Faraz Jaka
@FarazJaka
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I help recreational, semi-pro, & aspiring poker pros ♠ take their game to the next level 📈 | WPT POY $15m+ winnings | DMs open. 🎓Founder of @jakacoaching
My Poker Strategy Newsletter👇
Joined May 2009
I often tell my friends to consider playing poker with someone before going into business or a big partnership together. Playing poker reveals A LOT about your character. Here is what someone will discover playing poker with you 👇. 𝟏. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐞.
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lol. WSOP floor just announced that someone got too high on break and can’t find their table in day 2 of the millionaire maker.
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We did it!!!!! 🔥🚀. Just happened moments ago, first time baby! 😁
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When poker tours shut down in 2020, I spent my time 1:1 coaching over 120 poker players. Most my clients were recreationals playing for the love of the game or semipros as a side hustle. Here are the most common leaks that were holding them back🧵.
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His support for online poker is HUGE for us but beyond that, his policies & approach to tackling problems are night/day from any other candidate. Been donating to & following his campaign from day 1. Help get him in the White House & donate here
Online poker is legal in 4 states. The state-by-state rules are variable and push many players to offshore sites. We should clarify the rules and make it legal in all 50 states. US players and companies would benefit and new tax revenues could be used to mitigate addiction.
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Boooooom!! Just pulled the top 💰$500k bounty in the $2650 Venom $8m gtd Mystery Bounty on @ACR_POKER. 🚀🚀🚀🚀🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Here’re my thoughts regarding the @RobbiJadeLew vs @GmanPoker J4o hand. Having worked w/ her over the last year, cheating would be very out of character from my interactions with Robbie. I am seeing some very passionate arguments getting attn that I’d like to address👇.
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Dude straight multi accounting at the Bellagio…. no shame SMH.
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Found this old gem of a photo 😆. 16 years ago when I was 21, stayed at the Rio all @WSOP splitting room 3 ways with the occasional 4th rotating guest. Our friend was a 7-star and got us the room mostly comped all summer, just passed out on the couch at 5am every night while
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Players often find themselves getting deep in poker tournaments w/ just a tiny 🤏 stack. The old-school👴way of thinking is to just wait patiently for good hands. Ppl got a LOT better in the last decade. If u want to run deep u need to FIGHT for POTS. 7 ways to Fight for Pots👇.
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When my non pro college friends come into town to play @WSOP & find themselves still in the #big50 with 28 left. here’s an example of the type of winning tips I give them, that help them keep pumping towards that gold bracelet. cc @phil_hellmuth
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Someone makes a stupid play at the poker table, gets lucky, and wins your chips. Now they're laughing , making comments, and you're just sitting there quiet 😡. This is the moment you need to remind yourself that it doesn't matter whom you win chips off of; they are all worth.
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Up to 1.2 million chips on day 3 of #WSOPMainEvent . Starting tonight, I’m going to pick one interesting hand to do a written in-depth analysis from every day I’m still in the Main Event. It’ll go out in an email to my newsletter. After the main it’ll will go back to weekly
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Just ran a big “value bluff” in #WSOPMainEvent up to 860k chips. We raise 7k in CO w/ Q♦️8❤️button calls . Flop K♦️T♣️7♦️ we bet 7k he calls. Turn A♠️ we bet 30k he calls . River 4♦️ we put him all in for 85k. He tanks 3 min & says he’s thinking about calling with J♠️9♠️ &
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We have a little one on the way and are extremely excited! I’ve been ready for fatherhood for sometime now. My wife @carolinagallipr and I are thrilled to be moving on to this phase in our lives 😍 #babyontheway
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Won my shootout table and made the final table of 10 tomorrow! 💰237,367 and a @wsop bracelet to the winner 📈 . Got $19,003 🔐locked up so far
Knocked out half my table in first 3 levels of day 2 #WSOP $1500 shootout bracelet event, sitting on 1.2m of the 2.5M in chips at our table that we need to win to advance to the final table. I KOed the first 4 players fair n square but here’s one we got there on nice n dirty to
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If you aren’t doing this, you won’t be a winning poker player. Before any bet/raise, ask yourself what it accomplishes. Value: worse hands call.Bluff: better hands fold.Protection: hands w/ lots of equity vs ours fold. If none of the above,CHECK!. May seem hard todo in-game BUT. .
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Came in 2nd place in the @WSOP $25k Heads Up Championship last night for $300k. It was intense battling for three days straight in games where you are locked in playing every single hand. I thoroughly enjoyed it; it was easily the most fun event of the summer, aside from the
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The #WSOP 🏆 is less than 2 months away. Are you trying to figure out how to prepare📚, catch up on current trends📈, & learn how you can be one step ahead of the curve from what your opponents🤼♀️ are doing?. Here is something I put together you won't want to miss👇.
