I don't know how often the 6 combos of AJ play the hand this way. AA, JJ, and 77 should rarely play it this way. I could see a few weaker flushes doing this, especially 7-X of diamonds. I'm surprised that you didn't talk more about the possible A-7 or A-3 full houses. I could see the villain playing A7 suited or A3 suited this way. But when the backdoor flush comes in, what bluffs would the hero or the villain have here?
bad play! When one puts themselves into a losing ground, then it's a bad positioning. Calling pfr raise while OOP with a speculative hand is sitting on a tiny limb. Then, one relies on wind... No blaming luck.
7:43 I don't understand this sentence, that poker should be a dead game without antes. Like, should preflop ranges be tight as the preflop bets are huge? Sure. But if opens are 2-3 BB, even with a rake no antes, how is this a dead game in theory? I just don't get it.
Such a tough one. I always go back and forth, bc on one hand River raises are usually nutted at low-mid stakes, but some players will value raise too wide thinking Ax is good.
Yes, my default is generally to call if I beat some actual value hands but basically never if I can only beat bluffs. The overvalue combos are way more likely, typically, than nutted combos and then you still pick off the occasional bluff. Here, because you beat AK, AQ and small flushes, which 2/5 players can absolutely raise with, I'm calling. But if I had like A3 suited and lose to all the flushes and better aces, I'm always folding.
You said spazz factor!! That's what I say! Yea no way I am folding here and AJ should be raising at some point especially OTT. tough beat. But folding preflop is the right move.
Honestly, there's nothing really wrong here. Yes, I think QTs from BB pre 3 ways is not a great play. But I'd never laydown QJs in this spot, so it's not awful. After that the hand is pretty standard. On the river, I cannot blame Bart for looking at pot odds & taking into account she's a woman who is seen as weak-tight. But I really cannot find a hand hero beats. The thing about flushes is that only Kd is left between hero's hand & the board, but we lose to KXdd. So how often is this 98dd? Also, go back to flop -- how much AX is checking 3 ways? Are JJ or 77 really checking 3 ways? And we lose to those hands anyways. AA & AJ are the strong hands that might check back. That's quite a few combos. What are the over-values? 98dd. And 86dd 65dd are partial enough, because they will call rather than raise often enough, that I count those as 1 combo. So we beat 2 combos. And we lose to how many combos of AA & AJ? Especially since AJo is a common raise in this configuration. Can this be an air-ball bluff? Sure, but that is always the case & there are no missed 4 flush or open enders from this flop. So it's actually less than normal.
Just follow the old school pot odds rule 10:1 to setmine 20:1 to suited connector mine In this case hero would need at least $700 effective stack size to begin, therefore this is a fold preflop
The river is very definitely a call. The hero should be winning here 30-40% of the time, maybe more. She could have folded pre-, but it's a small mistake, if it is one. It is unlucky runout. The villain would've lost his stack, if the last card had been a K instead of A, or a different diamond.
Villain isn’t raising river with just 2 pair if the flush gets there with the big river bet. I don’t think he gets stacked. He may get stacked if the K comes in though!
I think if you take a pot size River bet and get raised you can fold there at the end. Only hands would be that AJ or I’m not sure if a small flush would even raise
not an easy decision. V is loosey goosey...He probably did not put H on a backdoor flush draw (I would not). He did not show any power on latter streets. So: he might be bluffing. The failure here is as Bart said at 14:07 If you do not know what you're targeting, then you also do not know how much to bet, when to fold if raised. If H river bet was ~$120, then making decision (call/fold) would be different story.
6:07 agreed: folding is best option. Otherwise, calling pf raise, you solely relies on the flop, which is .... If QT missed flop, then BB is just a mouse in glass bowl! Fold or 3-bet big ($120).
Still find that an odd check on the flop with multiple straight draws and also an odd flat on the turn. AJ is low on the list of hands I’m considering, maybe AA but the river reduces that possibility.
I love the great advice without any talking down to people who may not be on your level, it’s a great environment for both experienced and less experienced players.
I’ve been complemented in Vegas for making “above the rim” plays by smooth checking flops that people normally don’t check because you can overall get more value out of the hand on certain run outs. This is hellmuth style play and why I believe he gets upset sometimes because he can look stupid by others when it doesn’t work out. So hellmuth will check back an ace on a dry board to either induce bluffs or get more value later on. But the other guy will hit some miracle card or miracle runout and the other guy will be betting when hellmuth thinks he’s induced a bluff. And then he’ll get pissed when the cards are open that the guy who called with 45 hit two pair on the turn.
