Just a tip to make the math for how often a bluff needs to work easier: Take the fraction of the pot you bet. Add the numerator to the denominator while leaving the numerator the same, and that's how often the bluff needs to work. For example, if you bet 2/3 pot, it needs to work 2/(2+3)=2/5 of the time; if you bet 1/4 pot, it needs to work 1/(1+4)=1/5 of the time.
@@sammyajose1267 then it's probably, literally, the reverse. If you bet 2/3 pot. Your bluff need to work 2/5 of the time. And if it was a value bet, you need a call 3/5 of the time.
stuff like this is a gold mine kind of wild really took me 10 years of rec play and 3 years of daily grinding and 20months of studying mtts online to figure all this stuff out, and here it all is in a 2 hr video. i ish we could sit and talk in person for couple hrs bro you really are a smart man keep up the amazing work bro
comment from Jonathan Little just 7 hours ago to my response for bigger preflop raises than he suggests as playing in loose game to thin field: "The hands you make fold are usually quite bad. You should be thrilled to play a 6-way pot with 23% equity. "
54:33 This calculation is wrong. In $2 pot if you have 25% equity, you own 50 cents(i.e. 25% total pot $2) and your opponent owns $1.5 Now you put another $1 and opponent calls, you own $1(i.e. 25% of total $4 pot) Means you get additional 50 cent on $1 bet. You don't get break even there. After your above $1 bet, your opponent now owns $3 of $4 pot. Means your opponent got $1.5 extra by calling your bet with just $1. Which means you are losing...
The smaller the stakes the more variant the player. Unless you have the Golden Ratio he speaks of down perfect the % of loss from people calling bluffs with "misplayed," hands like checking pocket aces to turn will take from your stack in greater sizes than people trying to play GTO poker. You'll have to greater weight value bets and higher equity bluffs if it occurs often. My last two weeks in micro stakes have become much more consistent as a result, this lecture is more beneficial against more advanced players imo which I rarely see in .05/.10
Complete Wash 86 ..i hear you there brother. Keep developing your own style and strategy of play that best fits you and you will adapt to more situations where being aggressive will be more profitable for you. Be selective .
you definatly need to adjust your ranges for microstakes and be aware there is a lot of wide 3betting going on in nowadays microstakes. Most of the time they have bad timing and postflop they are mostly terrible. That's where your money is. Also don't be afraid to get it in with medium pairs, AK/AQ exists and for most microstakes players it's an auto-allin preflop. Defend a little bit wider, don't be afraid of taking flops against 3bets, and exploit their mostly terrible postflop play. Solid tight agressive game is still the way to beat the micros.
@@raphael2407 I think this is pretty bad advice. You shouldn't automatically group all players that play at one stake as one type of player. Each player should be analysed individually.
I'm not sure if I agree with the quote that cards are only a tie breaker, especially at lower levels like 1/2 and 2/5. If you're card dead, you will lose. People will call you with top pair until showdown. You NEED good cards to make money.
man yesterday was another day of run good. after making day 2 a couple days ago, yesterday i pull down $500 for the day ($477). today won a few sits and deciding whether i should rest more or check the tourney board lol
At what point in multiple rebuy tournaments does the aggression part specifically lessen because we have people who are throwing chips around because they have more equity? Great content Evan!
I am confused on how you can have a win big lose small or win small lose big situation. If you bet big, you will win big or lose big. If you bet small, you will win small and lose small. Could someone elaborate please. Amazing video by the way. Evan and Jonathan both make great content
@@PokerCoaching oh and then with like a high connector or high pair you will bet big preflop and win small if you hit a set or a flush because other person will probably fold
I’m struggling with the 180 man mtts on pokerstars, I can crush it within the first 20 minutes but then my hands start to freeze up as the tournament goes on and my chips begin to dwindle. The law of diminishing returns definitely applies to me in this case.
I have to disagree with your "why you want them to fold" slides. When I have 95% equity I do not want a fold. I would rather have 95% equity in the large pot (after they call) than have 100% equity in the small pot (when they fold). I love your work, but you are teaching the concept incompletely, and encouraging people to try to induce a fold when this would be an EV disaster.
In NL holdem videos like this make my traps so much easier. I always just check call and I crush guys. I make hero calls all the time and guys are like how can you call that. I always say because my hand was good.
