3 MAJOR Leaks You Shouldn't Have Anymore

There are leaks. Then there are THESE LEAKS. It's 2023, the era of solvers and soon the era of AI. If you are a serious poker player, there is no excuse for having certain leaks. In this video, I list 3 of these unforgivable leaks that you absolutely cannot have in your game. I hope you fix them IMMEDIATELY!
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[@Gabatech]

Hey! I am so glad that i found your contents. Is the gtowiz pre ranges are ok and useable on the micros? I mean 10NL and 25 NL? Or the ranges are too wide?

[@Stockholm_Syndrome]

Your channel is a goldmine for aspiring poker players. I can promise that if you keep posting your incredible videos, this channel will very quickly grow to +100k subscribers. Good luck to you! Greetings from Sweden.

[@saulocostapoker]

Thank you for the compliment my friend

[@dochmbi]

The thing about correctly defending the BB is that it can lead to making more mistakes postflop unless you are a top notch player. So the people who underdefend probably lose less by doing so..

[@warrenbluffit2048]

I came to say this exact thing, the amount of trash these ranges recommend u defend can put inexperienced players in spots where they lose significantly more post when villains double barrel at a high freq and your OOP. Not the best advice if your postflop isn't on point

[@martincoughlan478]

Love your work and signed up for the week. Actually on vacation when it's on so glad we can watch it later and personally when I'm back.

[@ionlywearlacoste]

Great stuff

[@davorstanley]

Great stuff!

[@swedishgrinder]

Great video, can you make a video of how to create those drilling session in GTO wizard, especially the ones with the cbet on the flop.

[@saulocostapoker]

I will keep your suggestion in mind for future videos 👊🏼

[@thomasanthony7652]

How do you do deep dive study? For example, UTG vs HJ 3-bet pot I have a general idea of how ranges line up, but I want to really understand, not this superficial understanding. Any feedback would be appreciated 🙏 Thank you for another great video!

[@3six967]

Ty... Signed up for the week. Appreciate it 🙏

[@saulocostapoker]

Let's goooooo

[@KamaKeith]

I signed up for the class, but I have a daylong Power BI seminar on the first day. Thanks for making it available to registrants to view later. I am on board with all three tips. I always laugh when someone eats up the clock deciding whether to open a hand. I drill one PF spot and one post-flop spot every day. Otherwise, I mostly study thresholds, I guess. What class of hands has 85%+ EQ, 75%+, 50-75% in common spots and formations; what are my grade A bluff-catchers, grade B; who has the range advantage, the nuts advantage? How polarized is Villain? How polarized am I? That way, I have some sense of what is going on in various spots.

[@saulocostapoker]

Sounds fantastic! You will improve very quickly. Keep at it 👊🏼

[@Noxopoker]

Eai Saulo, me tira uma dúvida aqui, mesmo sendo agressivo em torneios a red LINE é inclinada para baixo, eu jogando cash minha red LINE é breakeven e quando o cash tem ante a red LINE volta a ser para baixo, a red LINE normalmente se torna negativa por conta do ante que é um dinheiro obrigatório? Por exemplo no caso do GG com meio BB de ante colocamos 50bb/100 de ante, então é quase impossível ser breakeven aqui?

[@saulocostapoker]

Esquisito sua redline ser pior nos torneios do que no cash...em MTTs não tem rake sendo descontado de todos os potes como é no cash, então geralmente os jogadores de torneio tem redlines melhores. Sobre ter ante no jogo, sim imagino que isso impacte a redline negativamente. Mas não tenho certeza sinceramente, nunca analisei muito dados de jogos com ante

[@JoaoBiglier666]

I was watching the video, and then I noticed that the day was getting dark, the funny thing is that it was at the same time that it got dark here in my city too hahah

[@JibasJr]

awww *the feels* shots got fired to all my leaks and study process 😐feels like this was personalised coaching so thank you very much for that

[@saulocostapoker]

I hope it helps you improve my friend!

