Nick FisherNew Reach · Co-Founder at New Reach & Agexa

The Biggest Secret of Poker: Playing with the Worst Players is the Key!

5 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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This YouTube video (Nick Fisher, uploaded Nov 5, 2023) argues that the single biggest determinant of poker profitability is game selection — specifically finding and playing against the worst players who have money — rather than squeezing small mathematical edges against competent opponents. The speaker emphasizes exploiting visibly weak, distracted, or reckless opponents (anecdotes include a player high on cocaine not looking at his cards) and criticizes online players who focus narrowly on marginal percentage edges.

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And they look at it more in the sense of, like, the online poker game and the math and, like, how many mistakes you make and, like, you know, how close you're playing to perfect and this and that. And they. So many people just overlook the biggest piece of poker, and that is understanding who you're playing, getting in with bad players, game selection, like, really, at the end of the day, like, playing with the worst players that have the most money. I mean, that's the fucking key. It's not. It's not, like, eking out an edge against these pros. And these online are like, oh, like, I have a 4% edge against this guy and this guy against, like, I had, like, a 70% edge against this dude, and this dude couldn't win for, like, millions of dollars. Yeah. I'm playing this guy who's high on cocaine, not even looking at his cards and, like, shooting girls with baby oil. You know what I mean? It's like. And you idiots are online, like, trying to eek out a little edge, and it's like. And they look at me like, oh, you know, there's no way he could have made that much money in poker.