Playing a 2,000 BIG Blind POT vs. the BIGGEST ACTION player in Dallas!! // Poker Vlog #61
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- We start out trying a new sport, golf. On our birthday! Turning 29 years old! Then a couple days later I hit the felt a play a massive pot !!
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Love his honesty about his poker. Love watching his posts.
Agreed. He just edged Brad out as favorite guy to watch (that should make him feel better..LOL). I think he has the best commentary out of all of them--he quickly gets into the action and speaks quickly and moves on, love that. As a kitchen table ''pro'' with 20 buck buy ins, Lex you are welcome anytime to play with us!! Keep making us videos bud!!
I can so relate to this frustration. Nothing worse than isolating a maniac after watching them donk off against other players and getting owned when they make a hand. It’s just tilting AF. You’re a good player and I have no doubt you’ll shake this one off and rebound.
Either he pays you off or he doesn't, maybe loosen up a bit but don't try to force it with those kinda players.
This makes me think of a quote from the late Lane Flack, a great professional poker player,never call off all your chips without the nuts!!! It’s a simple concept,yet, the money and ego cloud our minds from just folding. After all nobody else knows what you have unless you tell them. I know you show us and we appreciate your honesty and dedication to your fans in videoing the hands. There’s a very thin line to saving money and beating the variance. I learned long ago to just fold and Lane Flack has saved me tens of thousands of dollars over the years. Great videos as always Lex!
If you only call off your stack when you have the absolute nuts then you are an extremely exploitable player. That is dumb advice.
just say no...
@@sinatra222 not every session you play is with players that are capable of exploiting you either. You can table select weaker opponents and actually make more money if the players on the table have big enough stacks. Sure, it’s exploitable if you’re always playing regs or pros, but if you’re playing recs, not so much.
@@williamr4053 It sounds like you're saying that recs never go all-in unless they have the nuts, and that is simply not true. There are numerous times in any given session that I'll see a recreational player go all-in on a draw or with a made hand that is less than the nuts.
@@sinatra222 I’m smart enough to realize that. I never said to never call. Each hand is different my friend. Letting one go with tons of money on the line is not bad advice when you hold 5th nuts. I’m simply referring to his point about loosing these biggest pots that he’s ever played in. He mentioned 2 hands that cost him about 17k. That’s all I’m talking about. These 2 hands. Not the bottom full house over top full house hand either. I’m talking about a few videos ago and this video. Lex is way too good to be exploited by anyone. Thanks for your comment though. I see your point but it’s irrelevant to my post.
Not a pro by any means but I actually think your reasoning with the QQ set hand at 5:02 should be the other way around. When you flop middle set you can bet since you unblock all the top pairs that you want to call you, whereas when you flop top set you block top pair so heavily you can be more incentivized to check if it’s a dry board given it’s hard to get value from other hands
I think this is totally true in general, but they are playing insanely deep for a 2/5 game (Lex bought in for 800 BBs) so if he really wants to build a big pot, check raising would definitely accomplish that, and Lex unblocks some hands that can call a check raise, primarily AK
@@BrantzenPoker that’s totally fair
@@BrantzenPoker I think blockers are way over-valued. It's a full ring game, somebody always has something.
Over 1/2 the deck is used for just 1 full-ring hand. Think about that for awhile.
@@smokinjoe4709 ok but think about this: if lex had KK and not QQ that means there would only be one king left in the deck. Even if someone has it, there’s still only a small chance that their other card would be a good one that they’d even play, let alone one they’d call a check raise with. If Lex has QQ, it’s much more likely someone could be dealt a good king that they want to start putting money in with
@Amoral 100 and you wrote a comment on lex’s video stating “with poker now as soon as I hit I leave the games are getting too hard” so we know you are a fish
Lex, I feel your pain. It seems that whenever there is an action player, they always have it against me. I feed more donkeys than most farms. It is insane. I am sure you will bounce back!
Head up Lex, respect for the authenticity. We learn from our mistakes, it's just frustrating when we know better. Good luck
I think you handled that loss better than I would. I really enjoy your Vlog and have no idea why you don't have at least 2X the subscribers you do. It's honest, real and I like your analysis of your hands. Keep up the great work.
Lex, the outside influence from your friends and other players about the "action" player definitely affected your play. Imagine had you not heard all the "hype" about the action player, you would have laid that hand down. Stick to what you do, which is playing good cards. Forget the outside noise.
Totally agree
this!
agreed, action players will always find a spot to give you money, no reason to force it with one pair
Absolutely agree. The opportunity would of presented itself and that was not it. I think the outside influence played against you here and it cost you. You are skilled enough to play the game and make the calls when you know it is the right play. When it isn't, you fold. You'll bounce back, Dallas is the perfect place to do it. Lot's of action here. Best of luck and stay safe Lex.
