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Bs quiz :) I am always good at cashgames until i fuck it up lol, not objective however something else that is more important, I don't agree with you to value bet and wanting your opponent to call always... It's always better to take down a smaller pot rather than to risk still losing the hand/pot. Your opponent can easily upgrade his hand, if not they wouldn't have called in the 1st place, you gotta make em pay to see the turn or river, I like that approach much more. It's same with question if you bet when you got a lower pair on the flop, considering it's not HU. I always bet, cuz if you don't you can lose the hand later on by opponents that make a hand.
Neel, I agree no river, no fish. Get em out and take it down when your out of position. If your in position and the draws are not on the board and the preflop action dictates his range is limited as compared to the board, and your stack (and your emotional esteem) then string him a long. Assuming he is a straightforward player and he didn’t check his aces pre-flop or something. It’s safe to say, you don’t know the table for the first hour, you won’t know most of the individual players until the 7-10th hand played.
So last month I asked 3 of my friends who are semi-pro poker players who they would recommend as a good coach as I look to step up my cash game stakes from $2/5 to $5/10, and they unanimously said "Jonathan Little". So, here I am. Excellent content so far. I look forward to some deeper lessons once I sign up for your masterclass!
Been watching consistently for about a year now and your videos have helped my game tremendously. Finished 4th Out of 1,080 field this weekend at a live $360 event and couldn’t have done it without your help. Appreciate all the hard work and good will you bring to the game.
Hey Jonathan. The quick note you made about bet sizing in the value betting section has been very helpful. I noticed that I was betting too large for value on every street. The words that stuck out were that I was forcing my opponents to play well. I'm very confident that's what was happening. My bets were only allowing hands that had good equity to continue, and I was folding out all hands that I was well ahead of. I've adjusted my sizing, and it's been helping a lot. Not only am I getting to showdown against worse hands more often, but I haven't committed as many chips by the river when the flush comes in and they put in a big raise. Anyways, thanks!
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This webinar helped a lot for the lower stakes, it is easy to start caling down to much, since you think ppl are capable of bluffing, but the reality is often different
The most common mistake I make at cash games when I'm playing bad is bluff-catching too much. They just aren't bluffing nearly enough to warrant it. You couldn't be more right.
2 years ago ppl did 3bet jacks there as a default!? I dont think so , i think linus and redbaron would 3 bet jacks as a default there 4 years ago! So i dont know what to say!
Refreshing to find content from someone who is so enthusiastic about the game, and doesnt get involved in he said, she said politics. Love your content Jonathan. will def be signing up at the site.
I'm referring to your T9 spades on the button example. I guess based on your logic of how to play the river with this hand against the bet, and now has me kind of questioning whether we should have been playing this hand at all. On the flop we called the bet because you thought we wanted to hit a flush. Same on the turn. The river we make our hand and now we don't like our hand enough to raise when we are pretty sure that we have the best hand. it kind of makes me question whether we should have been calling those bets with this draw to begin with. I'm not trying to be negative or critical i appreciate the video also.
Totally on board with this comment. We also have to have in mind that even the best cash low live players aren't folding any two pair or better on this run out. (Low stakes). And we have the third best possible hand. Pretty happy to put all my chips in here. If he triple barrels with the NFD or 2NFD he is not as tight as we think he is. This line on most TAG low stakes live cash game villains is KJ and sets. IMO
JL likes to say to call with your sc's if you are getting 20 to 1 implied odds. Some people wonder, yeah, but can we really expect to get 20 times our pre call? In this hand, we called 7 and opponents put in 246. We won 35 times our pre call playing passively. Imagine if we were in a situation where we could be aggressive.
In this hand you start off defining their range pretty wide, but the flop and turn bets narrow their range substantially (including: aces, ak, kq, kt which will not bet this river, but also sets, kj, nut flush draws, and bluffs like qt or even AQ with the A of spades). We are still ahead of most opponents bets on this river bet and have a very profitable call, but not enough of those hands that we beat will call the raise. This doesn't mean we wouldn't bet this river if they checked!
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You just earned a new subscriber, good stuff Jonathan, always looking to improve aspects of my game, and I think there are a lot of insightful points and theory here, thank you.
Am fairly new to poker, I have played a few small stakes tournaments but, after watching this, I may actually attempt a cash game. Can't wait to watch more material by Jonathan Little!!!
This lesson was helpful. I appreciated the points about not being afraid to value bet, especially on three streets. I've definitely been missing some value by checking back the river too often. Thanks!
