Hey Lex, Great Video. I think everything you talked about in this video is very solid advice for low stakes players especially starting out. I remember trying to beat $1/$2 years ago when I first started playing cash and I was a break even player. I studied all the coaching sights but still never made any real progress as a cash player (solid tournament player). I finally realized that thinking in ranges, range advantage, nut advantage, and balance was just over thinking things at this level. It was way better just to play solid values with a tight range. Play suited cards, and mainly from position. When you flop your top pair with a good kicker, value bet to the river and collect your pot. Also, DON"T PAY OFF! Your tip about folding to big bets is very true, $1/$2 players simply do not bluff at a high enough frequency to worry about it, just FOLD! That was the biggest leak in my game calling big bets on the river. Once I plugged that leak things changed for me fast. Earned a subscribe from me, keep up the great work.. I only have seen a few of your videos but I like your no non-sense approach.
I am going to watch this before every session from now on. I've ruined two otherwise great sessions recently because I couldn't fold to a big turn bet raise with good but not great hands. Love your channel and congrats on the huge win you just posted. Looking forward to seeing all the action at TCH in the coming weeks. Keep crushing it!
This is my favorite, tips and strategy video in all of TH-cam. The reality is that a big portion of us who play poker as a hobby, or perhaps an extra stream of income do so at low stakes, and these tips and strategy are fucking GOLDEN, in it's simplicity. Thanks, good luck the rest of the year.
Great work Lex! I hope your channel explodes! The most important tip in this video is to keep it fun. Life is short enjoy your poker journey!! Thanks again!!
I've put some effort into learning enough to have a pretty great win rate at the small stakes, but I'll be playing live next week for the first time in well over a year. I feel like this video was a good review of principals to keep the odds in my favor. I don't want to play poorly due to COVID rust! Thanks bud!!
This is one of the better $1/$2 how to video I have seen. Although most we probably already do most of these steps, it does serve as a reminder to reevaluate things like if we are betting/folding in the right times, not c-betting into multiway pots, etc. which will save money.
Bet-fold is the best advice you can give to any low stakes player. So many players are married to top pair big kicker and too stubborn to fold. But most solid players have the discipline to pay attention to what they have invested and how much they are risking if they genuinely believe AK is good based on what they know about the opponent. Folding top single pairs is probably one of the hardest habits to learn
As someone who has only played 1/2 at a casino, I see most people not able to fold their top pair, this also makes bluffing less efficient too. Waiting for a big hand and being aggressive is the best strat imo.
Hey lex first time viewer here, really enjoyed your video and insight on your 1-2 strategy. Those are great fundamentals to worth with but I would like here a little more on exploitative play if for instance you have an edge on players at the table and how to properly use that! Thanks again for the vids great job man!
One of the best video I have watched with great tips. Thanks for sharing and good luck in Texas. Can't wait to see. Watch out for those Texas Boys because they love to Gamble.
when I was younger I would go to Vegas to visit family and I would play 1-2, but I didn't have very much money behind and I didn't realize how scared I was playing at the time, now I can comfortably buy in for the limit and my success has been far better... thanks for the content!
Thank you I appreciate your content, a lot of your strategies are nearly identical to mine. Short of Max buying at 1 to I have found my first buying being a short stack and accepting the money as already being gone enables me to play tight and get my head in the game before I start making moves yesterday 100 turned into 600 playing 1/2! And that was my first buy
I actually like the short buy as well. I think it comes down to your playing style and how many pots you like to play. Once I can get in the habit of protecting my max buy stack, I’ll feel more comfortable, but alot of that comes from the discipline you learn buying short. Not short like ‘$40’ buy in to 1/2. I wouldn’t buy in with less than 50BB but I found that I played sharper and smarter in position vs splashing/bluffing/calling too much with a max buy knowing I have max BB. Half max also gives you some all in protection where you might feel hesitant to push 200+ vis a guy that has you covered.
I love short buy on the first bullet and then buying max or 100bb… gives you a good chance to double up with a short stack going all in with a premium and running it out to the river… after that u play with a little house money and it starts to roll from there for me personally
great video and really good advice ... especially the last one .... got to give it to get it .. Nits get no action from this guy right here. GL in Texas
This is exactly where I'm at in my poker game, trying to get better at 1/2-1/3 This helps a lot with my poker game myself as I have learned a lot about myself in my own poker game.