I agree.
Lol I love seeing those fresh blisters from you golf venture 😆
This was an educational one. Thanks for showing the ups AND downs.
However, I respect the good, the bad, & the in between! You don’t see that often in vlogs and although it’s a nasty run bad, it’s the reality of poker and the love/hate relation we may have with the game. Thanks for the videos 😇🧡
Totally respect this! A lot of players/vloggers act as if they never loss! I was feeling bad about my $500 loss my last session but this puts it all in perspective lol thanks!
by far best poker vlogger ... keep it up LexO
It wasn't for 4k but I've done the same thing twice. Crushed my bankroll over a 3 week stretch, and I've taken a break. Our situation/lives are not even relatable...it sucks, but when I'm doing things against every fiber in my bones, it's no longer about skill or luck. You will turn this around. I understand you're vlogging and love the action...maybe play a little nitty for a session. Hey, even Rampage had to take a stretch of mucking a few that he would normally punt. New city, new home, new vibes, new everything. You got this...wish I could make Dec 1, but mid week from SC is a longer shot that me winning the WSOP.
Lex, better luck next time. I do appreciate the fact that you took time after the lost and talked to your audience. I agree with you, it’s a learning experience.
You said I hope you enjoyed this video and I Never enjoy seeing you lose! You have the mental fortitude to get it turned around! No doubt about that! Happy Belated Birthday Lex!!
Love the channel! keep up the good work. You are right up there with Brad Owen, Rampage and Mariano.
Solid vlog ~ brutal result. At least you’re bankrolled for it and honest about it.
First of all i wanted to thank you for your vlog. As a hobby poker player every video is like a juice for my day. I really appreciate your honesty and also showing the downs of the downs.
To the call with the action player i wanted to say: in my eyes your call was the right decision.
The player was known for playing stupid like going all in with nothing or so. Considering the information you heard, the call was just the right decision cause you had top pair and the nut flush draw.
In this context I imagine a player always going all in, the player might have aces… but it‘s very unlikely. You have to call this and I think you just got unlucky in this situation. In other words: you shouldn’t doubt your decision because every donkey has its day. You did right it‘s like flopping the nuts and losing to runner runner for me. Out of 10 times you win the pot 9 times against this type of player.. so good call!
Lex, your reasonings after the vlog is correct. Reflection is the most important aspect of poker pro.
Lex, thanks for showing the good and bad parts of poker. Also thanks for you being real about it. Those are tough hits, but keep grinding and trust your reads.
Happy Birthday Lex. Hang in there.
omgggg NOT THE RAMPAGE PUNT RELATION! 🤣😂🤣💀
Great vlog. Stay positive!! Great content. Thanks for sharing.
Happy belated birthday my guy. You'll get it back , skill over come variance
If I didn't know better would have sworn this was a rampage blog. Quads nuts nuts and punts. (Edit : note, rampage rivers a diamond that hand 11/10 times)
When you look at the turn and your hand it looks so pretty and it was a great move to go all in there.I’m saying it’s probably a set of nines or sixes myself and would just move on to the next hand. The hardest part about poker is folding. Good job none the less.
This dude roped all yall in to get that type of easy action. Consider that for a sec.
Happy birthday from Scotland mate! Same day as my son who just turned 2 :). Thanks for the vlogs!
It's happened to all of us. The action guys bankrolling or bankrupting... sometimes they just have it. Poker is a brutal game. Keep at it dude! GL
Love these sessions you play seems like you find the craziest poker players
Golf is exhausting. 😂 Anyway, my favorite poker vlogger! You just got into something you'd never do based on the hype. Lesson learned, you're still my fav!
Lol played with this guy the other day.. i 3bet him at least 15-20 times and he completely spazzed on me 3 times for 10k+ pots.. hes doing gods work bless him
Love the honesty.
A guy might indeed be an "action player" but often have it when very deep stacks go in postflop. He may "punt off his entire stack" when his entire stack is 100bb, but not when his entire stack is 800bb. Or maybe he did "punt" it off because someone saw him flash a diamond and assumed he had a naked flush draw when it was actually a combo draw and he had 50% equity. Rec players in a live setting may not be able to tell the difference. Also a guy may like punting with his pals or other donkeys but despise paying off obvious professionals who he knows look at him as a VIP and a fish, and against you he may know who you are and tighten up. People with mountains of disposable income are not usually vegetables and they may very well figure out ways to leverage their image. Maybe the guy is a station or a chaser and will put his whole stack in on a draw as the caller, but when he jams, he's weighted toward value. But yeah we all have 20/20 hindsight and you might just as easily have folded and he nods and shows kj saying "yeah, I had it" and no one would bat an eye, they would all say you were a moron to fold top top with the nf redraw. Of course IF he has it, it most often being a flush, then only 7 diamonds are left and you have 14% equity on the turn. I think the way to avoid this is just to be patient and make this guy show *you* that he's the specific kind of action player who will shovel in 400 bigs as a bluff. Don't rely on others' perceptions of him which may be wrong, or worse, engineered by the player himself. 50bb deep in a $1/$2 a donk is a donk, but at these higher levels there could be more leveling going on and people know you.
