So how would you play the last hand better? If you say you can't play it worse, do you mean that even preflop it was a mistake to raise? What would you do, limp behind? Fold?
@@LivePokerGuide I think you can safely ignore that comment even though it is a subscriber - bet bet bet standard - river weaker tx will call maybe some turned 9x like Ah9... if we bet small, even 66 might "put you on a draw" - is super standard river bet
The check strategy on the flop with pocket pair such as KK or AA against multiple players is very effective . I have been using lately which save myself a lot of money. So many time they telegraph the strength of their hand and it’s so easy to see
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Hey Sam, great to hear from you! Are you the Sam I hit that King on two boards against your trips when we ran it twice and the chances of that happening were under 1%?
I can tell you, none of this works in 2/3NLHE games in Phoenix. The low stakes players are either maniacs, calling stations, or ultra tight. The players with any semblance of a brain go to 3/5. The money to be made is exploiting the individual player's tendencies.
I completely agree with you. It’s like that in Los Angeles too in his example pocket jacks with a 10 high board is almost never folding also people are jamming with way worse than a set. Sets value bet a board like that. Call Maybe jam the river when there’s a lot of money involved. But they don’t want pocket jacks going anywhere.
#3 - Main reason you continue to "barrel for value" is that there wasn't a significant missed draw. swap the 2 and 4....with a brick on the river you could check and then call as a bluff catcher for those folks that think the only way they can win is bet when they miss with their 6 high or spade draw. Player dependent of course....if they like to play sheriff, then you could bet larger with maybe the missed draw and they need to call you just to make sure they aren't getting bluffed. #4 - definitely have to raise the turn....need to get more money in the pot with a big hand.
I agree on #3. If the river bricks, then it is a very different situation. Then you might go for the check-call to catch their bluff with a missed draw. But when the draw comes in, you are toast when he bets.
Well, if you observed that, I won't argue with it. I would say though that it depends on the size of the pot. If the pot is big and they bet $50, then I would tend to agree.
I was in game tonight Late position in the 3/5 there was a $10 straddle on. I looked down at pocket queens on person called ahead of me straddle it $ 55 to Go big blind calls the original Strader calls and the person who called the $10 call fuck comes Jack 10 eight rainbow have exactly $200 left the Strauder pushes all in other guy falls a call. He had Q9 off suit that happens all the time in low steaks poker. Would you like to know what they call the “Hollywood Park nuts” you wouldn’t believe what it is if I told you so all this advice on giving people example how to crush live stakes poker at love levels is Crazy. Try to move up as soon as possible because people at low stakes come to gamble. Your aces does not farewell in a six way part standard raises. Do not work in low stick poker.
But I do agree with you on one thing because I do go to San Diego and play at Casino call 7 mile I see a huge difference in the way they play low steaks versus Los Angeles. People fold a lot more pre-flop they don’t call raises nearly as much unless they got big hands. There’s a lot less aggression unless they got big hands. They’re easier to put on hands people in Los Angeles. Don’t come to play poker and fold. I literally saw two people call he bet the river a one car straight any 7 4568 board when a 3 hit the river. They both had a deuce. I’m like what the fuck. The guy has seven king of suit. The two other guys both had a deuce. They don’t like to fold in Los Angeles so you need to have it like I said not trying to knock your channel. You seem to be giving sound advice for most places that people play poker. Just know some places are different animals. I see people that come from out of town. There are some guys from Canada here the other day one guy kept raising the button every time he had it and he kept getting called and losing. Yes, the average LA poker player I heard it the other night. “No one has a hand until the flop”
Going for thin value on the river is going to burn you more often than not. I only do it with the nuts, because, in my experience its pretty common to induce a bluff from the opponent. Which puts a marginal hand in a tough spot.
Well, if that's what is happening in your player pool, then I won't argue with you. But in general, thin value bets are the bread and butter play for any live pro, and it works wonders.