[@danielhenry6777]

i feel like you say defending the BB is kinda skewed because there are probably a lot of people playing live 1/2 and facing 7x raises and they should be folding a lot because of sizing

[@tiramisu_1th]

alternatively, people just dont RFI enough, which makes underdefending BB not as bad

[@danielhenry6777]

@tiramisu_1th you should still be playing tighter when someone raises to 7x the blinds, unless you are like 500bbs deep

[@pokerstudy6862]

what about spots where the playerpool has leaks? like for example they overfold vs doublebarrells, or vs cbets as you have shown in the video 1. do we still randomize with good high equity bluffs like flushdraws without showdown value or do we bet them pure? Or do we just increase the bluffing frequency to exploit there but not to 100%. 2. What about spots where there are no high equity bluffs and the solver just bets 10% combos of a lot of random hands - do we for example double the bluffing frequency and randomize or do you suggest a different method of exploiting? or de we just play flop and turn trying to guess and randomize the GTO frequencies and leave the explots for the river? thanks

[@saulocostapoker]

Your question is a complex one that can't be addressed properly with a KZbin comment. I will however cover a lot of these ideas in the upcoming Poker Made Simple Week. I hope you're subscribed already!

[@ghjk5827]

Great video. Two questions: 1) The tip about RNG took me by surprise. Do you suggest a simplified use of the RNG? Example: always use rounded numbers like 0/25/50/75/100? Do you have opinions on this? 2) Where did you buy these shirts? They seem to have such good fabric hahahaha

[@saulocostapoker]

1) Yeah thats a great way to use RNG. Another very good and simple use of it is to just "ask questions". You can see me employing this method in my Play & Explain videos. The idea behind this method is that you don't have to think about what's the precise frequency of your combination, all you gotta do is think about the frequency the RNG shows. For example, if you have a cbet opportunity and RNG shows 37, you don't need to know your combo's exact frequency to execute that roll correctly. All you gotta do is ask yourself "does my combo bet at least 37% of the time?". If so, then you bet it, and you will have executed the roll correctly. It's much easier to answer whether you should bet at least 37% than to answer the exact frequency of your combo. Of course, there will be instances where you will be very in doubt and may not be able to answer confidently - maybe it rolls 45 and you are very undecided between the two. In those cases however you are likely very close to the true frequency, so picking whatever option will be very good. 2) lmao didn't expect this one. They are from Zara

[@tomaszkaleta156]

@@saulocostapoker can I find some materials on your channel regarding what exactly mean "RNG shows 37" ? :) Is it possible to check those RNGs in flopzilla?

[@jimh396]

Big respect to you Saulo. Was really surprised about the last point though. I think randomizing is the biggest pandemic in poker. I guess it comes from the over hype and miss use of solvers among the poker community (where the vast majority are playing micro stakes and don’t understand what they are doing). I’m playing nl400-5k and I actively am trying to use the rng as little as possible with some exceptions in BvB preflop and BB vs Fcb.

[@jimh396]

Also I think “very easy to understand the logic behind it” is very incorrect. I’d say 92% of high stakes players don’t understand the concept of mixed strategies.

[@saulocostapoker]

I'd say there is a 94.78% chance that your statistic is incorrect 😁 Jokes aside though, what I can say is pretty much what I already said in the video. Randomization is a tool. You don't need randomization to win, just like you don't need a fork to feed yourself. You can use a spoon, or even your bare hands. If you don't know how to use a fork and you try to eat with it, you're just gonna spill food. If you know how to use it however, your life will be a bit easier. Which doesn't mean you should use it all the time. You're not gonna use a fork to eat a soup. You're also not gonna need a fork to eat a hamburguer. You use the fork when it makes sense to use it, and when your life is made easier by the use of the tool. A child that doesn't know how to use a fork is not evidence that forks are a bad tool. Someone should just teach the child to use the fork.

[@jimh396]

That is all true. However, mixed strategies comes from the nature of the equilibrium game state. The solver is making the opponent (itself) indifferent. Any time there is a mixed strategy for a hand in a certain node, it means that the EV is exactly the same for both options, in other words indifferent. That’s only true in an artificial work. Vs real opponents there’s almost for sure one option that has higher EV then the other, and you should always strive to take that 100% of the time. In fact, the solver would also do that if it was clairvoyant to the real opponents strategy. Now, you could argue that in some spots it’s unclear to us what option actually has the higher EV, and we are confident it’s a mixed strategy at equilibrium, then it seems fine to mix. Or just pick the option you feel like, it’s not like it’s going to cost EV, and it’s not likely your opponents will see this and be able to exploit you. Another fun thought experience. Imagine we play against a bot that is playing perfect GTO. We can literally be how unbalanced we want and pure play any mixed strategy, as long as we never make a 0% play (EV blunder) we will not lose vs the bot. If it’s a raked game both players will lose the rake.

