Who’s ready for a deep run in December? Team LearnWPT is here to help with a FREE strategy series focused on getting you and your game ready to dominate the 2024 WPT® World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas.

To make the most of these gigantic fields and massive prize pools, it's important to have a solid preflop, postflop, and defense game-plan. In this blog we are focusing on Intuition and Exploitative Strategy (stay tuned for ICM, Satellite, and Mental Game Strategy!).

A common trait shared by most successful tournament players is the ability to identify when an opponent is making an obvious mistake and knowing how to shift gears and use Exploits to maximize their edge. Whether it’s odd bet-sizing, frequent over-calling, or taking too many hands to showdown, you must identify and capitalize on these mistakes if you want to stay ahead of the field. Our next Warm-Up Session is all about using your strategic knowledge to punish bad plays and cultivate your feel for the game. Let's Get Started...

Intuition & Exploitative Play Warm-Up Webinar

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 from our WPT World Championship Warm-Up series LearnWPT Instructors Eric "Rizen" Lynch and Michael "Gags30" Gagliano will 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.

Watch this Strategy Episode as 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.

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 in any given poker tournament, so developing a specific player profile can be difficult, if not impossible. Bet-Sizing errors are often the best indicator of an opponent who is 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 tournament 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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