Even the hand will you say he probably flopped a set I guess because I play in Los Angeles where aggression is the norm and that’s all they know even passive callers that Limp withAce 10 will push the turn if they put you on the default read which they all have That you Rasied with AK. . I mean guys are raising with A3 off suit in Los Angeles from under the gun and big blind tonight I was in a hand. I literally re-raced. this guy who I knew was raising light a lot with 3/5 game He made it 15 from Early I had AK . I made it 55 I got two cars. Flop comes King queen Jack. . He checks a ship all in for $250. He snapped calls I’m thinking wow I must be behind. He might’ve flopped a set. He had Q/10 off . On the turn, I pick up a back door fluster on the river I the ace of diamond comes to give me two pair and Ace high Straight. So I guess you’re playing it. One of those places with people actually folds to raises into all ends and don’t gamble as much, but in Los Angeles people like to gamble they like to try to play you crossing small steaks is not as easy as you make it seam.
Just watched one of your vids and you said biggest mistake for players was to fast play strong hands cause you thought you were gonna get caught up to. This vid says opposite.
Hmm, did I say something like that? I don't remember. I almost never advocate slowplaying. The only exception being if you have the board completely locked up, eg. when you have AA and the board comes AA4. But even then, pocket 9s will call a c-bet and potentially a turn bet.
Hand that exemplifies how underbluffed everyone is: I’m in SB with Black AA. Effective stack is about 105 BB. 6 players limp to me and I open to 25BB (huge sizing, but I tried to just keep it to going 1 or 2 ways). BB and HJ call. The flop is a disaster: T54 all hearts. I C-bet 25 into 80 (I still don’t like this play. The board is so bad for my range I think this is a 100% check OOP) and the BB jams for 80. HJ calls and after some thought I fold. BB has A9hh and HJ had 82o. Afterwards an old lady to my right complained that I often open preflop but fold on later streets. I should have showed my hand before I folded.
It's great that you can raise to 25BB and you still get 2 callers. I would only do this with premiums then, no bluffs ever. And yeah, good fold, and actually easy fold given this type of players.
Did I read that right? He called with 8/2 off? And why do you care what she thinks about how you play poker?. You should only be showing when they’re paying and you have to show. Plus, it’s a horrible play. By A9 of hearts and 8/2 off if I’m reading that correctly why would you want to scare somebody off? If you flop the nuts I mean that poker play by all involved sounds if I read it right A9 hh? Is Ace nine of hearts, the nuts and the other dude called with eight high not even a pair no draw maybe I’m reading this wrong.
This game was practically a barrel full of fish, but I was still running bad on the day. I should have added that HJ had the 2 of hearts, which doesn’t justify the call but still explains why he did call. The reason I care what the other players think is that if I’m not welcome at the table, then I’m not welcome at the table. There’s no getting around it. I still want to play my best game, but if other players don’t like playing with super-TAGs like me, they’ll likely leave or see if they can kick me out.
I’m not trying to knock your channel and not say you don’t give sound advice. It’s just one of those things where poker is very situational and understand supposedly of the long run it’s supposed to even out to the better players a small steaks in a place where people gamble more than they play poker is different. You obviously don’t play in Los Angeles. There’s a reason they call it Hollywood Park. I literally have a guy call me tonight or last night. Come spend a couple of months in Los Angeles play place like Hollywood Park the Hustler and some of the other places were. It’s a big poker room and people or gambling regular. Yeah you can make some pretty decent money if you’re very patient and put a lot of time in but a 3X or 4X raise is nothing in Los Angeles
Wow, OK what casino are you playing at low steak? Poker is usually no fold them hold them. There are so many chasers and donkeys. What a great flop for pocket jacks most of the time when people limp and they limp often they’re not folding to a $15 raise at low sticks that’s less than a half of a blackjack low steak, poker players or gamblers I played in Los Angeles mid to low steaks And the biggest tax I see a lot of times or just luck base if three people live in in a 1/2 or 3/5 game before the blinds and your Late position you’re $15 bet does absolutely fucking nothing but build a pot. I hear people talk about crushing low steaks, low steaks or gamble central. It’s so much more situational then what you guys try to make it out
You are right. Games can be super different, even at the same stakes. I play in London, and here games are much tougher than in most places in the US. If nobody folds, then you have to only play really good hands and raise them bigger. That's the secret.