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Alright, who wants a FREE $1,650 NAPT Las Vegas Main Event?! @PokerStarsUSA just gave me a free seat to give away 🤩. How to enter 👇. 1️⃣ Follow @FarazJaka.2️⃣ Like & Retweet this. 3️⃣ Tag 2 poker buddies!. Winner will be picked and announced in this thread on Oct 23rd. You must be
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Apparently very famous football (soccer) player is @ my table.No idea who but every1 takin pics & he just min 3bet me http://t.co/IGCiPxzV8Y.
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@Jason 10. Lack of financial education passed down from parents. 11. Caring too much about what their community/families think. 12. Not taking the time to learn fundamentals of their trade.
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Player at my $10k high roller table in Cyprus has a watch on worth half a million. 👀
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So many casual poker players save up 3-4 buy-ins, head to the casino to play cash or tourneys. Most times, they lose it. Sometimes, they run it up 📈10 buy-ins, but still eventually go broke 📉.They basically repeat this process all year long. The problem with this is that it.
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Player at Wynn $1600 $1m gtd just opened 2bbs on cutoff, on a 20bb stack, I 3 bet AQo on button he 4b jams we snap call. He has Q♦️8♦️and flushes my toilet ass… he then genuinely says “sorry… I follow your Instagram stories I thought you had something like 85s” 🤷♂️.
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This is how a you get max value on your Sunday poker grind…. watch and learn kids…. #PanamaCity
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Highlights from playing with the legend Johnny Chan, all of day 2 in the @WSOP main event: . • Rounders came up at the table, and he shared that all the production company wanted, was to pay for the rights to use the clip of him beating Seidel in the main event. He and his agent
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Playing for my second bracelet in 2 hours. 4 remain the $25k heads.Up. Good morning ya’ll ☀️
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As soon as the line is crossed in a situation like this, operators need to just jump in and not let it escalate to that point. These types of clips going viral aren’t good for poker imo.
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I must say winning 🏆1st place for 💰237k feels better than all the times I’ve gotten 2nd or 3rd for $500-750k. You get home & there’s this rare feeling of satisfaction you get when no $ was left on the table. Here is the final hand I won the bracelet on yesteday. I’ll break down
Thank you so much for the rail and support everyone, much love ❤️. $1500 shootout @WSOP event #85 shipped it for💰237,367 along with my first bracelet…LFG!!! 🚀
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Chip leading the @WSOP $1500 shootout final table 3 handed with 12m. Opponents have about 8m and 4m coming back to 150k/300k blinds after dinner break
$1500 @WSOP shootout final table 💰$237k and a bracelet up top, here we go… 🚀. Playing on the secondary feature table in horseshoe, people can rail but no livestream. Updates on the blog here
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Congrats @rampagepoker on a sick 🏆. Surprised it’s a discussion that refunding 1st bullet to investors is controversial. I assume lot of fans bought pieces. When investors = fans / friends not everyone is trying to max EV (both sides).It’s fun to win & have your friends win too.
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Huge hero call in the #WSOPMainEvent , got piles now, 760k 🚀. HJ raises 5k, I call button Q♣️T♣️, SB calls. Flop Q♠️J♣️5♦️ checks to us we bet 10k into 20k both call. Turn is 6♦️we bet 35k SB folds, BB almost insta jams for a massive 185k. This was a tough spot given how
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Writing every hand I play in the #WSOPMainevent & going to start emailing 📩 them tonight to everyone who makes a free account @ 👉 Giving 1% of my main event winnings to someone who likes, retweets, & replies. Must be following @FarazJaka . 1st hand 👇.
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While offering advice to poker players over DM, common theme I hear is that losing giant flips that cripple them, getting bad setups (KK to QQ), or getting a bad beat in big pots is what's holding them back from winning in MTTs. Let’s talk reality & what’s REALLY holding u back👇.
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Just spent 14 days in Bahamas for @pokerstars #pspc & spent under $2500 in expenses on my trip. I wasn’t particularly going out of my way,could’ve kept it > $2k if I wanted to. Airfare $334. Airbnb 3 ways: $91.4/day/per person. Food + coffee $44.9/day . Misc $10-20/day. Pics👇.
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Supporters of @AndrewYang need to get fired up. Saying “he isn’t going to win anyways” is a flawed excuse. Even if they were true it helps the next person running with his platform get the job done. Helps him next election, brings his topics to the center stage.
