3 HACKS to RUN DEEP in Small Stakes Tournaments [MTTs]

[@adamrivera544]

John some of your simplest concepts have already turned my game 180. Staying true to fundamentals, folding marginal positions more often and rethinking shortstack poker brought me a 1st place finish in a 844 man MTT on Ignition and 3rd place in the BDPO $45 nightly event with 1140 entrants for $3,929! You rolled me up man! And I cannot thank you enough.

[@PokerCoaching]

That's fantastic! So glad to have helped you, Adam 👊

[@adamkasper2299]

My best bubble run ever was when i realized everyone at the table was being nit and folding every hand. I min raised every single hand no matter what the cards and went from middle place in the tournament to 2nd place just collecting the blinds until the bubble burst. Make sure you pay extra special attention to how people are playing on the bubble and also recognize if someone else is doing this and you can reraise to resteal blinds.

[@LukeRadick]

Confirmed: $453k first place win in early February @ Aria. Nice job! Also, thanks for the info!!

[@rashisti]

That is so beautiful... just look over at your high roller tournament trophy and can't remember every hand of the spin up... just remembering not giving up when you were down to 6BBs and in the end, you had all the chips. Bravo and thank you for the tone and energy you bring to the game as well as the study of the game.

[@Ds92817]

This is such a great video - two final tables in the last two days on large MTT’s, coincidentally I bust out of the second one by bluffing A6 in exactly the same style as this video - barrelled first two streets and shoved river, called with King top pair! I was so upset with myself and couldn’t sleep last night, but this has made me feel a little better about myself

[@jipixx007]

Hi Jonathan, I subscribed to your channel a few days ago. Your content is amazing because it helps the majority of us that don't play high stakes poker (most of us play small stakes) and we need to get rid of the idea of trying to play GTO poker against recreational players, because it just doesn't work (I tried that online and live at my local club). I found myself to be playing fairly tight preflop and that would prevent me from having a big stack early. I would always either have the starting stack or less around the mid stages of the tournament because of this strategy. I take less risks but I don't get the chance to build up a big stack either. So thank you for the reminder !

[@markfromct2]

Jonathan: Thanks Totally agreed with your anti-GTO comments for low stakes. People study GTO for games they would never play! REALLY!

[@jpcopter]

Thanks for this video! Helped me through a couple tournaments right away. Missed the cut on one, finished second on the other. A few spots were uncomfortable and tight but the rewards were great. A lot of fun! Thanks again!

[@PokerCoaching]

Great to hear, I'm glad it helped!

[@bozapub3507]

I'm playing 2 live tournaments in few days and Jonathan drop this video, great stuff thank you sir!

[@PokerCoaching]

Glad to help, have fun!

[@seangorman3959]

Hack #2 about the bubble is a Helmuth tactic. I think he claimed to win 17 or so straight hands on the tourney bubble before getting called and took the chip lead that way.

[@EricBehaviorAnalyst]

I pretty much did something like that at a small stakes tournament and Caesar's palace lol

[@EricBehaviorAnalyst]

I pretty much did something like that at a small stakes tournament and Caesar's palace lol

[@corybenicak3490]

@ 20:50 what are the draws that are actually beating you ? If you think your only able to bluff out missed draws such as q10 & hh, I would imagine you’re already beating the vast majority of those save for a few AXhh.. if this is the case, is bluffing really worth it compared to the times you are beat and will be called?

[@joshuapatrick682]

My favorite short stack to win it all story is Greg Merson’s 2012 ME win. Dude was down to 3 BBs on day 5 and won the whole damn thing.

[@alexpun7205]

Even 6BB is a lot. You get all sort of discounts and protection from the big stacks when you get your stack in when you are short.

[@TheOldAmishMan]

Thanks for more tournament content lately

[@PokerCoaching]

You're welcome!

[@JasonJohnContos]

Won my small local tournament tonight thanks to these videos and the website

[@PokerCoaching]

Nice work!

[@JasonJohnContos]

@@PokerCoachingthanks! Im back at the same weekly tournament again tonight and watched the video again. Will see how I go in a few hours!

[@whatsupdog2727]

Sir I’m in Louisianan and a lot of the older gentlemen that play like the limp there premium pocket pairs, how does this work when you raise A10 suited and opponent limp calls your re-raise , and you flop 10 high bored , and he raises your c bet easy fold ? Just get out the way?

[@crazycooter5880]

always great advice you the BEST

[@PokerCoaching]

I appreciate that!

[@ciaranhever7894]

Thanks Jonathan playing in the irish open next week all this will help thanks everday a school day

[@PokerCoaching]

You're welcome! Good luck next week!

[@paugarbipaugarbi2642]

Isn't better to use a limp or all in strategy when you're in the button 10BB deep? If you have a bad hand and you limp you are not puting in risk a very high percentage of your stack, and if you have a premium hand most of the time you are going to be able put all your chips in the middle between flop, turn and river.

[@reccct]

dope outro

[@grim789]

No sound?

[@MrAgmoore]

mimes only

[@kierenlobb3157]

Skip to 1min. Didnt work for him at first

[@CrabbyOldLady]

Happy accidents. Jonathon said, "If you torch your money...". I heard, "If you torture money...." I think both versions work.

[@PokerCoaching]

Haha 😂

[@TomRauhe]

21:00 but if you suspect they are on a busted flush or straight... A high wins anyway, no??

[@brianfloyd2279]

Shannon Shorr is from Bama!

[@malcolmwasher2308]

does he mean gus hansen lol ?surely not

[@CarlosRodriguez-bu8jq]

Rundeep is my friend from India

[@caramelized_onion]

😂😂

[@dharryg]

Hmmm…the early comment that bottom two pair always loses online resonates with skeptics who contend that online random number generators are not really that random, but are rigged by sites to generate rebuys.

