample than most players think.
Lesson 9: Big Blind Defense vs Early Position
An LJ vs BB sim showing a startling 16% check-raise frequency on a low board, and exactly which hands do it. Ends with a river call worth a massive 40% of the pot that most players would talk themselves out of.
Lesson 10: Hero Plays in 4-Bet Pots 400BB Deep
A 4-bet pot out of position against Andy with jacks, 400 big blinds deep. A hero-play showcase anchored by one of the course's best math heuristics: don't fold getting 6:1 when only five combos beat you.
Lesson 11: Bet Range Construction: Suits and Coverage
An HJ vs BTN 4-bet sim on an ace-high board with hyper-condensed ranges. The stunner: calling the river shove with jacks is worth over 50% of the pot.
Lesson 12: Bet Sizing When Repping a Narrow Range
A 3-bet pot against Andy where Garrett hunts for the perfect river bluff while repping almost nothing. The key heuristic: when your value range is razor thin, only a massive sizing tells a believable story.
Lesson 13: Flatting from the Blinds vs Passive Pros
An SB vs LJ 3-bet sim on a paired queen board, featuring the counterintuitive "bet king-high more than ace-high" heuristic and blocker-driven river folds most players would never find.
Lesson 1: Punishing Opponents Who Never Fold to 3-Bets
A single-raised pot against Gal built entirely on metagame: after running three huge bluffs into his nutted hands, Garrett triples off for greedy sizings knowing exactly how wide he'll get paid. A lesson in exploiting opponents who call too much and Hollywood too often.
Lesson 2: Big Blind 3-Betting vs Wide Opens
A BTN vs BB sim on a jack-high board with a huge in-position EV edge. Garrett's sizing tiers: three-quarter pot with top pair, smaller with weaker pairs, plus a river call worth 80% of the pot.
Lesson 3: Bluffing Recreational Players Multiway
A four-way 3-bet pot where every opponent's discomfort is broadcast in real time. Garrett makes an unconventional all-in against a level-one thinker and explains why "what am I repping?" isn't always the right question.
Lesson 4: Sizing Up Your 3-Bets vs Loose Buttons
A 3-bet pot against Gal focused on punishing wide, sticky ranges, ending with an all-in check-raise bluff holding ace-king. Garrett contrasts how the line plays against elites versus against a specific opponent he'd shown value with before.
Lesson 5: Exploit 3-Betting: Stronger Hands, More Often
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim covering flop sizing psychology (opponents are most comfortable against one-third pot) and turn bluff selection when the board pairs your opponent's range.
Lesson 6: Squeezing Wide vs Weak Multiway Fields
A multiway 3-bet pot with aces where a slight eye roll changes everything. Garrett hero-checks the river based on thousands of hours of history with his opponent, a case study in when intuition outranks theory.
Lesson 7: Playing Capped Ranges in Squeezed Pots
A BTN vs HJ sim confirming the hero check costs only 12% of pot, a defensible deviation, not a blunder. Also covers how four-way dynamics compress the solver's usual aggression.
Lesson 8: Punishing Small-Iso Strategies
A 4-bet pot against Andy ending in a hero fold near the top of Garrett's range. Home to the course's most quoted heuristic: when a bad player's line makes no sense, call; when a decent player's makes no sense, fold; when an elite's makes no sense, cry.
Lesson 9: Punishing Ranges Heavy in QQ–99
The 4-bet sim behind the hero fold, with a jaw-dropping data point: folding kings costs two-thirds of the pot in theory. Garrett reconciles that with why the exploitative fold was still right against this opponent.
Lesson 10: Polarized 3-Betting with Action Behind
A single-raised pot against Tom Dwan on a coordinated jack-ten board. Garrett faces a check-raise from one of poker's most feared players and walks through the leveling question: can this opponent bluff-raise against a 150% bet?
Lesson 11: [Pio] Strong Ranges on JTx Boards
An MP vs HJ sim illustrating how strong ranges collide on JTx textures. Includes surprising solver aggression, turning ace-jack and queen-jack into bluffs, and why you need a read before copying it.
