Top 3 Strategies to CRUSH Tournament Poker [MTTs]

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[@BallenX101]

Thanks Jonathan! I took down a local $240 bounty tournament. 295 players, took first for $7200 total!

[@ernestoA.1999]

Congrats , On which poker site bro

[@samneedham8652]

@@ernestoA.1999 think local tends to imply live

[@showmoney1828]

I watch an learned alot of information from him for 7days straight at work an home. Played friday for 20k turny finished 10th. Saturday played a 40k tournament an was bubble boy for day 2. But a 100% improvement. A total of 17hrs straight an put this info into action.!!!!!! Awsome content

[@starttakinnotez]

How to crush online poker in 6 easy steps: Get pocket aces Go all in Get called Lose to 27 off suit Shout "this game is rigged" Retire.

[@davidvaughn1139]

Jonathan...thanks for the video and it came at the right time. I played in a WSOP circuit event this past week in California and finished 29 out of 206 (in the money) mainly from these tips. I kept pots small with marginal hands that I may have gone broke on in the past and brutalized looser players when I was around 20BB by pushing all in using the chart you provide in the video. Over the past few months I realized I was playing much too tight (out of practice from Covid shutdowns) I never would have been able to cash if I kept playing the same way--I would have blinded off. When I busted out I knew I was behind with top pair and a gutshot, but I was getting 9-1 odds on the call and if I won that hand I would have had a Top-5 stack instead of a bottom 5 stack if I folded. I was trying to win the tournament and wasn't worried about laddering up since the payout was so top heavy. The difference between 29th and 18th was only about $200, so I knew I'd needed to chip up big to make a run at the final table. Thanks again!

[@F7UGO]

Love your videos! I have been studying your content a lot recently and just took 3rd place in a bounty tournament for $240, my second highest cash ever! Thanks!

[@PokerCoaching]

Awesome, I'm glad you like them. Congratulations on the cash!!

[@alfromvancouver]

Went many consecutive tournaments without cashing and I knew I was one of those 2005 players Jonathan spoke about who haven't continued their studies of the game! Followed some quick tips off his YT videos and immediately plugged some leaks and cashed in a few tournaments right away. Jonathan is a legit pro and shares great info! I have since bought quite a few of his books including the newest book "100 Essential Tips to Master No-Limit Hold'Em" and am glad I did.

[@Seiceros]

Fantastic content and it’s free. Thanks so much man can’t stress how awesome this is. I downloaded the app and will use it.

[@PokerCoaching]

Glad you enjoy it! 👊

[@henrylacks9979]

JL, I just voted for you on the people’s choice award. Also, thanks for this specific video as I just played my first “tiny” stakes tourney this past weekend and definitely made several mistakes mentioned in this video. Thanks for the content.

[@PokerCoaching]

Thank you, I appreciate it! That's great, hopefully it helps you improve quickly!

[@TheSodakboy93]

On the QQ8J2 hand, there is literally only one way to play that hand versus most low-to-mid-stakes players, and that is to bet pretty big (at least 75-80% pot) on the turn and then check back everything on the river unless we improve. When most players check back that turn, it's almost either a marginal hand that's going to call one more bet, a give up that's not putting another penny in the pot, or the nuts. Most players don't protect their checking range enough and are betting all their Qx, and even if they are hands like QT/Q9 (certainly the offsuit variety) may not be in their pre-flop raising range to begin with. Some players even would bet thin on the turn with AA/KK or even some Jx, some won't. Betting big on the turn allows us to get all the value we can from the hands we beat (the overpairs, the Jx, the pairs with the gutshot) and makes it less likely we get totally blown off our hand as the nuts are less likely to want to jam over what appears to a strong range when they expect the opponent to jam river anyway. Sure, it's possible we could get bluff check-raised here on a somewhat draw heavy board, but we have a pretty big blocker to the logical draws with Ks and a turn bluff check-raise would be a pretty weird line. You may need to call off against some shoves if you think they're capable but not against the population. If I'm going to overfold in a spot that might be exploitable, I'd rather it be to a turn check-raise over 15K than a river 3-bet that costs me significantly more. As played, the turn checkback is terrible because you've now allowed the lojack to set their price when they have a marginal hand they're trying to get thin value on the river with, like a J or an overpair. Raising is lighting money on fire - do you really think most players are going to commit a third of their stack on a paired board with KJ here? You can argue that they're theoretically supposed to call fairly often here, but in practice it just doesn't happen and most of the time you end up getting shown AQ or T9 at best, or jammed on at worst. At the end of the day, I'd rather bet 15K and know I'm winning the pot a pretty good portion of the time rather than just getting 7.5K a decent portion of the time on the river or check-raising for 22K on the river and folding out every hand that I beat.