That $60 bet into like $360 on river with K9 is exactly the kind of bets I see at my games, and I'm always tempted to raise it as a bluff except I don't because I've seen those same guys then call with K9.
I do think the donkbet (leading into preflop aggressor on the flop) is underrated at low stakes, I try not to do it (because you basically have much less information about what the other guy is thinking if you lead and so the chance of bluffing away your whole stack by the river goes up) but I think it works way too often in small stakes, people just love to fold, most of them. I don't know tho, I really will try and pay attention to that. Maybe everyone's just adjusted by now since I last played.
Thanks for everything Jonathan. You do an excellent job teaching in a manor that really sinks in. I really appreciate your hardwork and all the content you produce.
So much good info. Notices I can't remember it all. So now have a notepad with me for webinar time. Thanks Jonathan for your straight forward lessons 👍
Love the first slide. I would say my $550 profit playing 1/3 last night would have been closer to $800 if I value bet more on rivers when ops are calling down. Sometimes when 1 str or fl card comes in, I check behind whereas a small value bet/fold strategy would have earned me chips several times. It's so tempting to want to realise your equity without risking more chips whilst avoiding a large potential check/raise. Who wants to face a massive raise when you have top two or trips and be put in a real spot. I have made more 1/3 pot bets on rivers in these situations lately from watching your videos, which sets the price but has also been definitely profitable overall when I have a strong hand. The other thing is, when you don't value bet strong hands on rivers, the stronger players notice your timidity and likely work in some big raises to take advantage of you.
thats interesting , against good opponents who think 1/3 size is weakish and bluffraise or even value raise a weaker hands it is good to trap them by going thin for value as most of the times they will either call a weaker hand or bluffraise which you then can snap off
I had watched this video previously, but decided to watch it again as an adjunct to the 30 day challenge. For the 30 day challenge, one of my goals is to take notes as I watch the content, so I decided to do that here. It took me longer to get through the class but by adding comments and ideas to my outline based on the bullet points on the slides really helped me understand the content better. I also tried using the pre and post-flop GTO (approximation) charts available in pokercoaching.com and used the range analyzer tool, also on pokercoaching.com, to better understand the ideas Jonathan is communicating. I had good results with this approach.
In the 10s high flush vs the set of jiggities hand, I read his (too large) river bet size of 150 as putting you on AK or KJ, looking for value. I'd only call a passive player - I'd raise the action guy hoping he's a dummy that's in love with his set.
Jonathan I hope you read this and respond. Where I lose my majority of BIG POTS are sets against sets! I believe if I ever learn how to get that part of my game in check, I will catapult!! Any advice or maybe a video on talking about that!!?
I enjoyed the video. Good job explaining the logic behind what we're supposed to do and highlighting situations where exploitative play may be different.
Where are you playing 1/2 with people who open to 7? In Detroit, the standard raise is 10-15 dollars. It makes the game super easy to play because they constantly create 3-5 SPR spots with hands that want at least 7 or greater.
The card rooms I play regularly in California it's the same thing. In the $1/2 NL games, the standard open is usually $12. In the $2/5 game the standard open is usually $18-25.
that varies game by game, i've seen 7 be somewhat standard for maybe at least 40% or around that of any given 1-2 game. it would/should also vary by buy in. if a game has a 200 (or the more rare 100) cap on a 1-2 game rather than 300 cap (probably also standard) 7 vs 12-15 opening bet is much much better as it allows for much more SPR play.
plenty of places open to 7$ its annoying as fuck people do it. these are not your gto games lol. but yeah most places i have been you see all the ragnes from 5$-18$
Rake in California for 1/2, 1/3 ranges between $5-7 depending on where you play. At casinos where jackpots are legal, the rake tends to be a little more, since a percentage of that rake goes towards the various jackpots offered.
I don't normally play cash games as I'm more tuned to tournament play. I've learned a great deal from this video alone. I'll have to review the video again for full understanding. Great information!
Great content as always! I’m attending a new Cardroom tomorrow to play some cash games and to see how the Sunday tournament turns out so I can enter next week. Your content gives me the edge!