[@jimh396]

For that reason I believe it’s better to spend your in game time on what you know about the player pool and what you think is the highest EV line vs your real opponent if you think it’s a mixed strategy in equilibrium. As opposed to thinking what the mix might be in the solver and trying to replicate that.

[@AAbracadabra369]

1.) Overfolding the BB 2.) Overfolding to flop C-bets 3.) Not Randomizing

[@PierrePalsterman]

Good content. About randomizing, how do you do it in live game? Would you use a clock or anything else?

[@TheWolfiKxx]

if it is PF you can randomize based on suits, red cards aggressive actin black passive or whatever you pick.

[@saulocostapoker]

What this guy said 👆🏽 for postflop I guess the easiest way would be using a clock

[@PierrePalsterman]

thanks@@TheWolfiKxx

[@antihackerify]

saulo, você teria como indicar cadeiras ?, não sei nem como pesquisar qual seria a melhor opção, se pudesse indicar 2, tipo, 1 que seja um preço ok e dê pra comprar de boa, e falar qual a melhor q tem, para eu poder ver mais pra frente.

[@saulocostapoker]

Cara eu usei por muito tempo uma gamer da dxracer, paguei R$1800 nela em 2018 e usei até o começo desse ano. Me atendeu bem, confortável e minimamente regulável. Já as melhores que tem acredito que sejam da Herman Miller. A que eu tenho é essa aqui store.hermanmiller.com.br/cadeira-mirra-2-mrf-preto/p?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7WULnNBN_UBr3HS4aD8_0ac8DgmkhkUgSXhbwVQ06fdPuFPVEeF9MaAhCpEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds mas a marca tem varias opções diferentes

[@antihackerify]

@@saulocostapoker obg, vou dar uma olhada, a minha ta triste ja.

[@santaclause3487]

Those ranges are for playing online vs bots or regs. I didn’t realize for the longest time that gto assumes everybody else is playing gto.

[@ElJefe0719]

Especially not in micro/low stakes. I'll fold some pretty strong holdings in those games when my normally passive opponents start bombing the pot pre-flop or post-flop.

[@santaclause3487]

@@ElJefe0719micros on acr is funny. All these Russians. Feels like I’m playing against computers.

[@ElJefe0719]

@@santaclause3487 Same back when I played on GG 🤣

[@michaelkirby5272]

GTO is good to know because you can really start to learn how close/far off players are adhering to it. You can find a lot of leaks in many different circumstances from weekend warriors, regs, and even solid 2/5-5/10 players. As a result,, once you discern different leaks/deviations from GTO exhibited by various players, you'll be able to exploit these leaks..

[@gabrielboily2641]

The thing is I don't know how to apply an RNG I've watched streamers and they all say oh this is to randomize my decisions. How? surely the frequencies change a lot depending on the action and the weaknesses your opponents take and have it must be very difficult to gauge that. Is there an RNG you would recommend?

[@saulocostapoker]

How about a video "Step by Step guide on How to Randomize"?

[@wfchannel4673]

daniel negreanu had a good randomizing strategy which i think justified squeezing which was a strategy i usually dismissed. he pointed to a spot where he's supposed to bluff 1/3 of the time and bet when he has it 2/3 of the time. so he has it if he has a 7 or 8, he doesn't have it if he has a 6 (this was a low draw hand and i think 7 or 8 gave him a great low while a 6 pairs his hand). he knows by squeezing that he has one of those 3 cards because he can see three pips on the side so he's betting here as correctly he will have it 2/3 of the time and 1/3 of the time he won't (now if he squeezed something else he wouldn't bluff so he's actually over-repping and under-bluffing (plus he already has the 6 so 7 and 8 are more likely) but i think the strategy still kind of holds in which you can kinda arbitrarily pick an aspect of your hand like river club i bluff, anything else i fold when there's no flush in play so the suit's not going to matter). other streamers will shuffle different colored chips and make a determination based on what color ends up on top. there are things to do to randomize (though if you're not careful they could potentially become tells, though those are less worrisome playing online).

[@gabrielboily2641]

@@saulocostapoker yes

[@julzz485]

Don t you think overfolding vs polar cbets otf is more a good exploit than a leak, regards to the pop ranges stronger than gto for these sizes?

