Attempting to overcome HUGE Poker downswing in 2024
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2024
- Dealing with downswings while playing Texas Holdem Poker in 2024 can be very tough on your mental game.
In the first episode, I offer poker analysis and share graphs of my biggest downswing. I then go on to do several poker hand reviews before my final thoughts on the week.
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Jesus Christ this content is legitimately unreal, you massively undersold this to me 🤣🤣
newwwp
THE CHAMP IS HERE!
Can’t wait to see where you go with the channel this year, congrats on the first upload!
yooo yes jake! thanks a lot
Seeing as this is your 1st video, it’s incredibly well put together, it’s great content and I really like the format. Look forward to seeing more!
that's very kind of you. my boy ricky is to thank for the editing. if it was up to me it would be a legit powerpoint presentation :D
Amazing start to the channel Bena! Hand break downs are great and I'm looking forward to the next one. Cheers!
cheers justin! lemme know if there's anything else you think i should add
Excellent work Ben! Keep up the great work!
Boom thanks a lot mate
Loving this content!! Cannot wait to see more. Very inspiring and your thought process is so educational.
ayy thank you!
Nice one Ben really enjoyed your first episode! Hope you get out of the downswing soon, look forward to your next videos! Much love from Wellington New Zealand
very kind of you, thanks! glgl
Thanks for making the video! Keep em coming please. Loved Your hand reviews with Easty
thanks mate! more to come hopefully 🙏
Quality Vid! More please Bena!
more coming!
Amazing quality this channels going to be great Ben!
yo thank you! definitely loads of room for improvement
Been following on and off on 2+2 for a while so good to see you on here, content is great for a first video excited to see what is to come, hopefully get a video with you and clanty in the near future
we can definitely arrange that!
Have always loved your energy and disposition dude, happy to see a channel from you 🙂. I'm slowly grinding through the mids, so hope to see you at the tables some day! Kudos for not telling us about your 100k downswing whilst crying 🤣 we all would be!
Hahaha thanks mate! Gl on the grind and hopefully see you at the tables soon 🙏🔥
Love this mate, very enjoyable. Goodluck on the grind.
yo cheers henry! will definitely see you in the streets when im back in the UK!
Finally!! I've watched your hand discussion content with eastyy22 explaining in theory like 20x in .75 seconds just to make sure i understand what your explaining and consume all the knowledge and now you have your own channel. I will absolutely 100% support this mate so beautiful!
very glad you found the other stuff helpful and I hope you’re able to learn some stuff from this channel! ❤️
great stuff brother! good to see you here. pretty nice thought process, will be following for next contents 😎
ayyy the man himself. much appreciated bro - plenty more to come!
You are the champ bro keep going at it, i will be with you through out your journey
boom tytyty
Hi Ben, great to see you here on YT ! Really curious to see what you will bring up in the next videos . So far , i enjoyed this one very much ! Cheers
hey mate! gunna be a lot of this type of follow along. but hoping to keep increasing quality in the stuff i share and also the editing!
SOLID FIRST VIDEO BEN!!! I would love to see more of the lifestyle aspect of a highstakes online grinder
ayyy cheers mate! boulder, coffee, grind. rinse and repeat :D nah this will be something to consider for the future!
Don't mind if you do a short bouldering vlog😉
“Check the deuce four suited note one more time” - underrated comedy right there.
Great to see you have a channel - I still have your “nooooo it’s too thin!” voice ringing through my ears when I stacked eastyy for 800bbs back in the day on 888. Glgl, champ!
hahaha thanks mate! I have 100% gotta get an it’s too thin in a vid soon 🤣🤣
Do you have a link to the video if it exists 😂😂😂
Here’s the short version lmao
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@@BenaBadBeatPoker 😂😂😂😂❤️
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Great video, i love your explanations, they make sense and focuses on Big picture stuff instead of weird gto stuff that doesnt matter in reality
appreciate the feedback mate! yeah I’ll mention theory as a baseline but will always deviate if I think there are better ways to maxEV
Amazing video, please keep them coming!
yes sir!