I grind 1-3 for a living, this is all good advice. I will say though, that with the QJ hand, I'm check-raising all day long for half the pot (about $50) - everyone might fold sure, but there probably are some straight draws that will continue. You say balance doesn't matter at low limits, but I disagree, my opponents know that when i check-raise in that spot that i have 2 pair or a set, but they also know that I could have KT or T9, I do that to balance my play, and sometimes everyone folds and I take a nice pot down. If I either top 2 or the draw, on the turn when the queen hits i would bet 1/3 the pot, to keep them in when I have the nuts and to give myself a good price on my draw. The tricky part is what to do on the river if you brick the drawing hands, it's probably often best to give up, but sometimes you gotta go for it.
Thanks. Yeah, I simplified it by saying balance doesn't matter. If you play in the same player pool and they know you, then it can be useful to not always raise with the nuts and check with air in this spot, but if they don't know you well, you don't need to be balanced.
@@LivePokerGuide Maybe, but I still think it is good to be balanced regardless, because you might just take it down, and if not, when people play timidly in this spot against you, on the turn if you miss and bet half-pot, you are still getting the right price on your draw if there is some more money to be bet, and if you miss and give up, everyone will see, and they will be much more likely to call you down in other hands when you have them nutted.
multiway nobody is slowplaying 22 - i can sort of get behind flop check call then lead brick turn... not check raising turn would be weird... weak recs complain that "fish never fold" - well good... squeeze every dime from them - if you check raise turn to like 110 dollars, kt might not even fold Qx NEVER
There is a lot of luck in poker, some players are just luckier than others, its the same thing in life. luck is not the same for all. For luck to be even between all players you would need to play full time for 100 years.
Nothing wrong with long term. Sure, luck is involved. But, the one detail left out is that once they do get lucky, they’re more likely to lose it all in a frantic pace and reload their buy in.
Yeah I totally agree. I remember showing a graph of 100k hands online and I was like 20-25BI below expected value with people telling me “that’s a small sample size”. Ok, fine. I’ll take that - but then how can anyone possibly, possibly ever play long enough for luck to even out at live poker? To get to 100k hands at 50 hands an hour (and that’s generous) playing live would be 2000 hours of poker. You would at that rate need to play 3 nights per week for 3 hours (or maybe 2 nights pw for 5 hours each) to get to 100k hands after 4 years… which apparently is too small a sample size. So essentially dedicated 10 hours per week for a couple of decades before you get a fair sample size to assess your win rate. Luck matters.
In the short term, there is definitely a lot of luck in poker. And yes, if you never put in enough hours, then luck becomes a big element. Sadly, this is the truth.
I agree. You can never play live poker long enough to even out luck. It is always just an approximation. The only thing is that if you have a high win rate, then even if you are unlucky you will still make money.
You call it luck but the better players know how to value their kickers for bets. I have also seen better players not tilt as much as people that just want action. I mean it takes discipline to lose two buys and leave. You come back next week and get the money you lost back. Am I a winning player? No but I do not lose as much as I use to.
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Have fun misplaying the hands like he did in this video. Especially the last AT hand. You cannot play it worse!
Why, do you want to lose against them ?
Thank you! That is really nice to hear! Glad my videos provide some value.
So how would you play the last hand better? If you say you can't play it worse, do you mean that even preflop it was a mistake to raise? What would you do, limp behind? Fold?
@@LivePokerGuide I think you can safely ignore that comment even though it is a subscriber - bet bet bet standard - river weaker tx will call maybe some turned 9x like Ah9... if we bet small, even 66 might "put you on a draw" - is super standard river bet
Always enjoy these vids. Great stuff, and fully applicable to 1/2, 1/3 games.
Thank you! That is really nice to hear! Glad my videos provide some value.