Lesson 12: Facing Limp-Heavy VIPs: Adjusting Your Attack
A single-raised pot against a limp-happy VIP that becomes a study in "standard" triple barrels against recreational players. Garrett also delivers his definitive breakdown of when open-limping is defensible in straddled games.
Lesson 13: Hero Folding Multiway: Range Discipline
A multiway single-raised pot showcasing two underused weapons: the check-raise and the disciplined fold. Garrett explains why even pros can't find intuitive bluffs on this runout, making his fold, even at 3:1, straightforward.
Lesson 14: Navigating 3-Bet Pots with Wide Button Ranges
A 3-bet pot against Andy where Garrett picks off a bluff holding zero appealing blockers. The takeaway that matters: unique lines must be balanced against strong opponents, and you have to call with some huge hands to protect your calling range.
Lesson 15: Bet Range Construction from the Small Blind
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim in one of the most common heads-up nodes in live poker, with the humbling conclusion that the best live pros heavily outperform Pio in this exact spot.
Lesson 16: Cold-Calling Discipline from the Blinds
A multiway single-raised pot where the flatters, not the raiser, own the board. Garrett covers balanced donk-leading ranges four ways, then folds to an overbet based on a read that his opponent never rushes to build huge pots without the goods.
Lesson 17: Way Flops: When Leading Makes Sense
A CO vs SB sim on donking multiway and the raise-then-overbet pattern that reps ultra narrow when deep. Also a subtle blocker lesson: why pocket sixes plays far better than fives on this river.
Lesson 1: Button Ranges with Multiple Blinds Posted
A single-raised pot exploring one of the trickiest concepts in the game: bluffing with showdown value. Garrett breaks down which blockers actually matter facing a flush-completing river and why most humans use this sizing only with boats.
Lesson 2: Straddle Adjustments to Common Nodes
A BTN vs BB sim in a super common node with a critical study lesson attached: mapping out your plan for blank turns and rivers is where the real EV hides.
Lesson 3: Wide Value 4-Betting: Sizing Up vs VIPs
A 4-bet pot against an unpredictable "button-clicker" VIP who donks into Garrett's range. Covers why raising thin for value against erratic opponents is a disaster, plus a masterclass in using table talk to extract information in a huge pot.
Lesson 4: Isolating Straddle Limpers Correctly
A wild hand against a thinking rec running an unorthodox limp-reraise strategy. Garrett gets shown a soul-read bluff, explains why the "brilliant" play was actually wildly inaccurate, and how he adjusted to a max value-heavy strategy from then on.
Lesson 5: Unique Nodes vs Thinking Recs
A blind vs blind limp-reraise sim in one of the most unique configurations in the course. Two heavyweight heuristics: solver-level trapping protects your calling range, and missing one class of hands in a single node corrupts every future street.
Lesson 6: Tape Review Payoffs: Attacking Known Leaks
A max-exploit hand against the same thinking rec, ending with a snap call against a shove. The through-line: in live poker, there's always another opportunity to pick up information before the money goes in.
Lesson 7: Bet Extrapolation: Which Hands Always Raise
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim built around deviations against thinking recs. Features a valuable pattern: check your big draws when you expect to get check-raised by overpairs and better draws.
Lesson 1: Multi-Blind Preflop: Calling the Bottom of Range
A cautionary tale about deviating against elite opponents. Garrett makes an exploit fold with the right hand and the wrong read. Proof that when you exploit in the wrong direction, it's the most expensive mistake in poker.
Lesson 2: Big Blind Thresholds vs Early Position Opens
An LJ vs BB sim on a king-high board where top pair is effectively the nuts. Covers simplified c-bet construction ("just bet pairs with a heart") and the exact bluff-catching thresholds against a river check-raise.
Lesson 3: Unique Multiway Nodes from Unorthodox Preflop
Unorthodox preflop action produces some of the strangest multiway nodes in the course. The core lesson: when a super-VIP is in the pot, keeping them in, even with your strongest hands, is where the real money lives.
Lesson 4: Diversifying Your 3-Bet Bluffs in Position
A 3-bet pot against an elite pro featuring a massive river shove repping almost nothing. Garrett walks through the rare node where checking concedes the pot, and why he'd already committed to his river plan a street earlier.