Love this, keep it up Ben!
the lord blesses us 🙏
Excellent video!Thanks Ben
glad you liked it!
Love this content! keep it up bro
nice one nate!
Great video, can’t wait to see more! 😊
cheers Jess!
GL in 2024. Looking forward to the content.
thanks mate
JUST SUBBED… Really enjoyed the Video, Hand Breakdowns etc. Look forward to what’s Coming! GL
thanks Roy!
Top tier content. Got my subscription
yo ty mate!
the most enjoyable blog on PGC, glad to see u on YT! could u do a vid on yr biggest hero calls?
ah an old timer in the 2+2 streets?? yeah can definitely consider a video with that🔥
Looking forward to these videos!
ayyy cheers david!
insane production quality on the vid kid, looking forward to future content
ayyy cheers franky. loads of room for improvement but pleased you liked it
This is great Bena, more content like this!
thank you!
I'm in! looking forward to following your progress ;)
slowly building 💪
Great video! Even im plo player i found it very enjoyable and educational! Ty man!
thanks a lot! with the state of holdem atm maybe this'll become a PLO channel :D
Great video, tks a lot, keep it up!
Tytytyty
Great first vid Ben! Subd.
I wasn't a huge fan of the AhTd hand. I like the logic of the flop raise and given the wild cc range shifting to more x/r> than call seems good. Personally, not a huge fan of the turn barrel. Given fish there are a ton more 7x combos than a normal CC range, our Td blocks a bunch of his T9/T8 that fold turn (considering he'll probably have offsuit) as well as Tx bdfd that folds turn. When you get to the river I agree you probably just have to go with it but feels like a very sigh spot.
A4ss was absolute perfection.
99 hand, think not shoving his AQ on river was very, very strange, he probably should shove every non sd combo. I get the human logic of maybe putting you on A3 or 76s but compared to the value combos def a torch. Would have died laughing if you bluffed 65s :D
Excited to see more!
yeah that was something i didn't mention in the video - T is a pretty poor card to hold. but when you consider the width of their range of all hands i mentioned, blocking some combos of T9 and T8 probably isn't _that_ detrimental. i hear what you're saying tho!
yeah that's the thing, AQ will win here at least some portion. just lucky i had it this time haha
Great vid Can't wait to see whats next
more of the same but with improvements coming!
Awesome Video!
Looking forward to the next💪
💪coming soon!
@PokerFlex772 - how come you’re not posting vids anymore legend? They were great
@@redraw0160 Thanks! Posted one last week ;)
Great video Ben!
tyty!
Looking forward to your videos ❤
cheers paul. lemme know if you think i should add or take something away. you know YT better than me!
Great vid dude!
cheers josh!!
Awesome content, keep it up
thanks!
Excellent video Ben! For my 2 cents, the AKo river call was a punt. 😁
wish I could tell you you were wrong 😂
@@BenaBadBeatPoker😂😂😂
Great vid, look forward to more. One small improvement / feedback would be that the table resolution looks a bit low - small point but would be nice if it was sharper
hey mate. yeah this is something that irks me massively haha. unfortunately with screen recording and then clipping this is pretty much the best quality we can get. i'm considering a stream deck which would likely help with the quality, but that would mean my sessions would have that extra bit of work that could detract from my play. rest assured it's something i'm aware of. ty for feedback!
Cool to see you on YT ! Glgl
yo cheers brother!
Great content, getting in on the ground level of this channel feels like a great investment of my time 😅
hahaha it's only up (or who knows, down) from here 😆
Enjoyed the Vid!
cheers mate!