You’re either losing to AJ or beating AQ AK A10s 109d 89d which are just value owning themselves or ego bluffs he shows up with. As played tho when that’s the case you need to be block betting to induce a jam from hands your beating on the river but also pricing in queens kings KJ QJ J10 and other medium hands that are priced in to call smaller bets. So 100 instead of 200 probably gets more EV
That’s why Bart mentioned you can over fold river raises. Pot odds be damned, he’s usually going to have you beat. You can say he’s maybe bluffing 25% of the time and also include an AK AQ river raise but like Bart said, you can over fold here
I thought honestly we gon see quad aces cause it makes most sense to check/back top set. Top two in my mind is a mandatory bet . Probably a downbet . And on the river you are beat here a lot if the guy isnt the type who overplay his hands. Weaker flushes and trips for example . But to me it will be Quads or bluff basically :) Turns out it was AJ tricky check back
never ever folding river. V can have worse flushes and can value own himself given the fact it somewhat looks like H has an ace. also depends if the V is bad or not but V can definitely overvalue Ax. I think it probably should be a fold preflop but I think it's definitely closer than what most people say it is (and I definitely would be guilty of playing it because it looks pretty lmao)
Ok so in low stakes I find people have a weird polarized checking range. These players often check nuts and air. So when the flop comes like this and the raiser checks, I would immediately assume he has the nuts because if he missed he would have c-bet most of the time. So yeah I would def fold that river based on the players
I don't think the river situation can be solved by 'fold pre.' Imagine the caller was playing ATdd, and the two aces on the board is swapped to two Qc (flop) and Qd (river) and she would still lose to a boat. Or if she was playing KQdd and the board stays the same, the river dilemma remains. I agree with the comment by a player earlier 'You're getting 3-1 but you are only good 1 in 50 times. Fold. Easy fold."
A-10 is way different than Q-10. You can't just change literally everything about the hand (hole cards and the flop) and use that to justify this hand and what happened🤣🤣 The whole point is to analyze the hand as is!
@@jeffrey27rj13okay, so imagine the HJ doesn’t limp and CO opens to $25. Presumably you’re okay with her calling QTdd from the BB then? You can’t avoid difficult post flop spots by just folding pre all the time.
@@JohnSmith-nx7zj did you even read the comment I replied to? The guy tried to change everything about the hand to what if’s and buts and I was simply just saying you can’t just change hole cards and what comes on the flop to try and break down this hand
This is a cop out answer. Playing tight pre doesn’t mean you avoid all tough spots and playing a little loose pre doesn’t always put you in bad spots. This is at worst a slightly -EV call. I have seen so much worse that it barely even merits discussion.
@@joshmullins4849 It is just a fold, due to the specific and highly unfavorable circumstances. - You could totally justify a call without the HJ in the hand. And, if you really have to play this hand in this spot then 3-betting makes at least way more sense than flatting. As OOP multiway with an often dominated hand is really not where you want to be.
NPPT Has 40/60 woman/man. [NPPT= poker where you tip a person to deal Tex No-Limit [$10 for 2 bullets max], players play for honor, competition, and the night out. Game lasts about 1.5-2hrs. I played poker in most big cities up and down the East Coast this way. They are running Tue-Fri, mostly. It's walk-in. Great when you travel for work. Games are fun. Meet locals everywhere and tables are always full. It's ball 2 the wall - turbo tournament -, and that the best may win. And I did win sometimes, and then the establishment me my diner! Fun fun fun]. thx, cheers P.s. fwiw; I lost my 1s bullet last time to quad Aces. And I knew he had it... On the flop no less. Still I wanted to see because I held a stupid 3 in a checked through flop... arrrg! One bullet gone, because my own stubbornness. However, tomorrow work, one bullet might be gone forever but no money lost and the dealer paid, Same adrenaline. ;)
Unlucky river. Could've been any diamond other than the A. I'm very confused as to why no player reads were presented. Between the CO's large open size and the HJ's limp, I see the argument for a fold pre. I think one could 3-bet bluff here and get the HJ to fold out. Once the flop checks thru and the turn misses, smaller sized bets would be used on my part, followed by a fold to the CO's jam
I hear Bart say a lot that he sees men seem to play with chips on their shoulders when playing against women. Most guys ik are more afraid of getting outplayed by a woman because the other guys will taunt and tease him endlessly to mess with his pride and get him on tilt 😂 nothing to do with actually playing against women themselves.. money is money after all 🤷 Also I think generalizations of people are good flag post on how to begin approaching hands with people then adjust to them personally as a game goes on. Also even if you normally play as how depicted in generalizations, you can always throw people for a loop intentionally playing hands in the opposite way of said viewpoint😂