I understand what hes saying. I do. But u cant bluff a donk. And u will also run into hands.. theres basically a happy medium IMO. just like everything in life. When u miss a flop lets say. And u bet, and get called. And the turn doesnt help your specific hand this time. And u bet again, trying to get a fold. And u get called again... u just blindly jam ne river..? No, theres times to bluff based on ur opponents actions/ the strength of ur hand/ and the range you represent based on ur actions.
I once tried to bluff a guy in a tournament who nearly folded. His buddy had just come up to him and asked him to come play roulette. He wanted to leave the game. I'm such an idiot for trying in that spot!
Question: - What level of player is this being pitched at? - And how does that level relate to most of the lower stakes players we will come across in the casinos? I ask because although I can follow a lot of this theory, and its very interesting, I am not clear on how far i need to take this to be confident I have an edge. Currently I have the time to study but not to practice (live) due to location.
I think this can very much be applied to $1/$2. This is effectively how good players exploit passive/loose players at the weaker tables. Stronger opponents require you to understand ranges and call frequencies. Defending your blinds/position. Adjusting your play style based on your image at the table and what information you have revealed at showdown, etc.
But everybody plays like this now so poker is just a game of BINGO! Well done boys, poker is ruined with most people never understanding the real beauty of the game. You can play like this against me all day and eventually you will wonder where your stack went.
im kind of in the same boat. i do feel like im on the brink of being very good (i'd say im "good" now). Wanna link up somehow? I'm looking for people to talk poker with seriously.
It is almost impossible to bluff a novice player they don't know enough to fold. They could be sitting on pocket 66 and every card on the board has them beat with possible straight or flush and just because they have a pair in their hand they will call all in for their entire stack. they just don't know any better.
Yea, but you basically don’t bluff with completely nothing, especially there is no value to be gained by bluffing a funplayer or total beginner, as they will call you anyway not realizing 2 bb is, even if kinda deep with 50 bb, 4% of their whole stack. Doesn’t sound much, but could end a tournament live considering it could happen quite frequently -> if late reg is closed those ppl will get sorted very soon. Good advice is to really only value 3 bet those kind of people (I don’t even 3 bet my value hands like AK, they will call me anyway with A7 and hit the seven most likely and if they don’t call you loose a lot money because of there weak and many times overbluffed postflop game....), use sharkscope to look them up and adapt. At microstakes not adapting to their play style is just silly.
Great video thank you! I do hate to be critical but some of your math is well..wayy Off. However i dont think its a big deal in contrast to the big picture the good advice is more valuable than the accurate math in these instances. Thanks so much for all you do! Blessings!! i liked and subscribed :)
@@sickchick3223 well, this guy has gone out of his way to make this presentation so I’m not going say anything negative. I will say that in the poker world there are is a secret motive for better players to target bad players. In fact, if it weren’t for bad poker players the good poker players could never thrive. In other words, so long as you can find bad players there is great profitability to be made. Just capitalizing on others mistakes. I would like to express my anger at casinos and online poker for stealing the games from the players by these disgustingly high rakes. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?? The rakes are down right criminal. Good poker players know what I’m talking about.
Lmao it's literally impossible to KNOW correct bet sizes unless you know your opponents hand. Which is cheating or educated guessing. Misleading amateurs to bet alot is pretty disingenuous
Is it possible that online poker softwares have flaw and there are cheats or superadmins who can see other players hands? Why is it that thin draws appear more percentage of the time than they are supposed to?
OK so like a regular kinda hoodie guy at Ft. McDowell Yavapai Casino is an amazing 8 hours at the low limit table. I was seat 6 and he was 8. Now I've been able to successfully try one of everything in 32 years of worshiping at club 52. But this guy beat all as he absolutely had the power to check for 8 hours and in 8 hours he stacked up enough chips to tip the table over. I would just play very few hands with him and only when I had the absolute read . This kind of thing is tricky. Body language of a yogi...Jesus help us .....and absolute control never raising flopping the nuts and watching all the new players dump their wad . I would have asked him to marry me if he had been a woman...he was like really making me laugh. The air conditioning when they opened up these Phoenix area casinos was just above popsicle and the steam was pouring actually rising off those old bean counters heads. Now I've tried a lot of crazy stuff. But I can't help but raise the nuts or dang near once In awhile. Better than me. Seeds of insanity were planted by this guy after we got up off the floor and try and stop laughing and get back to the game. Hey you try and check into a wheelbarrow full of chips
I don't disagree, but it's being presented to you Gratis. Yes, people should organize their thoughts better, but especially "people-persons" just like the chatty-chat.