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"absolute spew" lol. Well done, sir. I'm going to use that tonight. "No, man, I'm folding. No turn spew."
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The check strategy on the flop with pocket pair such as KK or AA against multiple players is very effective . I have been using lately which save myself a lot of money. So many time they telegraph the strength of their hand and it’s so easy to see
Great to hear as well! You are exactly right: they telegraph their hand strength, and we can adjust.
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Can I ask what is your rate for poker coaching? I am on Disablity in Tennessee would like to improve my game if possible. Thanks Jay from Tennessee 😎
Hey, thanks for reaching out! Tennessee is cool. I used to live there many moons ago. What part of TN do you live in? I used to live in Johnson City.
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Hey mate, Sam from new zealand here. I remember playing you in london
Hey Sam, great to hear from you! Are you the Sam I hit that King on two boards against your trips when we ran it twice and the chances of that happening were under 1%?
Haha, yes! Good memory! That hand was an odds beater for sure... I'm glad you remember.
It's good to see you are doing well 😊
I can tell you, none of this works in 2/3NLHE games in Phoenix. The low stakes players are either maniacs, calling stations, or ultra tight. The players with any semblance of a brain go to 3/5. The money to be made is exploiting the individual player's tendencies.
The money is always made by exploiting individual players. But if you don't know the players, then exploiting the pool is the next best thing.
I completely agree with you. It’s like that in Los Angeles too in his example pocket jacks with a 10 high board is almost never folding also people are jamming with way worse than a set. Sets value bet a board like that. Call Maybe jam the river when there’s a lot of money involved. But they don’t want pocket jacks going anywhere.
#3 - Main reason you continue to "barrel for value" is that there wasn't a significant missed draw. swap the 2 and 4....with a brick on the river you could check and then call as a bluff catcher for those folks that think the only way they can win is bet when they miss with their 6 high or spade draw. Player dependent of course....if they like to play sheriff, then you could bet larger with maybe the missed draw and they need to call you just to make sure they aren't getting bluffed.
#4 - definitely have to raise the turn....need to get more money in the pot with a big hand.
I agree on #3. If the river bricks, then it is a very different situation. Then you might go for the check-call to catch their bluff with a missed draw. But when the draw comes in, you are toast when he bets.
One thing I've observed: If an opponent bets $50 on the river (either a donk or after you check) it's a bluff 90% of the time.
Well, if you observed that, I won't argue with it. I would say though that it depends on the size of the pot. If the pot is big and they bet $50, then I would tend to agree.
I was in game tonight Late position in the 3/5 there was a $10 straddle on. I looked down at pocket queens on person called ahead of me straddle it $ 55 to Go big blind calls the original Strader calls and the person who called the $10 call fuck comes Jack 10 eight rainbow have exactly $200 left the Strauder pushes all in other guy falls a call. He had Q9 off suit that happens all the time in low steaks poker. Would you like to know what they call the “Hollywood Park nuts” you wouldn’t believe what it is if I told you so all this advice on giving people example how to crush live stakes poker at love levels is Crazy. Try to move up as soon as possible because people at low stakes come to gamble. Your aces does not farewell in a six way part standard raises. Do not work in low stick poker.
If people come to gamble, that's perfect. I would love to play in those games. They are the most profitable.
But I do agree with you on one thing because I do go to San Diego and play at Casino call 7 mile I see a huge difference in the way they play low steaks versus Los Angeles. People fold a lot more pre-flop they don’t call raises nearly as much unless they got big hands. There’s a lot less aggression unless they got big hands. They’re easier to put on hands people in Los Angeles. Don’t come to play poker and fold. I literally saw two people call he bet the river a one car straight any 7 4568 board when a 3 hit the river. They both had a deuce. I’m like what the fuck. The guy has seven king of suit. The two other guys both had a deuce. They don’t like to fold in Los Angeles so you need to have it like I said not trying to knock your channel. You seem to be giving sound advice for most places that people play poker. Just know some places are different animals. I see people that come from out of town. There are some guys from Canada here the other day one guy kept raising the button every time he had it and he kept getting called and losing. Yes, the average LA poker player I heard it the other night. “No one has a hand until the flop”
Going for thin value on the river is going to burn you more often than not.
