Inside The Poker Mind
In This Week’s Episode:
- Inside The Poker Mind Meld
- Inside The Mind Of A Poker Pro
- Inside The Poker Mind Quiz
- Inside The Poker Mind Card Game
In this episode, Elliot Roe promotes his online mindset training academy, Poker Mind Coach. His academy offers help to those looking to improve their poker game without paying to become a personal client of Elliot. The membership benefits of Poker Mind Coach are of unbeatable value and include access to Q&A sessions from the world’s top poker players. Elliot’s Poker Mind Academy seeks to help the average poker player develop the mindset and skills to become an excellent poker player.
In This Episode You’ll Learn:
Inside the Poker Mind is a good but not great book covering a little bit of strategy and a little bit of psychology in playing poker. Best suited to improving the game of the studious, but intermediate player, Feeney's book will likely be useful as well to the advanced player, even though its depth is limited and, in my opinion, some of its. Get this from a library! Inside the poker mind: essays on hold 'em and general poker concepts. John Feeney, Ph. D.; David Sklansky.
Inside The Poker Mind Meld
- 00:55 – Introduction of Poker Mind Coach Academy
- 01:19 – Why Elliot set up his academy
- 02:25 – Having access to Q&A sessions with the world’s top poker players
- 03:34 – Poker Mind Coach Academy is for giving everyone their shot at poker
- 04:58 – Controlling your mindset can help you feel more motivated to enjoy poker
- 06:15 – Poker Mind Coach Academy is no-contract
- 07:07 – Sign-ups are open until Saturday and the academy is only open a few times in a year
Keep Up With Elliot:
Adrienne “Talonchick” Rowsome:
Inside The Mind Of A Poker Pro
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Inside The Poker Mind Quiz
Hand 1 – Two Pair on a Soaking Wet Board
I look down at A♦J♦ on the BU and, with the BB being $1.00, I open-raise to $2.25. This is my standard size on tougher, reg-infested tables like this one. The BB, who is a fairly active regular 3-Bets me to $10 and I make the call. This part of my range is far too strong to fold unless I want to open myself up to being completely run over by 3-Betting.
The flop ($20.50) is A♠K♦J♠ and Villain checks. This is a flop on which my opponent is incentivized to check quite often. Both players can hold a lot of two pair and straights here and so betting with impunity is not a great option. I expect his checking range to be somewhat capped, meaning that he cannot hold the absolute nuts too often now, but I do expect to see some hands like AA and AK that block many of my calling hands to a flop bet. I decide to value bet with large sizing here and make it $13.64 (I have some hotkeys set up hence the obscure sizing!). Villain calls.
The turn ($47.78) brings the 6♥ and Villain checks. Even if I end up rejecting the idea of betting three times for value, now seems to be the best time to make a second value bet than on the river, so I quickly reject checking behind. There are potential river cards that might spoil the day here and make it harder to extract value. I bet $22.70 and Villain calls.
The river ($93.18) is the 8♠ and I have $54.16 left. Do I go for a third value bet when Villain checks? The upside to betting is that I might sometimes get called by KJ or a hand like A8s or A6s. The downside is that if the Villain has a flush, AK or AA/KK, then I am costing myself a lot of money. I elect to check here. It is difficult for me to have a bluff here without being creative earlier on in the hand now. The population does not tend to bluff enough here and so I am expecting too much fold equity from the worst hands in Villain’s range.
Inside The Poker Mind Card Game
We check and Villain shows A♥2♥, he had check/called the flop with top pair and the turn with top pair and a heart draw. It is very likely that he was folding the river in this spot.