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Ever since I have started studying along with Jonathan and his coaches I have been thinking a lot in terms of ranges. Thinking in terms of ranges is amazing! It has gotten me out of a ton of situations where before I would have called or made some kind of different error. The last session I had I folded top pair top kicker on a Q-9-4 rainbow flop to a straight forward player who raised my bet on the flop. He showed me his set of nines after I reluctantly folded. He was impressed with my lay down but really, what else could he have been raising that that spot? Q9s? I know I'm not giving much info about the hand, but yeah haha
Been watching you for the last week and the way you look at the game of poker is amazing I’ve only been playing since I turned 18 5 months ago but you’re teaching me so much
Doesn’t the solver have you bluff raise your baby flush draws sometimes too? I realize this is multi-way so different but I seem to remember there being a frequency for that
So I'm between going with this or getting Upswing. I have reached my limits of what I can learn without coaching. I just don't know which one is better or which one will be better for my play/learning style
I would recommend to try it out and see what you think. We have many members crushing the small and mid-stakes, and they seem to love the Cash Game Masterclass and PokerCoaching Premium. But, if you're not happy with the product, just email support@pokercoaching.com and we will give you a refund.
Brik Haus I’m having the same dilemma. I’m also thinking about Solve for Why. Please let me know what you choose and how it’s working for you. I’m a live player so I just want to make sure I pay for the best fit for me.
Little has better content in my opinion but if you have reached your limit and have hit a plateau coaching probably isn’t all you need. To reach a whole new level you have to have a group of good players you can talk hands and strategy with, and then play a lot vs solid competition.
I get back into poker for awhile, do well and then boredom overall settles in. I think setting a goal and schedule is going to help greatly. Starting tonight, cash game weeknights and MTT's on the weekends (with cash in between).
I made the mistake learning poker investing all of bank roll on little games but love deep stack tournaments so I should have been playing deep stack live getting back into the craft. That said I do better buying in minimum because I love to suck out and if I play right with a little stack I’ll fold too much and put myself on tilt. Should I buy in min at the 300-1000 and hit and run? Till I build a bank roll or continue playing lesser players who always see a river? Thanks
Good content. For me the most helpful lesson was about range and nut advantage. It’s easy to mindlessly check or bet but thinking about this application from various ranges versus other ranges will be great!
Just learning some poker strategy and am enjoying your videos! I wanted to say that I love that in the title card you're wearing the "Animal Spirits" t-shirt that was from the Planet Money Kickstarter campaign. I've never seen another one out in the wild! Cheers!
Great Video, I’ve won 3 $75 live tournaments at MGM Springfield in the last 2 months...cashes in 6 of them. Your videos are very helpful. I seem so be doing better in then tourneys than my 1/2 cash games even though you say they are same...I can’t get any bluffs through in my cash games but in the tourneys they’ve been the difference...
I play mostly small tournaments, but the advice from this webinar still applies. I am one of those who doesn't value bet enough. Time to make that adjustment
So I figured out a way for myself to remember everything I need to think about and take into account preflop. It's the 6 P's Position Potential (hand strength etc.) Profitability (stack sizes/how much I can win) Pot odds Player (who's in the pot who's left to act) Previous action This may not help the average thinking player but a person like me I need a way to remember everything preflop so I don't get myself into bad situation postflop.
Just come across this as im moving from 25NL online to 1/2 live cash games. In the example with K9o, you're assuming that players are 3betting KTs+ and KQo and folding KTo-KJo from the SB vs a BTN raise right? The thing I've seen a lot at 25NL is players will more often than not flat with these hands from the SB, and call down all 3 streets when rhe BTN takes that line. So is the solution either to open a slightly tighter range on the BTN if you know the players in the blinds are over-calling, or to play the same opening range but to play hands like your weaker top pairs more passively?
So, I want to do a low (around 35 percent pot) bet? To make my oppent call with like second pair? - my question is, if you have a high frequency betting, people should stick along with a weaker holding like second pair and draws? And therefor keeping a higher bet size maybe 60 percent pot, would still be viable?
I only played live cash 3 times, when I was first learning poker. I lost but only a little. I did well for a newbie. Here I am, many months later, and I know my game has improved. I am also working through your Cash Game Masterclass, which is great. However, I am getting crushed on the PokerBros app. Do you know anything about this app? People are very splashy and very LAG. I've had the worst bad beats. It has hurt my confidence and wallet. Do you think if I stink on PokerBros I will stink LIVE? lol any advice. hope you see this. I know you must be busy.
Scott M BRO. Live poker is the only way to truly train yourself. When the person is in front of you, you can read them unlike online when you can only rely on betting patterns.
material that helps us "old timers" who started playing very late in life ( around 2003 or so, and not for money until 2004-05), and have to compete with lunatic aggressive styles of play.
