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LVL3

Level 3 of 5

Winning Player

Level 3 moves from single hands to ranges and from single streets to whole hands. You’ll learn to c-bet and defend against c-bets, value bet, bluff and control the pot with a purpose, follow a full hand review, protect your bankroll, and adjust your tournament strategy to your stack size.

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About 9 hours of learning

Lessons in this level

  1. 1

    Thinking in Ranges: Stop Guessing One Hand

    Learn to put opponents on a range of hands instead of one guess: count combinations, remove cards you can see, narrow ranges street by street and make better calls.
  2. 2

    Continuation Betting: When and How Much to C-Bet

    When the continuation bet works, when to check instead, and how to choose a c-bet size from the board texture, your position and the number of opponents.
  3. 3

    Facing C-Bets: How to Play as the Preflop Caller

    You called preflop and your opponent c-bets the flop. How to use price, board texture and position to decide when to fold, call or raise.
  4. 4

    Value Betting: Getting Paid With Your Strong Hands

    How to win the most with your good hands: the value-bet test, choosing sizes, thin value on the river, when not to slow-play and how to value bet different opponents.
  5. 5

    Bluffing With Purpose: Semi-Bluffs and Bluff Selection

    How to bluff profitably: the break-even maths, why semi-bluffs beat pure bluffs, how to choose bluffing hands, the best spots to bluff and the opponents to avoid.
  6. 6

    Pot Control: Playing Medium-Strength Hands

    How to play hands that are good but not great: when to check, when to bet small, how to bluff-catch, and why turning medium hands into bluffs costs money.
  7. 7

    Turn and River Play: Double and Triple Barrels

    When to keep betting on the turn and river: good and bad barrel cards, choosing your double and triple barrels, river value-to-bluff ratios and when to give up.
  8. 8

    Hand Review: Top Pair in a Button vs Big Blind Pot

    A full street-by-street review of ace-jack on the button against the big blind: c-bet sizing, a turn value bet and a tricky river decision.
  9. 9

    Bankroll Management: Protect Your Poker Money

    How big your poker bankroll should be for cash games, tournaments and sit & gos, when to move up or down, and how to keep poker money separate from real life.
  10. 10

    Tournament Strategy: Stack Sizes and Push-Fold Play

    How your stack size in big blinds changes tournament strategy: deep, medium and short stacks, open-shoving, re-shoving, antes and when to move to push-fold.

Level 3 quiz

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12 questions. Score 80% or more to unlock the Level 3 badge. Take it as many times as you like.

LVL3
Question 1 of 12

How many combinations of ace-king are there before any cards are seen?

Question 2 of 12

The A♠ is on the board. How many combinations of pocket aces can your opponent have?

Question 3 of 12

On which flop is a small, frequent c-bet usually best for the button against the big blind?

Question 4 of 12

On the river, what makes a bet a value bet?

Question 5 of 12

You bluff 50 into a pot of 100. How often must your opponent fold for the bluff to break even?

Question 6 of 12

You have second pair on the river in position and your opponent checks. What is often best?

Question 7 of 12

You c-bet Q♠ 8♦ 3♣ and got called. Which turn card is usually best for a double-barrel bluff?

Question 8 of 12

With a pot-sized river bet, roughly what share of a balanced betting range is bluffs?

Question 9 of 12

A common conservative bankroll guideline for cash games is…

Question 10 of 12

Blinds are 1,000/2,000 and you have 18,000 chips. What’s the usual approach?

Question 11 of 12

The preflop raiser c-bets one-third of the pot. What equity do you need to call?

Question 12 of 12

On the river, a new overcard improves many of your opponent's calling hands to two pair. What should you do with top pair, good kicker?

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