This is pure fold on bb imo and if same set up on button i like a call, and as played I personally like and over bet on turn, and cook a pot size jam river
Hey Bart or anyone else can I get your thoughts on something? I never gave game selection much thought but now that I've been practicing it, my BB/100 has skyrocketed and it makes me wonder, does game selection make you a GOOD poker player or just a WINNING poker player? My thoughts, a good poker player IS a winning one but how do you know how much of it is just good game selection? Thanks
If poker is about taking people's money, becoming better at table selection means you're a better player than without it. If poker is about your absolute technical skill level at out-thinking specific people during hands, table selection changes nothing about your hand-playing skill. It just puts you against weaker opponents who you can out-think more easily. Short-term, you win more money. Long-term, you improve more slowly, or even regress, due to playing softer competition. The way to avoid that problem, is that after winning a bunch of money at soft tables at your current stakes, you can move up to soft tables at the next level of stakes. Then you'll get better competition and start technically improving faster again. I watched one solid pro at Foxwoods spend probably close to 1/3 of his time walking around the almost 100 tables, doing game selection. Year after year, always walking around a lot. He was good at all games, best at none. Other pros just sat slugging it out at the main table of the same big game every day. He'd almost never be there slugging it out with them, but sometimes would jump into the must-move game feeding it, especially if it was short-handed with a couple of fish, aka restaurant owners. Sometimes he'd have all the money one brought, before they could reach the main table to give it to the even bigger sharks. I'm sure his win rate in that situation, was several times that of the stronger players in the main game. He was also extremely disciplined about bankroll issues, never came even close to busting a bankroll, or borrowing even a dollar. Some of the bigger sharks seemed to lend each other money to keep all their bankrolls alive and all their rents/mortgages paid. The first few months of playing in their game, I wondered if how buddy-buddy some were, crossed the line to collusion, especially because they really did seem to gang up in attacking fish. In the end, I believed it didn't cross the line, or have them splitting profits after reraising each other. They did it many times to me when I was the new guy in their game, but in the end, if I'd over-folded to their bluffs or under-folded to their value bets, that is called getting outplayed by them. For a few weeks, they way overpaid my value hands, but once they realized I wasn't a fish and wasn't playing scared, that stopped. I let the pendulum swing a bit to where I cashed in on their image that I didn't bluff enough, by bluffing more. Not more hands necessarily, just more often with more money in the pot, and less often with less money in the pot!!! Which brings up another great reason to change tables more, to a softer table or even an equal table, if you think you have an edge. No particular player figures you out as quickly. If you're beating a generic table at certain stakes at a certain casino, without having deep knowledge of any of your opponents, keep that going for as long as possible. Even more specifically, pay real attention to which opponents socialize with bunches of sharks. Try not to let any one of them figure you out, for as long as possible. Once they share a correct description of how you think and play, you have to transition to knowing as much about every one of them, as they know about you. And you can't even be sure that you'll be a winning player in that scenario, much less during the transition to it.
When it Comes to straddling, it some games it doesn’t even matter. Isn’t straddling supposed to induce action? Some tables are so tight everyone is folding anyways.
I dont really think that a 35 open raise is that huge in a live cash game. People overcall pre because they wanna see the flop. I think with one limper and the blinds in the pot 35 is a big bet but not too huge in a live cash game. I have seen 50 dollar iso raises because people limp call so many hands.
@@danielmeuler2877seriously. poker is one of those games where sex/gender has almost no effect on actual skill (except I feel women get away with bluffs more often because they're better at understanding and manipulating their emotions on average.) but every female i've ever played with has always been decent to really good. it's usually the cocky men who think their hot stuff that play the worst.
@@Bowling_Dude You missed my point. Assuming someone is a Good or Bad Player going off of nothing more than their age or gender is STUPID!. does that make it clear?
@@danielmeuler2877 no I got your point. I was agreeing with you. I guess I didn't think the age thing was too important to begin with because you had old cats like doyle who could keep up with the best all the way into his 80s then you have young guns like myself who still have a lot to learn.
Any A can bluff this on the river when they put you on a flush. Especially when it's the A on the river and he now knows you dont' have the nut flush, he has all the Ax bluffs and any Kdiamond bluff. Also players try to push women around, they have to call off w/ the top end of their range way more to catch those bluffs.
