The leak library
Every losing player has a name for their bad luck.
These are the leaks it usually turns out to be. Each one with the number that proves it and the fix that moves it.
You fold to c-bets too often. Here is the number that proves it.
If you fold to continuation bets more than 55% of the time, aggressive players print money betting any two cards at you. How to find and fix the leak.
5 min read
Your 3-bet percentage is too low, and everyone at the table knows
A 3-bet range under 4% makes you the easiest read in poker: your raises mean aces, your calls mean everything else. How to build a real 3-bet range.
5 min read
How to stop tilting after a big loss (with a number, not a pep talk)
Tilt is measurable: compare your decision accuracy in the 20 hands after a big loss against your baseline. Then use a stop rule that actually works.
6 min read
You c-bet too much. Good players have already noticed.
A c-bet frequency over 75% means your checks scream weakness and your bets get floated and raised. When to bet, when to check, by board type.
5 min read
Open-limping is the most expensive habit in live poker
Limping caps your winnings three ways: no dead money, no initiative, no fold equity. Why raise-or-fold beats limp-and-see, with the math.
5 min read
Top pair is one pair: the hand that pays for everyone else's straights
Top pair wins small pots and loses big ones when you cannot let it go. How to size, when three streets is too many, and the raise that always means it.
5 min read
Chasing draws without the price: the leak that feels like bad luck
A flush draw misses two times in three. If you call big bets to chase, the math loses before the cards fall. Pot odds and implied odds in plain numbers.
5 min read
Big blind defense: you are folding away money you already paid
You have already invested one blind and close the action. Against a small button open you need under 30% equity to defend. What to keep and what to muck.
5 min read
Bankroll management for live players: why good winners still go broke
A winning live player with 20 buy-ins can still go broke: downswings run 15 buy-ins deep. The bankroll rules that survive real variance, and shot-taking done right.
6 min read
Slowplaying is costing you stacks: fast play your monsters
Slowplaying a set feels clever and usually just wins you a small pot with a huge hand. Why fast-playing gets paid more, and the rare boards where trapping works.
5 min read
You play too many hands. Here is what your VPIP should be.
A VPIP over 30% at full ring means you are paying to see flops with hands that cannot win enough pots. What healthy preflop numbers look like, by position.
5 min read
The value bets you are not making are your biggest missing win rate
Low-stakes players call too much, which makes thin value betting the most profitable skill in the pool — and checking back second pair the quietest leak.
5 min read
One barrel and done: the turn is where your bluffs go to die
C-betting the flop and surrendering the turn is the most exploited pattern in low-stakes poker. When a second barrel prints, and when giving up is right.
5 min read
That river raise is not a bluff. Stop paying it off.
At low stakes, a raise on the river is value roughly nine times in ten. Why 'but he could be bluffing' costs stacks, and the checklist before you call.
5 min read
Set mining only works if the price is right. Yours usually isn't.
Small pairs flop a set once in eight tries. The call-to-stack math that makes set mining profitable, and the three conditions players skip checking.
5 min read
Multiway pots are not heads-up pots with more people
Every extra player at the flop cuts your equity and your bluffs. How hand values shift three-way and four-way, and the c-bet that stops working.
5 min read
Cold calling out of position: the leak that loses slowly, every time
Flatting raises from the blinds and early seats puts you out of position with no initiative — poker's worst starting point. Why 3-bet-or-fold wins more.
5 min read
How to beat live limpers (without becoming one)
Four limpers at a live 1/2 table is an invitation. The iso-raise sizing that actually works, what to do when they all call anyway, and the limp-behind trap.
6 min read
Folding your tournament away: short-stack mistakes that feel safe
Under 20 big blinds, tight play stops being safe and starts being fatal. Shove-fold thresholds, the fold-equity cliff, and why min-cashing is the losing goal.
6 min read
You are studying poker wrong (watching videos is not studying)
Ten hours of training videos improves your poker less than one hour reviewing your own hands. The deliberate-practice loop that actually moves a win rate.
6 min read
Reading about leaks is the slow way.
Play five scripted spots and get YOUR leak named. Three minutes, no account.