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What this fixes

I ladder when I should attack, because the jump feels bigger than it is.

Know what one more place is actually worth. Players ladder on instinct, and the instinct is usually calibrated to the wrong jump. Most of the money in a payout structure sits in the last two or three places, which means folding into a tiny jump early costs far more than it saves. This drill runs real ladders until you can see where the money actually is.

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Every drill runs all four. Pick the one you would actually be training.

Same payouts: £6,000 / £3,600 / £2,400 / £1,800. Which single jump is worth the most?

The drill

This is what a rep looks like

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The Pay Jump Pressure in the app
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Reading a payout structure for where the money concentrates

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What busting costs against what laddering gains, in cash

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When survival is genuinely worth more than chips, and when it is an excuse

How it works

Spot. Answer. The working. Next.

Every rep is the same four seconds of pressure, on purpose. Accuracy and speed feed your streak, and wrong answers come back at the end of the set.

01 · The spotA real hand, a real price, and the clock already running.

A real hand, a real price, and the clock already running.

02 · Your answerPick the equity, make the decision. No hints on the top tier.

Pick the equity, make the decision. No hints on the top tier.

03 · The workingRight or wrong, the full arithmetic is laid out. Wrong answers come back at the end of the set.

Right or wrong, the full arithmetic is laid out. Wrong answers come back at the end of the set.

The loop shown in the Pot Odds Trainer. Every drill runs the same way: spot, answer, working, next.

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Questions

About Pay Jump Pressure

Do all structures behave like this?

Most do, but not all, and flat structures change the answer completely. The drill uses real ones rather than a single example.

Is laddering ever right?

Often, on a steep jump with a shorter stack still in. The point is to know which case you are in.

Does this need the ICM maths?

It runs on the same engine, but the question here is the structure rather than the stacks.