17 Jan 2026 Intermediate This material is for medium-skilled players bluff catching check-raise fold equity mental game ranges Professional poker coach Pete Clarke analyzes hands from students Shu and Jurgen in their Race to 25NL challenge. The session covers blind versus blind strategies, mixed polar betting, check-raising dynamics, and addresses mental game issues affecting in-game performance versus theoretical knowledge. Mental preparation before sessions is crucial for performance. Fear of losing can override logical decision-making, causing passive play mistakes. Mastering Blind vs Blind Strategy: Use mixed polar strategies rather than range betting everything out of position Build uncapped checking ranges to keep opponents guessing Queen-high and king-high have significant showdown value in wide blind vs blind ranges Delayed c-betting works well with equity hands that can check-raise Out of position barrels require redraws, unlike in-position aggression Passive pool tendencies allow for aggressive triple barreling on rainbow boards Check-raising should be reserved for nutted hands, not thin value like trips with weak kicker