Great editing and content. Keep at it, and your channel is gonna take off. For the AK hand, we have narrowed his range quite a bit with the big flop sizing, so it is hard to have a ton of bluffs here. He has a ton of 6x and Qx, even with us blocking some KQ. I think we need to block more value, IMO. Ah/As are better.
thank you! yep totally agree with your analysis - As inf better. Ad is the same as the Ah tho!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker Ah blocks A6s. Probably doen't really matter though.
great video. saw you on the rail of WPT gold coast and everyone probably just thought u were a random fan of poker not knowing the mega beast that u are
well in fairness i legit didn't know what was going on in any of those hands haha. shoulda come over and say hi! do you live in aus?
Really like to hear your insight into blockers.
damn that qj jam from villan is so good, i would have never ever thought of it
very good jam!
nice one bena!
thanks kosgs!
superb content
thank you!
Love to see it 👊
yesss max! iggy collusion hh coming for you
@@BenaBadBeatPoker nice I got mannnny of them haha love me some bot poker
My man!! ❤
following in your footsteps once again
cant believe the goat himself is now doing youtube content!
Love the vids! Quick question about your rng, where did you get it from? I'm struggling to find something decent for GG
i was using intuitive tables but GG have now banned the use of RNG's while playing so i'd advise against it!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker ooo didn't know that, thanks
what rng software u use?
Great content btw keep it up!
intuitive tables but you're not allowed to use RNG's on gg anymore so be careful!
cool to see you are making videos. ive heard different people say things like "no one is winning at 1k on GG" or "ïts impossible to win below 10k on GG" just curious you thoughts on the ecosystem there. i started shot taking 1k recently on other sites
well I’m currently not the best person to answer this as I have been smoked on gg haha. without leaderboards at 1k, you will only win over a big sample with extreme game selection. honestly, if you have other site options then play most your volume there and select on gg. I’m prob gunna get banned for even promoting this to you lmao
@@BenaBadBeatPokerIf you table select you get banned 😂
Hyper clean banger out of the gate
Love to see it (the video, not the downswing :p)
nah c'mon everyone loves a downswing :D
Great video Ben I know you from Easty’s channel
yo, thanks!
Hi Ben, great video! What is a realistic winrate for a solid reg in the gg 1k games without an exclusive rakeback deal? Ive always avoided these games due to the absurd rake but a lot of regs seem to play them so obviously there is decent EV there. Looking forward to future vids!
without a rakeback deal i honestly think that 98+% of regs will be flat out losing. if you have other games to play, then continue playing those tbh. unless you can get a good rb deal and grind leaderboards (but this is a pretty rough working life imo) then you can expect around 0.5-1bb/100 post rakeback. take that all with a pinch of salt though!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker 4 tabling that would be 15-30 dollars an hour while swinging tens of thousands. No point playing poker in that case.
Really depends on what your goals are!
Awsome contents! Just curious what Rng software is this?
It’s intuitive tables!
Lots more please Ben
hopefully lots and lots to come
Epic content! Snap sub :) that what we need. Question, what bankroll you had to stay that big downswing? Of course you had some rakeback, so overall you lost idk 60/70k? How big roll you need to be alive on 1/2k? I have now big downswing too, same 35/40bi on nl100 and i thought 50/60bi is Sage but now i swe you can lose it in 2/3weeks... When i want Play for a livling on nl100 and my monthly spendings are 15bi, volume 60/80k hands its 100bi safe or not?
hey mate - thanks! good question. I don't really use BRM as much these days as I've built up a good roll over the last 10-15 years. that said, i am a big advocate for frequent and low buy-in shot taking. so for example if you have 50bi for 100nl, i'd look to shot 5bi at 200. if you lose that 5bi (including if you lose 10bi at 100 during your shot) i'd move back down to 100nl only to rebuild and shot again. the danger with only ever shotting the next stake with 100bi is that you can cap your earning potential. while this feels safer, it's certainly -ev longrun imo. feel free to ask any more questions - will be happy to answer! glgl
no way the goat is making videos
❤
Hope Benatube hits the moon. Great to see you on here.
🙏 cheers man!
ty for the video!
is this theory?
yes
you're welcome! glad you enjoyed. is this theory? prob not tbh :D
Thank god. Finally a poker youtuber who is winning at the tables.
lmao did you not see the graph?!?!?
