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THE CAPS ARE LOCKED FOR THIS EPISODE OF THE TACTICAL TUESDAY POKER YOUTUBE PROGRAM.Alright I can't handle it anymore; I'm going back to normal... and ya' know what else is pretty normal? Getting 3-Bet by the big blind when you decide to stick your poker nose out and open a pot from the small blind.Those dang big blind villains always think they have the positional advantage until the end of days and they sure do act like it (through their aforementioned 3-Bet privilege).BUT IT'S TIME FOR THE TURNED TABLES TO ROTATE AGAINST THEM as we explore counter strategies for combatting this position of ...

We're revisiting Equilab again on Tactical Tuesday to calculate the all-important share of equity when making decisions at the poker table. Join us to see how close poker pro Jon Chai's judgments are to optimal as the boys review some tough spots from the poker database on this week's installment. Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 158!***FREE POKER COURSE*** Click here to get the NURRLE poker course completely for free: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/poker-courses/#free-nurrle***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS OUT NOW!*** We're thrilled to announce our first live cash poker course:https://...

Jon's battling it out in the live cash game streets in sunny Las Vegas, and he's developed a love affair for Ace Queen lately (flopping a full house will do that) that's he's bringing to the Tactical Tuesday show for review with poker pro Coach Brad Wilson.Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 157!***FREE POKER COURSE*** Click here to get the NURRLE poker course completely for free: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/poker-courses/#free-nurrle***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS OUT NOW!*** We're thrilled to announce our first live cash poker course: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/...

We're all well aware of Jon Chai's flush draw addiction and thin value shenanigans. But what about maximizing positional advantage when playing from the button? Does he know when to set the trap when he's ahead, and apply enough pressure to take down the pot when he's behind?Poker coach and mentor Brad Wilson has high praise for Jon in today's poker strategy episode, in which he declares to the poker world that Jon is his most winningest student when playing from the button. So we're in for a new year's treat as we witness Jon the positional specialist break down a couple hands on the dealer ...

So we've got a good starting hand preflop. Something like Ace Jack suited or the sexy Ace King suited. Worthy of a 3-bet, no doubt, but it's still not a pair. We play our hand the best we can, but what happens when a 3-bet pot becomes a 3-bet problem?The first step toward solving a problem is admitting you have one. While poker pro Jon Chai is still trying to make progress in his daily Flush Draws Anonymous meetings, his problems in 3-bet pots are just as addictive.We've staged another intervention and we hope you'll join us to show support for our beloved hero. Help us get Jon from a world of...

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"One of the unconquered frontiers of No Limit Holdem" is probably the best way to describe multiway spots in online poker. Poker pro Jon Chai's words ring true, as we discover on this week's episode.Christmas comes early as we "present" 4 hands for your enjoyment. It's multiway madness in 2/5 fast fold online poker... Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 155!***FREE POKER COURSE*** Click here to get the NURRLE poker course completely for free: https://chasingpokergreatness.com/poker-courses/#free-nurrle***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS OUT NOW!*** We're thrilled to announce our first live cash poker ...

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it!Normally each Tuesday, our poker boys focus on hands with a lot of postflop fireworks across all three streets, since those naturally make for the most interesting discussions on Tactical Tuesday. But all this time, they've basically been lying to you and your family about one simple rule of poker. And they're ready to finally confess this week by admitting that preflop decisions are the most important part of the game.Preflop problems become postflop problems; it's that simple. But how do we make the best preflop decisions to...

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it!When deciding what area of poker study you should focus on, it's never a bad idea to prioritize the situations in which all of the money is at risk. And so poker pro Jon Chai has brought a measly 2 hands for the evaluation and hopefully... approval? of poker coach Brad Wilson.Do we just flip a coin? Go with our gut? See which side of the Oreo the cream sticks to? There's a lot of factors that determine whether or not you should call an all-in in poker. Let's find out which poker data points Jon identifies in Tactical Tuesday ...

When something happens at such a low frequency, how are you supposed to get better at it when you don’t get many reps in the situation? The boys are back to illuminate the infrequent, yet crazy important world of 4-Bet Pots. It has a massive impact to your winrate, so listen up!Jon has brought 4 hands with or without incident (no spoilers) for Coach Brad to ridicule, applaud, and generally dissect. Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 142!***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS OUT NOW!*** We're thrilled to announce our first live cash poker course:https://chasingpokergreatness.com/...

It doesn't happen often, but when it does, you best be ready for it with your sharpest harpoon in hand. We're talking about WHALE HUNTING. The kind of whale that cares more about killing their boredom than preserving their big blinds. They didn't sign on to fold, people, so let's give them 'em action!But what happens when a sea of Ahabs all spot the same whale? The natural order is disrupted... everyone's range is widened... it's multiway madness as every captain steers their ship toward the Big Blind Beluga.How should you adjust your strategy to navigate these crowded waters? Join us on a ...

