THIS IS THE SECRET TO CRUSHING, BUT YOU STILL WON'T DO IT

This is what you're struggling with the most: how to keep your "Red Line" (your non-showdown winnings) from plummeting constantly. In today's video, we look at the root problems of why people aren't crushing their opponents with bluffs: not orienting their entire approach and philosophy toward winning more without showdown.
Pre-flop adjustments, what to look for post-flop, and at the end, one of my favorite bluff sizings that many people overlook that prints money!
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[@joeingram1]

Auto-profit bluff formations is a super sick concept - the last bonus stat is pretty mind blowing how much it prints vs an overfold - I can see myself getting in a lot of trouble vs raises without understanding how to navigate that node

[@TomRauhe]

I found that in a lot of instances... Don't bluff idiots. When they have a pair, they call. The board could be 4 to a straight and a flush, and they still call down with 2nd pair.

[@sheriefelsayad5578]

One of the main reasons people struggle at lower and mid stakes is their preflop game as well. They call too often OOP as you pointed out, they dont defend the big blind correctly and definitely dont 3bet enough from the big blind either. They dont respect position enough and they are probably opening too few hands from good positions. Like the opening range from the button is super wide but I feel many players still make massive preflop mistakes, even high stakes players.

[@ReSpOnSeSC2]

How'd you find my graph?

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

:D

[@nolimitpoker]

Haha

[@ghjk5827]

Nice video. About calling 3b OOP: what about if we play a 4b/fold strategy, then? Even from CO and SB. Then we cbet range 1/3 and auto profit.

[@timeGambler]

Your videos have been on fire lately!

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Thank you! Trying to get into the production habit as much as possible

[@LivePokerGuide]

Very good video, thanks! I have done similar videos but yours explains this very well!

[@alexandrolegovich1563]

Hello! Thx for video! What do you think about the rake on GGPoker's Rush tables? Is our strategy without cold calls and frequent 4bet relevant?

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Yeah definitely extra true on GG

[@craigmontalbano]

Great video Alvin!

[@brianlee1417]

I'm going to use this to crush live 1/2nl!!

[@babylon812]

if I call a 3bet OOP with a low suited connector this data says it's loosing -1.21 but isn't that still better than folding? (-2 or 2.5bb)

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

No h2note compares it to folding at 0bb, not the same way hem calculates it. I had to check it multiple times to make sure it wasn't the case here but in hem they were losing 2.8bb compared to folding -2.2bb.

[@babylon812]

cool thank you for answering!@@AlvinTeachesPoker

[@KevinTorres-pm7kk]

I found me a spot to improve in. Stealing.........🔥

[@carlosjr6977]

Are you having a Black Friday sale?

[@ralphlill5496]

OMG!!! Master Jedi what more do I need to say!!! thank you once again for all you do to enlighten me!!!

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Oh staaaaph

[@vishalraman-piano5499]

Awesome video!

[@tobyc8905]

Signing up for the freestyle raps alone

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

High life ev play

[@MrTreds]

hey, alvin! first of all, thanks for all the great content! And what about calling 3bets IN position with pocket pairs and suited connectors? they're all mixed 0EV calls in GTO. But in reality, is it worth calling? is it better than folding? do you have that data? thanks 😊

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

At high stakes it is barely winning but at lower stakes it isn't. Rake!

[@bappo795]

11:45 not only is this super profitable, but it's funny as hell when it gets through

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Even better live and you show queen high

[@jeffshackleford3152]

OOP block bet bluff has been part of my strategy for quite a while. The funniest thing to me is when it ends up being a value bet and not a bluff. Also Check jam, is the one that makes me laugh the hardest. Check, opponent bets, jam, they usually call the all in as well, which makes it so much funnier.

[@radomirpl]

Hey, Alvin! first of all, thanks for all the great content! You said that one should 3bet and steal more than the population. Let's assume that the population is currently using rfi GTOwizard, so as you said rfi co 29% rfi btn 42% minimum. On zoom, isn't it better to just narrow these ranges a bit so that you don't play hands that have an ev of 0.01 bb/100, but instead fold those hands and save time and additionally have the chance to play the next hand immediately with cards that have a much better ev? I mean have better bb per hour than bb per 100...