I played there last week, good vlog! The thing I noticed about the Big Easy was the average stack size at the 1/2 tables was barely over $100. Keep up the good work Lex
What I didn't like about 1/2 or 1/3 NLH is the $6.00 rake , $ 1.00 is for the Bad Beat , and $5.00 for the rake , it's hard to come out a big winner especially when you include the tips . My money isn't long enough for the higher limits , with the way these youngsters betting as heavy as they do , so I gave it up . That's why I love to watch you bloggers play poker , at least I can watch and think about what I would do if I were them , :-) .
Find a social club to play at that does not charge rake but a door fee. They are few and far between but they are there ( they usually don’t advertise)
You are right. I’m really starting to pay more attention to the rake. Normally I play in Oklahoma and understand the rake is high but fair and it’s pretty standard between casinos. Was just in New York and the rake I can’t remember but it was really high. Plenty of action in NY and it honestly made the topic a little mute but ya they do hit it good on 1-3, 2-5 tables
I'm just getting back in to poker after taking a 5 year break. With the dividers up in my neck of the woods its a much less social feeling. Thanks for the video and good luck with your vlog.
The tip about folding pairs when check raised of the flop was a massive leak for me. Even when I have the possibility of making a draw or strait I tap pout because if we are being honest it rarely happens but our confirmation bias wants it to so badly we convinc ourselves a flush or strait is coming... It rarely does
Great tips for this level. Too many newer gto players at this level find themselves bloating pots with marginal hands preflop out of position and not being deep stacked. Also keeping it fun is a great and underrated tip. Got to be friendly at the table and not drive away the soft action players especially by berating them or calling out bad plays. If someone makes a bad play and sucks out on you, take a deep breath, say nice hand in a non sarcastic way and move on. Let them keep playing bad and hopefully get it back soon.
Watching your vid soon after busting out a cheap online MTT b/c I couldn't lay down Top-Top after being re-raised on. More discipline needed, thanks for the reminder.
This has been an amazing video! This has helped me so much. Could you please make a video like this for $2/5? I would like to know about ranges and how they may be different in $2/5. Thanks again for this video. This has really helped my game.
hey great tips and commentary, very helpful, I know you're higher stakes but I play 1-2 at the Hardrock in hollywood often and hope to see u there sometime! keep it up
Really enjoyed this one. Though there are vlogs out there with higher production values (let’s face it, no one outdoes Jaman in that department), I find your straightforward tips and observations the most useful out there for low stakes guys like me (I put in around 1300 hours last year). Thanks for the work you put in to produce these videos.
hard to beat 1/2 NL when the rake drop is usually $5 and also another $2 drops into the Bad Beat/Promotions pool and then you tip $1 to the dealer that is usually $6-$8 falling off of the table on every single hand, what many people dont realize is not only do you lose the rake out of every hand that YOU win but if you stack an opponent who just won for example 3 hands then all of that rake money is missing out of their stack in which you would have won from stacking them
Won about 700 in Vegas over the weekend playing 1/3 my first time in cash games usually play home poker, trying to get into becoming a competent poker player and moving into 2/5
good video Lex, I'm trying to improve my play at local 1/2/3 games. Question for you, how did you record your hands in the casino? Also how you keep track of all hand history you played? Thanks
Hahahaha some classic quiffs in there, using the actual OMC awesome, and Bill Perkins as your amateur splashy player perfect, and of course your girlfriend before going to college. Very funny vlog
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Hey Lex, Great Video. I think everything you talked about in this video is very solid advice for low stakes players especially starting out. I remember trying to beat $1/$2 years ago when I first started playing cash and I was a break even player. I studied all the coaching sights but still never made any real progress as a cash player (solid tournament player). I finally realized that thinking in ranges, range advantage, nut advantage, and balance was just over thinking things at this level. It was way better just to play solid values with a tight range. Play suited cards, and mainly from position. When you flop your top pair with a good kicker, value bet to the river and collect your pot. Also, DON"T PAY OFF! Your tip about folding to big bets is very true, $1/$2 players simply do not bluff at a high enough frequency to worry about it, just FOLD! That was the biggest leak in my game calling big bets on the river. Once I plugged that leak things changed for me fast.