Lesson 5: HJ vs BTN: 3-Bet Attack and Defense
An HJ vs BTN 3-bet sim on a queen-high board with detailed check-raise composition. Garrett pushes back on Pio's bluff selection with his own logic: bluffs have to come from somewhere, and some candidates are far more human-findable than others.
Lesson 6: Squeeze Defense: 4-Bet or Fold OOP
A four-way 3-bet pot, super deep, with unorthodox lines flying in every direction. The mature takeaway: part of information gathering is recognizing when a data point simply doesn't exist, and not inventing one.
Lesson 1: No-Flat Zones: SB 3-Bet-or-Fold vs Buttons
Facing a huge river raise while holding ideal blockers, the perfect collision of GTO and exploits. Garrett's verdict on whether pure theory should have won the day: "Hell. Fucking. No."
Lesson 2: SB 3-Bet Range Construction vs Semi-Pros
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim on a deuce-paired board revealing why most bluff catchers have nearly identical EV against non-elite opponents. Includes the sharpest threshold ranking in the course.
Lesson 3: Betting the Bottom of Your Range vs Recs
Max exploits against a rec, from wider 3-bet ranges preflop to reading a wildly out-of-bounds river sizing. The closing lesson: know exactly who thinks you overbluff, and who thinks you never do.
Lesson 4: Widening 3-Bets Against Rec Buttons
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim with a ruthless exploit takeaway: value bet ace-queen relentlessly against players who play their whole range face-up. The sim also prices a bad river call at a brutal 22% of the pot.
Lesson 5: GTO Baselines vs Unknown Elites
A tough spot against a strong pro with almost no shared history, the read-free scenario every live player dreads. Garrett leans on population tendencies and blocker logic (ace-deuce unblocks everything) to navigate back-to-back overbets.
Lesson 6: Pressing EV Edges with Pure C-Bets
An LJ vs BB sim on approximating GTO against elite opposition. Pio uncovers non-intuitive bluff candidates, and Garrett shows which simplifications keep the strategy executable in real time.
Lesson 7: Opening Ultra-Wide vs Non-Squeezers
A $500/$1000 pot in a nosebleed celebrity lineup, played for max exploitation against a recreational player. Also one of the most honest moments in the course: Garrett dissects how tilt disguises itself as overoptimistic value betting.
Lesson 8: Straddle 3-Bet Strategy: Strong Hands First
A 3-bet pot against a thinking rec with known leaks, ending in a 200% pot overbet engineered to fold out aces. The blueprint for going HAM with a strong read, while staying balanced enough to survive being wrong.
Lesson 9: Crushing the Bottom 90% of Their Range
An SB vs BTN 3-bet sim with a sobering benchmark: when an opponent piles in 1,000 big blinds, theory says you should be folding a shocking amount of your range.
Lesson 1: Multiway Ranges: Suited Hands vs Passive Players
Big multiway action with a flopped flush, and a disciplined fold most players could never make. The lesson is "know your man": when a specific opponent takes a line he's never once taken, believe him.
Lesson 2: Bet or Call? In Position with Recs Behind
A bluff against a recreational player while repping only seven combos, normally a suicide mission. Garrett explains the leveling flip: the better your opponent reads hands, the more valuable the occasional narrow-repping bluff becomes.
Lesson 3: Balanced Limping: Rare but Real
A three-street bluff against a thinking rec that GTO says should never happen with this combo. Proof that you can play an entertaining, aggressive style and maximize EV at the same time. It's just really hard.
Lesson 4: Attacking VIP Limps with Big Raises
A pure bluff-catching decision against a thinking rec, weighing a specific read against a spot he'd never been seen bluffing. Features one of the cleanest heuristics in the course: call ace-queen more than any other ace.
Lesson 5: Bluffing Strong Hand Readers
A made hand transformed into a bluff against one of the best hand readers Garrett ever faced. Sometimes the cards themselves do the storytelling, and this runout wrote the perfect script.