Hello, I was wondering what your thoughs are on small-medium pocket pairs? 8 8 to 2 2. Should you call big pre-flops bets with these hands to see the flop?
In some of your more recent videos you said it was against GTO play to bet less than half pot on river. Maybe that was in a tournament scenario. I agree with the value bet size here, just was curious if I misunderstood your more recent takes.
Good tutorial. But most often when u flop a good hand, if you value bet small on turn , more ppl will reach there(draw or 2 pair) on river. Become a headache in online poker for me. Any suggestions?
I play 1-3 cash games nl Hold’em I always have a short stack so I usually just play straight forward if I have a good hand I play it if not I fold I know that’s not smart so what can I do to better my game? I start usually 35 bbs so I’m not staring extremely short stacked .. any help would be amazing!
I play a very tight strategy and eventually find problems getting action due to the fact that sometimes I'd only see maybe 1 flop an hour, sometimes less, depending on how card dead I am. Any suggestions as to switch it up a little? Thank you Jonathan!!
Value value value!! Watching live streams a bunch lately and it’s baffling how many players hand after hand just leak value street after street. The last thing I want to do is win the minimum.
In that flush example hand: how are you calculating your equity with made hands...so in this case, ten high flush. Obviously we can calculate the pot odds and we'd always want equity percentage to be higher than pot odds percentages for +EV plays so in this case, it was the flush draw and gut shot so about 12 outs but I'm just a little confused about how to calculate our equity on made hands?
I've watched this video before, and just watched it again for the giveaway. I'm glad I did, I wouldn't have realized how much I missed from it. I'll never watch another one without my notebook next to me! Thank you for this kind of content JL. I appreciate the knowledge and experience 👍
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Bs quiz :) I am always good at cashgames until i fuck it up lol, not objective however something else that is more important, I don't agree with you to value bet and wanting your opponent to call always... It's always better to take down a smaller pot rather than to risk still losing the hand/pot. Your opponent can easily upgrade his hand, if not they wouldn't have called in the 1st place, you gotta make em pay to see the turn or river, I like that approach much more. It's same with question if you bet when you got a lower pair on the flop, considering it's not HU. I always bet, cuz if you don't you can lose the hand later on by opponents that make a hand.
Neel,
I agree no river, no fish. Get em out and take it down when your out of position. If your in position and the draws are not on the board and the preflop action dictates his range is limited as compared to the board, and your stack (and your emotional esteem) then string him a long. Assuming he is a straightforward player and he didn’t check his aces pre-flop or something. It’s safe to say, you don’t know the table for the first hour, you won’t know most of the individual players until the 7-10th hand played.
So last month I asked 3 of my friends who are semi-pro poker players who they would recommend as a good coach as I look to step up my cash game stakes from $2/5 to $5/10, and they unanimously said "Jonathan Little". So, here I am. Excellent content so far. I look forward to some deeper lessons once I sign up for your masterclass!
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His advice is trash, he's applying theories that don't exist in these stakes... chasing 10 high flush to not get paid when it hits is crazy
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Hey Jonathan. The quick note you made about bet sizing in the value betting section has been very helpful. I noticed that I was betting too large for value on every street. The words that stuck out were that I was forcing my opponents to play well. I'm very confident that's what was happening. My bets were only allowing hands that had good equity to continue, and I was folding out all hands that I was well ahead of. I've adjusted my sizing, and it's been helping a lot. Not only am I getting to showdown against worse hands more often, but I haven't committed as many chips by the river when the flush comes in and they put in a big raise. Anyways, thanks!
Nice! I'm glad it's been helpful.
The first, and most important, thing I learned by taking in these lessons is how bad I was (still am). I have quickly gotten noticeably better just by admitting I needed to learn and diving into these videos. I bought the course and it's easily the best bet I made all last year :)
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This webinar helped a lot for the lower stakes, it is easy to start caling down to much, since you think ppl are capable of bluffing, but the reality is often different
Awesome!
The most common mistake I make at cash games when I'm playing bad is bluff-catching too much. They just aren't bluffing nearly enough to warrant it. You couldn't be more right.
I Love jonathans dedication and his mindset towards teaching. Best Poker content out there!
2 years ago ppl did 3bet jacks there as a default!? I dont think so , i think linus and redbaron would 3 bet jacks as a default there 4 years ago! So i dont know what to say!
Btw im talking about the T9 suited hand!