The thing about poker you learn everyday. Now you know you don't EVER EVER listen to outside noise about how someone plays. Yeah that's how they played against them but when they play against you they are nutted. Old school Texas hustlers will purposely dump a lot get word around than scoop up everything. Stay focused Lex still rooting for you.
I think there’s a touch of results oriented thinking about that big pot. Had you seen a bluff/over play OR hit the nut flush on the river after having given your reasoning behind the call, I bet you wouldn’t have given the hand a second thought of critical thinking.
Secondly, I find it funny (not in a haha way) how so many people can’t differentiate between the different ways a super action player plays pots. ie: A blind all-in pre flop vs a check raise followed by a jam post flop. Action players like to gamble but they’re not stupid. If they check raise big on an ace high board and get called. They know they’re likely up against a big ace. That’s not a configuration they typically jam on as a bluff. It’s what they do for value when they’re trying to get paid off. Not absolute but I play every week with this player type and although we like to make blanket assumptions, there is a method to their madness that most people have trouble identifying.
I’ve been on the losing end of those fun players plenty of times. It sucks but you’ll learn and will bounce back!
Your break down of this hand/ player type is spot on! When Alex said he wouldn’t be shoving for 5k + on the flop after check raising turn I paused video to think. I felt the only hand he would bluff with was A ♦️ and Lex obv had that card in his hand. So either has to be heavy value right?
That’s exactly what I was thinking.
Hated the results but loved the content ! Let’s get it back !
Nov 1 is my birthday too! Happy belated. Love your vids :D Catching up on the past couple weeks now.
Happy bleated birthday to you. I hope at least you are enjoying Texas. I appreciate your honesty, another good vlog. Thanks for making them. Don't worry about the loss. Your a really good player. You will recoup. Good Luck.
I love the fact that every time that you mentioned punting you flash a picture of Rampage, the punting King
Hang in there Lex ...and HBD !
This is a very selfish comment but as a 1/2 grinder who was on a 6 session win streak and just lost $1400 at tch Dallas in the past two days it feels nice to see someone who I respect so much as a poker player succumb to variance. As you said we just have to learn from our mistakes and move on.💪💪💪
HBD, bro and keep your head up! U’ll be on the other side of that spot in no time!
I have to say, your earlier vlogs received a lot of criticism, mine included. But as the vlogs progressed, so did your play and analysis. You got my respect brother! Always a player first, vlogger second. You don't make calls because "folding is boring" and go "content huntin" by fish puntin'.
Happy birthday Lex. That's the thing with bad players though. When they do have a good hand they are always gonna get over called. Sorry about the losing sesh and hopefully when you run into that player again it will be with the nuts for a 20k pot. 👀
I'm always that guy he has it against....until today
KK top set, QQ middle set, punt top pair for 4K, flop quads- “how do I run so bad”? 😂😂 gg
Funny but it is unlucky his opponent only had $200 when he hit the quads & was down around 4k.
Usually a big fan of the way you play. I find that people over embellish how “action” someone is and get you to call off light. I saw a similar vlog with Next Gen where some guy limp jammed 400 bb in 1/3. Anyone else would have put the guy on Aces but the “guy was drunk” so it was “unlucky that he had aces”.
Keep playing your style, it’s very good and you don’t need to hit a home run with those kind of players. In fact, I hate playing against maniacs because I want to overadjust against them incorrectly. They make hands just as much as the next one.
Good luck in your next session dude!
belated happy birthday, all the best on ur poker career 🎉🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂
Good ol’ Lake Park! Loved the intro, that’s a fun little course. Golf is just as infuriating as poker, man.
From what you video’ed of that course it wasn’t a golf course it was a cow pasture with flags 😊😊😊
We call Lake Park the “Slump Buster”, if you’re feeling bad about your game it’s a great place to play and not lose many ProVs LOL
Ouch……BUT I remember someone having a weeks worth of run bad on table 42 and then Bang!!! Just killing it winning huge pots. Cracking AA with quad 10’s, flopping top sets and turning nut flushes. Stick to your game. You will win and win big. GL friend
that happy gilmore bit hahaha
BAHAHAHA..."turns out, golf is exhausting". LMAO
Keep grinding , awesome vids good luck next time Lex
I learned in my own skin , no need to go to huge pots with just a pair . If I’m behind - then be it . Better Waite for better spots . Good luck in the future my man lex !
