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Episode 08 · NEW · 30 min
Fix Your Poker Red Line: Inside Red Line Mastery by thejericho2
Ninety percent of online regs have a losing red line, and it is costing them half their win rate. In this 30-minute deep dive, two hosts unpack Run It Once Red Line Mastery: the blue, red and green lines, the purple line target, why players stay passive, why MDA stops working at 500NL, and how a 24-tabling NL2 nit became a red line reg at 500NL to 2kNL. This episode is an AI-generated audio retelling built from the course transcripts.
Run It Oncethejericho2NLHE cashNon-showdown winningsMove-up course
Audio retelling · about 30 minutes · Listen on YouTube · Short on time? Watch the 6-minute video lesson
What you’ll hear
- ♠Why 90% of online regs run a losing red line, and why it caps them at 200NL
- ♠The purple line: what it is and why you don’t need to be a robot to aim for it
- ♠Why MDA exploits break against 500NL regs who adapt
- ♠thejericho2’s own story: 24-tabling NL2 full ring, a million hands at NL50, 15–20 failed shots at 200NL
- ♠Calling as the hidden half of the red line
- ♠Surviving swings: stats, no HUD and a post-session review routine
Featured in this episode
Run It Once Red Line Mastery by thejericho2: 131 videos in 14 chapters, about 56 hours, including 12 live-play videos from 200NL to 1kNL. Every lesson and runtime is listed in our Red Line Mastery index review. Meet the coach in the thejericho2 poker coach profile.
Episode 07 · NEW · Audio recap
How Suits Dictate River Bluffs: Nachos Poker’s Pure Bluffs Lesson
You reach the river out of position in a 3-bet pot with nothing. Bet or give up? Nachos Poker’s answer starts where most players never look: the suit in your hand.
This episode is the audio retelling of his lesson “Barreling the River as 3BP OOP PFR – Finding Pure Bluffs.” Four river paths, five averaged boards and one pattern: hearts and diamonds bluff almost always, spades land slightly below medium, clubs sit low. Then the reason behind it, because your suit decides which of your opponent’s calls you block.
Built exclusively from the transcribed lesson. Nothing is invented. The complete training video is unlocked through one short quest: curious what the tables really show for your favourite bluff?
In this episode
- ♪The suit scoreboard, and why it is an average, not a rule
- ♪Blocking the folds: why a club can hurt a river bluff
- ♪When pairs and straight draws do the calling, and suits matter less
- ♪Hand selection: why some king-high hands check while Queen-Jack still bluffs
- ♪The honest limits: five boards and a small sample
Featured in this episode
Nachos Poker (known on Run It Once as Freenachos) teaches the data-driven, exploit-first approach in Run It Once: Dominate With Data, with 74 training videos and 16 MDA cheat-sheet PDFs. See more on his coach page and in the Run It Once courses category. Every course here is a FOREVER LICENSE, sent personally by our team after payment.
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EPISODE 06 · NEW
Red Line Poker: 4 Conflicting Strategies Explained — Saulo Costa, Run It Once, Upswing and Robmaf
Four courses, four definitions of the red line, and they contradict each other. Saulo Costa calls it a symptom, not a goal: a poor red line points to leaks. Run It Once builds it from balanced bluffing and calling. Upswing (Uri Peleg) frames it as a critic’s mindset that punishes frequency mistakes. Robmaf calls it the outcome of a plan made before every hand. A 48-minute audio deep dive on red line poker: where the courses clash, where they overlap (check-raising, river play, overbets) and a four-step study path. Built exclusively from the transcribed course files, as an AI-generated retelling. Nothing is invented.
Audio retelling · 48 minutes · Watch on YouTube → · Short on time? The 6-minute video version
📚 Featured in this episode:
Saulo Costa The Redline Blueprint — 28 videos in three modules, 8+ hours: leak modeling in PioSOLVER, 13 targeted exploits, 10 population-versus-GTO spots. Run It Once Red Line Mastery — 10 episodes on bluffing, calling and non-showdown winnings. Upswing Red Line Rocketship — deception, overbetting, bet-check-bet and check-raise lessons. Robmaf Redline Ninja Course — intro plus 19 lessons, 11+ hours of plans against specific opponents. FOREVER LICENSE: one payment, lifetime access, no subscription.
Read the Full Comparison — every lesson index, four quizzes, infographic and 14 slides · Video: red line poker explained in 6 minutes · Saulo Costa: blue line vs red line vs green line
EPISODE 05 · NEW
Why Garrett Adelstein Folds the Second Nuts — Destroy Live Cash, Hand 18
The most feared player in live cash raises the second nuts on the turn, gets re-raised to nearly $7,900 — and folds. October 2019, $25/$50/$100 with a $50 ante, vs Andy. Two pros walk the hand street by street, then spend half the episode on the part that matters: why Garrett tells students not to copy the fold. A read built on a thousand hours is a read; a read built on one orbit is a guess. Based exclusively on Garrett Adelstein’s own commentary in Destroy Live Cash.
📚 Featured in this episode:
Upswing Poker Destroy Live Cash (Garrett Adelstein) — 50 real high-stakes hands, 35 PioSOLVER audits, 35+ hours, deep-stack preflop ranges + the bonus course Rapid Fire Poker. FOREVER LICENSE.
Read the Full Review — hands 1, 7 and 18 dissected, all 87 videos indexed · Destroy Live Cash vs Smash Live Cash vs Live Tells · Video: how Garrett studies with a solver
Episode 04 — Audiobook
Tournament Tactics — Roy Rounder
Our first free audiobook release. Sit & Go’s, home games, freerolls, multi-table stages, blind structures, re-buys, and satellites — 42 minutes, free to stream.
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Episode 03
The Bias Trap: Why Smart Poker Players Talk Themselves Into Bad Decisions
The scariest tilt doesn’t look like tilt — it looks like theory. This episode exposes how smart, technically skilled players dress up ego, fear, and discomfort in real poker vocabulary and call it strategy. Based exclusively on Nick Howard’s Mental Game Pack — blind theory, cognitive dissonance, and the two-question reset that catches rationalization before it costs you a stack.
📚 Featured in this episode:
Poker Detox — Mental Game Pack (Nick Howard) — 5-part live seminar dismantling the rationalizations behind your worst decisions. FOREVER LICENSE.
Read the Full Article — tilt, decision fatigue & the mental game techniques behind this episode.
EPISODE 02
Hunting Human Error & Equity Switches — TheWakko’s MDA, HUD & Concepts System
How the best cash game players consistently find profit where everyone else sees randomness. Based exclusively on The Mechanics of Poker Pro-Level System: MDA population research, HUD profiling (Red/Green/Recreational), equity switches, and zero EV situations — the concepts TheWakko says are in his head every single hand.
📚 Featured in this episode:
The Mechanics of Poker — Pro-Level System — 230 files, 32.56 GB, 63 live Q&A sessions. Complete technical game + mindset system. FOREVER LICENSE.
Read the Full Study Guide — MDA, HUD profiling & equity switches breakdown.
EPISODE 01
Poker Strategy Masterclass — Elite Training Insights
A breakdown of elite-level poker thinking: how top players approach hand reading, range construction, and study habits that actually move the needle. Pulled from the best training content available on the market today.
📚 Featured in this episode:
Upswing Poker Courses — world-class cash game and tournament training with a FOREVER LICENSE.
Run It Once Courses — elite solver-based GTO content from Phil Galfond’s training site.
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