Refreshing to find content from someone who is so enthusiastic about the game, and doesnt get involved in he said, she said politics. Love your content Jonathan. will def be signing up at the site.
lol
I'm referring to your T9 spades on the button example. I guess based on your logic of how to play the river with this hand against the bet, and now has me kind of questioning whether we should have been playing this hand at all. On the flop we called the bet because you thought we wanted to hit a flush. Same on the turn. The river we make our hand and now we don't like our hand enough to raise when we are pretty sure that we have the best hand. it kind of makes me question whether we should have been calling those bets with this draw to begin with. I'm not trying to be negative or critical i appreciate the video also.
Totally on board with this comment. We also have to have in mind that even the best cash low live players aren't folding any two pair or better on this run out. (Low stakes). And we have the third best possible hand. Pretty happy to put all my chips in here. If he triple barrels with the NFD or 2NFD he is not as tight as we think he is. This line on most TAG low stakes live cash game villains is KJ and sets. IMO
JL likes to say to call with your sc's if you are getting 20 to 1 implied odds. Some people wonder, yeah, but can we really expect to get 20 times our pre call? In this hand, we called 7 and opponents put in 246. We won 35 times our pre call playing passively. Imagine if we were in a situation where we could be aggressive.
In this hand you start off defining their range pretty wide, but the flop and turn bets narrow their range substantially (including: aces, ak, kq, kt which will not bet this river, but also sets, kj, nut flush draws, and bluffs like qt or even AQ with the A of spades). We are still ahead of most opponents bets on this river bet and have a very profitable call, but not enough of those hands that we beat will call the raise. This doesn't mean we wouldn't bet this river if they checked!
Very effective. "Don't be afraid to value bet" hits home most for me. Thank you!
I love how Jonathan breaks down hands. Has helped me plug some leaks and improve. my game tremendously.
Awesome!
These courses are invaluable! Thank you JL for your clear & concise manner. I can’t personally thank you enough. I have joined the poker coaching premium website based on how much value I received from your available content. God bless your efforts.
Thank you for the instructional video, I feel my game improving whenever I read or watch your lessons, very instructional!
You just earned a new subscriber, good stuff Jonathan, always looking to improve aspects of my game, and I think there are a lot of insightful points and theory here, thank you.
Awesome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Am fairly new to poker, I have played a few small stakes tournaments but, after watching this, I may actually attempt a cash game. Can't wait to watch more material by Jonathan Little!!!
This lesson was helpful. I appreciated the points about not being afraid to value bet, especially on three streets. I've definitely been missing some value by checking back the river too often. Thanks!
That $60 bet into like $360 on river with K9 is exactly the kind of bets I see at my games, and I'm always tempted to raise it as a bluff except I don't because I've seen those same guys then call with K9.
I do think the donkbet (leading into preflop aggressor on the flop) is underrated at low stakes, I try not to do it (because you basically have much less information about what the other guy is thinking if you lead and so the chance of bluffing away your whole stack by the river goes up) but I think it works way too often in small stakes, people just love to fold, most of them. I don't know tho, I really will try and pay attention to that. Maybe everyone's just adjusted by now since I last played.
lol, I feel your pain.
I am now currently winning at 1/2 NLH in my card room. Thank you for the lessons
Thanks for everything Jonathan. You do an excellent job teaching in a manor that really sinks in. I really appreciate your hardwork and all the content you produce.
So helpful to clarify all these simple yet elusive lessons. Well worth the time put in. 🌖🔥
So much good info. Notices I can't remember it all. So now have a notepad with me for webinar time. Thanks Jonathan for your straight forward lessons 👍
Love the first slide. I would say my $550 profit playing 1/3 last night would have been closer to $800 if I value bet more on rivers when ops are calling down. Sometimes when 1 str or fl card comes in, I check behind whereas a small value bet/fold strategy would have earned me chips several times. It's so tempting to want to realise your equity without risking more chips whilst avoiding a large potential check/raise. Who wants to face a massive raise when you have top two or trips and be put in a real spot. I have made more 1/3 pot bets on rivers in these situations lately from watching your videos, which sets the price but has also been definitely profitable overall when I have a strong hand. The other thing is, when you don't value bet strong hands on rivers, the stronger players notice your timidity and likely work in some big raises to take advantage of you.
thats interesting , against good opponents who think 1/3 size is weakish and bluffraise or even value raise a weaker hands it is good to trap them by going thin for value as most of the times they will either call a weaker hand or bluffraise which you then can snap off
Huge of fan of yours, Jonathan. Your combination of TH-cam material and tidbits have helped my small stakes cash game, quite a bit!