Happy late birthday man! Keep the great content coming!
These “action maniacs” or whatever you want to call them do this often …. They get a reputation of just being a crazy player then cash in on moments like this … I’ve been in similar situations
Rough session. Thanks for sharing. Looks like you need to stay playing in vegas!
Happy Birthday Lex O 👏👏🎂
Bro, you said exactly what I was thinking in the outro about that huge pot. Doesn't matter who the player is, calling off that much with one pair is never a good idea.
Happy late birthday bud. Love the content.
Happiest birthday bruh ❤️❤️
Not a bad call with the Ad. You’ll be good. Just keep the grind
Happy Belated Lex. On to the next. #RunGood is coming 🤙💪
Happy birthday Lex! And many more!
He is a business man. He shows and lost a few grand… then hooks everyone that he is an action player. 😀
Happy birthday Brother! mines the 13th! The run good is on the way!
Hey Lex. I'm on a down swing as well, 3 sessions down 2k. Hands were AA vs QQ, AKo vs set 7 on turns, 6s vs 2 pairs. is sad to even get bluff when the board dont pair
Nice vlogs man🤟🏻greetings from zurich, switzerland🇨🇭
I've never seen this dude tip a red chip in my life lmao..
Lex. Perry in Miami here. I love playing poker with you and learning and enjoying poker vlog. Stick to poker bro. Golf???? Lol
Actually decent natural swing for first time out
Poker is brutal sometimes Lex but such quality content. Thanks for posting this
Happy belated birthday
Lex we got the same birthday love the videos man 😊
Also no way that was a blind raise with pocket pair. I think Seat one is actually an experienced gambler.
he raised blind prior to that
Gambler maybe but not experienced poker player. The guy jammed with a set when the flush got there. Horrible play that worked out.
"Biggest punt of my poker career..." queue pic of Rampage. :-)
Happy birthday man 🎂
You're Awesome Bro, Hands Down.
Ayee November 1 over here as well! Spent mine getting called into work on what was supposed to be my first day of vacation so I guess we both caught some birthday run bad
The first hand i think you need to fold to after getting Check raised or use that river Jack and go for a big bluff. Easy to say after the fact. great vlog man!!
Love the rampage punt pic
Happy birthday 🎈 this shall pass.
Your channel it’s so cool and I’m proud that I played many times with you in Magic City
I his you best of luck
Keep positive brother. Thanks for sharing 👍👍
Oh great, you’ve discovered golf. No more poker videos for us lol. Damn good swing for a first timer!
no need to force your luck, lex! need to be patient and let it come to you.
My Bday is also 11/01. Salute and keep up the good content Sir!!!
I thought it was pretty funny that when Lex is talking about PUNTING off big bucks the video flashes a picture of Ethan Yao (Rampage Poker)! Lex; you devil! The content is excellent and I watch at least 5 poker vloggers regularly and yours rates among the top ones. Keep your head up; you’ll learn and do better.
Yep, that crazy player will entice a call. Tha sad thing is, players like that wake up sometimes. Don't be too hard on yourself Lex. You learned, so let's just turn around and run good now!!!!
I’ve been watching you a while man. I also lived in south Florida and now am in Dallas. If you drink beer, I’d like to take you out for one.
Love the content
Think you'll make it down to Austin to play at all?
I never post comments but just wanted to say love your videos and keep it up.
Agree, don't think that was the spot to call off but life is about making mistakes and learning from then.
On the flip side it made for great content. Your content is excellent and you seem like a very likeable dude. Do like how you show the ups and downs.
Keep grinding.
Happy Birthday!
Ever try out the other poker rooms in Dallas?
I've lived here all my life bud (I'm 51 years old)
That golf course is near my parents house!
Last time I was in TCH I looked for ya.
I spend most my playing time in Poker House of Dallas 5 miles south of TCH.
Moving to south Fl next year to pursue poker. Your vlogs have been very insightful and entertaining. Thank you.
This one hurt to watch, props for taking it as good as you did. This session sums up exactly how my time in Dallas went, horrible run. Was cool to play with you a few times while down there tho.
First, cool to see you vlog your journey bro keep it up.
luv that u keep it 100 bro..
Happy Birthday my Master
Happy Bday homie didnt think you were that young
So many hands beat you there bro with that AJ