How To Play POCKET JACKS By Brad Owen!
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2024
- What's the hardest hand in poker to play? How about pocket jacks? Or, as the legendary poker vlogger Brad Owen calls them, ‘Jiggities’. Brad found himself in a dicey spot at The Wynn after calling a 4-bet preflop with his jiggities. Postflop he faces significant aggression which leaves him with a tricky spot as he’s not quite sure what to do. Is there ever a right way to play pocket jacks? 😅
In smaller stakes cash games, population tendencies suggest that when your opponent 4-bets preflop over limpers or early position action, they typically will be at the top of their range. This extremely tight range includes pocket aces, kings, and maybe queens. This allows you to play more straightforwardly with hands like pocket jacks and make exploitative folds against poker players that will always have the goods!
Brad Owen is a WPT ambassador and co-owner of The Lodge Card Club in Texas, he is a very successful RUclips poker vlogger with over 715,000 subscribers. His RUclips channel has had over 172,000,000 views. Primarily a cash game player, Brad has started playing more poker tournaments since the start of 2022. His lifetime total live tournament winnings are over $790,000. His biggest cash for $152,266 came in December 2023 where he finished 7th in the $50,000 WPT Alpha8, during the WPT World Championship at the Wynn, Las Vegas.
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🔍 Preflop:
Villain 1 opens the action with a limp for $40 from under-the-gun +1, and Villain 2 raises to $200 from middle position. After the button and small blind fold, Brad Owen looks down at pocket jacks and 3-bets to $800. The UTG+1 limper folds, but Villain 2 decides to 4-bet to $2,400. Brad then decides to call with his premium pocket pair, and they head to the flop.
💸 Flop - Ts 6d 5s:
Brad still holds an overpair to the board with his pocket jacks on the ten-high, two-spade flop. After checking, Villain 2 fires out a continuation bet of $1,600. Though Brad isn’t entirely confident with his hand, he decides not to fold to this down-bet and instead calls to see a turn card.
💣 Turn - 7d:
The 7 of diamonds on the turn brings in some unlikely straights, and the appearance of a backdoor flush draw, meaning two flush draws are now present. Brad checks his overpair, only to be faced with another bet, this time for $4,720 which is for all of Brad’s remaining chips. How will the legendary poker vlogger respond? He's ahead of many semi-bluffs that Villain 2 might shove the turn with, but he also loses to any value hand. After some thought, Brad decides to make the call. To discover the opponent’s hand and the results of this cash game hand, stay tuned to the end of this poker video!
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Would YOU have called or folded with the jiggities on the turn? 🤔
Whoever found this hand for you should get a raise! Great analysis. 😁
I can't think of many folds on that turn - maybe AK with one spade, 99 or A5 if I have the latter?
I always fold pocket jacks pre-flop.
call. one time!
At my stakes, against someone I don't suspect might be getting frisky, I fold. Against a good player at higher stakes, I'm not sure. (Wanna stake me, we can FAFO.
I've met Brad a few times in Vegas, always been a genuine guy. Even when cornered in between a break he's always been willing to take a minute and have a genuine interaction with me. It's the small things when nobody thinks anyone is watching that mean the most to me. He and Doug Polk have been the most genuine in my opinion. I root for both of them.... until I get the bank roll to step into the arena with them!
How master JJ: get lucky. You're welcome.
anyword you use is very valuable and worth keeping in mind. Thanks a lot
I like Brad, he seems to be genuinely nice guy.
agreed
I've seen Brad do both. If he's down considerably, once, being even or a little up, twice. I run it once in low stakes, twice in bigger stakes. P.S. Sometimes once in bigger stakes.
RUNNING IT MORE THAN ONCE-- as to that, I'd prefer to run it 3 times instead of 2 so that I'm not giving up my odds advantage to a chop situation if I feel like protecting that advantage-- I understand the situational dynamics where you may not want to felt someone, but I don't think enough places would be willing to run it thrice-- what I'd hope would catch on, and @PokerCoaching JL you could promote this... is: a weighted 2nd running, where the first runout is say 3/4ths of the pot or 2/3rds, but quarters are probably easier and faster to chop; ideally original burns and Turns/ Rivers are kept in position for the original runout and then repeated for a 2nd line...
Definitely running it twice. If you are playing with an edge in the game the more you want to reduce variance.
I despise running it twice when I'm a 66-80% favorite, just because it almost annoys me more to chop when I'm pretty well ahead than to lose. I'd run it 3 times or once.
I feel the same way
I don't like 3 times because if you win 2/3 you only profit 1/3 of what villain put in which annoys me more than chopping lol.
@@evadecaptcha yeah, but that's the equity of the hand...
I agree. I always run it 3 times or once. I say "three times or once." If a guy says twice I say, "three times or once." If he says twice again I say "once."
@@Jermo484 If you run it twice with AK vs a pair, winning once is also your equity. The objections here aren't about it being close to equity.