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey mate. In the video the example I gave about overfolding vs flop cbets is when facing a small bet IP. I agree that in some cases overfolding to big flop cbets is a good exploit rather than a look - that said, you can't generalize and say overfolding to all big flop cbets is a good exploit. It will vary with board texture, positions, specific sizing, etc

[@julzz485]

makes sense ^^@@saulocostapoker

[@ghjk5827]

Another RNG question: hypothetically speaking, if a player always do the most frequent action as a pure decision instead of a mixed strategy, do you think the strategy would still be very exploitable? I ask you that because several mixed decisions would be pure plays, but I imagine that one would compensate the other and more or less the thing would balance itself and it would still be a very strong strategy, no?

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey mate. Not really...a simple way to visualize this is to picture a river range where many bluffs are low frequency bets and then some value bets are high frequency bets but still mixed. If you just shift the plays to their highest frequency action you will end up massively underbluffing, and will lose a lot vs someone overfolding.

[@ghjk5827]

@@saulocostapoker Thank you, man. You're great!

[@MarkorikYe]

Great spots,when people ask what is the best way to study and get better for me theres only 1 option and thats drilling the living shit out of a spot till u master it....i agree reviewing hands is not most efficient way to study

[@saulocostapoker]

Nice! And I agree with you 🤝🏻

[@susymay7831]

Do people over-fold their blinds vs overly large raises from the button, Saulo? Does big blind over-fold vs an overly large raise from the small blind?

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey mate. I wouldn't know tbh, would have to run and see. "Overly large raises" aren't common in real games (would imagine you are referring to something bigger than 3x)

[@susymay7831]

@@saulocostapoker 4x from the button and 5x from the small blind.

[@vladimirsusanu6944]

good day all

[@DottMySaviour]

I'm curious how much BB/100 (pre-rake) would a GTO player win against 5 players on the table with these leaks? I assume you could somehow simulate it with the tools you have.

[@saulocostapoker]

Yes, I'm in fact working on some models like that

[@DottMySaviour]

@@saulocostapoker That's cool! I hope the results would be free through a KZbin video or something.

[@CaptLeChuck_]

Great tips! You just sold me a $3000 chair 😊

[@saulocostapoker]

lmao was the argument that good or were you just looking for an excuse to pull the trigger? 😅🤣

[@TheWolfiKxx]

Personally, I don't use randomizer at all, if I know I have mix decision wheter sometimes it's fold or loose float I go with my intuition or a read if I know that villain is good agro reg then I m leaning towards fold rather then call and if opponent is more passive I go with call.

[@saulocostapoker]

It's definitely a good idea to find exploitative reasons to shift your mixed strategies, particularly in river nodes (I don't recommend randomization in river nodes). That being said, you won't be able to do that always, so having this in your arsenal is very good

[@flounyisback]

Shouldnt it be the way around? Float ehen you face a cbet from an aggro player and fold more when the c bet is from a passive opponent? As passive players will most likely check if they dont have much but bet if they have something.

[@TheWolfiKxx]

@@flounyisback well agro player will fire 2nd 3rd barrel and good luck with your 3rd pair or Qhi backdoor flush draw :D, you said it yourself passive player will most likely check and you can attack his capped range, he will fold you win the pot

[@DStern20]

I think it’s very important for beginning players to NOT use an RNG. Randomizing a spot relies on understanding that the EV between different decisions is very close and also knowing roughly what frequencies to take each action. It requires study to use effectively and is not really a leak plug as much as an enhancer to an already solid foundation of theory

[@saulocostapoker]

I would agree if we are talking about true beginners, like people learning how to play, playing their first hands online, and etc. Most of my viewers here dont belong to that category, as they're either professionals already or people trying to become professionals. My content is not targetted at beginners. Inside Metagame we incentivize people to start using randomizer from 50nl, which is the lowest stake of the main division.

[@karlbeard29]

@@saulocostapoker may I ask what is a meta game

[@NexCrypto-iu8xw]

I guess I am too late for the seminar? 😭

[@peter4339]

few points. In live poker almost everybody overdefends their big blinds, but I guess this video is about live. analyzing plays is always a good way to improve, in any sport. the fact that many people do it wrong does not prove its a bad way. also you can only drill spots in which you are bad at by finding out which spots you are bad at, which is only possible by analyzing your own play, or having a coach that does that.