I only do it with the nuts, because, in my experience its pretty common to induce a bluff from the opponent. Which puts a marginal hand in a tough spot.
Well, if that's what is happening in your player pool, then I won't argue with you.
But in general, thin value bets are the bread and butter play for any live pro, and it works wonders.
Even the hand will you say he probably flopped a set I guess because I play in Los Angeles where aggression is the norm and that’s all they know even passive callers that Limp withAce 10 will push the turn if they put you on the default read which they all have That you Rasied with AK. . I mean guys are raising with A3 off suit in Los Angeles from under the gun and big blind tonight I was in a hand. I literally re-raced. this guy who I knew was raising light a lot with 3/5 game He made it 15 from Early I had AK . I made it 55 I got two cars. Flop comes King queen Jack. . He checks a ship all in for $250. He snapped calls I’m thinking wow I must be behind. He might’ve flopped a set. He had Q/10 off . On the turn, I pick up a back door fluster on the river I the ace of diamond comes to give me two pair and Ace high Straight. So I guess you’re playing it. One of those places with people actually folds to raises into all ends and don’t gamble as much, but in Los Angeles people like to gamble they like to try to play you crossing small steaks is not as easy as you make it seam.
Just watched one of your vids and you said biggest mistake for players was to fast play strong hands cause you thought you were gonna get caught up to. This vid says opposite.
Hmm, did I say something like that? I don't remember. I almost never advocate slowplaying. The only exception being if you have the board completely locked up, eg. when you have AA and the board comes AA4. But even then, pocket 9s will call a c-bet and potentially a turn bet.
Hand that exemplifies how underbluffed everyone is:
I’m in SB with Black AA. Effective stack is about 105 BB. 6 players limp to me and I open to 25BB (huge sizing, but I tried to just keep it to going 1 or 2 ways). BB and HJ call.
The flop is a disaster: T54 all hearts. I C-bet 25 into 80 (I still don’t like this play. The board is so bad for my range I think this is a 100% check OOP) and the BB jams for 80. HJ calls and after some thought I fold. BB has A9hh and HJ had 82o. Afterwards an old lady to my right complained that I often open preflop but fold on later streets. I should have showed my hand before I folded.
It's great that you can raise to 25BB and you still get 2 callers. I would only do this with premiums then, no bluffs ever.
And yeah, good fold, and actually easy fold given this type of players.
Did I read that right? He called with 8/2 off? And why do you care what she thinks about how you play poker?. You should only be showing when they’re paying and you have to show. Plus, it’s a horrible play. By A9 of hearts and 8/2 off if I’m reading that correctly why would you want to scare somebody off? If you flop the nuts I mean that poker play by all involved sounds if I read it right A9 hh? Is Ace nine of hearts, the nuts and the other dude called with eight high not even a pair no draw maybe I’m reading this wrong.
This game was practically a barrel full of fish, but I was still running bad on the day. I should have added that HJ had the 2 of hearts, which doesn’t justify the call but still explains why he did call.
The reason I care what the other players think is that if I’m not welcome at the table, then I’m not welcome at the table. There’s no getting around it. I still want to play my best game, but if other players don’t like playing with super-TAGs like me, they’ll likely leave or see if they can kick me out.