I recently had JJ on the button. I flopped a set and bet 2.5 BB. One caller. The turn was a blank so I bet 2.5BB; villain called. The River was a queen. Undeterred, and continued with 2.5 BB. Villain called and reluctantly showed pocket QQ. 🤮
I just run it once always and embrace the swings.
Can you do a 'how to play the turn in small stakes tournaments' video? Love the content. Have been learning a lot through the videos. Tried out the courses but struggle with them still
What I do depends on my bankroll. Pretty sure that Brad is well rolled for this game and more so than most his opponents.
Therefore I run it once. You get a psychological advantage by being the guy that only runs it once. The perceived risk is larger to make big plays, both big bluffs and hero calls.
I would jam the flop in villain's position... don't give him the better pot odds to call plus we only have essentially a semi bluff. Get it in while we still have the equity or make him fold. Both scenarios are better for us on the flop.
Run it twice, reduce variance. He said it's one of the biggest pots he's played in a while.
I'm al little confused here pre-flop when you say widening a range makes it more OK to call. If we widen we get smaller aces, so AQ, and AJ is unlike since we have JJ. Same with widening Kings, we get KQ and KJ is unlikely because we have JJ. And those AQ and KQ combos have similar equity against us as AK so it doesn't add a lot of help. Pairs we get the highly unlikely JJ, and do we add TT maybe or 99? It's a stretch, but I guess we get some equity (that in this instance we lose most of on the flop when a Ten comes).. Even if we widen to off-suit A's, do we really gain that much equity against AK and AQ? And now we've gotten pretty wide. I know eventually you have to start pushing small edges and this game might be one of those times, but I don't think many of us will find ourselves there, right?
I agree with whatever you say. Good for my job!!!
Twice, to reduce variance. Beucase I'm a recreational player, buy-in's gonna be a chunk of my vacation fun money, and getting stacked would go to my mood.
I think this mentality comes from the natural human thought process of “I’m ahead, I’m entitled to this pot.” But realistically, if you have 66% equity, you’re only entitled to 66% of the pot. So people get really tilted if they win 50% of the pot, but they don’t realize 50% is actually closer to your equity than 100% is. The average person doesn’t realize that if their hand holds when they were a 66% or even 80% favorite, they got lucky. They got 100% of a pot in which they had 66 to 80% equity.
8 players left in tournament, pays 6 places, just watched K/K vs A/8 suited all in, Ace on turn for the win. Next hand I get Jiggitys, I have 13 BB, I raise 3 BB, villain raises to 10 BB, I go all in, its A/10 off suite, ace in the window, I lose...
Thats how J/J plays for me 99% of the time.
Should villain have shoved on the flop? Would have been $6320 effective into $4890, not an egregious overshove. If Brad's range is TT-QQ, AA, AQs, AKs, villain has about 40% equity and may get everything but AA, TT to fold.
I usually always let the recreational players run it twice since I don't care too much either way and it keeps them happy. I've seen players get mad and leave because somebody didn't let them run a hand twice. I just always let them choose between 1 or 2.
This is at home games. Maybe I would always go once if I played at a casino.
For a 17k pot and my nonexistent bankroll I’d be running it 9 times 😂
Is 3x a thing?? I’d be willing reduce the variance, but it would be nice to do more than split the pot…
ONE TIME
Twice - Yup like Brad
Id run it twice if someone ask. Just to be friendly.
When I saw this the first time on Brad’s vlog I watched it 3x in a row. I only play at lower stakes where I’m not sure the 4-bet pre-flop comes in this big as you mentioned. But it might. Really great analysis. Thanks.
At 1/2, 4 betting ranges are AA and KK exclusively lol
Yeah. I get this... but how do you play Jiggity Jiggity Teniggy Thriggity?
I think that was the hand.
I never runnit twice
Easy call for BO given the pot odds & opponent. Yes, on that board with a call I will likely be ahead.
One time because of tilt equity 😂
when they say total live winnings are you have to take that with a grain of salt.the real thing is what is your total net profit i mean who knows how much you spent to win that amount right?
Once for max pain.
I see a lot of the great players like Adelstein and Ivey weaponize variance against their opponents. They only ever run it once.
Once
I always go once and let the poker gods decide
Two options on Runout. Once or let the other guy decide.
never run it twice. i put my stack in because i put it in. i did not put it in to chop
I like twice. Allows me to bluff with draws more often - and if it’s a chop pick up some dead money.
Once for maximum pain.
Let the math tell me (pot odds). I jammed AK in a similar spot
I only ever run it once.
I never run it twice. Period. And I make sure to let everyone know early.
I never run it twice because I never split the difference. I want it all.
Once.
once
Ok here's a hand wonder what people would do.
So super soft table that nobody is folding less then a 7x open. I wake up with 22 utg+1 I limp. 33 BB effective. It limps around flop comes 234 rainbow. Checks to me I open for 2.5bb, button calls, sb min raise me, I call, button folds. The turn comes 8s still rainbow. Sb shoves wyd in this spot.
Somewhat nitty player, older man. That called and folded to aggression from other players twice since i sat down do not have much history. we are about 8 hands in at this point.