Earned a subscribe from me, keep up the great work.. I only have seen a few of your videos but I like your no non-sense approach.
I am going to watch this before every session from now on. I've ruined two otherwise great sessions recently because I couldn't fold to a big turn bet raise with good but not great hands. Love your channel and congrats on the huge win you just posted. Looking forward to seeing all the action at TCH in the coming weeks. Keep crushing it!
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This is my favorite, tips and strategy video in all of TH-cam. The reality is that a big portion of us who play poker as a hobby, or perhaps an extra stream of income do so at low stakes, and these tips and strategy are fucking GOLDEN, in it's simplicity. Thanks, good luck the rest of the year.
For the algo! Love the 1/2!
As true today as back when you made this blog. Keeping us engaged and entertained for the last few years. Well done
YOUN EXPLAINED EVERYTHING IN ABOUT 10 MIN THAT I WATCHED SOMEONE ELSE EARLER EXPLAIN IY IN 2.5 HRS. GOOD JOB BRO
Bet folding! A true disciple of Bart Hanson. Found you through the call in show and am loving the content my man
Great work Lex! I hope your channel explodes! The most important tip in this video is to keep it fun. Life is short enjoy your poker journey!! Thanks again!!
Stumbled onto this video a couple years after you posted it and i just wanted to leave a compliment. Great content with real world examples
I've put some effort into learning enough to have a pretty great win rate at the small stakes, but I'll be playing live next week for the first time in well over a year. I feel like this video was a good review of principals to keep the odds in my favor. I don't want to play poorly due to COVID rust! Thanks bud!!
I dig this video. Keep em coming Lex.
*GREAT editing with the tips & strategy and interspersing the live action!*
Nice to see some more Florida guys doing this
Thanks for the effort
This is one of the better $1/$2 how to video I have seen. Although most we probably already do most of these steps, it does serve as a reminder to reevaluate things like if we are betting/folding in the right times, not c-betting into multiway pots, etc. which will save money.
Bet-fold is the best advice you can give to any low stakes player. So many players are married to top pair big kicker and too stubborn to fold. But most solid players have the discipline to pay attention to what they have invested and how much they are risking if they genuinely believe AK is good based on what they know about the opponent. Folding top single pairs is probably one of the hardest habits to learn
As someone who has only played 1/2 at a casino, I see most people not able to fold their top pair, this also makes bluffing less efficient too. Waiting for a big hand and being aggressive is the best strat imo.
Hey lex first time viewer here, really enjoyed your video and insight on your 1-2 strategy. Those are great fundamentals to worth with but I would like here a little more on exploitative play if for instance you have an edge on players at the table and how to properly use that! Thanks again for the vids great job man!
One of the best video I have watched with great tips. Thanks for sharing and good luck in Texas. Can't wait to see. Watch out for those Texas Boys because they love to Gamble.
when I was younger I would go to Vegas to visit family and I would play 1-2, but I didn't have very much money behind and I didn't realize how scared I was playing at the time, now I can comfortably buy in for the limit and my success has been far better... thanks for the content!
Thank you I appreciate your content, a lot of your strategies are nearly identical to mine. Short of Max buying at 1 to I have found my first buying being a short stack and accepting the money as already being gone enables me to play tight and get my head in the game before I start making moves yesterday 100 turned into 600 playing 1/2! And that was my first buy
I actually like the short buy as well. I think it comes down to your playing style and how many pots you like to play. Once I can get in the habit of protecting my max buy stack, I’ll feel more comfortable, but alot of that comes from the discipline you learn buying short. Not short like ‘$40’ buy in to 1/2. I wouldn’t buy in with less than 50BB but I found that I played sharper and smarter in position vs splashing/bluffing/calling too much with a max buy knowing I have max BB. Half max also gives you some all in protection where you might feel hesitant to push 200+ vis a guy that has you covered.
