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PXF: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Plus, More Gold, 3-Betting, GPT-X-Factor, & Your Fav PXF Pros
Scott "mindwise" Pendergrast
December 04, 2023
Welcome PXF Friends! In this issue:
PXF Classic: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
What We’re Watching: Team Maria Ho in GoG
Curated Tips: Nothing to Fear, but Fear of 3-Betting
GPT-X-Factor: Can AI solve this puzzle?
PXF Pro Poll: Help us pick content
Read Time: 3.7 minutes
♠️ PXF Classic: Tournaments can have their ups and downs. In Eric “Sheets” Haber’s 4-part series - he experiences it all and teaches you how to ride the rollercoaster. It’s titled “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” for good reason. Enjoy this fun, sometimes scary, ride!
Make sure you register for free to keep track of your progress through PXF courses.
Maria Ho schools Jungleman
📺 We are all-in on Team Maria Ho in the GGPoker’s smash Game of Gold YouTube series (think ½ Reality TV / ½ high-stakes poker).
The show is a lot of fun, but there are plenty of great poker lessons, especially when the backroom players debate hands in real-time. Plus, don’t miss the recap shows. Here is the ”Solve for Why” team’s multi-hand review from GoG episode 6. Great stuff!
Free “evergreen” poker training is everywhere. If you don’t have time to dig through it all, don’t worry, we’ll connect you to great content to help your game soar!
“Fear of Building Pots”
♦️ Phil Galfond’s blog titled “Conquering FOBP” hit home because I’ve made the same 3-bet excuses. 😬 Do you 3-Bet enough?
Now, in under 40 minutes, you can improve this part of your game - and it’s all free:
 | 📖 Start with this 3-Bet Overview Article, which covers the basics and then moves to more advanced concepts. (8.5 minutes) |
 | 🎥 Then watch Chris Moorman’s two excellent (and short) videos: |
 | 🎥 We watched a lot of Linear vs. Polarized range videos because it is so important. This one is technical but short without the fluff. And it will prepare you for the quiz! |
 | 🤔 If you are feeling confident, then take Jonathan Little’s 3-Bet quiz (warning: it isn’t easy). (4 minutes) |
 | 🎥 How’d you do on the quiz (tell us on FB)? Next, watch Little’s review of a 3-bet hand with Faraz Jaka. (Start at the 4:39 mark and watch at 1.25x speed). |
We like the idea of picking a poker skill and using free resources in a burst of study to understand it. Do you want to dig even deeper into 3-betting? You can find a lot more on YouTube, but we like these videos.
Matt Affleck’s seminar. I had an excellent coaching session with Matt!
🤖 This week, we again ask AI to solve a poker quiz. Recommendation: Take the quiz yourself first! We recommend you solve poker quizzes every day.
In our second AI test, we dropped ChatGPT 3.5 and added Google’s Bard AI (and we kept GPT 4.0 and Claude 2.0 AIs). We selected this LearnWPT quiz because it is a bit easier, and we wanted to see if our AIs could find the right answer. In our first column, only GPT 4.0 answered correctly.
What do you do with K♠️J♠️ in this spot? Check out the results here!
Which PXF Pro videos do you want to see first?(Pick 1, then add more in comments after voting) |
That’s all for now. What are you going to do to improve this week? Here's to making every hand count!
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