It's easy to flop sets in No Limit Texas Holdem Poker when your name is Jon Chai. All you have to do is buy into a Fast Fold 500NL game and the virtual chips drop from the sky into your stack.None of the above is factually accurate, but in the rare instance that you do flop a set in No Limit Texas Holdem, the next two cards to come can have a pretty big impact on whether you find yourself holding a clear value hand, or surprisingly something resembling more of a bluffcatcher, depending on the runout and those pesky situational dynamics.Our fearless poker pros are here to help you flesh out ...

Tryouts for the CPG Wolves CFP are OPEN for a limited time (a few more days)! Just listen to the episode for more details!Genghis Wilson has been on the sidelines for the past few years... scheming, teaching, plotting, planning, mentoring, philosophizing, and a few other mental activities aimed at cultivating the CPG Wolves team and building courses. But has this life of luxury away from the front lines made him... soft??It's time to find out if he's still "got it". The poker turntables have turned a full rotation and Coach Brad has stepped back into the No Limit Holdem streets of Ignition ...

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it!It's a special Halloween episode of Tactical Tuesday, for which Coach Brad has spent weeks developing the unofficial title of the episode... TALES FROM THE CUTOFF *spooky organ music*. These river spots are so scary that we don't even need any costumes or Halloween graphical overlays to this episode.Jon is putting in work again in the harrowing online streets where the miserable demons reside, and he's bringing his forces of blessed bet sizing against the spooky stations of evil. All the haunted secrets are revealed in ...

So you're playing No Limit Texas Holdem and your "one time" finally happens. For the first time in the last 48 months of grinding, you flop a set. You've already booked an AirBnB during peak season in Valuetown.But then the turn and river come out, shifting those pesky equities and changing the nuts out on us when we were so cozy and warm on the flop. We have a good hand, but when -- and maybe even "should" -- we raise? Are we always getting called by better? Do we blow the villain off of their bluffs by doing so?And so we've called in the expert of pouring money into pots no matter what the ...

As you may have learned from our announcement in the CPG online community, Greatness Village (free to join at greatnessvillage.com!), Coach Brad & Jon Chai took the show on the digital road this week, all the way over to the PokerCoaching.com YouTube channel!In anticipation of the PokerCoaching.com 6-Max Cash course that Brad has contributed to, the boys were invited to do a livestreamed Tactical Tuesday in which they reviewed hands submitted by PokerCoaching.com community members. It's an action packed hour, and the live chat kept them on their toes for the duration.What's that we said about ...

Want a free poker course from CPG? Just scroll down below to get it!They say most of your money is saved preflop. Or maybe we just made that up. But where is most of the money made? Well, naturally that's going to be in the spots where the pots are largest and the leverage is larger-est. We're talking about the old man river, friends. How do we get value when we want it? How do we get folds when we need them? How to trap, how to defend?Good thing Jon Chai is out there throwing things at the high stakes walls of 1k NL and seein' what sticks so we don't have to. Does Coach Brad approve of these ...

Welcome friends, enemies, and frienemies, to this week’s episode of Tactical Tuesday, in which we evaluate thin value betti—… actually, no. We’re just punting out here. Come and watch the carnage.But as part of any responsible poker player’s session postmortem, at least we’re finding out just where it all went wrong. And so we turn to GTO Wizard to evaluate just how thin is too thin, and we get a glimpse behind the simulation curtain to find alternate lines that could have saved and earned so many more big blinds.To check out GTO Wizard for yourself, where you can start learning ...

We've done value betting episodes before, but his one is a bit different. This week we examine the spots where you have thick value on the river, but there's just one problem... the SPR is pretty high and it's difficult to see how you can pile it all in and get called.So what's the best way to get all the money in and get maximum value when you have nutted hands on the river? Spoiler alert: it's not as easy as dialing it up to "all-in".Coach Brad is here to see what poker prodigy Jon Chai decided to do in a few of these spots in his recent poker travels. Welcome to Tactical Tuesday 139.***LIVE...

The pain train is right on schedule this week, as Jon digs... not very deep in the database to find a few hands that illuminate an important topic in poker: how to bet/fold and raise/fold.It's not a difficult concept to understand... you think you can take down the pot with a bet or a raise, but, if the villain should somehow not fall for our lies and shenanigans, you've got to know the jig is up and not chase good money after bad.But when exactly are these scenarios, and just because villain doesn't kick rocks like we want them to, does that always mean we're checking or folding to further ...