I love short buy on the first bullet and then buying max or 100bb… gives you a good chance to double up with a short stack going all in with a premium and running it out to the river… after that u play with a little house money and it starts to roll from there for me personally
I created a google account just to mention that I think it’s crazy how far you have come! I hope to follow in your footsteps. Good luck!
great video and really good advice ... especially the last one .... got to give it to get it .. Nits get no action from this guy right here. GL in Texas
This is exactly where I'm at in my poker game, trying to get better at 1/2-1/3 This helps a lot with my poker game myself as I have learned a lot about myself in my own poker game.
Love this vlog Lex! Great content!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good stuff! Play at Hard Rock 1/2 twice a month and this vlog is very informative. Keep up the good work bro...
You have my like and my subscription. 1st video I see and wow you are going to rise my friend.
I’m dying at “I diDNt wAnT To sEE a FloP” lmao
I’m that guy 🤦🏾♂️fuc jacks 😂
Really loving your videos and really appreciate the great advice. Top notch channel so far sir :)
I played there last week, good vlog! The thing I noticed about the Big Easy was the average stack size at the 1/2 tables was barely over $100. Keep up the good work Lex
They try to make a living- most of them thing they are pros
Yikes
What I didn't like about 1/2 or 1/3 NLH is the $6.00 rake , $ 1.00 is for the Bad Beat , and $5.00 for the rake , it's hard to come out a big winner especially when you include the tips . My money isn't long enough for the higher limits , with the way these youngsters betting as heavy as they do , so I gave it up . That's why I love to watch you bloggers play poker , at least I can watch and think about what I would do if I were them , :-) .
Find a social club to play at that does not charge rake but a door fee. They are few and far between but they are there ( they usually don’t advertise)
You are right. I’m really starting to pay more attention to the rake. Normally I play in Oklahoma and understand the rake is high but fair and it’s pretty standard between casinos. Was just in New York and the rake I can’t remember but it was really high. Plenty of action in NY and it honestly made the topic a little mute but ya they do hit it good on 1-3, 2-5 tables
@@collinrasmussen5630 where are those at? What states, how to find them?
@@ProMainMan everywhere in texas
I live in Reno Nevada. My place only has one blind. And it’s a timed rake, every dealer change. And with that no rake in the pots
Great video. On my way to Vegas for first time in 2 plus years. This was a great refresher to keep it simple at 1/2 2/5 this next week.
Great video. TY for posting. Love the "Fold" advice if you have top pair and they raise you. I need to instill that into my game.
I'm just getting back in to poker after taking a 5 year break. With the dividers up in my neck of the woods its a much less social feeling. Thanks for the video and good luck with your vlog.
Love these vids and content 👌, watching all ur vids
I appreciate it!
Lex in the 1/2 streets baby!
The tip about folding pairs when check raised of the flop was a massive leak for me. Even when I have the possibility of making a draw or strait I tap pout because if we are being honest it rarely happens but our confirmation bias wants it to so badly we convinc ourselves a flush or strait is coming... It rarely does
Hi Lex!! I love your videos! Thank you, and please keep them coming! God bless! 👍🙏👍
Great video, solid advice and Play. Keep up the Good Work!
Lex great content.I see you were playing at my second home the Big Easy Casino.1 table every night has the tighties playing for the high hand.Lol😀😀😀
Great tips for this level. Too many newer gto players at this level find themselves bloating pots with marginal hands preflop out of position and not being deep stacked. Also keeping it fun is a great and underrated tip. Got to be friendly at the table and not drive away the soft action players especially by berating them or calling out bad plays. If someone makes a bad play and sucks out on you, take a deep breath, say nice hand in a non sarcastic way and move on. Let them keep playing bad and hopefully get it back soon.
I like the tips. Thx for the videos . I learn a lot. 😁
subbed, from malaysia here. 1st time watching ur vid/
Just found your volg. Love it. Thanks.
Thanks man! Busted 2 BI’s in Tampa Hard Rock 1/2 this helped a whole lot though for next time 👍🏽💯
Great Tips for 1-2 players!👍👍👍🍀🍀🍀💵💵💵
Good video. Smart, succinct, easy to understand, and making it fun, is great advice!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The college joke was fire and so is the vlog
Very nice blog ,
Probably your best until now !
I enjoy your tips
Thanks
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Love these tips and strategy videos. Keep em coming!
Lex, great stuff as usual. I love how you dissect strategy during the hands. Keep up the good work.