I’ve watched this like four times and learn something new every time.
I had watched this video previously, but decided to watch it again as an adjunct to the 30 day challenge. For the 30 day challenge, one of my goals is to take notes as I watch the content, so I decided to do that here. It took me longer to get through the class but by adding comments and ideas to my outline based on the bullet points on the slides really helped me understand the content better. I also tried using the pre and post-flop GTO (approximation) charts available in pokercoaching.com and used the range analyzer tool, also on pokercoaching.com, to better understand the ideas Jonathan is communicating. I had good results with this approach.
In the 10s high flush vs the set of jiggities hand, I read his (too large) river bet size of 150 as putting you on AK or KJ, looking for value. I'd only call a passive player - I'd raise the action guy hoping he's a dummy that's in love with his set.
Jonathan I hope you read this and respond. Where I lose my majority of BIG POTS are sets against sets! I believe if I ever learn how to get that part of my game in check, I will catapult!! Any advice or maybe a video on talking about that!!?
When you get set over set, you are going to lose a big pot.
I've seen the video twice now, and I'm looking forward to using my new skills at a live cash game
How is it going?
I enjoyed the video. Good job explaining the logic behind what we're supposed to do and highlighting situations where exploitative play may be different.
Ive been a member of pokercoaching for 4 years & I love it.
Awesome!
Where are you playing 1/2 with people who open to 7? In Detroit, the standard raise is 10-15 dollars. It makes the game super easy to play because they constantly create 3-5 SPR spots with hands that want at least 7 or greater.
The card rooms I play regularly in California it's the same thing. In the $1/2 NL games, the standard open is usually $12. In the $2/5 game the standard open is usually $18-25.
that varies game by game, i've seen 7 be somewhat standard for maybe at least 40% or around that of any given 1-2 game. it would/should also vary by buy in. if a game has a 200 (or the more rare 100) cap on a 1-2 game rather than 300 cap (probably also standard) 7 vs 12-15 opening bet is much much better as it allows for much more SPR play.
Lol motor city still opens to $7 😂
plenty of places open to 7$ its annoying as fuck people do it. these are not your gto games lol. but yeah most places i have been you see all the ragnes from 5$-18$
Always enjoy Jonathan's webinars this one does not disappoint, first time I listened to him discuss cash games!
Glad I watched this video , every minute. Now you got me needing to learn more on when not to use the Nash push fold . Thanks I needed that.
His advice is shit!
Rake in California for 1/2, 1/3 ranges between $5-7 depending on where you play. At casinos where jackpots are legal, the rake tends to be a little more, since a percentage of that rake goes towards the various jackpots offered.
I don't normally play cash games as I'm more tuned to tournament play. I've learned a great deal from this video alone. I'll have to review the video again for full understanding. Great information!
Great content as always! I’m attending a new Cardroom tomorrow to play some cash games and to see how the Sunday tournament turns out so I can enter next week. Your content gives me the edge!
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These videos have helped my game a lot. Looking forward to more in the future.
A lot of good info. I play mostly tournaments but the early part of tournaments play like a deepstacked cash game. Glad I watched.
Excellent webinar. I started taking notes in a notepad recently and I think it is helping me realize some mistakes I was making.
Really enjoy your content Jonathan. Thank you for everything you provide to the community
Thanks so much for the great free advice Jonathan! It's perfect for people who want to get into poker and poker coaching!
Jonathan, can I treat the first position range in a 6 max table as it was the LJ in a 9 max table? TY!
Yes.
Ever since I have started studying along with Jonathan and his coaches I have been thinking a lot in terms of ranges. Thinking in terms of ranges is amazing! It has gotten me out of a ton of situations where before I would have called or made some kind of different error. The last session I had I folded top pair top kicker on a Q-9-4 rainbow flop to a straight forward player who raised my bet on the flop. He showed me his set of nines after I reluctantly folded. He was impressed with my lay down but really, what else could he have been raising that that spot? Q9s? I know I'm not giving much info about the hand, but yeah haha
I was not prepared for the depth that he goes into but gladly appreciate it. Shows how much I have to learn.
Been watching you for the last week and the way you look at the game of poker is amazing I’ve only been playing since I turned 18 5 months ago but you’re teaching me so much
Thanks for all the content you produce!
Free poker coaching from Jonathan Little!
Perfect for me and many other poker players who want to improve their game!
Thank you Jonathan!
