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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 ...

Aces and Kings are pretty easy to play preflop... right? Just rip it in and hope villain has something to stack off with. But wait... what does villain do with their bluffs and light 3-bets then? Oh right, they just fold and you never get their stack.Jon's come a long way since pre-COVID and always 5-bet jamming Aces preflop, and he's added some pretty ingenious traps to his arsenal. As we see today, the random degenerate player pool of Ignition is only so happy to oblige.Coach Brad is along for yet another rollercoaster ride where so many more than 100 bigs are going in the middle. Does he ...

One of our more interesting and instructive episodes in recent memory pertained to equity calculation and range construction when facing all-ins. If you're a poker player struggling with the mathematical side of things, this episode is for you! To everyone else, don't worry -- if you're only here for degenerate flush draws and high card floats I'm sure we will be back to normal next week.Join us for Tactical Tuesday 137 and be sure to leave a review to help us fool the algorithms.

Position is everything in Poker, also known by its full, formal name: No Limit Texas Hold Them. But when you're playing the game at a positional disadvantage, it can be hard to extract full value in spots where you have good hands. What hands should you check and trap? What situations call for an overbet to hope to get bluffcaught? These questions and more are explored on Tactical Tuesday 136!Also -- we've received requests in Greatness Village to upload the full hand breakdown, and that request will be honored immediately, starting... in the coming weeks! This and many more improvements are ...

Tactical Tuesday is cleaning up its "bad boy" image this week and we're trying to come up with newer, more respectful ways to refer to unstudied, instinctual poker players who are not as good at poker as Jon Chai.I said "trying" to come up with newer terms, correct? Because while we tried, we failed. They just do so many fishy things! There's no better way to describe it, so we're done trying.Jon has brought 3 hands this week, and they just so happen to be multiway pots against fish in our favorite game: No Limit Texas Holdem. Join us for Tactical Tuesday 135!***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS ...

Fresh off of playing large pots with pocket nines, Jon has learned the error of his ways and returns this week to play even larger pots with... pocket fours?? And... he's doing it mUlTiWaY?? AND!! IN LIVE BOMB POTS!!???Looks like we're going off the rails on this fours-ey train for Tactical Tuesday 133. Let's see how much money Jon... wins?As a reminder, we've partnered with GTO Wizard, where you can start learning for free. Click this affiliate link and help out CPG at the same time: https://gtowizard.com/p/chasingpokergreatness***LIVE CASH PREFLOP BOOTCAMP IS OUT NOW!*** We're thrilled to ...

Middle pocket pairs are somewhat of an imperfect science in the never-frustrating game of No Limit Texas Holdem. Pocket Nines are specifically right on that borderline of a great starting hand preflop, but... how them nines look after all 5 community cards come out?Jon's back this week with just such situations for our collective poker study -- three of them, to be exact. While he's still in recovery from his flush draw addiction, he's decided to at least focus on things that are real and have showdown value this week. Whether or not he will resist overplaying them... well, you'll just have to...

The first step toward solving a problem is admitting that you have one. We don't know when it got out of control, or why we didn't stage an intervention sooner, but Jon and his flush draw fetish have finally reached a breaking point. We've since taken away the keys to his Ignition (account) and forced him to seek help for this addiction. Please help us help Jon in Tactical Tuesday 131...As a reminder, we've partnered with GTO Wizard, where you can start learning for free. Click this affiliate link and help out CPG at the same time: https://gtowizard.com/p/chasingpokergreatness***LIVE CASH ...

We've finally found an offramp from value betting month here at Chasing Poker Greatness, but is it possible that Jon's only transitioning to bluffcatching mode because it's an even thinner way to battle for stacks in the online cash poker streets?With 3 hands to review, does Coach Brad go 3/3 in disagreeing with Jon's decisions to bluff catch for many online dollars? Let's catch around and find out in Tactical Tuesday 128!As a reminder, we've partnered with GTO Wizard, where you can start learning for free. Click this affiliate link and help out CPG at the same time: https://gtowizard.com/p/...

"Ace King is just a drawing hand" they said... but WTF does that even mean? And try telling that to a Fish.Jon is back this week, desperately pleading with Coach Brad to help him off the ledge as he finds himself playing for stacks with everyone's favorite Ace High hand. Should he have folded preflop? Should he call down when things go sideways? Are we supposed to answer a question with a question? Anything goes in Tactical Tuesday 130.As a reminder, we've partnered with GTO Wizard, where you can start learning for free. Click this affiliate link and help out CPG at the same time: https://...