I would like this hand alot more if you where on the button calling with Q10 which is a marginal hand then being out of postion calling on the button. Especally when your opponent is betting very large like they talk about 7x the blind, he's right if he's opening that large with a wide range that way you take advantage of that is to tighten up your range or at the very least be in position. I woud fold pre. Turn bet was good trying to take down the pot for $60 with a backup of hitting your flush on the river. River bet was good trying to get value from Ax hands and worse flushes. The best size was a bit greedy but not bad. I would fold to the shove if the player was tight and good and maybe call if they are loose and bad. You don't have the nut flush, 33s, 77s, JJs, AJ, A3s, A7s all beat you and are making this shove, only bad players are making this shove with only 3 Aces and a worse flush.
I knew it was gonna be AJ before even the end of the video because it's a female caller and she wants the assurance that she didn't do anything wrong. Nope, just a cooler.
Disagree heavily, you want to get off of 1/2 as quick as possible because the rake fucks you there. Even if you can’t max buy in at the next game it’s better to move out of 1/2
I discount the villain having a flush since he raised large preflop with a limper ahead of him and 3 left to act. He had something he liked and I have a hard time with it being Kxd since x would have been a 9 or less. Maybe 89d or 78d but even that, no way he raises that much with those holdings. So he had a premium. JJ, AJs seem quite likely. A $500 river bet screams boat. Do you believe or not? Pot odds say, maybe call, reality says you are beat and need to fold. So do you go with pot odds or do you go with exploitive folding? I personally would have folded (in disgust) but I can see a call being a correct play.
she needs to take a break from poker and get her head turned around, you can't achieve positive results when you are spiraling negative and you aren't going to win at anything if you are under the pressure of needing it badly, poker is the wrong tool to try and make you feel better about yourself, it will do the opposite..... desperation breeds desperation ...... but, and this may sound kinda strange, every time she spoke i felt the same thought, "she's got a lot of untapped power inside her, she could be a real force if she gets her head right" ...hope she does it......
According to multiple people in this comment section, because she is a woman in her 30's to 40's, she is automatically a Strong Player. I would tend to agree with you about said player profile
I agree 100%. The only demographic of females that play “LAG” from my experience are older Asian ladies who will call your 3bet with 83 off stack you and then leave
I was in Philly recently in this room. The regs legit feared a few of the women in the room. Don't know if there's some rule that describes all ladies in cash games.
13:15 ace of diamonds on the river. She couldn’t remember if the ace or the jack was a diamond on the flop, but she remembered it was a diamond on the river. WTF lady ?
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What do you think? Was this hand a case of bad play or bad luck? Also note the key point about suit distribution made at 17:32.
I don't know how often the 6 combos of AJ play the hand this way. AA, JJ, and 77 should rarely play it this way. I could see a few weaker flushes doing this, especially 7-X of diamonds.
I'm surprised that you didn't talk more about the possible A-7 or A-3 full houses. I could see the villain playing A7 suited or A3 suited this way.
But when the backdoor flush comes in, what bluffs would the hero or the villain have here?
bad play! When one puts themselves into a losing ground, then it's a bad positioning. Calling pfr raise while OOP with a speculative hand is sitting on a tiny limb. Then, one relies on wind... No blaming luck.
7:43 I don't understand this sentence, that poker should be a dead game without antes. Like, should preflop ranges be tight as the preflop bets are huge? Sure. But if opens are 2-3 BB, even with a rake no antes, how is this a dead game in theory? I just don't get it.
Such a tough one. I always go back and forth, bc on one hand River raises are usually nutted at low-mid stakes, but some players will value raise too wide thinking Ax is good.
Yes, my default is generally to call if I beat some actual value hands but basically never if I can only beat bluffs. The overvalue combos are way more likely, typically, than nutted combos and then you still pick off the occasional bluff. Here, because you beat AK, AQ and small flushes, which 2/5 players can absolutely raise with, I'm calling. But if I had like A3 suited and lose to all the flushes and better aces, I'm always folding.
I think AxKd is actually a reasonable value raise and not even "too wide" against population. Weird spot with the large iso size though.
@@Jermo484I assume you didn’t mean A3s since that is a boat. But I agree with you general comment.
Maybe this is just my local area but you can't really raise AK because population will correctly fold any A when the flush gets there
18:36 Heroine put Villain on a wide range of hands, as she should, and when he turned up AJ that reinforced her memory of putting him on AJ.
You said spazz factor!! That's what I say! Yea no way I am folding here and AJ should be raising at some point especially OTT. tough beat. But folding preflop is the right move.