Great stuff, as always, Jonathan! Thank you for all the content you put out!
Doesn’t the solver have you bluff raise your baby flush draws sometimes too? I realize this is multi-way so different but I seem to remember there being a frequency for that
I enjoy sit n go's. What kind of swings should someone expect playing them?
Depends on your edge!
Thanks for the great cash game content Jonathan! Looking to implement in cash game this weekend.
So I'm between going with this or getting Upswing. I have reached my limits of what I can learn without coaching. I just don't know which one is better or which one will be better for my play/learning style
I would recommend to try it out and see what you think. We have many members crushing the small and mid-stakes, and they seem to love the Cash Game Masterclass and PokerCoaching Premium. But, if you're not happy with the product, just email support@pokercoaching.com and we will give you a refund.
@@PokerCoaching i dont have an excuse now. Thanks
Brik Haus I’m having the same dilemma. I’m also thinking about Solve for Why. Please let me know what you choose and how it’s working for you. I’m a live player so I just want to make sure I pay for the best fit for me.
Little has better content in my opinion but if you have reached your limit and have hit a plateau coaching probably isn’t all you need. To reach a whole new level you have to have a group of good players you can talk hands and strategy with, and then play a lot vs solid competition.
I get back into poker for awhile, do well and then boredom overall settles in. I think setting a goal and schedule is going to help greatly. Starting tonight, cash game weeknights and MTT's on the weekends (with cash in between).
I just love your lessons Jonathan. I really have learned that I have a lot to learn.
Great lessons picking up a lot of basics which are definitely helping. 👌🏻
This video is such a huge help on just a few things that transform your game so much for the better!
Thank you for this video. This is a great thing you are doing for people who have never played before and also who are trying to learn like myself!!
I made the mistake learning poker investing all of bank roll on little games but love deep stack tournaments so I should have been playing deep stack live getting back into the craft. That said I do better buying in minimum because I love to suck out and if I play right with a little stack I’ll fold too much and put myself on tilt.
Should I buy in min at the 300-1000 and hit and run? Till I build a bank roll or continue playing lesser players who always see a river? Thanks
Good content. For me the most helpful lesson was about range and nut advantage. It’s easy to mindlessly check or bet but thinking about this application from various ranges versus other ranges will be great!
Just learning some poker strategy and am enjoying your videos! I wanted to say that I love that in the title card you're wearing the "Animal Spirits" t-shirt that was from the Planet Money Kickstarter campaign. I've never seen another one out in the wild! Cheers!
Awesome! Thank you!
Hi Jonathan, can you explain with which hands to call a 3 bet and and which to 4 bet? Sometimes I 4bet and get 5 beted by some loose players :D
Sage advice with three necessary tactics, but also some advanced discussion regarding betting/raising/calling options.
Great Video, I’ve won 3 $75 live tournaments at MGM Springfield in the last 2 months...cashes in 6 of them. Your videos are very helpful. I seem so be doing better in then tourneys than my 1/2 cash games even though you say they are same...I can’t get any bluffs through in my cash games but in the tourneys they’ve been the difference...
Hey I live in Massachusetts also. I have thinking of going to the MGM. Are these tournaments still being held?
Aware Bear cash games just started no tourneys yet at mgm. Ive been playing at mohegan mon wed fri $155 BB ante tourney, starts at 10am
I play mostly small tournaments, but the advice from this webinar still applies. I am one of those who doesn't value bet enough. Time to make that adjustment
Enjoyed the 3 lessons. My biggest takeaway is that I don't value bet and value raise the river enough. Thanks for pointing this out!
Great vid. I just signed up at the coaching site recently and am catching up on some of these youtube vids as well. Glad to have found you!
So I figured out a way for myself to remember everything I need to think about and take into account preflop. It's the 6 P's
Position
Potential (hand strength etc.)
Profitability (stack sizes/how much I can win)
Pot odds
Player (who's in the pot who's left to act)
Previous action
This may not help the average thinking player but a person like me I need a way to remember everything preflop so I don't get myself into bad situation postflop.
Just come across this as im moving from 25NL online to 1/2 live cash games.
In the example with K9o, you're assuming that players are 3betting KTs+ and KQo and folding KTo-KJo from the SB vs a BTN raise right?
The thing I've seen a lot at 25NL is players will more often than not flat with these hands from the SB, and call down all 3 streets when rhe BTN takes that line.
So is the solution either to open a slightly tighter range on the BTN if you know the players in the blinds are over-calling, or to play the same opening range but to play hands like your weaker top pairs more passively?
