Posts Tagged ‘exploit’
3 Money-Making Exploits That Work in 99% of Poker Games
Whether to attempt to play a game theory optimal (GTO) strategy has been a hot topic in the poker world for years. Here’s my take: Learning GTO is extremely useful, but that doesn’t mean you follow it blindly. GTO strategies teach the correct plays in theory, but with that knowledge, we can exploit key mistakes…
Read MoreHow to Exploit Maniac Poker Players
Note: The new Lucid Poker channel will be posting helpful videos like this regularly. Click here to subscribe! Once again, you are forced to muck ATo after the same opponent has 3-bet you preflop for what feels like the millionth time in a row. You sit there, tilted, thinking “How am I ever going to…
Read MoreHow to Exploit Weak 3-Bettors (AKA Most Poker Players)
Upswing Poker’s newest course presents a fresh approach to poker from chess champion turned poker pro Alex Vuilleumier. In this article/video, Alex shares one of his favorite and most effective exploits: exploiting players who don’t 3-bet often enough. He also teaches you a simple method to leverage a node locking with the Rocket Solver free…
Read MoreMaster Common Poker Exploits With This New Upswing Lab Module!
Upswing Lab coach and all-around crusher Tim Jenkins is back with an easy-to-watch module on exploiting your opponents! In this module, Tim shows Upswing Lab members the top exploits he’s used to make hundreds of thousands of dollars throughout his poker career. Whether you think your opponents are too aggressive, too passive, call too much,…
Read MoreShould He Try To Bluff The Recreational Player? (Analysis)
I’ve analyzed a lot of high stakes tournament hands here on the Upswing Poker blog, so I figured some readers might appreciate a dip into a low stakes hand. After all, tournaments in the $10-50 buy-in range online and the $100-500 buy-in range live are what the majority of poker players prefer to play. That’s…
Read MoreHow to Conquer Aggressive Poker Players (5 Exploit Tips)
(Note: Video not loading? Click here to watch it on YouTube or read on for a written version.) Have you ever felt like you’re being run over by an aggressive opponent? If you have, you know it’s beyond frustrating. You might tell yourself that you’ll eventually have the hand to catch him, but the spot…
Read MoreHow to Crush the Guy Who Always C-Bets
Have you ever played against a player who seems to continuation bet (c-bet) every hand? This article will help you learn the key adjustments that will allow you to exploit such a player — including a sneaky adjustment you can make to your preflop strategy that sets you up for success on the flop. Part…
Read MoreHow to Exploit Loose Poker Players Preflop
(Note: Video not loading? Click here to watch it on YouTube or read on for a written version.) The goal of these articles is to ingrain in you the 3 pillars of exploitative poker, which will help you take advantage of your opponents’ mistakes and maximize your win-rate. This article covers the preflop play in…
Read MoreLeveling: How Overthinking Costs You Money at the Poker Table
What is Leveling in Poker? Also known as Multiple Level Thinking, Leveling is the concept of evaluating a poker situation beyond what cards you hold in your own hand. In 1999 (and then later in 2006) David Sklansky in his celebrated book The Theory of Poker introduced the world to the various levels of thinking…
Read More7 Poker Tells You Should Look Out For
Poker tells are a tricky topic. Most beginners put way too much credence into tells early in their poker journey. Eating an Oreo cookie could mean someone has a strong hand in the movies, but in real life…not so much. But many experienced pros focus solely on playing a good strategy, completely ignoring live poker…
Read MoreHow to Exploit 3 Different Types of Poker Players
Your goal in poker is to make as much money as possible. In order to do that, you must exploit your opponents to the maximum, though this is not always possible. Oftentimes you simply won’t have enough […]
Read MoreWhat Your Poker Strategy Should Look Like in Modern Games
This has been one of the hottest topics in poker for years.Almost all modern high stake crushers have spent extensive time working with solvers to develop a strategy that is close to our current understanding of game theory optimal (GTO) play. […]
Read MoreCrush Live Poker Games With These 8 Battle-Tested Tactics
It is no secret that live poker games are far softer than online games. Most successful online players could switch to live poker and win at a solid rate from the get-go. The same can not be said for successful live players who hop online. Yet the players who have the highest hourly win-rates in…
Read More5 Strategic Mistakes Poker Players Make (And How to Exploit Them)
Exploiting your opponents’ leaks is how you really take your win-rate to the next level. This article is written so you don’t need to understand poker game theory to use these specific tactics to crush your opposition. That said, having a solid understanding of game theory will help you identify these leaks and exploit them as efficiently…
Read More3 Theoretically Winning Calls That Lose in Practice
Should you favor a theoretically sound strategy or play exploitative poker? This question has been a hot debate in the poker world for the past several years. Some are fierce supporters of theory (sometimes to their stack’s detriment), while others insist that theoretically sound poker has no value and should be disregarded (an absurd proposition).…
Read MoreDoes Studying Poker Tells Make You a Worse Overall Player?
My name’s Zachary Elwood, and I’ve written some well-known books on poker tells: Reading Poker Tells, Verbal Poker Tells, and Exploiting Poker Tells. I also have a poker tells video series. I was watching the Cate Hall versus Mike Dentale “grudge match” the other day, and Doug Polk and Shaun Deeb were commentating. Doug and…
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