Howdy Governor!

This guide offers a perspective and strategy for how to approach the game and how to look at risk, wins, and losses in Governor of Poker. An understanding of Governor of Poker's systems and mechanics is essential for making the most chips for the time that you spend playing the game. The primary driver for accumulating wealth in the game will be Team Chests, but many other things, such as the different game modes, and even blackjack and slots, will also be touched on in this guide.

This guide is informed by my experience of becoming a VIP 3-star after having played the game for a little over a month.

Some sources of wealth are small and not worth thinking about and some are big and actually important. Let's review each one.


I am calling these sources 'insignificant' but you may want to take advantage of these when you have just started playing the game or when you have lost all your chips and hit rock bottom.

Every 'saloon', such as the Poker Shack, River Boat, etc, have missions that give you a reward once the objective has been accomplished. This is not worth focusing on. The rewards they give you are not at all enticing compared to the things you have to do to even accomplish them and compared to other sources of chips.

In the GOP Store and Chips Store, at the very bottom, once-daily you can get free chips. This amount is so minuscule that its only possible purpose is to make sure that, as a free player, you can still spend some time playing in the poker shack even if you lose all of your chips every single day.

Your active friends send you gifts every day, which are worth a very small amount of chips. The amount you receive every day increases the more active friends you have, but the amount is so low that this can be deemed insignificant.

You get money when friends join GOP3 and enter your referral code but the amount is insignificant.

A certain periodic Livestream show on YouTube and Twitch, which is officially supported by GOP3, gives out reward codes that can be redeemed in the game for a limited time. The amount is insignificant.

The game gives you a free spin every four hours, and at certain times, usually weekends, every hour or two hours. The chips it gives you are insignificant but the double XP and team points it gives you for 30 minutes (sometimes one hour on weekends) is what matters.

You can see the loyalty jackpot odds posted on the GOP3 website and the reward it gives you is insignificant.


When you start playing the game, you begin to start making money from your poker game winnings. For a certain time, and depending on your skill, it may actually be the case that this will be the primary driver of your wealth. However, for long-term stable income generation, you will begin to realize that other sources will end up providing you with the majority of your chips unless you are an extremely elite poker player who is extremely active in the game and dominates Vegas. However, you will still need poker winnings to unlock all of those other sources(You still need to be a decent player).

There is always an active event in GOP3. The event changes after about a month and a half. For the duration of the event, there is a daily goal in the Event Calendar, which gives you a somewhat insignificant reward each day. You have to try to claim the Ultra Spin Token at the end of the event, which requires that you claimed almost all of the daily rewards. Is this reward worth aiming for? Yes, because the individual daily events themselves are relatively not risky and easy to accomplish. You get a decent amount of risk-free chips by accomplishing all of the Daily Goals.

You have personal daily objectives that are always the same each day. This is different from the daily objectives of the Event Calendar. These are worth accomplishing. You have eight chests that you unlock daily and two that you unlock weekly. Only aim for unlocking the final daily and weekly chests because the rewards from all the other lesser chests are minuscule in comparison.

From the daily chests, by my rough guess, you can net around 0.5M to 2M (including tickets and spinners) per day on average, and from the weekly chests, again by my rough guess, you can net around 1M to 3M per week on average from the chest rewards (including tickets and spinners) alone, but the real value of the weekly chests is in the form of the event entry key it gives you. There is always an event saloon in The Strip, and the entry key lets you enter that event without paying the buy-in price. This is significant especially if you win because your net winning is the reward money from the event. This is big when you consider that the buy-in price is usually exactly half the amount of the reward money. Without the key, your net winning from the event would be the reward money minus the buy-in price. This is also a lot more significant for a starting player who does not yet have tens of millions of chips — this can be how you gain enough chips to start playing at the next higher stakes!

A later section will discuss how to easily accomplish enough objectives to unlock all chests.

Team Chests are your primary goal and generator of wealth. They are given to you once every week if you are part of a team that has active players. They can be upgraded by gaining enough Team Challenge Points before the end of the week, with the Sapphire Chest being the highest level. You get Team Challenge Points from winning chips at poker and at blackjack.

If you haven't already, you should find yourself an active team to join. Once you are invited to a team, immediately join, because if it is not a good team, you can leave at any time. The only thing you need to be concerned about when choosing a team at this point is whether the team consistently generates enough points to unlock 8 Team Chests at the end of each week. This will not be difficult to find since almost every single team, as long as any players on that team are active, will unlock the maximum 8 Chests. Other properties of a team, such as its Team League Ranking, are irrelevant at this point since those only provide you with a shiny icon and not any actual chips or gold.