[@JamesYeats]

We play 5/10 Limit Holdem at my local casino, It's a big game!!!!!

[@mezzodana]

Howdy Coach - I have a big live MTT coming up next week. I won a seat and haven’t played live in almost two years!!!!

[@PokerCoaching]

Good luck!!!

[@rhcp9009]

Would like to see a MTT spot deep SB vs BB I love these spots but it's so tricky bc if it folds around to SB and BB they both have uncapped ranges and have even got into AA vs KK or QQ vs JJ scenarios here...love limping SB with JJ and TT sometimes and wait for that shove it's just tricky

[@user-jc3fs9uw3z]

Those spots are really so rare though if you truly think about it.

[@ligafftheindifferent3495]

I really get confused about allowing draws a good price and generally backing down. 54:30 When I check the turn here, it seems like there are many free cards that will beat me and that quite of few of these hands would fold the turn. If my opponent has a flush draw, I also want to bet now, since he will simply fold to river bets. In this example, it seems like checking the turn gives him too many free river cards in spots where I am winning. Even if he calls my turn bet with a hand like Ah8h, I still gain equity on that bet (since I only need 50l%+). So when he has lots of out, giving him.a free card is far less of a disaster, but if he would fold, it is awful. Not only that, but my opponent might fold a better jack or maybe even a bad king. About the only good things I get from checking are.... 1. I cannot be check raised off my hand. 2. My opponent may try to bluff on the river. I am not arguing against what JL is saying, but I do need to understand why this logic is more important than the need to protect my hand and gain equity from draws on the turn.

[@Mitjitsu]

3-betting with a balanced range makes sense against a thinking observant player, but too often live players don't want to let go of their hand. Even when most people on here know it's a bad hand to be playing oop. Against your average live player it makes more sense to 3-bet a linear range. Possibly 3-betting tighter than what theory would suggest, because these players are ATM's when it comes to getting payed off with QQ+.

[@malcolmwasher2308]

Prob is most the time if u sit around waiten for AA is all could fold to and u get no action

[@dragamoja]

Congrats for award, fully deserved!

[@maliekmiles992]

Thanks Jonathan! I like the way you handle yourself while streaming some of your students in the chat need to learn proper learning etiquettes.

[@nikolaypenev6404]

Your form was successfully submitted. Thank you JL for the content!

[@PokerCoaching]

Awesome, thank you!

[@ronbondie9502]

thanks JL good skill bldg as usual.

[@ACIDwladiACID]

Love your content Jonathan! I played my first real Live tournament last week and took down 9,5k€ as 1st place of 260 with a 250€ buy in

[@PokerCoaching]

That's fantastic!! Congratulations! 🎉

[@ACIDwladiACID]

@@PokerCoaching thanks sir! Can i join your Course for free? If i become pro I‘ll leave the Kudos for you

[@Gos1234567]

Great to see two years later people are still shocked about folding mediocre hands after huge aggression from a rec! Poker will never die!!

[@knowbuddie2422]

I just love that you said "If you don't then vote for someone else" you got my vote.

[@hearthat1334]

checked

[@TreeFcknFiddy]

Great content! So glad split suit recommended you!

[@JanneOksanen]

I'm going to have to vote for the guy who kept playing 32o in the main event. :D

[@PokerCoaching]

Seems reasonable.

[@OrevShalom]

Congrats Coach💪

[@AndersonAuthenticsGaming]

Anyone else feel like the kq hand was a mistake? Either call the bet on river or call the shuv?

[@zeus000.00]

I was sure he had to call the all-in, so I was very surprised when the answer was different. I just ran this situation through my solver and it agreed with me it was a call 100% of the time (~18000 ev). I'm not sure if I made the correct assumptions on the preflop range, and I couldn't run a postflop multi handed flop simulation. So the data isn't very accurate since the SB and BB where basically ignored postflop. If had multiple raise and bet sizes, the solver also didnt like BTN's raise size on the river, it preferred 62% all-in / 38% 30000ish(~26200 ev). Not saying Jonathan is wrong though, it probably matters a lot that LJ is in a tournament and is probably quite nitty in the situation.

[@Gos1234567]

@@zeus000.00this situation is against the general Population though.They are not pulling off crazy river bluffs like this,not a chance KQ is good here

[@miketang8719]

⁠@@Gos1234567agreed people put too much stock in solvers and that the general population actually will play optimally, you can and should definitely over fold on river against most unless they’ve shown the ability to bluff there

[@bryanjohnson8162]

I love this channel. But how is it free if you're paying for the subscription to get it??