Honestly, there's nothing really wrong here. Yes, I think QTs from BB pre 3 ways is not a great play. But I'd never laydown QJs in this spot, so it's not awful. After that the hand is pretty standard. On the river, I cannot blame Bart for looking at pot odds & taking into account she's a woman who is seen as weak-tight. But I really cannot find a hand hero beats. The thing about flushes is that only Kd is left between hero's hand & the board, but we lose to KXdd. So how often is this 98dd? Also, go back to flop -- how much AX is checking 3 ways? Are JJ or 77 really checking 3 ways? And we lose to those hands anyways. AA & AJ are the strong hands that might check back. That's quite a few combos. What are the over-values? 98dd. And 86dd 65dd are partial enough, because they will call rather than raise often enough, that I count those as 1 combo. So we beat 2 combos. And we lose to how many combos of AA & AJ? Especially since AJo is a common raise in this configuration. Can this be an air-ball bluff? Sure, but that is always the case & there are no missed 4 flush or open enders from this flop. So it's actually less than normal.
Just follow the old school pot odds rule
10:1 to setmine
20:1 to suited connector mine
In this case hero would need at least $700 effective stack size to begin, therefore this is a fold preflop
The river is very definitely a call. The hero should be winning here 30-40% of the time, maybe more.
She could have folded pre-, but it's a small mistake, if it is one.
It is unlucky runout. The villain would've lost his stack, if the last card had been a K instead of A, or a different diamond.
Villain isn’t raising river with just 2 pair if the flush gets there with the big river bet. I don’t think he gets stacked. He may get stacked if the K comes in though!
Haven't watched yet, but love the title!
I think if you take a pot size River bet and get raised you can fold there at the end. Only hands would be that AJ or I’m not sure if a small flush would even raise
not an easy decision. V is loosey goosey...He probably did not put H on a backdoor flush draw (I would not). He did not show any power on latter streets. So: he might be bluffing. The failure here is as Bart said at 14:07 If you do not know what you're targeting, then you also do not know how much to bet, when to fold if raised. If H river bet was ~$120, then making decision (call/fold) would be different story.
Queen 10 of Diamonds is def a pretty hand 😂
I love it. Id play for $35 too and get caught in the same trap...
lol ,the call is just burning money .
I like folding pre flop. I like the bet on the river but the raise coming in is scary.
i agree on the ante Bart
6:07 agreed: folding is best option. Otherwise, calling pf raise, you solely relies on the flop, which is .... If QT missed flop, then BB is just a mouse in glass bowl!
Fold or 3-bet big ($120).
As played, you have to Just Pay. Shoutout to Berkey and the gang at S4Y.
Berkey really?…
Love the thumbnail
Lol Judge Bart looking rough tho...
Still find that an odd check on the flop with multiple straight draws and also an odd flat on the turn.
AJ is low on the list of hands I’m considering, maybe AA but the river reduces that possibility.
I love the great advice without any talking down to people who may not be on your level, it’s a great environment for both experienced and less experienced players.
I’ve been complemented in Vegas for making “above the rim” plays by smooth checking flops that people normally don’t check because you can overall get more value out of the hand on certain run outs. This is hellmuth style play and why I believe he gets upset sometimes because he can look stupid by others when it doesn’t work out.
So hellmuth will check back an ace on a dry board to either induce bluffs or get more value later on. But the other guy will hit some miracle card or miracle runout and the other guy will be betting when hellmuth thinks he’s induced a bluff. And then he’ll get pissed when the cards are open that the guy who called with 45 hit two pair on the turn.
You make no sense and will you please come to Lake Elsinore and play with us
@@dkastil okay so I’ll check TPTK and you’ll try bluffing off your entire stack to me?
@@tipsy09 good luck on that one .
Thumbnail is good
No Black shirt Bart?! Are you feeling ok? Haha. Looking fresh!!
You’re either losing to AJ or beating AQ AK A10s 109d 89d which are just value owning themselves or ego bluffs he shows up with. As played tho when that’s the case you need to be block betting to induce a jam from hands your beating on the river but also pricing in queens kings KJ QJ J10 and other medium hands that are priced in to call smaller bets. So 100 instead of 200 probably gets more EV
And even then you can sometimes find a fold against a jam
Id snap call for the pot odds. Low stakes things can get odd.