Let's put it this way — Slots is risky. In fact, it is so risky that you probably have a better chance of winning at poker than at trying your luck in Slots. You only use Slots to achieve your daily objectives.

Blackjack is a game that, theoretically, yields a positive EV if you play it mathematically perfectly. However, the margin for error is so thin, plus the emotional control needed in blackjack is much more demanding than in poker. It can trick you into thinking that you have finally understood the game, or figured out how to beat it reliably, due to its high variance, wherein it will indeed sometimes make you win a lot for a while.

Do not try to earn chips directly in blackjack. Do not try to count cards because we have no idea how exactly the cards are shuffled, even if they say they are using six decks. In real-life blackjack, the more frequently the deck is shuffled, the less effective card counting is. Here in the digital world, for all we know, the cards are shuffled every single round, which then renders card counting ineffective. There is, however, a specific case for when you will want to make use of blackjack, which will be discussed in a later section. When you are playing blackjack, you may indeed want to be playing as perfectly as possible (without card counting) to minimize your losses.

Some objectives may be more difficult to accomplish than others but there are enough easy objectives that you should be able to secure all Daily and Weekly Chests all the time. Let's go over the fastest and easiest way to accomplish the easy ones.

Win 100K in Poker
There are many ways to accomplish this objective as fast as possible. A quick way to get this over and done with is to go all-in in the Royal Hold Em Oil Shack in the High Rollers Valley or to play in the Bandit Hideout Push or Fold.

Play 50 hands, Win 50 hands, Go on Fire at the Table, Win a Spin & Play, Win with a Flush
The fastest and safest way to accomplish these objectives is to keep playing at the lowest stakes Spin & Play. For Go On Fire at the Table, just keep going all-in. If Win with a Flush proves to be an issue, go to a low stakes table like the poker shack and fold all hands that are unsuited and play only hands that are suited.

Gift 10 friends in your friends' menu, Free Spin 3 times, Daily Login, Give 10 gifts at the tables, Say 'Howdy at the table
Just do all of these.

Pull the Slot Machine 50 times, Win an Ultra Win at the Slot Machine
The Ultra Win is actually common enough to be able to accomplish every day. To be safe, use the lowest betting amount. Set the slot machine to autospin 500 times and wait for an Ultra Win. This is safe to do because the slots automatically stop once you have an Ultra Win. Remember that you don't have to look at the slots while it's autospinning.

Do a mega or ultra spin
Diamond chests and higher give these out. You are not supposed to spin all of these once you get them. You are supposed to save them for one spin each day to help you accomplish the objectives. Additionally, this should be the last objective you accomplish because you need to see first if you are able to accomplish the harder objectives. Spin one only if you need it to get the last few points, save them otherwise.

Win 1 Sit & Go
If you want the safest way to do this, play at the lowest stakes Sit & Go.

Win 30 hands at blackjack
Play at the lowest stakes table to avoid losing chips. Play by yourself on a private table so that you can accomplish this as fast as possible.

Win 250 Team Points, Win 1000 Team Points
You can play wherever and however you want to get these Team Points. You may activate a Team Points Doubler while playing so that you can accomplish this faster.

This should be enough to get all the Daily and Weekly Chests.

Expected Value (EV) is a figure in statistics that represents how much you can win or lose on average from doing something repeatedly over the long term. The simplest form of calculating the EV of an action is this:

EV = (Probability of winning)*(Amount you will win) - (Probability of losing)*(Amount you will lose)

Any action that has a positive EV generates you money when performed repeatedly and any action with a negative EV loses you money when performed repeatedly. In the traditional poker context, this is how you know whether you made the right call in a poker game. Things get slightly different once you factor in the mechanics of GOP3.

Let me get this out of the way before anyone starts to bring this up:
In poker, there is something that is called a rake. This is a small fixed percentage from the amount of money that the house keeps from each pot. GOP3 also has a rake, although I am unsure if it is the same rake amount in all saloons. To make things simple we will not factor in the rake in any discussion and analysis.
There are also other things you could factor into EV, such as fold rate, but that is already getting too deep into the finer details of the game of poker.

Team Challenge Points are what you accumulate to upgrade your weekly team chests. For brevity, hereafter, Team Challenge Points may be referred to as "team points". At the end of the week, you get your chest reward, and then your Team Challenge Points are once again reset to zero. The better your chest at the end of the week, the better your reward. As stated previously, this will be your highest income generator because the rewards are substantial.