It's crazy that you release this stuff on RUclips for free
I just want to help as many players as possible brother, been at it for going on 10 years now, and it seems to go a long way :)
Hush DJ! Hush. Jeesh. 🤣
Man, just won what will hopefully be first of many sit and go's. Almost doubled my small, very small roll.
a little update, won a 1,30 satellite to the 22 schmacker saturday scuffle PKO. Cruised over the bubble, man! Love it!
got to play over three hours, never feared this little before. Took out plenty of bad guys.
All poker players trying to get better and understand the game in greater detail need to listen to this coaching session. Excellent and Thanks!
Just a tip to make the math for how often a bluff needs to work easier: Take the fraction of the pot you bet. Add the numerator to the denominator while leaving the numerator the same, and that's how often the bluff needs to work. For example, if you bet 2/3 pot, it needs to work 2/(2+3)=2/5 of the time; if you bet 1/4 pot, it needs to work 1/(1+4)=1/5 of the time.
Great Tip!
What about the reverse for value betting?
@@sammyajose1267 then it's probably, literally, the reverse.
If you bet 2/3 pot. Your bluff need to work 2/5 of the time. And if it was a value bet, you need a call 3/5 of the time.
stuff like this is a gold mine kind of wild really took me 10 years of rec play and 3 years of daily grinding and 20months of studying mtts online to figure all this stuff out, and here it all is in a 2 hr video. i ish we could sit and talk in person for couple hrs bro you really are a smart man keep up the amazing work bro
Great stuff and very well articulated! Thanks for sharing!
Starts at 9:35.
Every one of these guys starts with. I love teaching and I love poker, then say let's get going 4 times. And take 10 minutes to start any content
Real MVP comment right here!
Thank you Evan for being a hero of Poker coaching and loving the game and sharing your experiences. Greatly appreciated.
I'm SO good at poker, i beat myself every game!
comment from Jonathan Little just 7 hours ago to my response for bigger preflop raises than he suggests as playing in loose game to thin field: "The hands you make fold are usually quite bad. You should be thrilled to play a 6-way pot with 23% equity. "
Your videos are fantastic. Your passion for teaching shows in your ability to explain the concepts. Thanks very much!
Thank you Evan.
E is a great communicator
This was amazing! I learned so much. I am going to re-watch this a few times, for sure. Thanks!! :)
Do you have a PayPal or Crypto address for donations?
54:33
This calculation is wrong.
In $2 pot if you have 25% equity, you own 50 cents(i.e. 25% total pot $2) and your opponent owns $1.5
Now you put another $1 and opponent calls, you own $1(i.e. 25% of total $4 pot)
Means you get additional 50 cent on $1 bet. You don't get break even there.
After your above $1 bet, your opponent now owns $3 of $4 pot. Means your opponent got $1.5 extra by calling your bet with just $1. Which means you are losing...
Thank you for the betting information. going to take this knowledge and take these maniacs at my card house out!
I'm excited for you Blansett! Let us know how it goes!
amazing stuff dude. thank you for showing us all this
When I try to play aggressive I get called by the dumbest shit and they seem to always hit
The smaller the stakes the more variant the player. Unless you have the Golden Ratio he speaks of down perfect the % of loss from people calling bluffs with "misplayed," hands like checking pocket aces to turn will take from your stack in greater sizes than people trying to play GTO poker. You'll have to greater weight value bets and higher equity bluffs if it occurs often. My last two weeks in micro stakes have become much more consistent as a result, this lecture is more beneficial against more advanced players imo which I rarely see in .05/.10
Complete Wash 86 ..i hear you there brother. Keep developing your own style and strategy of play that best fits you and you will adapt to more situations where being aggressive will be more profitable for you. Be selective .
So true.
@@xjustinjx problem is they seem to get there more than the 20% they should
@@xjustinjx
What a load of shit, lmfaoo
How do you play against people that call hands like j 2? Or q 3. I try not to call anything that's not a combination, pocket pair or two high cards
If they call that wide value bet the flop very wide.
i love this, but im still struggling to think some of this working a small/micro stakes. im probably wrong though... thanks for the content.
you definatly need to adjust your ranges for microstakes and be aware there is a lot of wide 3betting going on in nowadays microstakes. Most of the time they have bad timing and postflop they are mostly terrible. That's where your money is. Also don't be afraid to get it in with medium pairs, AK/AQ exists and for most microstakes players it's an auto-allin preflop. Defend a little bit wider, don't be afraid of taking flops against 3bets, and exploit their mostly terrible postflop play. Solid tight agressive game is still the way to beat the micros.