That’s why Bart mentioned you can over fold river raises. Pot odds be damned, he’s usually going to have you beat. You can say he’s maybe bluffing 25% of the time and also include an AK AQ river raise but like Bart said, you can over fold here
I thought honestly we gon see quad aces cause it makes most sense to check/back top set. Top two in my mind is a mandatory bet . Probably a downbet . And on the river you are beat here a lot if the guy isnt the type who overplay his hands. Weaker flushes and trips for example . But to me it will be Quads or bluff basically :) Turns out it was AJ tricky check back
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Not much to do, reload. I'm never folding a suited broadway to a single raise pre. Maybe sometimes 3bet it
never ever folding river. V can have worse flushes and can value own himself given the fact it somewhat looks like H has an ace. also depends if the V is bad or not but V can definitely overvalue Ax. I think it probably should be a fold preflop but I think it's definitely closer than what most people say it is (and I definitely would be guilty of playing it because it looks pretty lmao)
We need more women in poker!
Ok so in low stakes I find people have a weird polarized checking range. These players often check nuts and air. So when the flop comes like this and the raiser checks, I would immediately assume he has the nuts because if he missed he would have c-bet most of the time. So yeah I would def fold that river based on the players
Even without the great pots, just the fact that villain might be raising for value with a hand that’s beaten should make this a call.
14:07 target!
I don't think the river situation can be solved by 'fold pre.' Imagine the caller was playing ATdd, and the two aces on the board is swapped to two Qc (flop) and Qd (river) and she would still lose to a boat. Or if she was playing KQdd and the board stays the same, the river dilemma remains.
I agree with the comment by a player earlier 'You're getting 3-1 but you are only good 1 in 50 times. Fold. Easy fold."
A-10 is way different than Q-10. You can't just change literally everything about the hand (hole cards and the flop) and use that to justify this hand and what happened🤣🤣 The whole point is to analyze the hand as is!
@@jeffrey27rj13okay, so imagine the HJ doesn’t limp and CO opens to $25. Presumably you’re okay with her calling QTdd from the BB then?
You can’t avoid difficult post flop spots by just folding pre all the time.
@@JohnSmith-nx7zj did you even read the comment I replied to? The guy tried to change everything about the hand to what if’s and buts and I was simply just saying you can’t just change hole cards and what comes on the flop to try and break down this hand
15:59 If he's got AJ he's getting all my (short stack) money
The correct answer is fold pre
It usually is lol
OK Bryn Kenney
This is a cop out answer. Playing tight pre doesn’t mean you avoid all tough spots and playing a little loose pre doesn’t always put you in bad spots. This is at worst a slightly -EV call. I have seen so much worse that it barely even merits discussion.
Bad players can't win with a strong preflop range. They're just gonna lose even more by playing weak hands that should be folded pre
@@joshmullins4849 It is just a fold, due to the specific and highly unfavorable circumstances. - You could totally justify a call without the HJ in the hand. And, if you really have to play this hand in this spot then 3-betting makes at least way more sense than flatting. As OOP multiway with an often dominated hand is really not where you want to be.
NPPT Has 40/60 woman/man.
[NPPT= poker where you tip a person to deal Tex No-Limit [$10 for 2 bullets max], players play for honor, competition, and the night out. Game lasts about 1.5-2hrs. I played poker in most big cities up and down the East Coast this way. They are running Tue-Fri, mostly. It's walk-in. Great when you travel for work. Games are fun. Meet locals everywhere and tables are always full. It's ball 2 the wall - turbo tournament -, and that the best may win. And I did win sometimes, and then the establishment me my diner! Fun fun fun].
thx, cheers
P.s.
fwiw; I lost my 1s bullet last time to quad Aces. And I knew he had it... On the flop no less. Still I wanted to see because I held a stupid 3 in a checked through flop... arrrg! One bullet gone, because my own stubbornness. However, tomorrow work, one bullet might be gone forever but no money lost and the dealer paid, Same adrenaline. ;)
Unlucky river. Could've been any diamond other than the A. I'm very confused as to why no player reads were presented. Between the CO's large open size and the HJ's limp, I see the argument for a fold pre. I think one could 3-bet bluff here and get the HJ to fold out. Once the flop checks thru and the turn misses, smaller sized bets would be used on my part, followed by a fold to the CO's jam
I hear Bart say a lot that he sees men seem to play with chips on their shoulders when playing against women. Most guys ik are more afraid of getting outplayed by a woman because the other guys will taunt and tease him endlessly to mess with his pride and get him on tilt 😂 nothing to do with actually playing against women themselves.. money is money after all 🤷 Also I think generalizations of people are good flag post on how to begin approaching hands with people then adjust to them personally as a game goes on. Also even if you normally play as how depicted in generalizations, you can always throw people for a loop intentionally playing hands in the opposite way of said viewpoint😂
Fish on
LOL - For the spaz factor..