Been following you for years and years brother. I know ur a crusher.
Great first video. wp.
appreciate that mate!
Oh give it to me for God's sake
consider yourself given
Welcome bena
got sent here by the 10nl god for algorithm pushing comments. great video keep em coming.
we thanketh the gods for their blessings
Love this content . U got a lifer sub from me
Thank you!!
Ak seems like a fold to me on R I think V ends up too strong when we use the large sizing scheme. Good to see you back!
in hindsight i definitely agree. tytyty
Miss the 2p2 blog
me too! but times definitely moved on from 2+2 haha
Great video Ben! Just wondering, what software do you use on GG for RNG and hotkeys? Thanks!
Intuitive tables!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker Thanks mate! Looking forward to more content!
Oh mate btw, they have just banned RNG’s on GG so please be careful!
@@BenaBadBeatPoker Thanks for looking out!
Lets go 🚀
Would have to give AKo with Ks the punt tag. Also think you are correct about As being good but you have the wrong reason. You mention BU not bluffing his As floats OTR like AJs, ATs etc. This might be true but he also does not have any other Ax floats to bluff in the first place, so As can't possibly be better for this reason, at best it's neutral if BU never bluffs As (which he could at some frequency)
The actual reason As is nice is because BU will be jamming turn over your barrel a lot of the time with his AQs, AQo, except AQo with As because he obviously blocks your bluffs, meaning we block more AQ OTR with As than other A.
Since missed Ax FD from BU may very well bluff at some frequency river I would say As is roughly neutral in this spot, while Ks is unequivocally very negative.
Solid content. I wonder if it gives your competitors too much of an inside look though.
as with ig and 2+2 i'm quite selective with the hands i post tbh. the goal definitely do have less jargon/pio type stuff, and more casual-ish hand review like today. ty for watching!
The last hand, the other guy missing the bluff itself on the river is -8bb in equillibrium and then calling given they did check is another -13bb EV loss
haha yeah ofc pretty questionable but also we all prob making plenty of ~10bb errors a session!
@BenaBadBeatPoker at high stakes do you think the 5k+ regs are still making big EV punts like that on a semi-regular basis that aren't intentional deviations?
@@kvnd7331 yeah i'd say it happens on a semi-regular basis
How are you finding the ante games on GG? Rake seems insane no?
yeah as always with gg, rake a total joke. i actually haven't played much more since that session. seems wise to avoid unless very + table
thats a really thin valuebet with QJs by villain.
Dont he thinks we check KQ here? Go for value with AQ and also check traps like QQ, KK, AA with no spades?
Do we check call with KQ here with no spade vs. missed flushdraws? and yeah get owned by potential AQ by villain?
Because his line is exactly what he had and I suppose he should check back river because we have traps: and hands that x call and beat his QJs.
PS: really amazing chanell, dude! love to see the insights of highstakes regs and how they think about hands! great content! (from a 50 NL upcoming grinder here)
thanks mate! it does look like it's on the thin side perhaps, but in reality as you say i'm just shoving all my Qx otr at this spr. you could be right that there may be some AQ, but i do believe that i'll have far more bluff catchers/Ahi. if nothing else, this is a great exploit from ip
Bro I know your voice from somewhere. What other poker shows or podcast have you been on?
hahaha. erm either mechanics of poker pod, easty22’s channel or my instragram page!
So in the AKo hand why do you want to call with a spade suit on the river? Wouldn't it better to not have that one, because then they could bluff with a missed fd? And again in the punt hand, why would it better for AQo to call with a spade suit?
yo! i think you mean why would i want to call the As on the river? The reason you'd like to hold it is because IP won't want to bluff their missed Ahi flush draws. therefore when we have it in our hand, it allows IP to hold more cards that will bluff. As for the AQ i'm not sure i said it would be best for them to call with a spade!
Lord Beat!
PRINCEL???