I’m not trying to knock your channel and not say you don’t give sound advice. It’s just one of those things where poker is very situational and understand supposedly of the long run it’s supposed to even out to the better players a small steaks in a place where people gamble more than they play poker is different. You obviously don’t play in Los Angeles. There’s a reason they call it Hollywood Park. I literally have a guy call me tonight or last night. Come spend a couple of months in Los Angeles play place like Hollywood Park the Hustler and some of the other places were. It’s a big poker room and people or gambling regular. Yeah you can make some pretty decent money if you’re very patient and put a lot of time in but a 3X or 4X raise is nothing in Los Angeles
Wow, OK what casino are you playing at low steak? Poker is usually no fold them hold them. There are so many chasers and donkeys. What a great flop for pocket jacks most of the time when people limp and they limp often they’re not folding to a $15 raise at low sticks that’s less than a half of a blackjack low steak, poker players or gamblers I played in Los Angeles mid to low steaks And the biggest tax I see a lot of times or just luck base if three people live in in a 1/2 or 3/5 game before the blinds and your Late position you’re $15 bet does absolutely fucking nothing but build a pot. I hear people talk about crushing low steaks, low steaks or gamble central. It’s so much more situational then what you guys try to make it out
You are right. Games can be super different, even at the same stakes. I play in London, and here games are much tougher than in most places in the US.
If nobody folds, then you have to only play really good hands and raise them bigger. That's the secret.
I don't see them as the "exploits". They're just the right way to play poker. I'd called them "regulars", instead.
Fair enough. It doesn't matter how we call them as long as we use them correctly ;-)
I grind 1-3 for a living, this is all good advice. I will say though, that with the QJ hand, I'm check-raising all day long for half the pot (about $50) - everyone might fold sure, but there probably are some straight draws that will continue. You say balance doesn't matter at low limits, but I disagree, my opponents know that when i check-raise in that spot that i have 2 pair or a set, but they also know that I could have KT or T9, I do that to balance my play, and sometimes everyone folds and I take a nice pot down. If I either top 2 or the draw, on the turn when the queen hits i would bet 1/3 the pot, to keep them in when I have the nuts and to give myself a good price on my draw. The tricky part is what to do on the river if you brick the drawing hands, it's probably often best to give up, but sometimes you gotta go for it.
Thanks. Yeah, I simplified it by saying balance doesn't matter. If you play in the same player pool and they know you, then it can be useful to not always raise with the nuts and check with air in this spot, but if they don't know you well, you don't need to be balanced.
@@LivePokerGuide Maybe, but I still think it is good to be balanced regardless, because you might just take it down, and if not, when people play timidly in this spot against you, on the turn if you miss and bet half-pot, you are still getting the right price on your draw if there is some more money to be bet, and if you miss and give up, everyone will see, and they will be much more likely to call you down in other hands when you have them nutted.
multiway nobody is slowplaying 22 - i can sort of get behind flop check call then lead brick turn... not check raising turn would be weird... weak recs complain that "fish never fold" - well good... squeeze every dime from them - if you check raise turn to like 110 dollars, kt might not even fold Qx NEVER
There is a lot of luck in poker, some players are just luckier than others, its the same thing in life. luck is not the same for all. For luck to be even between all players you would need to play full time for 100 years.
Nothing wrong with long term. Sure, luck is involved. But, the one detail left out is that once they do get lucky, they’re more likely to lose it all in a frantic pace and reload their buy in.
Yeah I totally agree. I remember showing a graph of 100k hands online and I was like 20-25BI below expected value with people telling me “that’s a small sample size”.
Ok, fine. I’ll take that - but then how can anyone possibly, possibly ever play long enough for luck to even out at live poker?
To get to 100k hands at 50 hands an hour (and that’s generous) playing live would be 2000 hours of poker.
You would at that rate need to play 3 nights per week for 3 hours (or maybe 2 nights pw for 5 hours each) to get to 100k hands after 4 years… which apparently is too small a sample size.
So essentially dedicated 10 hours per week for a couple of decades before you get a fair sample size to assess your win rate. Luck matters.
In the short term, there is definitely a lot of luck in poker. And yes, if you never put in enough hours, then luck becomes a big element. Sadly, this is the truth.
I agree. You can never play live poker long enough to even out luck. It is always just an approximation. The only thing is that if you have a high win rate, then even if you are unlucky you will still make money.
You call it luck but the better players know how to value their kickers for bets. I have also seen better players not tilt as much as people that just want action. I mean it takes discipline to lose two buys and leave. You come back next week and get the money you lost back. Am I a winning player? No but I do not lose as much as I use to.