This is pure fold on bb imo and if same set up on button i like a call, and as played I personally like and over bet on turn, and cook a pot size jam river
So tilting when you are running bad and this thing happens.
Fold pre. 7x open 120BB effective is too much to call
If hero bet $100 on the river, it would've been easier to fold to a raise / shove.
might as well call yourself PAlivePoker 😂
Hey Bart or anyone else can I get your thoughts on something? I never gave game selection much thought but now that I've been practicing it, my BB/100 has skyrocketed and it makes me wonder, does game selection make you a GOOD poker player or just a WINNING poker player? My thoughts, a good poker player IS a winning one but how do you know how much of it is just good game selection? Thanks
If poker is about taking people's money, becoming better at table selection means you're a better player than without it.
If poker is about your absolute technical skill level at out-thinking specific people during hands, table selection changes nothing about your hand-playing skill. It just puts you against weaker opponents who you can out-think more easily. Short-term, you win more money. Long-term, you improve more slowly, or even regress, due to playing softer competition. The way to avoid that problem, is that after winning a bunch of money at soft tables at your current stakes, you can move up to soft tables at the next level of stakes. Then you'll get better competition and start technically improving faster again.
I watched one solid pro at Foxwoods spend probably close to 1/3 of his time walking around the almost 100 tables, doing game selection. Year after year, always walking around a lot. He was good at all games, best at none. Other pros just sat slugging it out at the main table of the same big game every day. He'd almost never be there slugging it out with them, but sometimes would jump into the must-move game feeding it, especially if it was short-handed with a couple of fish, aka restaurant owners. Sometimes he'd have all the money one brought, before they could reach the main table to give it to the even bigger sharks. I'm sure his win rate in that situation, was several times that of the stronger players in the main game. He was also extremely disciplined about bankroll issues, never came even close to busting a bankroll, or borrowing even a dollar. Some of the bigger sharks seemed to lend each other money to keep all their bankrolls alive and all their rents/mortgages paid. The first few months of playing in their game, I wondered if how buddy-buddy some were, crossed the line to collusion, especially because they really did seem to gang up in attacking fish. In the end, I believed it didn't cross the line, or have them splitting profits after reraising each other. They did it many times to me when I was the new guy in their game, but in the end, if I'd over-folded to their bluffs or under-folded to their value bets, that is called getting outplayed by them. For a few weeks, they way overpaid my value hands, but once they realized I wasn't a fish and wasn't playing scared, that stopped. I let the pendulum swing a bit to where I cashed in on their image that I didn't bluff enough, by bluffing more. Not more hands necessarily, just more often with more money in the pot, and less often with less money in the pot!!!
Which brings up another great reason to change tables more, to a softer table or even an equal table, if you think you have an edge. No particular player figures you out as quickly. If you're beating a generic table at certain stakes at a certain casino, without having deep knowledge of any of your opponents, keep that going for as long as possible.
Even more specifically, pay real attention to which opponents socialize with bunches of sharks. Try not to let any one of them figure you out, for as long as possible. Once they share a correct description of how you think and play, you have to transition to knowing as much about every one of them, as they know about you. And you can't even be sure that you'll be a winning player in that scenario, much less during the transition to it.
@@EfficientRVer That was a very good read. A lot to think about. Thanks for the perspective.
Why are most of your calls from the east coast
This caller used to be a dealer? I think? Maybe it’s a different Parx/Live! female reg though
When it
Comes to straddling, it some games it doesn’t even matter. Isn’t straddling supposed to induce action? Some tables are so tight everyone is folding anyways.
I dont really think that a 35 open raise is that huge in a live cash game. People overcall pre because they wanna see the flop. I think with one limper and the blinds in the pot 35 is a big bet but not too huge in a live cash game. I have seen 50 dollar iso raises because people limp call so many hands.
3:06 _so, you didn't like the top off, or maybe bottom for little bit shorter, or something_ ?
A lot of the women players 35-40 n younger are decent players. Playing QdTd from bb isn’t a bad play imo. I guess it depends on CO. I say bad luck
What?? Women 35to40 are decent players? What do either of those two things have to do with assuming someone being a good or bad player?
@@danielmeuler2877seriously. poker is one of those games where sex/gender has almost no effect on actual skill (except I feel women get away with bluffs more often because they're better at understanding and manipulating their emotions on average.) but every female i've ever played with has always been decent to really good. it's usually the cocky men who think their hot stuff that play the worst.
@@Bowling_Dude You missed my point. Assuming someone is a Good or Bad Player going off of nothing more than their age or gender is STUPID!. does that make it clear?