I would have folded, 4.270$ is my exact bankroll
1 time
Run it Once, & play JJ like they are pocket 9s
Run it once or three times.
definitly twice
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LOOK AT THE OUTS! The opponent has 15 outs, Brad has 2 outs. Run it once.
1 tiiimee
I would run it twice
I like Brad....not sure he is an elite player though
I always run it 1x, period. I hate this 2x non sense. I really dont get it tbh. Keep poker pure. All the gain of all the pain
Run it once. I don't like the run twice thing because that's just not how I play
one time max pain baby!!!
Run it twice, I'm feeling lucky
Curious why you would let an opponent that you have beat chase his draw twice? I would just run it once.
Unless they are messing with rake it is 0EV and lower variance to run it twice, for someone like Brad it makes no real difference. I just let the other guy decide playing online. Mostly play zoom/rush poker so tilt concerns don't really apply.
It helps control for variance IF he hits his draw on the first run-out. Imagine you're a 90% favorite in a coin-flip. If/when you have those odds, you're most likely to end up winning the more times you flip that coin, in the long run. Once, twice, or even 15 times in a row (in a short sample) the 10% outcome may hit, but if you run it 100, 1000, or a million times, over many reps the odds will get closer to reality
Let simplified things: if you bet your house, assuming you only have one house, you have aces, all in pre-flop heads up, what can happen?
Run once: Well, you can always have about 80% chance of having two houses, but at the same time, you can lose EVERYTHING for 20%, would you want this?
Multiple times: Let's say, not twice, but 3 times, can Aces lose 3 times in a row? unlikely, almost impossible in some cases (versus another pair, if they won any runouts, their outs are lowered sometimes even to 0% equity), so, you are guranteed at least 33% of your house by winning at least once, most of the time winning 16% the value of your house (won 2 times) and a good equity of winning it all (win 3 times in a row with Aces vs any random hand is actually quite possible, you will lose once of the 3 times some of the time but can't be that much of a percentage) so, in this case, running 3 times lower the risk you take. Now let's say we run it 10 times, Aces can only lose at the most, 3 times, maybe an incredibly rare 4 times but that's it, see the point? The more "times" you run, the hand that are ahead will eventually turn positive profit, that's basic math
Which is why Mr.Little explain it perfectly: If you ACTUALLY do bankroll management, only playing stakes you can afford, meaning, if you bet your house, make sure you have at least 20 others to live in, then just once, maximizing profit and doesn't give a damn about loss. But in my example, see how having bad bankroll management can damage you if you decide to go once?
Hopefully that make sense
Hedge against losses. You could be 97% favourite and still lose. Bart Hanson had a long video explaining the math.
6:46 Running it twice here doesn't change the overall EV with only 1 card to come, just lower variance which is good for lowering risk of ruin but bad for applying bankroll pressure to someone who's under funded.
1 time XD
Run it once. Why give them another chance? Understanding that might mean all or nothing.
Hey jonathan, regarding running it once or twice, Brad should never want to run it twice in this scenario because the likely scenario is he wins first, and his opponent will have a slightly better chance of getting there”” regardless of if Brad improves with a jack on the first runout or not.
We are talking about a 3% change in equity. In the long run with a big bankroll thats a lot of money
Brad seems to bé a nice Guy!
But let's talk straight,
I dont think hé would beat nl100 online....
😏
Its impossible to win with jacks, impossible!!!!!
Even dude won he should have folded the flop.
Bit of a scummy move here from brad, seeing the opponents hand then deciding on once
I fold
You loose
I loathe players 100% playing for money. Either always offer to run it twice or always once IMO. To see cards and then be strategic is being an Ahole. Almost all fun in poker is long gone these days.
who ever hit the card wins , basically it’s all luck
Stopped at 5:10. Pretty easy call as played. Foe has AA, KK, QQ and TT that are ahead, but AK, A4, As4s, As8s, and AsQs will play this way and are behind. Plus, Owen is really playing this like it is JJ, so it's possible that other broadway cards will push too, adding even more reason to call.
Watched more. I don't care how many times it is run, because the math doesn't change. Running it more than once simply reduces variance. Given my choice, I choose once, because I just want to get to the next hand. That said, if it makes the table friendlier, and opponent wants to run more than once, I don't care.
I've lost KK vs AK, and my opponent lost his mind and started trying to dog me.
I just stayed calm because i didn't make the wrong call. Given enough times, KK beats AK. I'm not even remotely worried about one hand or even two. I'd be upset if I bluff all-in and lossed; because that's an ego play and I prefer my losses to come from variance.
If you follow the math; most times you will win/come out ahead.
The biggest losers at the table have the biggest egos. Let them be aggressive; wait for a niche hand; and call. That's how you shut down aggro over betters.
wonderbrad is such a manchild
Please bring back “a little coffee” 🥲
I do it on Monday at 9am ET when I am home. I haven't been home too much recently.
@@PokerCoaching do you not post the episodes on RUclips? Haven’t seen the little coffee episodes in a while.
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