Essential Pro
Steve Paul
Steve Paul follows up his video on optimizing your understanding of flop raise sizes with this second episode: a training session to reinforce what we've learned.
March 15, 2026 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul explores optimizing your flop raise sizes – not just from an optimal point of view – but also when it comes to forcing your opponents in tough defense nodes and enabling you to become more flexible with your strategy and adding new exploitative tools to your play.
Feb. 21, 2026 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul returns with a new episode in his popular series where he's aiming to build easy-to-remember heuristics for different areas of the game tree.
This time, it's all about how to proceed on flush turn cards as the in-position preflop raiser.
Jan. 26, 2026 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul grabs recent hands from his friend Aaron that were played at stakes ranging from $0.50/$1 and $2/$5 in an effort to spot any potential leaks that might hide in hero's game.
Nov. 12, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul seeks to put the theory into practice by playing a live session and trying to get in as many situations that offer the opportunity for a flop overbet.
Nov. 2, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul continues his exploration of the benefits of creating an unorthodox strategy and how taking lines that are less common can put our opponents in difficult situations.
In this third installment, he discusses applying flop overbets on ten high or lower textures and practices their implementation to outsmart your opponents.
Oct. 20, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul follows up the previous installment where he introduced the idea of creating unorthodox strategies to gain extra EV over your opponents and applies it to the overbet c-betting node. This second installment focuses on king-, queen- and jack-high textures.
Oct. 2, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul discusses how to go about formulating an approach that may disorient an opponent and allow you to get a leg up on competition that might be adept at crushing reg-style strategies.
He illustrates the concept discussing overbetting the flop on textures that might not scream to do so in order to put villains in unknown territory where you can outplay them.
Sept. 18, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul turns the tables and now explores how to defend as the BB in single-raised pots against the cutoff offering best practices for range construction in the various nodes.
Sept. 4, 2025 | 5 p.m.
In this second installment of his mini series on SB vs CO 3-bet pots, Steve Paul shifts the focus to playing as the preflop defendor. The first half of the video discusses nodes following a flop c-bet before moving on to our strategy when facing a small blind check.
Aug. 21, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul launches a training session in GTO Wizard to explore how to play the cutoff against the big blind in single-raised pots.
Aug. 4, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul takes you on a training session for SB vs CO in 3-bet pots focusing on the decision points of the small blind throughout the hand.
July 21, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul explores the notoriously understudied situation of playing monotone boards, specifically defending against C-bets in these situations.
April 17, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul dives into a practice session to help you improve your ability to maneuver check-raised pots as a follow-up to the previous installment where he established the baseline.
March 31, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul examines the check-raise node BB vs BTN in an effort to level up your understanding on the why of certain hands opting for the raise in each specific situation.
March 13, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul provides a new installment on improving your blind vs blind play when facing c-bets. In this second part he foucses on high-low-low textures and tries to find enough raises and continues given this spot is frequently over c-bet by many players.
Jan. 23, 2025 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul has a look at blind v blind spots when facing a C-bet and discusses how to continue especially with hands that might appear to be folds at first glance.
Nov. 18, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul reviews the database of RIO user Preisi in an effort to find any glaring leaks and plug them up.
Nov. 4, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul explores playing creative lines which have the ability to befuddle an opponent and potentially add quite a bit to your bottom line.
Sept. 26, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul pops every hand that he VPIP'd and tries to pinpoint exactly where he went wrong and how to fix it.
Sept. 5, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul hops into the soft pool and breaks down a session at low stakes with a focus on exploiting the weak players in the pool.
Aug. 22, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul continues to examine hands from a session by TRUEPOWER looking for themes of leaks to plug and heuristics to establish for success especially at lower stakes.
June 27, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul breaks down a session submitted by user TRUEPOWER at 50NL in an attempt to recognize any globally evident leaks while commenting on some of the specific lines from high leverage hands.
June 10, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul previously discussed isolating bad players and playing in position against them but this time focuses on being out of position against them in flatted pots which can actually prove to be quite tricky if you don't know the specific type of rec you're playing.
May 23, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul reviews the hands from a friend's session that didn't go his way to see if it was luck of the draw and running bad or if he contributed to his own demise.
April 10, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul uses GTOW AI to attempt to replicate playing isoed pots against weak players and tries to gain insight into various exploits that can be considered.
March 11, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul follows up the previous installments with a look at his own in-game performance when it comes to defending the BB facing a flop cbet reviewing his database for this spot.
Feb. 15, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul continues to examine specific spots this time turning his focus to A high boards which can prove quite tricky with wide ranges battling.
Jan. 18, 2024 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul continues his examination as there were plenty of lessons that he wasn't able to get to in the first installment and offers more tips and tricks for this difficult spot.
Nov. 30, 2023 | 5 p.m.
Steve Paul offers a guide on defending against Cbets focusing on low paired boards which can be quite tricky as it requires a very high check raise rate than you may be accustomed to.