How to escape the mid-stakes | George "You-Mad-Br0" Froggatt

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In episode 18 of the MOPP we chat with cash game regular and BitB coach George “You-Mad-Br0” Froggatt about his rise through the poker stakes. He shares with us how he finally got himself out of the mid stakes trap, his aversion for risk and lessons he learnt living with and playing against the legends of high stakes cash games.
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0:00 - Intro
04:08 - Shout out to our sponsor GTO wizard
05:21 - Georges background in competitive swimming
10:12 - Why poker is fairer than sports
12:06 - Does George think he could teach a random person to beat $200NL Zoom?
15:30 - How Rene tries to allow himself to experience emotion
18:06 - Lessons that George learnt from swimming that helped with poker
23:04 - How George started playing poker
26:30 - Making $50k-$70k per year playing poker alongside his University studies
35:24 - Hot pilates, hitting pain thresholds and apply it to poker
38:43 - Graduating from University and going travelling for 12 months
41:18 - Having the belief that poker was not going to be around for long
51:10 - Getting back from travelling, getting a corporate job before going full time with poker
53:50 - Starting BitB and going all in on poker
56:10 - Breaking even at $200NL and having to do some soul searching
1:02:38 - Why George likes security and his aversion for risk
1:05:57 - Losing a big part of his roll shooting $600NL and questioning the poker path
1:08:30 - Building scar tissue from difficult events
1:09:40 - The Mechanics of Poker 2.0 is open for enrolment
1:12:00 - Moving to Vienna to live with other poker players
1:14:30 - How George is a product of the great players he has been around
1:19:27 - Some of the limiting beliefs that George has to let go of to move up
1:23:20 - A big breakthrough Rene had and trying to be the best
1:27:50 - When George realised where the EV really comes from
1:33:16 - Why humans always make the same errors when copying solvers
1:35:40 - The biggest mistake George thinks players make using Piosolver
1:38:53 - Why executing a simplified strategy is often better than a complex strategy
1:41:00 - What George learnt from Uri Peleg about his simple strategy
1:49:05 - Why George thinks self-awareness is so important for poker players
1:52:04 - If you play in tough line ups the downsides can be big
1:53:16 - Where does the money in poker come from?
1:59:43 - The signs George looks for when he has a “God complex”
2:02:26 - Why dealing with variance is so important for his students
2:10:27 - The Mechanics of Poker 2.0 is open for enrolment
2:17:40 - The greatest contributor to Georges success
2:21:15 - Playing the online nose bleed games and what he learnt
2:26:00 - How Rene feels it’s harder to handle loses now he is a coach/public figure
2:30:24 - Why it’s almost impossible to really understand variance
2:33:28 - Coming to terms you’ll never get enough of a sample at nose bleeds to run true
2:35:50 - One piece of advice that George would give to his younger self
2:43:03 - Success in poker gives you opportunities to play high stakes in other games
2:44:04 - How poker teaches you how to learn and improve
2:45:12- What separates elite players for $1K NL players
2:50:30 - The highlights of Georges poker career
2:54:00 - Georges goals and trying to make a difference
2:58:11 - Adam and Renes main takeaways
3:04:04 - The Mechanics of Poker 2.0 is open for enrolment

[@jdz918]

Best poker podcasts as always, great guests and interviews.

[@hristolakov3563]

I enjoyed that a lot. Thank you for what you are doing, guys.
I would say the most important skill we learn from poker is that you can only blame yourself for what happens to you.

[@ThePHATBASTURD]

Always look forward to these seeing everyone carve their own way

[@RyanVanSanford]

Another great episode. Keep them coming.

[@blomquist.j]

Awesome work with the podcast. Keep it up!

[@ssio-sn3lp]

this one is with the munez one my favorite!

[@DescartesPoker]

Very nice interview.

[@PokerWithRiske]

Great episode. Really good questions from Rene and Adam. Was very interesting to hear George’s answers and experiences.

[@crabluva]

Future podcast guest? 👀

[@crabluva]

Best poker podcasts out there. Keep up the great content.
George made a comment that there's some parts of regs gamesplans you think are really bad some that you think you play really well...are finding these nodes just about grinding solvers to spot where we/others are leaking ev? What's an example of such a spot(feel free to be very vague or use an outdated one if you don't want to give away strat)?

[@QnixxeN]

Great podcast as per usual!

[@bruwar]

George

[@YoTards]

What is the podcast George is talking about at 1:39:08? I can't grasp the name

[@JC-hr7ny]

tobias duthweiler "dudd1"

[@BenjaminRaven]

i could listen to an entire pod on the coca cola business lmao

[@percival1112]

At 56:40 Does George mean it's a bad decision to play zoom instead of regular tables?

[@george_ymb]

Yea - regular tables much better for almost everyone

[@jovkovskiblagojce480]

Who was the german coach that was teaching GTO all those top players?

[@MechanicsOfPoker]

He went by the nickname "Internet"

[@jovkovskiblagojce480]

@@MechanicsOfPoker seems he moved on to Crypto

[@coolbeans8682]

Floating.

[@JM-vk2ru]

"like"

[@jackfletcher7502]

Best poker guests and great podcast but you make it seem like an interview. Always recapping what they said and stopping the flow of conversation !!!!