Let's clarify exactly how you earn Team Challenge Points. In all poker games, except for Sit & Go and Spin & Play, you win team points whenever you win with a hand. In Sit & Go, you don't earn any team points when you win a hand, you only earn team points at the end if you manage to win 2nd place or 1st place, and you are still awarded a very small amount when you fail to land at least 2nd place. In Blackjack, just like in poker, you earn team points every time you win a hand. In Spin & Play, you only earn a good amount of team points at the end if you win.

The amount given depends on how much you won, and which saloon you are playing in. Playing in higher stakes saloons increases the multiplier for team points earned.

In the EV of typical real-life poker, in a showdown between you and one opponent, the amount you win is the same as the amount you lose, and it is based on the size of your bet. If there are multiple callers of your bet, the amount you win is greater than the amount you lose since it is multiplied for each additional caller.

In GOP3 there are two important concepts about how EV is different because of team points:

• In GOP3, even in a showdown with only one opponent, the amount you would win is greater than the amount you would lose when you bet because when you win, in addition to gaining chips, you get team points.

• You gain team points when you win but you lose absolutely zero team points when you lose.

The broad implication of the first point is that whatever you win is augmented by the team points that you have earned. The degree by which how much you have won is augmented is based on the level of team chest that you were able to secure by the end of the week. By "level" of team chest, I am talking about "Bronze", "Diamond", "Sapphire", etc. Another way to state what I just said is

Team Points increases the EV of all actions taken during the week by a fixed amount, and the magnitude of that fixed amount is based on the level of your team chest by the end of the week.

It even goes so far as to imply that you can do slightly riskier plays in GOP3 than in real-life poker because the EV of all of your actions is increased by this fixed amount, provided you are active enough to level up your chest.

The broad implication of the second point is that even when you break even in terms of your poker winnings, you still come out with a net positive EV. This effect is significant in situations where you have won and lost and won and lost your money so many times because you have still made a good profit in this situation.

Only team points that contributed towards upgrading a chest have the effect of augmenting your EV. For example, if you end the week with 30,000 Team Points, you will have acquired the Ruby Chest, which required 25,000 Team Points and the leftover 5,000 Team Points will have no effect on your EV. Now take this to the extreme; if you are aiming for a certain chest, and your team points are only shy of the mark, say 49,000 — 1,000 shy of reaching an emerald chest, you will have wasted a massive 24,000 Team Points. This is why being efficient in GOP3 means only playing until you reach a certain chest level. If your goal is a Diamond Chest, stop once you have reached it. If your goal is a Ruby, Emerald, or Sapphire Chest, you have to make certain that you reach it. Your timeline for reaching your desired chest level should be to accomplish it at least one or two days before the end-of-week deadline so that you are not cutting it close, thus ensuring all your actions were efficient and making better use of your time.


Example 1: Breaking Even

Scenario A: You have lost 30M but you were able to earn back 30M.
Scenario B: You have earned 30M but afterward lost the 30M.
Scenario C: You have lost 30M, you were able to earn back only 28M, and you managed to secure a Diamond Chest.
Scenario D: You lost 30M and earned it back, and lost it again, and earned it back for a total of 10 times, and all of this happened in Vegas.

In Scenarios A and B, it looks like you are breaking even in terms of poker winnings, but you have a net profit because you earned team points when you won 30M but didn't lose any of those team points when you lost 30M.
In Scenario C, even though it looks like you have not broken even, you have a net profit because the amount you will earn from the chest is enough to cover the amount you have lost at poker.
In Scenario D, it looks like you are breaking even in terms of poker winnings, but you have actually made a huge profit because you have accumulated a large number of team points.

Example 2: Poker Hand Strength

Do you know what the odds are in a showdown where you have AK and the opponent has a low pair like 22, or 55? You actually only have about a 45% chance of winning.

What if you are always going all-in against an opponent who you know always goes all-in with low pairs? In ordinary poker, you will always come out with a loss in the long term but in GOP3 you can come out with a profit. Let's say you did this a hundred times in Vegas, and you won 45 times and lost 55 times. Depending on the level of Team Chest you were able to secure, you can still make a net profit because of the Team Points that you have accumulated from all those times that you won.

Let's go over the main types of poker games that can be found at saloons.

This is the typical context for how most poker strategy is discussed online. You can join, leave, and switch tables at any time. Let's go over meta considerations when playing cash games.