Loved getting the tips! Love your channel, man. Great content.
Yes brother more videos like this, with value and tips
Great Video man. I'm starting to play live more now and this helps! Saw you at Magic City the other day btw. Keep these videos coming.
Thank you for the tips. It is always hard for me to fold pairs so good reminder. Cheers
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Thank you for this Lex!
Watching your vid soon after busting out a cheap online MTT b/c I couldn't lay down Top-Top after being re-raised on. More discipline needed, thanks for the reminder.
Loved the episode. Great refresher for beginners. Keep up the awesome content. 👍🏼
Showed the bluff and crushed his soul. 😀👊
Great info great tips, very much enjoyed. Keep up the great work!
This has been an amazing video! This has helped me so much. Could you please make a video like this for $2/5? I would like to know about ranges and how they may be different in $2/5. Thanks again for this video. This has really helped my game.
hey great tips and commentary, very helpful, I know you're higher stakes but I play 1-2 at the Hardrock in hollywood often and hope to see u there sometime! keep it up
Really enjoyed this one. Though there are vlogs out there with higher production values (let’s face it, no one outdoes Jaman in that department), I find your straightforward tips and observations the most useful out there for low stakes guys like me (I put in around 1300 hours last year). Thanks for the work you put in to produce these videos.
Nice to see that you teach while you play great video! Hope to see more videos like this
solid tips/reminders, subscribed!
Really like your content and play! Gotta say very good! 👍
Subscribed! Thank you! Appreciate the good tips and vids.
Great content as always! 😎😎
This video is the first one I've seen by you. Good idea of uploading a variety of stakes.
Thanks for tip..You got lucky with the Ace/9☘👍
Keep up the good work - greetings from germany
I like your play and mental attitude. Good luck.
hard to beat 1/2 NL when the rake drop is usually $5 and also another $2 drops into the Bad Beat/Promotions pool and then you tip $1 to the dealer that is usually $6-$8 falling off of the table on every single hand, what many people dont realize is not only do you lose the rake out of every hand that YOU win but if you stack an opponent who just won for example 3 hands then all of that rake money is missing out of their stack in which you would have won from stacking them
Won about 700 in Vegas over the weekend playing 1/3 my first time in cash games usually play home poker, trying to get into becoming a competent poker player and moving into 2/5
I missed this one. Watching now. 1/2 is my stake. I’m grinding and getting better. 🤓👊😅
Great vid Lex. Some good advice.
Great video man. I just subscribed.
Loved that place when it was Hollywood Dog track. Quick fact: Miami Vice taped an episode on location back in 1986.
good video Lex, I'm trying to improve my play at local 1/2/3 games. Question for you, how did you record your hands in the casino?
Also how you keep track of all hand history you played?
Thanks
I found this video to be helpful. Thanks and good luck!
Check raise your bottom pair on the flop to fold out any pros at the low stakes tables! 😂
Hahahaha some classic quiffs in there, using the actual OMC awesome, and Bill Perkins as your amateur splashy player perfect, and of course your girlfriend before going to college. Very funny vlog
The joke about the guy who didn’t wanna see a flop with jacks was also gold
Great video. Super useful advice for a beginner such as myself. I just need basic information that I can use in my initial hours.
Great tips. I concur with all of them !
Haha I have footage of playing with old man coffee in our meetup game in Vegas lol! Great advice for the 1/2 tables tho. Keep it up!
Glad you like the video thanks for the support !
Nice format - tutorial for beginners and a revisit for the higher stake players - loved it!
This was a good episode
Good stuff thanks for sharing!!!
Great videos!!! Please, keep them coming!
Thxx lex thats some good advice!!😊
Excellent tips ! Thanks so much
Keep the videos coming!!! Great content!
I'm a tournament player how much do you typically tip a dealer on a win.
I play after 9pm on Friday and Saturday night and do very well against the drunks. Plus it is usually a fun social table.
having the hand sanitizer as the button was pretty funny
Appreciate the tips, thanks Lex!
thank you so much for this video! it has helped me so much!!!
This was an awesome episode
What I love about this is it’s in my backyard lol. We should link up lex!!
The biggest degens in south Florida are at the big easy lol
About to try my luck live for the first time. Needing all the tips as I can get.