@@raphael2407 I think this is pretty bad advice. You shouldn't automatically group all players that play at one stake as one type of player. Each player should be analysed individually.
I'm not sure if I agree with the quote that cards are only a tie breaker, especially at lower levels like 1/2 and 2/5. If you're card dead, you will lose. People will call you with top pair until showdown. You NEED good cards to make money.
Thanks for the video .educational
You bet!
man yesterday was another day of run good. after making day 2 a couple days ago, yesterday i pull down $500 for the day ($477). today won a few sits and deciding whether i should rest more or check the tourney board lol
The most important thing is reacting. This does not mean acting again.
this is so good!
At what point in multiple rebuy tournaments does the aggression part specifically lessen because we have people who are throwing chips around because they have more equity? Great content Evan!
I am confused on how you can have a win big lose small or win small lose big situation. If you bet big, you will win big or lose big. If you bet small, you will win small and lose small. Could someone elaborate please. Amazing video by the way. Evan and Jonathan both make great content
With hands like small pairs, you either lose the preflop bet or win a lot when you make a set.
@@PokerCoaching oh and then with like a high connector or high pair you will bet big preflop and win small if you hit a set or a flush because other person will probably fold
I am your premium member but i still watch a lot of your youtube content
Fantastic video.
Thank you very much!
This only applies under the premise that your opponent is playing rationally
Fortunately, if they play irrationally, the game becomes REALLY easy.
I may be three years late but, amazing video.
I’m struggling with the 180 man mtts on pokerstars, I can crush it within the first 20 minutes but then my hands start to freeze up as the tournament goes on and my chips begin to dwindle. The law of diminishing returns definitely applies to me in this case.
DUDE!!! THE SLIDE AT THE 34 MINUTE MARK!! THIS FEELS LIKE I UNLOCKED A FREAKING CHEAT CODE!!!
I have to disagree with your "why you want them to fold" slides. When I have 95% equity I do not want a fold. I would rather have 95% equity in the large pot (after they call) than have 100% equity in the small pot (when they fold).
I love your work, but you are teaching the concept incompletely, and encouraging people to try to induce a fold when this would be an EV disaster.
In NL holdem videos like this make my traps so much easier. I always just check call and I crush guys. I make hero calls all the time and guys are like how can you call that. I always say because my hand was good.
I have huge problem knowing when a opponent is raising me but I have a solid hand, but they have a better hand 😑
I understand what hes saying. I do. But u cant bluff a donk. And u will also run into hands.. theres basically a happy medium IMO. just like everything in life. When u miss a flop lets say. And u bet, and get called. And the turn doesnt help your specific hand this time. And u bet again, trying to get a fold. And u get called again... u just blindly jam ne river..? No, theres times to bluff based on ur opponents actions/ the strength of ur hand/ and the range you represent based on ur actions.
My problem is knowing when someone is smart enough to fold.
You can only bluff a decent or solid players, knowing your opponents is imperative before making bluff moves,
I once tried to bluff a guy in a tournament who nearly folded. His buddy had just come up to him and asked him to come play roulette. He wanted to leave the game. I'm such an idiot for trying in that spot!
I'm pretty sure my whole casino has seen this
I guess it’s my fault cause every time I see a passive player three bet me I go all In 🤣
does it apply for both cash and mtt?
Yes.
@@PokerCoaching Thank you Jonathan :)
why isn't flopzilla taking crypto for payment =\
This is a good video but from I've heard from most professional players, most of their money just comes from value betting
Your profit comes from correctly taking advantage of whatever your opponents' do incorrectly. Different opponents make different mistakes.
@@PokerCoaching most of them call too much tho 😄
There is always one jerk who votes thumbs down because they are unhappy with their lives. I feel sorry for them
I almost took a month off after a big hit to my bankroll. Instead I study more and play daily. Slowly building up a pot at a time!!
@@Motivatedk9 Love the gameplan brother, stay motivated ;)
@@gripsed I really appreciate everything you guys do!!
For a moment i thought this was about punches at the table 😆
Why is "BANKROLL" not one of your advantages???
I liked the video but it does contain some math errors. It needs a little editing.
Question:
- What level of player is this being pitched at?
- And how does that level relate to most of the lower stakes players we will come across in the casinos?
I ask because although I can follow a lot of this theory, and its very interesting, I am not clear on how far i need to take this to be confident I have an edge. Currently I have the time to study but not to practice (live) due to location.
I think this can very much be applied to $1/$2. This is effectively how good players exploit passive/loose players at the weaker tables.