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Decided to say F*it…broke our lease in Denver & decided to go back to traveling the world w/o a permanent home. Only this time w/ a 👨👩👦. 🇺🇸Vegas #WSOP.🇬🇷Greece.🇹🇷Turkey.🇪🇸Barcelona @pokerstars #EPT.🇨🇾Maybe Cyprus for @meritpokercyprus.🇫🇷France.🇨🇭Switzerland #wcoop.🇺🇸San Jose
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Up to 2 million chips in #WSOPMainEvent halfway through day 4. Blinds 5k/10k/10k . Been a slow and steady type of day. We got a player to my right who covers me now, could play a 4 million chip pot 😱
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Occasionally I get asked why I bother playing tournaments when I can make much more stable income in cashgames🤔. Cash vs tournaments comes to personal preference but it's great to understand the lifestyle of both then decide which is for you. A Short thread why I prefer MTT's 👇.
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HUGE congrats to my student @Angelajordison on her 3rd place finish @WSOP #18 $1k for $151,544. Had a great time on rail w/her friends & talking some ICM on breaks. Ang has been w/ since it launched. She’s put A LOT of work in off the table. More on her 👇
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Day 5 -#WSOPMainEvent …. This is the emptiest I’ve seen the hallways… I think that means we are deep 😍. 434 players left of 10,043 entires
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Booooooom!!! Drove up to @BallysBlackHawk last minute to play my neighborhood tournament and shipped it! 🔥🔥🔥. Won $137,849 🏆 in the @msptpoker $1100 Main Event. Thanks for the awesome rail from my @jakacoaching students @jackiburkhart81 @Angelajordison & @drunkenmonk5
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Shoot me a DM ✅, let me know a little about your background in poker. I’m happy to throw resources your way, & make sure you’re on optimal path for what you’re hoping to accomplish playing poker. Offer open to ANYONE. If u want guidance, I’ll help as many ppl as I possibly can.
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Awesome seeing @AndrewYang’s poker tweet go viral. Those of you tweeting about him don’t forget to include a CTA to donate to his campaign will go a long ways .@bp22 @RealKidPoker @tsarrast @Jason @phil_hellmuth @AriEngelPoker @Joeingram1 @Donnie_Peters.
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The ultimate GG to Doyle Brunson. What a legend. Not just in how great of a player he was but also his unrivaled longevity in the game and how kind of a person he was. If there was ever someone to look up to in how they carried themselves and treated other people, Doyle was as.
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5 away from the $ in #WSOPMainEvent guy who hasn’t played a hand in ages raises 15k with 200k behind, gets 3 bet, snap fold shows KK and yells out “pussyyyyyyy” to himself, then says “ I refuse to be the bubble boy!!”.
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Bagged 1,085,000 onto day 5 in #WSOPMainEvent . Called a 300k (15bb) reshove with KQo and lost to 87s, then lost AsKs vs 99 on a 8s6s3x flop in a 3 bet pot where it bricked out but luckily managed to not go broke that hand. First day we faced resistance, as always just part of
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#Jakacoaching student wins tournament for $54,000 with J4o…. You can’t make this stuff up 🤷♂️ . Ps @gogetemtigers you’re a beast… is that your 3rd or 4th Hard Rock win now? Im losing count. @SHRTPoker.
Brought the ruckus and got'em. Feels good man. Thanks as always to my coach @FarazJaka. Heater incomin.
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Boom! Shipped the $100k gtd $630 on @ACR_POKER for $27,944. Also, 6/28 ITM in the $1k $300k gtd let's go for another baby! #sundaypokergrind
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WSOP main event payouts fixed. 1st: $10,000,000 (+4m).2nd: $6,000,000 (+2m).3rd: $4,000,000 (+1m).4th: $3,00,000 (+600k).5th: $2,400,000 (+475k).6th: $1,925,000 (+375k).7th: $1,550,000 (+300k).8th: $1,250,000 (+250k).9th: $1,000,000. Extra ~2m to spread to pre final table.
MAIN EVENT PAYOUTS:. Players: 10,043 (New WSOP Main Event Record!).Prize pool: $93,399,900.Places paid: 1,507. 1st: $12,100,000.2nd: $6,500,000.3rd: $4,000,000.4th: $3,000,000.5th: $2,400,000.6th: $1,850,000.7th: $1,425,000.8th: $1,125,000.9th: $900,000.