@@danielmeuler2877 no I got your point. I was agreeing with you. I guess I didn't think the age thing was too important to begin with because you had old cats like doyle who could keep up with the best all the way into his 80s then you have young guns like myself who still have a lot to learn.
😂 I thought Bart could use a few more comments by stirring the pot. Mission accomplished 😎
Ok it’s a terrible call for 7x open when you are oop. Hero needs to tighten range to make profit
Any A can bluff this on the river when they put you on a flush. Especially when it's the A on the river and he now knows you dont' have the nut flush, he has all the Ax bluffs and any Kdiamond bluff. Also players try to push women around, they have to call off w/ the top end of their range way more to catch those bluffs.
I've played against Melinda. Very cool chick. Need more women callers
that new blood is 20 years older now.
Regarding what she might be bluffing with, how about KQs, not diamonds.
Large open, then slow play. My guess pocket JJ
I would like this hand alot more if you where on the button calling with Q10 which is a marginal hand then being out of postion calling on the button. Especally when your opponent is betting very large like they talk about 7x the blind, he's right if he's opening that large with a wide range that way you take advantage of that is to tighten up your range or at the very least be in position. I woud fold pre.
Turn bet was good trying to take down the pot for $60 with a backup of hitting your flush on the river. River bet was good trying to get value from Ax hands and worse flushes. The best size was a bit greedy but not bad. I would fold to the shove if the player was tight and good and maybe call if they are loose and bad. You don't have the nut flush, 33s, 77s, JJs, AJ, A3s, A7s all beat you and are making this shove, only bad players are making this shove with only 3 Aces and a worse flush.
I knew it was gonna be AJ before even the end of the video because it's a female caller and she wants the assurance that she didn't do anything wrong. Nope, just a cooler.
if you know it’s a wide range player a check on the river wouldn’t be horrible either
She doesn’t remember which card on the flop was a diamond but the river was the ace of diamonds?
Fold pre, bet/fold river for a smaller size
Bet/call
Don't play 2/5 if you min buy in and you re not comfortable playing deep stack poker , no shame in playing lower stakes
Disagree heavily, you want to get off of 1/2 as quick as possible because the rake fucks you there. Even if you can’t max buy in at the next game it’s better to move out of 1/2
Never fold 40% to a royal pre-flop. You always have some decent equity.
40% of a royal*
I discount the villain having a flush since he raised large preflop with a limper ahead of him and 3 left to act. He had something he liked and I have a hard time with it being Kxd since x would have been a 9 or less. Maybe 89d or 78d but even that, no way he raises that much with those holdings. So he had a premium. JJ, AJs seem quite likely. A $500 river bet screams boat. Do you believe or not? Pot odds say, maybe call, reality says you are beat and need to fold. So do you go with pot odds or do you go with exploitive folding? I personally would have folded (in disgust) but I can see a call being a correct play.
You're getting 3-1 but you are only good 1 in 50 times. Fold. Easy fold.
she doesnt play at parx 2/5 ive never seen her, only seen her at rivers and live. weird.
Why aren't we talking about the possibility of the villain having A7 suited or A3 suited?
only 4 minutes in. that's a clear fold pre
Only mistake I see here is not toping off.
she needs to take a break from poker and get her head turned around, you can't achieve positive results when you are spiraling negative and you aren't going to win at anything if you are under the pressure of needing it badly, poker is the wrong tool to try and make you feel better about yourself, it will do the opposite..... desperation breeds desperation ...... but, and this may sound kinda strange, every time she spoke i felt the same thought, "she's got a lot of untapped power inside her, she could be a real force if she gets her head right" ...hope she does it......
Bruh, these thumbnails lately have me cracking up.
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She's beating 10 9 of diamonds?????
why would 10 9 of diamonds raise at river?
Women do play weak tight. Obviously there are exceptions like Selbst or every 25 year old Asian woman at Wynn, but generally it's true.
I got in an argument with some Asian chick at the Wynn 😂
According to multiple people in this comment section, because she is a woman in her 30's to 40's, she is automatically a Strong Player. I would tend to agree with you about said player profile
I agree 100%. The only demographic of females that play “LAG” from my experience are older Asian ladies who will call your 3bet with 83 off stack you and then leave
I was in Philly recently in this room. The regs legit feared a few of the women in the room. Don't know if there's some rule that describes all ladies in cash games.
Weak indeed
13:15 ace of diamonds on the river. She couldn’t remember if the ace or the jack was a diamond on the flop, but she remembered it was a diamond on the river. WTF lady ?
She seems very annoying
There’s antes in 1-3 games. It’s all the limped dead money.