Good learning material for poker students. Lots of your videos are really informative.
Very often I’ve found. 1 2 players are super call happy
Thanks for all you do! This has helped my game so far.
Really enjoyed the explanation on when to bluff and when not to bluff based on range advantage.
Great video as always, jonathan do you think you can make a comprehensive guide on deep stacks?
My cash game masterclass is a comprehensive guide for 100bb+ play. You can find it here or within PokerCoaching Premium: pokercoaching.com/shop
This information is terrific...I am new to Texas Holdem and these videos are very easy to understand AND very informative...Thank you!
9 days in to the 30-dat Challenge and already learning so much! If you haven’t checked it out yet you should do it ASAP!
Watched this multiple times and learn something new each time. Thank you for all the content you post.
Great Cash Game lessons content that can be applied right away with proper studying and coaching. Thanks!
So, I want to do a low (around 35 percent pot) bet? To make my oppent call with like second pair? - my question is, if you have a high frequency betting, people should stick along with a weaker holding like second pair and draws? And therefor keeping a higher bet size maybe 60 percent pot, would still be viable?
I only played live cash 3 times, when I was first learning poker. I lost but only a little. I did well for a newbie. Here I am, many months later, and I know my game has improved. I am also working through your Cash Game Masterclass, which is great. However, I am getting crushed on the PokerBros app. Do you know anything about this app? People are very splashy and very LAG. I've had the worst bad beats. It has hurt my confidence and wallet. Do you think if I stink on PokerBros I will stink LIVE? lol any advice. hope you see this. I know you must be busy.
Scott M BRO. Live poker is the only way to truly train yourself. When the person is in front of you, you can read them unlike online when you can only rely on betting patterns.
I really enjoy your videos. Being a poker premium member is the best choice I’ve made to grow my poker playing skills.😎
material that helps us "old timers" who started playing very late in life ( around 2003 or so, and not for money until 2004-05), and have to compete with lunatic aggressive styles of play.
Ty John, enjoying the courses, getting back into the game.
Hello, I was wondering what your thoughs are on small-medium pocket pairs? 8 8 to 2 2. Should you call big pre-flops bets with these hands to see the flop?
In some of your more recent videos you said it was against GTO play to bet less than half pot on river. Maybe that was in a tournament scenario. I agree with the value bet size here, just was curious if I misunderstood your more recent takes.
Like all of Jonathan’s videos, this is very helpful. Thanks for all of the free content.
Thanks a lot Jonathan, your videos help a lot! I really appreciate the effort! keep it going!
Good tutorial. But most often when u flop a good hand, if you value bet small on turn , more ppl will reach there(draw or 2 pair) on river. Become a headache in online poker for me. Any suggestions?
I play 1-3 cash games nl Hold’em I always have a short stack so I usually just play straight forward if I have a good hand I play it if not I fold I know that’s not smart so what can I do to better my game? I start usually 35 bbs so I’m not staring extremely short stacked .. any help would be amazing!
You need to learn how to play fundamentally sound and exploit your common opponents. Check out my cash game bundle at pokercoaching.com/cash
Im still learning but deep dive content like this is great
Hands down, the est poker content provider on the interweb!
And oh yeah his website pokercoaching.com isn't half bad either.
Thanks!
I play a very tight strategy and eventually find problems getting action due to the fact that sometimes I'd only see maybe 1 flop an hour, sometimes less, depending on how card dead I am. Any suggestions as to switch it up a little? Thank you Jonathan!!
Always a great deal of info to sift through and put into practice at the table!
I signed up for the premium account. Would I have to pay for the 30-day free trial now?
Value value value!! Watching live streams a bunch lately and it’s baffling how many players hand after hand just leak value street after street. The last thing I want to do is win the minimum.
Looking for this kind of advices, so helpful! Keep them coming! 🙌🏻
In that flush example hand: how are you calculating your equity with made hands...so in this case, ten high flush. Obviously we can calculate the pot odds and we'd always want equity percentage to be higher than pot odds percentages for +EV plays so in this case, it was the flush draw and gut shot so about 12 outs but I'm just a little confused about how to calculate our equity on made hands?
Very informative.. I bring his audio book with me to my sessions. Easy to listen
I've watched this video before, and just watched it again for the giveaway. I'm glad I did, I wouldn't have realized how much I missed from it. I'll never watch another one without my notebook next to me! Thank you for this kind of content JL. I appreciate the knowledge and experience 👍