Updated on 22 Feb 26 by
Barry Carter
Poker Expert

How to lose to a player sitting out

We recap the best videos of the week including a soul read, a nit fold and a big sponsorship announcement.





Losing to a sit out

There are bad beats and then there is this, proof positive that some players can increase their EV significantly by not playing at all:

Spraggy with the soul read

You may as well sit out if Spraggy is at your table, harnessing his inner KidPoker he predicts the exact hand he is up against in 5-Card Draw:

KidPoker joins GGPoker

Speaking of KidPoker, this week Daniel Negreanu announced he was no longer without a sponsor. In what could be a very big moment for the fast growing poker room he announced on video he was joining GGPoker.

Run It Twice, what could go wrong?

This may be the biggest cooler of the year, at least in terms of a pot where the players ran it twice. What do you think?

You can't spell Nitsche without NIT

Playing a $100,000 final table would make the best of us act a little nitty, but was that the case in this hand with Dominik Nitsche?

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Poker Expert

Barry Carter is the editor of PokerStrategy.com and the co-author of The Mental Game of Poker 1 & 2, Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy, Endgame Poker Strategy, GTO Poker Simplified, Mystery Bounty Poker Strategy and Beyond GTO. In 2025, he won the Global Poker Awards for Best Book and Twitter Personality of the Year.