There are times when you might want to switch tables.

You can switch tables until you find a loose or maniac player, with only a few other players at the table
Some players just feel like giving away their money. If they are going all in almost every single round, you can easily win from them, especially if there are no other players around to join the pot. Just keep folding until you get a pair or an Ace-high set of cards. However, if there are many players and a lot of them are maniacs, you have no choice but to play only premium pairs and try to limp with pairs to catch sets.

You can switch tables when there are many players at the table and they are all maniacs
Your AA that went all-in has a great chance of winning against one person that went all-in. But with each additional person that went all in, that chance gets lower and lower. This is why it can also be convenient to play at a table where people are playing properly so that you can have more reliable showdowns with your cards and actually develop proper poker playing skills and strategies.

You can switch tables if it seems like the players at the table have figured out what you are doing
Some good poker players have a knack for reading other players, even in online poker. If you don't yet know how to mix up your play, you can become predictable, and good opponents may know how to exploit this. If it reaches a point where they always know when to fold, call, and raise against you then you could switch tables.

Leave the table when you find yourself in a situation where there is a good player at the table who has a stack that is multiple times the max buy-in, and your stack is also multiple times the buy-in. Once you go all-in with them and you lose all your chips to them, they will leave the table and you will have no opportunity at all to win it back. One thing that you can do to check if the player is good is to look at the leaderboard to see if their name is present. Also take note that this advice only applies to what I have observed in GOP3, in real life the advice of when to leave the table may not be the same.

The poker strategy for Sit & Go differs a lot from the strategy at cash games. Some of the general advice that is discussed in poker videos and articles apply only to cash games but not to Sit & Go. Let's go over meta considerations when playing at Sit & Go.

A convenient thing about Sit & Go is that you can guarantee that you are going to gain team points while your XP doubler is active. Just activate your XP doubler when the table is down to three players. You don't have to activate the XP doubler at the start of the game because the team points are only given at the end anyway. Contrast this with activating an XP Doubler in a cash game — the entire time duration could run out and you still haven't won a decent-sized pot.

Winning 2nd Place at Sit & Go still gives you a profit because of the team points that you get.

The number of games you have to win compared to the number of games you lose in order to still break even, without considering the effect of Team Points, is the ratio of chips lost when you lose to chips earned when you win. When I say "losing a game", I mean ending the game in 3rd, 4th, or 5th.

Example:
In the Vegas Sit & Go, we have the following given:

• Chips lost is the buy-in price of 2M

• Chips won is the 1st place prize of 7.5M minus the buy-in price of 2M = 5.5M

So the ratio is 2M : 5.5M,
which is equal to 2 : 5.5,
which is equal to 4 : 11

For every 4 games that you win, you are allowed to lose 11 games in order to still break even. You are allowed to land 2nd place as many times as you want. Now, from our intuition, we know that when we factor in Team Points earned from landing 1st and 2nd place, the number of games you are allowed to lose in order to still break even is increased. We will not bother with trying to recalculate this, the point here is that you should know that you can make a net profit at the end of the week even when you lose more than half of your Sit & Go games, provided you are reaching chest upgrade checkpoints.

The beauty of Royal Hold Em is that the depth of strategy that you need to study up on and cover to become a profitable player is much less compared to normal poker. Just read nemoronin's guide. There are many times when you have a set (a pair in your hand and a card that matches it on the flop) that gives you a strong hand, and the other players go all in, unsuspecting that your pair gives you a stronger hand.

Watch this entire YouTube Course from Pokerstars to become good at Spin & Play. There is some crossover between the strategy in Spin & Play and the strategy at the mid and late stages of Sit & Go. Afterwards, if you want to get more advanced, the theory behind the strategy in Sit & Go and Spin & Play is derived from the Independent Chip Model[www.888poker.com], or ICM. You will encounter terms like "Bubble Play" and "ICM Pressure".

What you learn from the previously linked Spin & Go Pokerstars course will also help you be effective in Push or Fold.

Different events can have different game types and rules for the event saloons. If it happens to be a game mode that you specialize in, you can make a great profit. You will get balloon entry keys from the daily/weekly rewards. You should warm-up or practice so that you have the best possible chance of winning before entering the balloon. If the game mode is Spin & Play, warm-up and practice as much Spin & Play as you can beforehand.

Before you even contemplate paying the buy-in price for the Statue and the Balloon Events, you should try to acquire keys from winning in the Alamo and in the Statue. After you have collected several keys this way, the required number of wins before you can gain a new key increases, limiting how many you can get.