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Tomorrow I’m live streaming @ACR_POKER Venom $5m GTD $2650 PKO Main Event tomorrow (Friday) at 10am pst Day1a on my YouTube channel (not twitch). 👉 see you there 😉. Also going to give away 2.5% each to two people who RT, Like, Reply.
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One of the things that make poker tournaments so tough 🧗♂️ is getting deep over & over again, only to come up short, feeling like there was nothing you could do differently😮💨 . Here's a thread on how I think about🤔 & deal with the📈swings📉of tournament🏆 poker 👇.
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Explosive first 45 minutes of day 5 #WSOPMainEvent for me. Followed by some swings. New player sits down in Cutoff with big stack we 3bet AQo on button for 40bbs and call off his 4b jam with A3s and double. Then AA > AQ and KJ < A9 both all in preflop. Then KJ < JJ on a J
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As far as the potential of devices being used etc, that's for the Hustler Casinos investigation team to determine. But from what I see, hear, and know about how Robbi discusses hands in our sessions I have no reason to think anything shady was going on.
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9/ Poker is the best strategic game of all time. It tests your ability to handle controversy, be patient, use logic, analyze risk, humble yourself to competition, & be processed orientated. Try playing poker, It might just help you become the best version of yourself 📈🚀.
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Heads up for the win and $313,495 🏆 . 7.5m to his 6.5m. Let’s get it done baby!
Chip leading the final 9 of the @shrpo Hard Rock $10k Deepstack with 4.2m chips, 2x the next stack. 🔥🔥🔥. 💰$312,495 to the winner
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Writing every hand I play in #WSOPMainevent Day1 & I'll email them to you. Just visit 📷 put your email in & get all hands + free WSOP training video. Giving 1% of my main event winnings to one person who likes, retweets & replies. Must follow @FarazJaka.
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Online poker sites would get a lot more volume out of me, If they included the approximate time the tournament is expected to end. ⏰😴.
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Been saying all year I think poker is in year 2 of a ~10 year boom. Last weeks @WynnPoker @WPT series got 5430 entries for a $1.1k & 2960 entries for a $10k buy-in w/🥇 place paying $712,650 & $4,136,000 respectively. 8 things that brought players into poker & why it’ll continue.
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Think about it…. You get it in with 80% equity in a poker tournament. That means the other player has a 20% chance of winning. You win and double up. A few orbits later, you flip AK vs. QQ and win. Then, an hour later, you’re in another 80/20 all-in. 80% x 50% x 80% = 32%.
@FarazJaka I can't take it anymore. I'm tired of playing near perfect poker, setting traps, getting in with the best hand (80%+ equity) and getting killed. It's been like this for the last couple years. I'm starting to really hate the game. I sit down to play and within minutes I leave.
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13 years ago today, when every US-based online poker player tried to log into Pokerstars, Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, etc., we were greeted by this domain seizure pop-up that appeared on the screen of every US-facing poker site. Some people had their entire net worth or a large
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Pro or amateur today we wake up with the same dream. To become the world champion of the $10k World Series of Poker Main event! Let's goooo!
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Avoid comparing yourself to others when it isn’t necessary. Comparing to others leads to feelings of inferiority or superiority, both lead to worse versions of yourself. Compare to yourself. where you could be,where you want to be, what your expectations of yourself are to be. .
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No matter how many times I visit Vegas there’s some special feeling I get the second I see those lights or touch down at the airport. this city is magical, no where in the world quiet like it.
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To all your poker tournament grinders out there: . Variance just seems to be kicking you in the 🤬. your bluffs aren't working out, and you keep finding yourself on the wrong side of flips and coolers. You might start to feel like it's just not fair how poorly you're.
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Hitting the road with the fam the rest of the year for a mix of poker tournaments and holiday ✈️🌎👨👩👦. 🦃 Boston for Thanksgiving .☀️Hollywood, FL for @shrpo .🐭Orlando, FL for Disney World.🇧🇸 Bahamas For @GGPoker @WSOP .🌐 Vegas for @WPT @WynnPoker . In 2022 we did 2 months on
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Every year the morning of the #WSOPMainEvent, players walk up to me @wsop asking me if I have any strategy advice for the main event that’s about to start. The reality is, at this point the time to learn and implement new concepts has passed. When you’re trying new things there.
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Boooooom!!!! @MomPoker115 2nd in the $10k @WPT @WynnPoker Seniors for 💰236,978. Epic time on the rail supporting her w/ her fam & other @jakacoaching students. She worked hard on her game all year. Was even reading notes she took from training videos on every break! 💯 earned
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Had a strong last 2 levels on #WSOPMainevent up to 365k. Played 43 hands so far today and wrote every single one down. @WSOP . Reminder: I will email these hands from the main to everyone who hits the subscribe button & submits their name /email at
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90% of the people who play poker lose 📉 longterm, yet in the current environment it’s still so easy to get yourself into that 10% who win📈. You simply have to do what those 90% aren’t doing 🧐. Here are the 3 things you need to do, to be ahead of your competition 👇.