In celebration of the launch of CPG's Live Cash Preflop Bootcamp, Tactical Tuesday is all about live cash poker this week... Decidedly high stakes live cash poker... for (in Dr. Evil's voice) one MILLION dollars.Hustler Casino Live played host to quite the hand recently, featuring live cash poker legends Tom Dwan and Doug Polk. Having played a little bit of live cash poker themselves, Coach Brad and Jon Chai weigh in with their thoughts on how it all went down.It's a bit of a different format this week, and we're not going to apologize for it. Strap in for high stakes and hot takes in Tactical...

Yes, it's another episode on theme for value betting month at CPG. But this time it's with a twist -- Jon's been in the lab digging deeper into the data... mixing chemicals in beakers and doing things with Bunson burners and he's emerged from these possibly unethical experiments with the discovery of a new weapon for his arsenal that he's been irresponsibly deploying out in the field: the fabled Bet / Check / Bet value bet line.Does Coach Brad approve? Does he ever? These questions and more in Tactical Tuesday 127.As a reminder, we've partnered with GTO Wizard, where you can start learning for...

In what is becoming quite the theme / cry-for-help lately, Jon has returned with... Jack Deuce suited (?) to find out if he is still addicted to value betting too thinly. Obviously the answer is yes, but to what degree? What sizing should he find on the river on equity-shifting runouts?Coach Brad intervenes to make sense of it all as Tactical Tuesday brings 3 hands containing more thin value betting tips -- just in time for summer.For the most groundbreaking, solutions-based online poker courses you will ever find, you need to get yourself to the Chasing Poker Greatness website and start ...

Jumping back and forth from dimension to dimension isn’t easy on a man’s mental state. After months in the cushy, money-printing live cash streets of Las Vegas, Jon Chai has foolishly navigated back to the lawless, degenerate, soulless pit of online poker and it’s been... very hard to keep sane in this new harsh reality.And so we’ve called in our last hope, Witch Doctor Coach Brad Wilson, to do dive into Jon’s inner fearscape, and perform a sanity check on these fever dream hands that he’s been repeating hypnotically in the corner of a padded cell.Please send help. It’s Tactical ...

Four liners to a straight... it's the stuff of nightmares when you're the type of insane asylum escapee who calls large river bets from a "reg" with a flopped bottom pair in a 4-Bet pot.Yes, we're talking about poker pro Jon Chai and his epic quest to bluffcatch every villain on God's green earth with the slimmest of holdings. We've got 3 hands this week after a brief hiatus last week... are we going to reset the clock and set it back to ZERO days without incident? Or is this madman crazy like a fox and expertly orchestrating punts from villains for 300 big blinds? It's Tactical Tuesday 123.**...

The CPG podcast has returned for an interview with ACR Team Pro and Twitch streamer Michael Loncar, and what a story he has to tell. From the humble beginnings of playing on his dad’s online account before the Moneymaker boom, to dropping out of college to play poker full-time and live the cliché of winning at the tables and blowing it all the same night… it’s a tour de force of bankroll mismanagement.Michael shares his Black Friday Plan B story with us, with a divorce sprinkled in the middle and how it affected his poker and personal life. And Porsches. So many Porsches.All of this to ...

The Stand Up Game... Where did it come from? Why is it a thing? The answers to those questions don’t matter, but the strategy behind playing it sure does. We didn’t aim to release the first Stand Up Game strategy guide, but it’s possible we just did?Jon somehow got himself into a very interesting spot where he was heads up with the last remaining “stander”, and things get complicated right quick when there’s different incentives for pushing equity in a pot with the bounty hanging overhead.What’s the fastest way to sit down in the Stand Up Game? How hard should you protect your ...

Donk bets…. A scourge to online poker, and to humanity as a whole. What motivates a Fish and/or Reg to dabble in these dark arts? We’ll, we don’t really know. Frankly we don’t want to know. It’s a market we can do without.But what we do know is the data behind donk bets. You’ve probably heard Coach Brad nag us for years now about NUFFLE, NUTTLE, and NURRLE… these are the courses developed from Mass Data Analysis to combat this very problem of Fish donk betting the flop, turn, and river.While we’ve generally kept this intellectual property under lock and key for review by paying...

No need to check your audio device for potential defects -- we can confirm that Jon is indeed bluffing... small (?) on the river this week. These spots do exist, we're told, but where are they? And how often does the small size bluff actually get through?Poker pro Jon Chai and Coach Brad Wilson are back this week, and with yet again more than 2 hands to review. It's Tactical Tuesday 120... go small or go home!For the most groundbreaking, solutions-based poker courses you will ever find, you need to get yourself to the Chasing Poker Greatness website and start clicking around: https://...