You play here to practice your 1v1 poker skills so that you can perform better at the last stages of Sit & Go and Spin & Play, where the only ones left are you and the last opponent.

The Independent Chip Model(ICM) is a theory that many players may read about but still not know how to apply. I will explain the most basic concept of applying ICM and include an example.

ICM only applies to poker formats where a fixed payout is given to players based on whether they finish 1st place, 2nd place, 3rd place, etc. In GOP3, those are the Sit & Go and Spin & Play saloons.

In the previous section on Expected Value, I showed an equation on how to calculate EV. In that section, I stated that EV is how you know whether or not you made the right decision in poker. This still holds true when working with ICM, except you have to replace chip values with its monetary equivalents. Instead of calculating monetary equivalents manually, you should use an ICM calculator[www.icmizer.com]. The calculator asks you to enter the payouts for the winners and the current chip values of each player. Upon calculation, it will return the monetary equivalents of each players chips.

At the Vegas Sit & Go you have busted one of the players. You now have 6000 chips and there are three other players with 3000 chips. You get dealt 22 and go all in. Someone with AK calls and everyone else folds. You have a 55% chance of winning the showdown and a 45% chance of losing. Let's find out if this is a favorable situation. For simplicity, we will ignore blinds. Click on the links to see the ICM calculator input.

• Determine your current monetary value. The value is 3.6M[www.icmizer.com]

• Determine the monetary value of your chips after you win. The value is 5.1M[www.icmizer.com]

• Determine the monetary value of your chips after you lose. The value is 1.97M[www.icmizer.com]

• Determine the amount you will win

5.1M - 3.6M = 1.5M

• Determine the amount you will lose

3.6M - 1.97M = 1.63M

• Plug it into the EV equation

(0.55)*(1.5M) - (0.45)*(1.63M) = 0.09M

The EV is positive which means that the situation is favorable. Note that the amount you will win is less than the amount you will lose. Now you can see how you use monetary values instead of chip values in the EV equation. You can do your own calculations to review different situations.

This is not meant as a complete explanation of improving your game using ICM in poker but at least now you have some idea of it and you can pursue it further if you really want to crush Sit & Go or Spin & Play.

When I say higher stakes saloons, I'm talking about saloons where you risk more chips but you earn more chips. The stakes go up in the saloons from left to right of the Poker Map.

You shouldn't go to the next saloon unless you have a reserve of chips ready for several rebuys/repeats. When you go to a new saloon or new area, play conservatively at first and get a feel for how the players in the new area behave. Surprisingly, there are some low-stakes saloons where the players seem more serious and competent compared to some higher-stakes saloons. Also, you might want to keep switching tables, or hold off playing the higher stakes until you find a table with incompetent players, so that you can easily win and really get a foothold in the new level of stakes. You of course have to understand what competent play should look like in order to identify what incompetent play is.

Spin & Play is a special case where the amount of luck involved, even when you are playing perfectly, is very high; in other words, it has high variance. For this reason, you need to have a lot more buy-ins in your bankroll when moving up in stakes for Spin & Play than for other poker formats.

The higher stakes saloons give a lot more team points than the lower stakes saloons, which is why it is a lot more efficient if you can survive at higher stakes. You don't need to have the skills to always dominate the tables to survive at the new stakes; enough skill to keep breaking even but remain active in many games will suffice to accumulate the Team Points you need to get good chests and make greater profits than you previously did.

There will be cases where there is a small amount of Team Points remaining in order to secure a higher level chest, and time is running out, where you will be justified in risking play at higher stakes saloons that you are not fully comfortable with, in the hopes that you will manage to secure the Team Points you need to upgrade your Team Chest.

There are times when you were playing a lot at higher saloons and earned a lot of Team Points but then you lost a lot of chips. You will probably have gotten close to the next level of Chest. You must somehow grind your way to that next Chest so that you can turn your loss into a break-even or a profit. All the more so when the next chest is a Sapphire or an Emerald.

Most of the time you play blackjack only to accomplish your daily objectives. However, occasionally it is a good idea to play blackjack in order to get the last remaining Team Points you need to upgrade your chest if time is running out. If you are going to play blackjack, you will still need to play it as best as possible so that you come out with a profit.

The best possible way to play blackjack is to follow a blackjack chart. Here is a link[www.blackjackapprenticeship.com] to one such chart. You do not have to memorize it; you can just look at it while playing. If you want to have more time to consult the table while playing blackjack, you can leave and then rejoin blackjack until you are seated at the leftmost chair, which goes last.