Lesson 6: Salvaging Bad Preflop Decisions
An admittedly spewy preflop play that snowballs into one of the most unique river bluffs of Garrett's career. A rare case where a sample size of one becomes genuinely actionable information.
Lesson 7: Big C-Bets in 4-Bet Pots Deep
An SB vs BTN 4-bet pot sim behind the huge bluff, covering big c-bets in 4-bet pots and a river node where even chopping hands prefer to fold. Garrett shows exactly which hands the solver turns into bluffs.
Lesson 8: Multiway Triple Barrels: The Final Test
The finale: a December 2023 multiway three-street bluff against an elite opponent, chosen to cap the course. Garrett runs the full leveling calculus: blocker selection, unblocking folds, and betting on his opponent believing nobody bluffs him, one last time.
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Learn why deep stacks can completely change your preflop aggression. Position becomes increasingly powerful as stacks get deeper, which can make passive preflop lines far more costly than they appear. Garrett shows why playing out of position can actually create situations where you need to fight harder for control before the flop.
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Standard preflop charts are built for 100 big blind tables, usually without an ante. Garrett’s games aren’t, and yours shouldn’t be either if you play live, deep-stacked poker.
To build these ranges, Garrett worked directly with the expert solver team at Lucid Poker. He supplied the inputs, including game structure, stack depth, and raise sizes, and their team ran them through best-in-class solver software (Hold’em Resources Calculator).
The result is a set of deep-stack preflop ranges built around the situations at the heart of Destroy Live Cash, giving you a crystal clear starting point before the difficult postflop decisions begin.
Range specifications
Stack depth 600bb / 300 straddles
Blind structure Straddle (0.5bb/1bb/2bb)
Ante 0.125bb per player
Table setup No rake, 8-handed
Open-raise sizes 3 straddles, except from SB/BB (4 straddles)
3-bet sizes 3.5x in position, 4.5x out of position
4-bet sizes 3x in position, 4x out of position
Spots covered Raise first in (RFI), vs RFI, vs 3-bet, vs 4-bet, squeeze, vs squeeze, and more
Solver Ran with Hold'em Resources Calculator by the Lucid Poker team
U.S. and Canada eligible states only
50 Free ClubWPT Gold Chips
Your purchase includes 50 Chips on ClubWPT Gold, which you can use to play ring games or tournaments on the site.
Available only to U.S. and Canadian residents in eligible states and provinces. Excludes AZ, ID, MI, MT, NJ, TN, WA and Quebec.
A Free Copy of Beneath the Cards
Garrett’s memoir, covering nearly 25 years at the highest stakes in poker, from online prodigy to the biggest televised cash games ever played. Plus, Garrett reveals his perspective on Jack-Four, the most infamous livestreamed hand ever, for the first time.
It’s the story behind the player. And it’s filled with strategic nuggets on psychology, mindset, and finding balance in the cutthroat world of poker.
Physical copies ship to U.S. addresses. While supplies last. Members outside the U.S. can request the ebook. Certain jurisdictions may be excluded due to logistical challenges.
What Garrett's Students Had to Say About His Coaching
They paid $1,000+ an hour to learn from Garrett 1-on-1. Destroy Live Cash distills the core lessons from Garrett's coaching into one complete course.
I'm going to explain how having Garrett as my long-term poker coach has not only significantly improved my game, but has also enhanced so many other areas of my life beyond the felt:
I am a real estate investor and amateur poker player that plays in a large, casual LA home game. When the stakes of our game got to a level where I was losing upwards of $50k in my worst sessions, I knew it was time to make an investment in improving my play.
My philosophy in life is if you're going to learn something, learn from the best. Garrett is my favorite player to watch on livestreams. Not just the way he dominates the tables through his aggression and elite decision-making, but also the class he shows toward his opponents and the game itself. There was no other option for me on who I wanted to learn from.
When it comes to strategy, that's where Garrett shines. I'm sure there are a lot of good coaches who can teach you how to best utilize position; preflop ranges; optimal bet sizings; and mixing up your postflop play. Garrett's real genius, however, comes from his ability to go beyond this; to deeply understand how you as an individual see the game. And from there, he is able to cater to your strengths, plug your leaks, and focus on the concepts that will accelerate your game quickest during your valuable coaching hours.
