Ready for your championship run? LearnWPT is here to help with a free, six-part tournament preparation series designed to sharpen your skills and boost your confidence before the cards are dealt.

Today we're focused on Intuition and Exploitative Strategy, helping you spot mistakes and make high-value adjustments at the table.

Successful tournament players share a key trait: the ability to recognize when an opponent is making an obvious mistake, whether it is odd bet sizing, over-calling, or taking too many hands to showdown, and shift gears to capitalize. This session will show you how to punish bad plays, leverage your strategic knowledge, and cultivate your table feel. Let’s get started...

Intuition & Exploitative Play Warm-Up Session

There’s no doubt that consistently training your game online at LearnWPT.com will put you in a good position to play your best. However, in real-world games there are a wide variety of opponents and unique spots that will force you to make decisions in situations that might not have come up during your preparation.

In this session, Instructors Eric "Rizen" Lynch and Michael "Gags30" Gagliano break down the tendencies you should be on the lookout for and the exploitative adjustments that are likely to net you more chips or help avoid disaster and conserve your stack. We’ll also talk about how being prepared and staying present at the table can increase your intuition and elevate your play.

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Live Reads and Tells With Tony Dunst...

Unlike Hollywood movies, you probably won’t play against an opponent who broadcasts their hand strength by how they eat a cookie. You’ll need to pay much closer attention to specific actions including bet-sizing, timing, and whether they are more interested in the game on TV than your 3-bet range from the Cutoff.

Maximizing your edge in tournament poker comes from focusing on subtle changes in process and glaring strategic errors that can tip your opponent’s holdings. Developing a profile based on these tendencies will allow you to use exploitative adjustments more effectively and can play a big factor in making close decisions against specific opponents much easier.

LearnWPT Instructor and WPT Commentator Tony Dunst describes the Top 8 Tells he’s observed in live poker and gives you tips on making Table Reads that will add profit to your bottom line.

Unconscious Competence with Jared

How can you develop Intuition by training poker skills? As you study and practice poker using a structured system over time, your skills become practically automatic. When you continue to build a game plan with consistent effort, your play becomes much less burdened with simple decisions. Your energy and focus can be trained on observing opponents and looking for exploits.

In this Strategy Episode, LearnWPT Mental Game Coach Jared Tendler breaks down why training new skills to the point of Unconscious Competence is your goal and outlines the process you should follow to measure growth in your poker game.

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Exploitative Play With LuckyChewy

Exploiting your opponents at the poker table requires focus and keen situational awareness, as well as having a game plan for how to make the most profit from their mistakes. You need a solid understanding of why these errors make your opponent vulnerable and how to attack their weakness, or you’ll likely experience inconsistent results when trying to exploit opponents.

In this Strategy Episode LearnWPT Instructor Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger analyzes common spots to illustrate how exploitative adjustments based on specific opponent tendencies can yield much greater value with premium hands.

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Extracting Maximum Value With Gags

Your opponents may change several times during a tournament, so developing a specific player profile can be difficult, if not impossible. Bet sizing errors are often the best indicator of opponents that are deviating from sound strategy and are most likely to make big mistakes postflop. Exerting your skill edge in these spots means staying alert and avoiding autopilot, especially when you flop a huge hand.

Watch this Strategy Episode as Michael "Gags30" Gagliano explains how maximizing your opportunities against opponents when you have a defined read is vital to growing your stack during a multi-day Championship event.

The difference between a small profit and a life changing score could lie in your ability to capitalize on obvious strategic errors. Watch as Gags breaks down hands where he uses exploitative lines to extract maximum value and demonstrates how to weigh the potential risk/reward of bet sizing to determine the best approach.

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