You should make sure that your XP Doubler is active when playing. Again, the Team Points allow you to make a profit even if you just break even or have a few losses at blackjack. For example, let's say you start playing with 20M, and you end your session with only 15M, but you were able to survive at the table for an hour and were able to gain a lot of Team Points and secure yourself a Ruby Chest. You will still have made a net profit. Your goal when playing should be to survive and stay at the table for as long as possible and not necessarily to make a profit. You make your profit from the team points and not from the chips you take away.

After earning a lot of chips, you might start to get tempted to increase your bet while playing. This is the most dangerous part — you absolutely must not bet too high in blackjack. Another danger in blackjack is tilt — it's worse than poker tilt. If a lot of your chips are on the line, set a certain point below the amount you started playing with where you stop and leave. You must have the resolve to leave once you cross that line and instead remember that your second option is to play poker at high-stakes saloons. Playing at high-stakes saloons gives you better odds of acquiring the remaining points you need without losing all your chips than continuing to play high-stakes blackjack.

As stated in earlier sections, Team Rank and Status does not confer any chips rewards, which is why this section is described as miscellaneous.

The best way to join a high-ranking team is to attract them. One way to do this is to spice up your player profile by collecting event rings, acquiring Sit & Go trophies, and acquiring Leaderboard Trophies. The most significant is the leaderboard trophies. Very few players have leaderboard trophies, and it is common to see VIP+ players who have never ranked up high enough to collect one. Additionally, for the duration that your name is on the leaderboard, you practically get free advertising for your profile which can catch the eye of high-ranking teams that want to recruit. This is more effective if you are on Vegas leaderboards.

The second way is to play really well at a table where someone from a high-ranking team is also at. If you suddenly become the chip leader and completely dominate everyone, or are sitting on a lot of chips that is worth several times the original buy-in price, this looks impressive and you might then receive a friend request and team invite, or if not then reach out to that person and ask them if you can join their team.

"Stack" is the amount of chips you currently have at the table, and "deep-stacked" means your stack is big. The context I am going to specifically discuss is when your stack is equal to the max buy-in or greater. Take the below piece of advice generally. As you get more advanced in poker, you can be more nuanced and more specific in your judgments. Also, this advice only applies to Cash Games.

We have the following scenario:

You are at a table and you have multiple times the max buy-in. There is a player at the table who have successfully won pots from other players and have stacks that are also greater than the max buy-in. This player is currently involved with you in a pot. You have a great flop - something like a set, a two-pair, or top pair with a good kicker. You keep continuation betting at each street and they keep on calling. Finally, at the river, you bet again and suddenly they go all-in. To clarify, the majority of your stack is not yet in the pot. What do you do?

Even if you can't 100% figure out what hand they could possibly have that is greater than yours, just fold. Someone might remark "That Hurts" — those are simply people who do not know better. Even if the opponent sometimes has a worse hand than you, even if they are bluffing, the amount that you could lose compared with the amount of times in this scenario where the opponent does have better hands than you doesn't make it worth it; in other words, it's not a positive EV action. If the opponent raises, and it is only a small fraction of your stack, then you have my permission to call.

If you are at the river or turn, and you have a nice 5-card hand like a straight or a flush or full house, or even a set with the top pair (ideally a nut straight or nut flush, or close to) then you can safely call the all-in raise of this opponent; this action would most likely have positive EV.

Out of all that has been discussed, the most important takeaway was that you should be generating a large portion of your chips from Team Chests. How to be good at the game of poker itself was not really discussed; but if you want to improve at poker, practice alone is not enough. You have to read and watch articles, books, and videos about poker; and you have to analyze and watch actual games of poker pros. When you analyze live examples, you have to try to understand the logic and reasoning behind every move the players made. The process of simply familiarizing yourself with the kinds of words poker pros use when they talk about the game, such as equity, position, gutshot, jam, range, shove, value, etc... and what they mean will improve your performance and the way you think in all situations.

You must also realize that you should adjust the way that you are playing the game when you are playing against pros and when you are playing against recreational players. In GOP3, you will find a mix of both kinds of players. This video on Blackrain's channel explains it very well. It becomes a little less relevant as you proceed to higher stakes in GOP3, but you will still commonly find recreational players even at higher stakes.


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Here's to a profitable poker career for you! Good luck and have fun playing!