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Question 1

What is a station?

Answer 1

Someone who wants to see the flop no matter what.
Someone who sticks around with any piece of the flop.

Question 2

What percentage of players at low stakes are maniacs?

Answer 2

Less than 5%

Question 3

What is the mindset of a maniac?

Answer 3

They love being in charge and getting people to react to them.

Question 4

What is a maniac?

Answer 4

Someone who can show up with any hand at any time. They 3-bet anything. They triple barrel anything. They’re always capable of putting money in the middle.

Question 5

What percentage of players are nits?

Answer 5

10-20%

Question 6

What can happen to an entitled nit?

Answer 6

They can tilt when things don’t go their way

Question 7

What are the four most common mistakes of regulars?

Answer 7

1. They call too much on the river
2. They see too many flops
3. They don’t 3-bet enough
4. They don’t bluff enough

Question 8

What is a nits greatest fear?

Answer 8

Their hand not holding up

Question 9

What is a maniac’s greatest fear?

Answer 9

That they could have won a pot if they were simply man enough.

Question 10

What is a station’s biggest fear?

Answer 10

Folding the best hand

Question 11

What truly separates a pro from average players is their ability to ___

Answer 11

Fold

Question 12

Pros will wait for the ____ situation to come to them

Answer 12

Right

Question 13

If it feels like we are folding too much then we are likely ___

Answer 13

Playing correctly

Question 14

When asking “does he do this with X?” What is X?

Answer 14

The best hand we beat

Question 15

If the answer to “does he do this with X?” Is “I don’t know.” Should we be rushing to put money in to the pot?

Answer 15

No

Question 16

What should you focus on instead of how often your hand is good (for example from a GTO standpoint)?

Answer 16

The specific situation

Question 17

What player type beats stations?

Answer 17

Nits

Question 18

What player type beats maniacs?

Answer 18

Stations

Question 19

What player type beats nits?

Answer 19

Maniacs

Question 20

Nits beat ____

Answer 20

Stations

Question 21

Stations beat ____

Answer 21

Maniacs

Question 22

Maniacs beat ____

Answer 22

Nits

Question 23

What is the easiest/fastest way to beat a game where no one folds? (Not necessarily the best way)

Answer 23

Nit it up

Question 24

“Nits beat stations” can be translated as what?

Answer 24

Good hands beat mediocre hands

Question 25

_____ thinly to exploit stations postflop

Answer 25

Value bet

Question 26

How can you exploit someone who is opening a super wide range preflop?

Answer 26

Isolate with 3-bets

Question 27

What should you be looking to do with top pair/top kicker against a station?

Answer 27

Get three streets of value

Question 28

What should you typically do when a station shows aggression postflop?

Answer 28

Fold

Question 29

How do we beat maniacs?

Answer 29

Pick a halfway decent hand and call down

Question 30

Your job is to ____ nits as much as possible.

Answer 30

Confuse

Question 31

Nits get their reputation by folding whenever they’re ____

Answer 31

Confused

Question 32

When is the most common time a station-maniac will bluff?

Answer 32

When they miss their flush draw