[@dharryg]

Talking online rebuy tournaments here.

[@tejeda7324]

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve been the victim of hack number three you take some type of bad beat now you’re the short stack and the tournament you just mentally give up and go in with any two cards

[@dsrrellgriffith1161]

I live in Las Vegas and mainly do the tournaments at the Wynn and Venetian, the last 10 tournaments i was running deep. All of these tournaments when i went all in late i was ahead by 70 to 90 percent by percentages. I lost all 10, go figure,,,I should have be in the money at least 15 times the last 3 months when i am way ahead. Poker is just brutal and odd and percentage are irrelevant....hahahahahaha,,,,,Last night i went all in AK, a guy calls me with A 10o. Of course a king comes on the flop, then Jack and then a queen for him to get broadway,,,,,hahaha,,,,just walked away shaking my head

[@rikispanglaz7423]

Take a second,think about it…FOOLD😂

[@philcummings9525]

wow...money back guarantee ...I paid my coach 10 grand ...now i regret it .... Havent discussed a refund , i wouldnt ask for one ...his style of play i like , how he gets there isnt my thing .... a dilemma

[@xRakanishu]

2 pair flop always means villain made a set with the remaining card 🤣 online poker sites need to farm their rebuys

[@dimitriostremmos8617]

Often you are saying " 3bet in position with marginal hands and if they 4bet you get out of the way and fold" if this became a pattern they will 4bet me more often with worst hands cause they know I will fold most of the times....

[@hssIceland]

06:30 "that's not how math works," ok, but you're assuming that math for a real life deck works the same as it does for a virtual one, which it may not. Not saying that any of these sites are artificially creating some "moments" by stacking the deck but also can't say for sure that their not, get me?

[@tejeda7324]

The only thing I don’t understand about these analysis is how every play is versus a player that you know how they play.. how in the hell do you know how a player plays online if you see him once every six months and a multi table tournament? Yes ideally every poker play is perfect If you know how every other player plays, but that’s not possible unless you play the same person day in and day out for like a year straight.

[@ZZies-q2d]

You learn how a player plays based on what he does in the tournament if you can't spot the fish within the first 5 minutes you're the fish

[@Fastlife_hos]

You can narrow down ranges by how often you see them in a pot (vpip). If they are often in a pot let’s say 40/100 hands delt on your table you know this player is playing on the looser side. So you can go based of that some what…

[@tejeda7324]

@@Fastlife_hos if they are 40/100 vipp how do you know they are just not on a hater?

[@Fastlife_hos]

@ you should be able to see some hands at showdown, take into account what hands and from what positions they opened or called from this should give you an idea. Watch a live stream you ll see it’s more likely some one with a higher vpip will be playing looser…

[@ironmonkey1512]

Weird no audio, other videos okay.

[@badaimbenny6672]

Audio kicks in when he notices it’s off a minute or so in

[@Quentsss_KQ]

First

[@og1kanobi40]

Shannon Shorr is your uncle?

[@gerrydroege9444]

I'd like to start by saying i really like your content and I have bought most of your books but I totally agree with your viewer comments that say online poker is a different animal. I also loss with 2 pair on the flop to flushes and straights about 80% of the time. Pros like you have to stop promoting this idea of variance for online poker, especially floating the idea that online poker variance is like a coin flip. All this does is allow the websites to exploit the online players, with players counting on the variance idea. For one a computer can not produce a random number. Hands are determined by a programer, his algorithm, hand history AI and the PRNG. This is far from a simple coin flip. Only when pros like you start pushing back on the websites will online poker become more realistic.

[@Lazepay]

pretty sure he addresses your first statement literally 2m into the video brother.

[@thepokerparadox]

Hey just some friendly information here. It is certainly possible that sites are rigged due to botting, or that players on that site are cheating. But your comment perpetuates a lot of misinformation that stems from a basic misunderstanding of how poker works mathematically. When you say “a computer cannot produce a random number”, first that is just factually incorrect, but second, a computer does not need to select a “random number” in the case of poker. There are only 52 cards. So when the first card is dealt to the UTG player, the computer selects 1 of 52 potential options. 2nd card, 1 of 51 options, and so on. So you’re implying that when you are holding 2 pair, the program will purposely select flush completing cards (to create more action?). You do realize that if your stat about 80% of the time the 2 pair is cracked by a flush or a straight, then you should just fast play all of YOUR flush draws then if the program is supposedly designed to make flushes hit more often. You also should realize in NLHE as a whole. 2 pair is the most likely made hand to be coolered? Because many of your pre-flop opens will be connected cards, it means that when you flop 2 pair, it is relatively likely someone else flopped a straight draw. Like if you flop 2 pair with T9, then AK, AQ, AJ, KQ, KJ, QJ, Q8, J8, J7, 87, and 76 ALL have straight draws, and that’s assuming the 3rd flop card is disconnected. You have to think about even though you have a strong hand with 2 pair you are quite likely to get coolered. Long story short, the sites are not rigged in the way you are attempting to describe.

[@gerrydroege9444]

A random number can not be produced on a computer. That fact is very easy to fact check on any search engine..

[@gerrydroege9444]

@@Lazepayhe did, but I do not agree with his answer.

[@gerrydroege9444]

@@thepokerparadoxpoker math works in live games, I’m not disputing that. What I am disputing is the math doesn’t apply to online poker due to the reasons I alluded to in my comment.

[@lancecollins9278]

Virtually this entire video is charts. Who can visualize or remember charts when they're at the table in the middle of a hand. I love you Jonathan but this just wasn't helpful at all.

[@patrickzimowski9150]

Who is this said broke player?

[@JasonJohnContos]

A multi millionaire poker expert

[@servethesongs]

Most annoying voice ever