[@PokerCoaching]

See pokercoaching.com/free. That is what you can get for free.

[@_RPM_Fitness_]

Another GREAT video

[@HighVolume12]

Damn with this tips and some luck I presume I just becamer 2nd in an MTT for the first time!

[@georgecruz8370]

Jonathan Little thank you for the good tips . I'm a bigginer player . Do you thing it will be a good idea for a bigginer player waiting for the goods cards until I'm game more experience as a player?

[@michaellocker2995]

DON"T BE A BABY! . . . That should be a T-Shirt in the PokerCoaching merch store!!! You have convinced me to get a membership JL, see you soon.

[@PokerCoaching]

Awesome idea!

[@pokerwin2759]

how to win high buy in tournament ? Like over 1000

[@PokerCoaching]

Study and play a lot!

[@kaisaarnio7208]

Just made the blunder with aqs, on the river had trips, i go for 3/4 pot, villain jams. After a moment i call, where i was almost shure i was beat. And voila villain shows boat and im out of the tourney.

[@valentinbonchev7485]

what is the name of the pokercoaching app? also is it only for members or i its free?

[@marcyelle3579]

Hello, is it still possible to acces the first 7 days of the 30 Day Challenge for free like annouced in the video?

[@KelownaTom]

flat call

[@OG_Rider]

Thank you 🙏 🧠

[@kbizzle125]

Can these GTO preflop charts also be used in 9 Max SNGs or is there different ranges and charts when it comes to Sit N Gos?

[@PokerCoaching]

Slightly different due to payout implications.

[@kookyevents6316]

Hi! I just paid 1$ and does NOT appear GET STARTED button on your page!are u a spam???

[@damedley75]

0:40 Tell the truth... Is this the first award you've ever won for your personality? 😁

[@llaces]

something Ive never seen anyone talk about is DO YOU think about the fact that 18 cards have been dealt out on a 9 handed table, and that means 18 outs are essentially deleted from the deck, not to mention 3 burn cards. so 21 out of 52 cards are automatically gone, greatly reducing your chances of hitting your draws. 31 cards left in the deck, you have 2 and there are 5 cards coming out. so the real size of you and your opponents range and the chances of hitting your draws, should definitely not be 1 out of 52 but 1 out of 31. does anyone have any insight on how to think about this properly to make better calls/better folds/better raises? Thanks!

[@ferrenfeyh7696]

Unless your cheating how would you know which cards they have. Sometimes your draws get even better in your theory

[@Dead-bl7to]

You can just have one thing….have the winning hand! EASY

[@malcolmwasher2308]

Juicy stars pokers the best alot of donkeys there up 700 in a few months playing low level tourtments for 1 dollar buyin

[@nicholassolomonson8349]

What's your name at global poker Jonathan? I play there

[@nicholassolomonson8349]

My name is PokerKing906 at GP. Do you use your name or do you have a different screen name at GP?

[@DoTheHuman]

I like to get my money all in bad sometimes in tournaments to balance for variance 🤣

[@MrJoosebawkz]

38:45 u wanna TANK call here like almost the maximum. and if its live u wanna look so upset abt calling 😝

[@DobsonDC]

I paused to check out you desktop and noticed the NFT Shopping List 🤣 It's a scam bruv

[@mattaustinrocks]

You basically just taught us to fold monster hands to big bets and essentially teach our opponents we are very bluffable

[@rickvaughn6]

How to crush MTTs: 1. Get good hands 2. Hope that other players get second best hands 3. If one and two fail, win about 7-10 coin flips 4. Suckout a lot Saved everybody money

[@PokerCoaching]

Sure.

[@wlink639]

More like how to get crushed by MTTs

[@natdunh5075]

343 comment wait like whatever........... keeep it up plz

[@natdunh5075]

wait whats on your MTG shopping list?

[@natdunh5075]

thanks for the time

[@PokerCoaching]

Ha! Everything I don't have yet!

[@elitecueist249]

It's not free for 7 days, Why did u lie..??

[@PokerCoaching]

It is free for 7 days. If you're having any issues, please email [e-mail].

[@elitecueist249]

It's asking for my card details..and u r saying it's free...if it's free y do u need the card details...?

[@cjgooding4512]

Sassy in this video! Lol. Funny watching some of the super old ones being overly kind trying to answer like every single stupid question from chat and then now not putting up with nonsense.

[@adriatikagalliu]

Hi . I have a question. Why you don’t show us how to Winn a Turnament in real live tournaments Bro 😮all you Poker Trainer are boring