Tis I!@@BenaBadBeatPoker
I read about an old hand you posted in your twoplustwo and I got curious. Would you say I can call down river vs all oppnents in this spot or is this hand very opponent dependent? And would you have called if you didnt hit the J on turn? Action went like this.:
Hero is BB with 4♠ J♠
2 players fold, CO raises to $12.50, 2 players fold, Hero calls $7.50
Flop: ($27.50) 4♦ 6♦ 6♠ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $10.97, Hero raises to $35.96, CO calls $24.99
Turn: ($99.42) J♥ (2 players)
Hero bets $67.49, CO calls $67.49
River: ($234.40) T♣ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $421.20, Hero calls $421.20
Showdown:
CO shows 5♣ 7♣ (a pair of Sixes).
yoyo was this a hand i played? cus if i did, i'm not a fan at all looool. turn size makes little sense because i believe we wanna be more polar. Looks like i'm playing my hand a little bit. as played river looks good for sure. it would depend what the turn was for me to consider calling otr im afraid
@@BenaBadBeatPoker thanks! Yes you played this hans in 2018 or 2019 :). So you saying we can call on rivers that not complete the draws vs all players? This is not player dependent at all? (Im trying to learn poker) Do we turn our hand into river bluff jam on any rivers? Thanx for your answer ❤️
it’s a bit too hard to give you a solid answer but in short, it’s essential you only do this kinda thing vs players who you deem capable of bluffing. At micros, it could well be a torch vs plenty of players, but vs some it prints. Our exact hand probably never bluffs the river and we wouldn’t ever bet the turn for this size with a random 4x so we wouldn’t really have an opportunity to bluff. Hope that makes some sense
ATs hand the xR on flop def. not standard or great bcz the fish has like 35 combos of trips compared usual cold call range that has like 1-2 combos in practice so you def. want to stay off from xR and play whole range that continues as a x/C (except A7s, K7s and 66 which can obviously do this play) then his sizes on turn will full signal what he has, playing like this we set ourselves to bluff on bad spots mostly.
I def. know this spot very well .
thanks for the feedback! while i agree that they will cc a lot more 7x pre, that will also mean they have a whole host of other trash hands that we deny vs with our xr. having the Ah reduces flop floats too from ip. that said i can certainly be convinced that this line is too spew and unnecessary hahaha
Hello Benabee, have you considered retiring from Poker and becoming a full-time Fall Guys professional?
i would but my partner seems to have disappeared into the night :(
In my opinion I think your AK is a good bluff catch. But wouldn't most villains jam combo draws on the turn to realize there Eq and fold out hands like yours? If we think they do... we can eliminate some bluff combos so he raps more value then blüffs. Make that sense to you? Cheers from Germany wish you the best
yeah can definitely see what you're saying to be true. the thing is, lots of people are too scared to shove top pair vs big bet ott in the fear they only get called by better and fold out bluffs (even though this isn't theoretically sound). thanks for watching!
Thoughts on the data that Matt Berkey showed on his podcast where only 1 player was profitable on gg poker playing up to 200nl before rakeback??
it's correct data!
What randomizer are you using?
intuitive tables. but it’s now not allowed on gg so be careful!
Jarretman successor
The man himself cannot be replaced!
@@BenaBadBeatPokerI still search Help Me into the search bar every so often :(
as you should!
Sweet lord praise the day, Bena lad made a TH-cam video 🐫
my guy
How did you get access to Ignition?
i live in australia!
Pro playing must just be pure pressure every hand. Not going to lie, quite a few of them hands you lost I'd never have went for the bluff. But you're a pro and I'm not so I can't really argue
definitely important to have a mind of your own when it comes to poker mate! i'll be making plenty of mistakes but it's about making as many good decisions as possible too haha.
Is the AQ call so bad at the end? We could be overbluffing this spot pretty easily.
probably not the absolute worst nope! definitely on the spicy side tho
benbad beat this is a very good video hers a comment algorythems go
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you don't beat the game bro
it’s true!