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey Peter. Yeah this video isn't about live. That being said, its unlikely the regs are overdefending their BB. This video showed data about regulars (professionals). Recreational players do in fact overdefend their BB in online games, and I'd imagine the same happens in live games. You keep saying analyzing plays, I imagine you are referring to what I said about "reviewing hands". As I said in the video, I think there are many more useful ways to study rather than reviewing hands, *particularly* when we're talking about the ways most people review hands. You are obviously entitled to your opinion, and we can agree to disagree. About your last point, yeah I never said analyzing one's own game is a bad idea. There are multiple ways to analyze one's own game that doesn't involve taking a random rand and reviewing it against the solver in 10 minutes - which is the reviewing hands method most people use. I particularly really like DB reviews, and I do them a lot with my students.

[@peter4339]

@saulocostapoker Thanks for taking your time to answer, and thanks for your insight. I enjoy your content a lot, and it helps me improve.

[@keniffkeniff]

Someone's Dad once said never be cheap with shoes, mattresses and chairs ;))

[@saulocostapoker]

Wise dad

[@balazssomodi8519]

Please give me a link to your chair! :D

[@Noxopoker]

Eu com uma cadeira de 1400 achando ela cara e você aparece com uma de 10000 kkkkkkk

[@saulocostapoker]

😂

[@ViktoriaDrobysh]

Do you play poker professionally now?

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey Viktoria, glad to see you again around here 😃 I don't play much volume these days, as my focus is 100% on growing my businesses

[@brenneisenchevy981]

i get what youre saying about not overfolding the mixed region but telling people to stop using their brain and randomize in a game where no one is playing even close to perfect wont fix their leaks!

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey mate! I never said that people should stop using their brains, those are your words 🙁

[@brenneisenchevy981]

@@saulocostapoker yes but i feel like people will use this as an excuse you can watch it everyday on twitch people randomizing their preflop decisions for ranges they dont know perfect + neither their opponents play close to that ranges

[@lukebruce5234]

Is a curved monitor better?

[@saulocostapoker]

I like it. I have 2 monitors so main one kinda has to be curved for it to be a good setup

[@Nikita-wt1bu]

I don't agree w u Saulo. Actually if we analyze lets say 500+ ps and 1k+ cr@prooms people actully overcall to minraise (calling all split hands).

[@saulocostapoker]

I haven't looked at data for 500nl+ exclusively, and it may be that regs at these higher stakes are defending better. That's not very relevant to my audience though, as most people are playing low stakes

[@brettmasonmedia]

Reviewing hands is the single number one way I have improved. When I see the mistakes I made. In an actual hand. It sticks with me. And I don’t do it in that spot or spots like it ever again. It sticks in my brain better. Who are you to know what helps my game the most. Jesus.

[@saulocostapoker]

Hey Brett. That sounds great man! In fact it sounds like you are very gifted in this regard. If you review a hand then you learn how to play correctly instantly and then never make that mistake again, then yeah by all means you should review as many hands as you possibly can. If not that, hopefully there was something else in the video you could agree with! Cheers my friend

[@julzz485]

Saulo you know have to make a vid on how reviewing hands !😅

[@juanchoo8989]

♥♥♥

[@listenplayandrelax9601]

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[@andrewk-hk8pt]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤There are lots of variables to consider in the so-called leaks you've mentioned. None of them are truly leaks in their proper content and situation, situations which you failed to mention in the video. For example, are we playing cash or tournament? what stack depths are we playing ? what's the size of the raise you're facing in the BB?; min raise? 2.50x, 3x 4x, how does your opponents play, is it heads-up or multi-way? and whats your own table image? KZbin allows for up to 6 to 10 hours of video, if you wanted to elaborate. Nevertheless, as you can see, there are lots of factors and variables to consider. So to say, someone should be ashamed without clarifying the situations and blindly saying "if you do this, you should be ashamed" is totally wrong. Also, players will be playing 20-30 hands each hours, so as a human, its virtually impossible to play each hand perfectly each time so as a player, allow yourself to make some mistakes, juts make sure to learn from them. Costa, thanks for the video, I really try to have an open-mind and with the expectation of learning something new every time i watch your videos, but I almost always walk away with more questions than answers and, I am mostly left more confused than before.

[@marcoslugo2384]

I admire that this video has been made as to clarify as simple as possible which is short and sweet. I respect that it was for beginners or somewhat struggling intermediate players. But, I do understand your reply. There's a lot of explanation to all this in detail.

[@lukebruce5234]

A lot of words with no substance. Overfolding BB is among the greatest leaks micro stakes players have. Since he is an online cash games player the context is gonna be mostly regarding online cash games.