Luke Johnson

Luke Johnson explores the concept of probing the turn and how this tricky situation can be mastered with some relatively simple heuristics.

In this second installment of Luke's GTO Trainer series, he recaps the hands from the previous live drilling session to establish useful heuristics for maneuvering 3-bet pots between the blinds and the button.

Luke Johnson plays a session against the bot in an effort to replicate in-game decision making for 3-bet pots SB/BB vs BTN. This trainer session sets up the following part where he will explore some of the more difficult hands and gather any heuristics to implement going forward.

Luke Johnson discusses how he approaches the game in 2024 taking you into a typical day of a high-stakes grinder displaying both his playing and studying routine in real-time. He touches on everything from his session preparation to game selection, to the length of his play and nutrition he utilizes for optimal performance all while playing a high stakes session.

Luke Johnson drops it down in stakes and offers some tips that he would employ to give him a leg up on the relatively weaker competition at these levels.

Luke Johnson grabs the most difficult hands featured in his previous two videos and pops them into the solver to examine where he went wrong and what can be learned from any mistakes he made.

Luke Johnson offers a raw, unedited look at his approach to the game with his real-time thoughts to give a look at how he actually goes about playing nowadays before examining the toughest hands in a future installment.

Luke Johnson fires up plenty of high stakes tables mixing 6-max and heads-up action and discusses how he goes about playing and marking certain hands for future analysis in real time.

Luke Johnson launches the final installment of his high-stakes series reviewing action ranging up to $100/$200 in stakes.

You can find the previous installments of the series on the right sidebar.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty utilizes one of the brand-new PIO Solver 3.0 features to advance your skills in playing the BB in single-raised and 3-bet pots.

Luke Johnson offers his guide to utilizing PIO and discusses how he uses the software to study hands and get the most out of it.

Luke Johnson brings the third installment analyzing a session played across four tables against stiff competition and occasionally turns to the solver to back up crucial teaching points.

Luke Johnson continues to review his session at a variety of high stakes tables breaking down the action by providing his in-game thoughts along with his analysis that has the benefit of hindsight.

Luke Johnson returns with a breakdown of a recent session at $25/$50 through $100/$200 and comments on all the hands.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty concludes his high-stakes session review in this fourth installment providing more valuable insights on how to build heuristics to improve your in-game accuracy

Previous installments can be found below:
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

Luke Johnson aka Clanty continues to review a session that saw him battling across multiple high stakes tables both 6 handed and heads up. In case you missed a previous part, you can find the firts two installments in the right side bar.

Luke Johnson continues his high-stakes session review that saw him battle at two $10/$20 six-max tables and a $25/$50 heads-up table. He follows the style of the first installment recapping both his in-game thoughts as well as the takeaways from simming all spots before recording the video.

Luke Johnson recaps the action from a recently played session at $10/$20 and $25/$50 looking to identify any specific mistakes that he can find.

Luke launches another study session versus the solver focused on 3-bet pots from out of position. In this edition, he chose to highlight the differences in our play between the SB and BB when we have a linear range (SB) versus a polar range (BB).

Luke Johnson aka Clanty concludes his hyperfocus series by reviewing all of the tough hands that came up in his $25/$50 clash against buttonclickr. Get ready to dive into the nuances of high-stakes poker and think about blockers and unblockers to balance your play!

Luke Johnson aka Clanty returns with a new heads-up installment of his hyperfocus series. He sits at $5k NL facing one of the strongest heads-up players and attempts to play his very best while also being ready to learn new things from such strong opposition.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty hops into the third installment of his hyperfocus series returning to short-handed high-stakes action. Get ready for a crazy ride including an almost time out with almost the nuts and juicy pots with marginal holdings.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty brings the conclusion of his analysis of the high stakes battle between two top players and focuses on the heuristics between HU and 6m when they come up.

Luke Johnson gives a new format a shot with one table of HU action allowing him to remain extremely focused on one table and breakdown the action in more detail than he would with his typical 2 or 4 table format.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty starts a new live play series with the goal of playing and analyzing the action at all tables with incredible detail. Part one sees him battling at two $10/$20 and one $25/$50 table before reviewing the toughest hands post-session.

Inspired by a recent Kevin Rabichow video, Luke launches a study session 4-tabling versus the solver. He discusses his experience with this training approach and be assured that there's lots of strategical insights to be learned for the topic of the day: 3bet pots BB vs BTN.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty was hyped to find his favorite game running, $1k Zoom, so he instantly fired up a session and pressed record. The action only remained consistent for 35 minutes, so Luke closes out the video with a bit of review.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty returns with the second part of his high-stakes rail birding series observing LLinusLove and BERRI SWEET battling it out at $50/$100. In this part, Luke shifts to a post-session style allowing him to explain each spot's strategy more deeply.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty caught two of the goats going head to head at $10kNL and decided to record it and work as the live commentator. As expected, the action is intense. Luke even checks a few of the spots out for himself in PIO after their session.

Luke Johnson aka Clanty continues his $5/$10 and $10/$20 session on boxing day and reminds us of the importance of making decisions that we are happy with even when we end up with a poor result.