During our hand history reviews and theory discussions, he was particularly helpful in developing individual and population-wide attack strategies and adjustments in a game filled with crazy, loose amateurs. No training video or solver could have ever taught me how to exploit my opponents in these unique games. As knowledgeable as he is on GTO play, playing high stakes live cash goes beyond memorizing strategies.
Garrett is a real dude who understands people, which is part of what makes him both an exceptional player and coach. There is no bullshit with him. He is as much of a straight shooter as they come. He's not there to sugarcoat things or make you feel all warm and fuzzy. He's there to improve your game as much and as quickly as possible.
He's also a man of principle, honor, and dedication — a true testament of character and class. Being around someone like that, these attributes are contagious. You can't help but be influenced by his competitive spirit and meticulous approach to poker, which clearly translates to his life.
I don't need to say this, but I will anyway: When it comes to no-limit cash games, Garrett is in the top 3 players of all time in my opinion. When it comes to his approach to life, he's in the top 1% of people you'll ever be fortunate enough to come across.
If you are a busy working professional like me, I can't recommend him more if he can carve some time out for you. You'll be learning from a master of the game.
What Early Members Are Saying About Destroy Live Cash
Before launch, we gave a small group of serious cash players early access to Destroy Live Cash. Here's what they thought after putting Garrett's training to the test.
Finally got into the course. Man this is some gas. I hope he's charging a lot of money for this. $999 is way too low.
I've prob invested 30-40k in the last 10 years on coaching, courses, books everything lol. This is the best NL live cash stuff I've come across pretty easily. It's kinda tilting tbh he's doing this.
What You Get
Lifetime access
Garrett's Live Poker Masterclass
- Hands
- 50
- Lessons
- 87
- Hours
- 35
Bonuses included with purchase
Deep Stack Preflop Ranges
200+ charts for every common spot with 300bb stacks
Beneath the Cards
Garrett's memoir, physical copy in the U.S. and digital elsewhere
50 ClubWPT Gold Chips
Good for any ring game or tournament on ClubWPT Gold, eligible states and provinces only
Launch week bonus
Rapid Fire Poker
10 more hands, biggest takeaways · $199 value · FREE during launch week
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Who Destroy Live Cash Is For
This is not Poker 101. But you don’t need to play high-stakes or be a solver nerd either.
You might be a serious grinder who has studied the theory. Or you might be a strong intuitive player who’s never opened a solver program. Either way, this course is for you.
This Course Is a Great Fit If You...
- Play live cash, especially $2/$5 and above, or smaller games that regularly run deep.
- Already understand the fundamentals: position, ranges, pot odds, and basic postflop play.
- Want to get better at exploiting player tendencies, countering unusual sizes, and other important live-specific skills.
- Want theory-backed heuristics you can remember at the table instead of endless solver frequencies.
- Have watched Garrett play and wondered what he was thinking. Finally, you'll learn the answer.
This Course Is Probably Not for You If...
- You're new to poker and don't know what a range is.
- You play micro-stakes and it would take forever to win back the course cost.
- You exclusively play 100bb buy-in cash and want a course built for that format.
- You want a list of simple tips and tells. Poker is complex. Garrett leans into that nuance when teaching.
You’ve Seen the Hands. Now See What He Was Thinking.
You may have watched Garrett play some of these pots live. The stream shows you what he did. Destroy Live Cash shows you exactly why.
Folding Pocket Kings in a 4-Bet Pot
Garrett reaches the river against Andy Stacks with Kings, near the very top of his range, and folds.
Theory says the fold costs two-thirds of the pot. Garrett explains why it was still right against this opponent, and shares the takeaway behind it: when a bad player's line makes no sense, call; when a decent player's makes no sense, fold; when an elite's makes no sense, cry.
Facing a Check-Raise From Tom Dwan
Garrett bets 150% of the pot on a coordinated jack-high board and gets check-raised by one of the biggest stars in poker.
The question isn't "how strong is my hand?" It's "how likely is this opponent to bluff-raise against an overbet here?" Watch how he works through it.
