Become a Winning Online Poker Player in 30 Days - Week 2

Day 8 C-Bets

Do not C-Bet

1. Check a flop such as 789s
2. Check if four or more players see the flop
3. Check if you do not want to get check-raised. (Medium strong hand, just check).
4. Don’t C-Bet when you monopolize Flop vs Recs: hero’s hand(AA) - flop (AA2)
5. Check to an opponent who has the opportunity to C-bet, check to preflop aggressor.

Day 9 Implied Odds and Reverse Implied Odds (A vital deep-stack concept)

Implied Odds Pre-Flop Concept

1. implied odds pre-flop: how much you can win to the cost of calling.
2. You want at least 20:1 implied odds to set-mine with a low pocket pair.

Implied Odds Post-Flop

1. implied odds post-flop: Ratio of what you’re likely to win if you connect to the cost of calling.

Implied odds increase if

1. effective stack is deeper
2. more active players
3. action opponents

Reverse Implied Odds (Your opponent’s implied odds)

1. If you are aheads, you will win little or no money
2. If you are behind, you will lose a lot more money

Summarization

1. Implied odds capture the concept of how we can win more money from our opponents than just the current pot when we hit a big hand.
2. We should (at least) call with pocket pairs getting 20:1 or better implied odds pre-flop, and be a lot more inclined to continue with draws after the flop when we’re getting good implied odds.
3. You can profitably make tight folds in situations with bad reverse implied odds: Situations where you’re likely to lose more money when behind or win little more when ahead.

Day 10 - The key to play the draws (Raise and Cross Your Fingers)

Semi-Bluff Aggressively

1. Powerful Play
   • You win if Villain folds
   • You hit your draw
2. Pot Odds Analysis
   • Key Calling Question: Do you have the pot odds you need for a +EV call
3. Implied Odds for future betting
   • If possibility of future betting, use implied odds instead of pot odds.

Reasons to Play Draws More Passively

1. Have little or no fold equity
   • Against someone who never folds
2. You have reasonable showdown value

Day 11 - Bluffing (The art and science of Making plays)

Bluff to attack Weakness

1. Opponent tell you when they’re weak and this is the best time to bluff them.
2. Scare Cards are Good Opportunities

Times to Bluff More

1. Heads-Up Play
2. Weak Opponents

Bluffing Caveat

1. Pick hands without showdown value
2. Try to represent a real hand you would have played this way

Day 12 - River Bets (The crucial late street question)

Understand the question

1. If I bet or raise, what better hands will fold? (bluff)
2. If I bet or raise, what worse hands will call? (value)

Key Spots Not to Bet or Raise

1. Holding 9X on KQJT5
2. Holding AX on 55332

Equity Denial Bet

1. Betting with the purpose of getting a worse hand to fold.
2. The worse hand still have good equity against us.

Day 13 - Pre-flop Shove Spots

Shove Spot

1. open-shove: less than 15bb effective stack
2. single raise pot: less than 25bb effectie
3. over all: there is 25% or more of the effective stack in the middle

Modify

1. Facing passive and predictable opponents
2. Exploitive play with premium hands

Day 14 - ICM (Most important model in poker)

Definition of ICM

1. Model that converts everyone’s chip stack in a tourney to their dollar equity.
2. Input: Stack Distribution + Payout Structure
3. Output: Everyone’s equities in dollars or percentages.

Ways to gain equity

1. gain chips
2. watch as someone busts

ICM Calculation

1. Use software to tell us what hands to shove or fold pre-flop