Stronger opponents require you to understand ranges and call frequencies. Defending your blinds/position. Adjusting your play style based on your image at the table and what information you have revealed at showdown, etc.
But everybody plays like this now so poker is just a game of BINGO! Well done boys, poker is ruined with most people never understanding the real beauty of the game. You can play like this against me all day and eventually you will wonder where your stack went.
so never check... lol
been playing poker for years and I feel like I still suck
im kind of in the same boat. i do feel like im on the brink of being very good (i'd say im "good" now). Wanna link up somehow? I'm looking for people to talk poker with seriously.
KevinKoontzKing id be down to talk through stuff
KevinKoontzKing i would like to have contact about poker to Get better
It is almost impossible to bluff a novice player they don't know enough to fold. They could be sitting on pocket 66 and every card on the board has them beat with possible straight or flush and just because they have a pair in their hand they will call all in for their entire stack. they just don't know any better.
Yea, but you basically don’t bluff with completely nothing, especially there is no value to be gained by bluffing a funplayer or total beginner, as they will call you anyway not realizing 2 bb is, even if kinda deep with 50 bb, 4% of their whole stack. Doesn’t sound much, but could end a tournament live considering it could happen quite frequently -> if late reg is closed those ppl will get sorted very soon. Good advice is to really only value 3 bet those kind of people (I don’t even 3 bet my value hands like AK, they will call me anyway with A7 and hit the seven most likely and if they don’t call you loose a lot money because of there weak and many times overbluffed postflop game....), use sharkscope to look them up and adapt. At microstakes not adapting to their play style is just silly.
That’s why knowing the players will always trump odds… I’m getting good at guessing what my friends have/are hoping for based on how they play
Great video thank you!
I do hate to be critical but some of your math is well..wayy Off. However i dont think its a big deal in contrast to the big picture the good advice is more valuable than the accurate math in these instances. Thanks so much for all you do! Blessings!! i liked and subscribed :)
can you show us where he made mistakes?
@@sickchick3223 well, this guy has gone out of his way to make this presentation so I’m not going say anything negative. I will say that in the poker world there are is a secret motive for better players to target bad players. In fact, if it weren’t for bad poker players the good poker players could never thrive. In other words, so long as you can find bad players there is great profitability to be made. Just capitalizing on others mistakes. I would like to express my anger at casinos and online poker for stealing the games from the players by these disgustingly high rakes. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?? The rakes are down right criminal. Good poker players know what I’m talking about.
Lmao it's literally impossible to KNOW correct bet sizes unless you know your opponents hand. Which is cheating or educated guessing. Misleading amateurs to bet alot is pretty disingenuous
Guys, the 10 minute intros, (effectively), are so despicable, seriously.
the obvious isnot what it seems
Is it possible that online poker softwares have flaw and there are cheats or superadmins who can see other players hands?
Why is it that thin draws appear more percentage of the time than they are supposed to?
OK so like a regular kinda hoodie guy at Ft. McDowell Yavapai Casino is an amazing 8 hours at the low limit table. I was seat 6 and he was 8. Now I've been able to successfully try one of everything in 32 years of worshiping at club 52. But this guy beat all as he absolutely had the power to check for 8 hours and in 8 hours he stacked up enough chips to tip the table over. I would just play very few hands with him and only when I had the absolute read . This kind of thing is tricky. Body language of a yogi...Jesus help us .....and absolute control never raising flopping the nuts and watching all the new players dump their wad . I would have asked him to marry me if he had been a woman...he was like really making me laugh. The air conditioning when they opened up these Phoenix area casinos was just above popsicle and the steam was pouring actually rising off those old bean counters heads. Now I've tried a lot of crazy stuff. But I can't help but raise the nuts or dang near once In awhile. Better than me. Seeds of insanity were planted by this guy after we got up off the floor and try and stop laughing and get back to the game. Hey you try and check into a wheelbarrow full of chips
1st
3rd :( and since I'm not first, I must be...
What the heck more than 2 hours of video. Too…looooooooooong
Jonathan, this video is too long. You cannot just talk talk talk. I am 100% sure it can be shorter to cover the same thing!
I don't disagree, but it's being presented to you Gratis. Yes, people should organize their thoughts better, but especially "people-persons" just like the chatty-chat.
Dont be so lazy dude
if you want to learn you should be buzzing at 2 hours of in depth content rather than the standard youtube 10 minute blitz
Play more aggressively and lose all your money. 😂
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