The Finale - A Three-Street Bluff vs. Patrik Antonius
The last hand of the course, from December 2023. Garrett runs a multiway, three-street bluff against one of the greatest living players, walking through which folds he wants to unblock, multiway dynamics with VIPs, and the leveling battle with Antonius.
Frequently Asked Questions
$999, one time, for lifetime access. There are no recurring fees or subscriptions.
Forever. Watch on any desktop, tablet, or mobile device, at your own pace, and come back whenever you want a refresher before a big session.
No. If you understand the basics, position, ranges, pot odds, and how to think about what your opponent might have, you're ready. And even if you never touched part 2 of the course (solver breakdowns), you'd still be getting great value.
Garrett teaches the theory that matters in live games. Skilled intuitive players will probably get more out of this course than anyone.
No. Garrett has done all the solver work for you. Part 2 of each hand shows you what the solver recommends and, more importantly, how Garrett transforms that into the ideal decision to make at the table.
Yes. Part 1 of every hand is the live breakdown with no solver screen. If theory isn't your thing, you can watch only the Part 1 lessons and still get a ton out of the course. Part 2 is there whenever you're ready to go deeper.
No. Garrett teaches you to approximate GTO play and use it as a strategic guardrail (and decision-making against elite opponents), then integrates thoughtful exploits when given a reason to. The theory is the baseline. The exploits are where the extra money comes from.
Serious live players at $2/$5 and up are the clearest fit. The hands come from much bigger games, but the situations, deep stacks, multiway pots, bet sizings, and opponent tendencies are present at every stake.
If you play in deep stacked $1/$2 or $1/$3 games and already have the fundamentals down, you'll still take a lot from it, especially if you're trying to level up.
Probably. Plenty of the concepts transfer, especially if you play against a lot of recs or in deeper stacked games. If you only play 100bb online cash, Upswing has courses that might be a better fit though. The focus of Destroy Live Cash is for players who sit down across from real people at real life tables.
Nick Petrangelo's Smash Live Cash is a ground-up technical course: preflop charts and postflop strategy built spot by spot at 100, 200, and 400bb. Destroy Live Cash starts from the other end: 50 real hands, mostly 300bb+ deep, and how Garrett made decisions against real opponents. If you want to see how an elite live player approaches messy, deep, real games with a mix of pros and recs this is the course.
Because you're not meant to memorize what Garrett did and copy it. You're learning the process he utilizes to reach a decision: how he builds and updates reads, when a specific line caps a range, when an opponent is under-bluffing, the heuristics he falls back on, and when a big deviation is justified. The exact $100/$200 hand won't happen in your game. A similar decision point will.
Enroll before Monday, September 14th at 11:59pm PT and you also get Rapid Fire Poker, Garrett's 10-hand companion course, for free. After that it becomes a $199 standalone product.
Every member gets a copy of Beneath the Cards. Physical copies ship to U.S. addresses; members elsewhere can request the ebook.
The Secret Sauce of the Most Feared Player in Live Cash.Finally Revealed.
Every good player knows you’re supposed to blend theory with player reads.
That’s not groundbreaking.
The art of Garrett’s success is the recipe.
How much theory? Which theory? What does Garrett ignore completely? When is there enough evidence to leave the baseline behind? And how far is he willing to take the exploit when the answer is yes?
Destroy Live Cash doesn’t just hand you the answer. It teaches you the how and why, so you can answer for yourself in real time.
- It hands you unorthodox players.
- Varying skill levels.
- Unique blind and straddle formats.
- Five-way pots.
- Extensive play with the same opponents.
All of those variables still lead to one thing: a decision.
Garrett teaches you how to synthesize all of those messy variables into winning decisions in Destroy Live Cash.
Sometimes it means making a giant hero call.
Sometimes it means firing a bluff nobody else would consider.
And sometimes it means folding a hand that (at first) feels impossible to let go.
The point isn’t to copy an answer key. It’s to get better at building your own.
Join today and get lifetime access to Destroy Live Cash, Garrett’s Deep Stack Preflop Ranges, a copy of Beneath the Cards, and 50 ClubWPT Gold Chips where eligible.
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