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@PREMIUMCANNAFLA @WPT @shrpo The incorrect play gets rewarded because of this photo below…. Imagine I get in this spot 100 times over a decade playing. 19 times I will lose and 81 times I will win. This is just one of those 19 times. Just focus on the longterm & trust the process 🙏
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Wowowwow, was so zoned in this last week didn’t even realize one of our @jakacoaching member @nipunjava shipped the $777 @WSOP Bracelet for $195,151, his third bracelet now 😱. Big congrats Nipun!
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Coaching+Promo: Now that most series have ended, I’m opening my calendar to students looking for 1:1 coaching during October. If u want to inquire,slide into my DMs, incl a few sentences about your experience level. LIKE RT comment to win 5% of my Sunday @ACR_POKER $1m GTD $600.
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A common mistake🚫tournament poker players make is to make result-based goals. This may sound familiar: . ✅I want to make $60k/yr playing MTTs.✅I want to win a @WSOP Bracelet.✅2 final tables this year. MTT goals like this just won't work, a thread why🤔 & what to try instead👇.
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Everyone always talks about the hero call and hero fold… but what about the hero check???. Interesting spot from the $1050 buy in $200k GTD today. 📺
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Every year right before @WSOP $10k Main Event, everyone starts messaging eachother trying to figure out the softest starting day to play…. and every year it’s the same outcome: No clear trend of a certain day being way softer than others, every day is a damn good day to play.
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Love him or hate him; if @DougPolkVids can get a large cardroom approved in major cities, that's a huge win for the poker industry. Some suggested, "He's just lining his own pockets." Every business is trying to earn money, and the United States has one of the most amazing.
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Writing every hand I play & going to email them to everyone who makes a free account @ at end of each day I’m in the #WSOPMainevent . Also giving 1% of my main event to someone who likes, retweets, and reply’s to this. (Must be following) . 1st hand 👇.
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Knocked someone out on my second orbit in $10k #WSOPMainevent Up to 92k from 60k starring stack. I show up 15 min late, first hand I sit down and open 600 at 100/200/200 A2o in Hj and announce “I have to play my first hand, dealer said so it’s a rule” bu flats, bb (young flashy.
Writing every hand I play in #WSOPMainevent Day1 & I'll email them to you. Just visit 📷 put your email in & get all hands + free WSOP training video. Giving 1% of my main event winnings to one person who likes, retweets & replies. Must follow @FarazJaka.
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Yo #giveaway time! Got 10x @partypoker $33 @WPT Monster sat seats! . To enter, follow like/RT & reply w/ your username the answer to this question: . Where did I stay/play @ when I was taking wknd trips to Vegas as a college student? #WPTWOC . Announcing 10 winners tomorrow! GL📈
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Most politicians simply make changes that will show results during their short period in office. These are usually short term fixes that create bigger issues. Love that @AndrewYang wants to launch programs thinking about future generations & not worrying about who gets credit.
Americans don’t get each other. One way to change this - a program that sends high school seniors to visit and work in other parts of the country. They would come back with a different perspective and some new friends. 👍🇺🇸
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Poker players frequently believe that, early in a tournament, they need to "build a stack". Thus, they play many hands pre-flop, thinking they're getting "cheap flops". If you're playing just for fun or to gamble without concern for long-term profitability, then by all means,
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Not even close. Your average poker pro makes some $60-120k/year living. Thousands of players. Hundreds making 150-400k/year living. And less than a hundred in the 500k-1m range consistently. There will never be any public data on this. These are my back of the napkin.
@FarazJaka @kbach54 IYO: What percentage of players can make a reasonable living versus considered top?. I venture to guess the numbers are similar. not a ton of money in the ecosystem. Kind of like tennis.
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Learning how to boost your post-flop edge in 3 bet pots should be a priority for your game since you'll be playing a starting pot of 15-20 big blinds by the time you get to the flop. Here are some things you should be aware of in order to max your edge in 3 bet pots 👇.
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So many players are scared to try good aggro plays at a poker table, in-fear of "looking dumb". I remember showing up to poker tables before I was a known player, isolating limpers, constant 3-bet shoves over loose opens, squeezing pots, chipping up w shoves. tables response?.
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