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

That's assuming those hands are breakeven against tough opponents. If you have edge postflop all those neutral hands are at least +.3

[@radomirpl]

ty for answer :) greetings@@AlvinTeachesPoker

[@nolimitpoker]

Great vid bud. I am lucky I was always a station to start. So I only had to learn to bluff my ass off.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Ded

[@bagwafu]

🔥, again !

[@infosrelevantes7146]

the solver also folds at frequencies that give the aggressor auto profit betting, why doesn't the solver bet any2 in these spots?

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Because it finds more ev with some hands by checking back and letting villain bluff!

[@goranhrkman3789]

I agree with your strategy while playing 6-max cash. However, while playing tourneys, it could be more profitable to flat some of your stronger starting hannds especially if a weaker player is opening (in the early stages), assumig it´s not a bounty tourney.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

I'm only talking about cash, MTTs I think flatting very strong versus EP open is very good.

[@G0DofRock]

I for one am very glad my graph doesn't look like that. The red line is bad but not straight down like a kids' slide lol

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

I'd say 80% of players have this graph 📊

[@G0DofRock]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker I always forget 80% of players lose consistently, 10% breakeven and 10% winning. Crazy game. Was roughly a 7-10bb WR player from 2nl, 5nl, 10nl, 16nl and then I hit 25-50nl and I'm getting rocked lol

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

@G0DofRock it's the limit where people need to take poker semi seriously to make it to the next level

[@dot333333]

Isn’t that just how the xc/x/b line is supposed to function? That river bet is almost always auto-profitable in a solver.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

You know my channel is pointing out the function bets in solvers, right. :D

[@iamamish]

Imagine what a player equipped with today's knowledge could accomplish against circa 2001 poker players

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Imagine what players today could do with the information hidden in solvers that they don't use

[@iamamish]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker true but the marginal value of solver info today is much lower than it would have been back then - at least for the modal player

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

You missed the point. We always live in the Era of crushing information and simply choose not to act on it. 👉

[@iamamish]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker Respectfully I do not believe I am. I agree - there is info today that people choose not to act on, but that will always be true. It has to be! There is information today that you choose not to act on - why? Because the marginal cost is higher than the marginal benefit. Some people care about winning a lot more than others, and they'll choose to study more, but we all have other things to do in life, and we all have to make trade-offs.

[@luckymaggie6594]

But when I don't fold and call, it's just nuts.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Well you have to know when to hold them and when to fold them

[@testarosa9314]

know everything that u said. still 32bi under ev second month. u can do nothing when your blue line down every session and u lose to 63o in 3bet spots as aggressor. zero skill game, really.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

What limit and room is this?

[@testarosa9314]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker now nl10 ps. i played zoom nl10, and some reg tables nl25, after 10 bi down under ev moved to reg tables, now its 32 bi, never seen that rly. even worse, rly, vips with vpip 90% always has it agains me any shit, and always hits allins like 22 vs KK )) and the main problem, that i had challenge 120$ when i played zoom, but for now i cant get it on reg tables, so i get only chests and thats all. 30k hands reg tables nl10 (6max)- 10$ win 189$ ev. same cliwnfiesta on 9max tables but a little bit better. lately before that run i beat it ~8-9bb/100.

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Definitely seen much worse

[@100LOT]

i play every hand almost and only fold when reraised for the most part

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Haha that might be taking it too far

[@pokerstudy6862]

52% WWSF redline still terrible

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

Really? Is it because you're not playing enough hands then? What is your 3bet bu v co etc?

[@pokerstudy6862]

@@AlvinTeachesPoker playing 28/24 3bet 12.2, BTN vs CO 3bet 15.7 I bluff a lot and i bluffcatch a lot - i feel like there is a lot of pots where i invest a lot of money bluffing and get raised and have to fold but not sure - might just be normal

[@pokerstudy6862]

also there might be a problem with bluffing too polar and not turning made hands into bluffs as i have a better winrate with my air than with middle or low pairs

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

@pokerstudy6862 this is very often it

[@AlvinTeachesPoker]

@pokerstudy6862 well if it's a plus ev / auto profit bluff then it can't be losing red line long term