Great content! Sacramento native living in Kentucky and I miss that casino! The quad 9 hand reminded me of an old Bugs Bunny cartoon quads hand - Bugs slow roll his hand and says "I got 2 pair - a pair of ones and another pair of ones" 🤣🤣
17:00 ahahahaha....63s!! Goes all in PF. Tell ya my story: $2/5 game, 3 limp, I (BTN) TT, raise to 45, one call, last limper 3-bet to $90 (short stack ~$235). I shove, he snap called. He flips over 57o! ( I almost laughed). Flop 57J, turn 5, river...irrelevant!
2:28 river bet was unnecessary. The best case scenario would be chopping it!? So: it is a no win/lose situation (losing to quad of 99, FH Q9, K9, T9.).
77 (7:37): Wp. This is a bad spot for a large turn bet. Neither one of you has many sixes or straight draws on this flop, so the primary hands that hit are 77 or Ax. You ran into the perfect hand to get all in here. TT at the end was wp too. Good job getting it in before the river.
Glad the 77 hand worked out. Devils advocate- a lot of people would fold the A/10 to a bet and you would have gotten nothing there. I like a check when they are very likely to have nothing. But I can understand the bet.
Hey Doug! My wife and I love watching all your vlogs and admire your solid game. Only one critique about your goal #5. Goals are things you can work on and acheive. You cannot do anything about luck. Luck is up to the Poker Gods and they work in mysterious ways.
Ran into the other end of quads over quads last night too. My 44 vs KK on a K-Q-4-K-4 board, felted of course. 1st time in 18 years of poker that my quads were beat. Ugly feeling. 🥺 No bad beat here, either
I hit quad AA on the turn a few weeks ago and it gave my Villan a royal lol it was 5 10 plo and luckily he was not super deep no bad beat jackpot in plo at foxwoods where I played the hand
Been wondering in your 2023 poker goals you have “Be luckier then my opponents”. I’m not sure if this is a tongue in cheek thing or not but why would you have a goal be something you have no control over?
The flopped straight, I don’t agree with going for value on the river. What do we get value from other than a 9. Even KQ is in a tough spot to call with that runout.
Thanks Huggie, I would say the majority players tend to play that way. You may pick up a small bet here and there, but you miss out on stacking someone who is a non believer.
Looked like an older gentleman and his hands were shaking when he put in the call on turn like he liked that card. Usually that check raise on river is super nutted but can't blame you for calling. Enjoy the vlogs keep em coming
Good content. I’m thinking you had as much bad luck as good luck. The 7’s full flop was certainly lucky but the 63 that got a straight was very poor luck. I’m always amazed at how accurate your reads are. It’s almost like your regular opponents are playing their cards face up. Sorry can’t make the 26th. I plan to be in NC visiting daughter. Maybe next time, or I’ll just plan a trip to Capitol Casino. If you can, please recommend a hotel.
The 77 was amazingly lucky, so was the 63 but the other way. His call isn’t awful if he puts me on AK or AQ. Enjoy time with your daughter, family first always! Lots of good hotels in downtown Sac, few minutes to Capitol by Uber.
Nice Sunday afternoon viewing for me, Ive been watching quite a bit of Hustler action, would be nice to see you get involved although the games are quite big, the average quality of player there is poor, theyve got no idea about position, betting sizes , opponents ranges etc, there are about 5/6 guys /girls who know what theyre doing there, look at how Mariano is cleaning it up there, he must be close to $500k profit , anyway, I wrote this before watching your vlog, haha, will now sit back, relax and enjoy, as you always so eloquently say!! regards Bro from Fraser in the UK
Thanks Fraser, the games on the stream are large and action packed. My wife always comments that those games are not for me. 😀. I do plan on making some small trips this year to play in bigger games where I am less known.
Played a sesh last night, was in for 300, out for 218.. Had some big wins but couldn’t hit a flop with AK and none of the flops touched my range. Learned a lot though, but still a bit upset. Was up to 420 at my best but
I definitely felt exploited after that hand. I randomize my call down frequency in spots like this, this time I folded. If only my watch was 10 seconds faster I would have called. I blame it on my watch. Lol
@@dougmccuskerpoker hahah allright. O well, but i would recmmend looking at it that way: if you fold AK here, which hands are you calling? Keep up the Vlogs btw!!
He knew that my range didn’t hit that flop hard. He was putting the pressure on with air. I planned on calling down unless a wheel card came. Once it did, to many hands in his range has me drawing dead or bad. Good play by him, risky, but good. He tried a similar move later and bluffed off his stack to someone with 2 pair.
Entertaining as always. 👍 FWIW ~9 handed limped pot w/66 from SB A86 flop I'm always leading out here, not check raising. Small-medium bet here usually gets multiple callers 9 handed, in my games check raise looks way too strong. Leading small/medium each street flop and turn gets more $ in vs weak 1pair hands which are most likely holdings in 9 handed limped pot. Keep the run good going! 👌
Great content! Sacramento native living in Kentucky and I miss that casino!
The quad 9 hand reminded me of an old Bugs Bunny cartoon quads hand - Bugs slow roll his hand and says "I got 2 pair - a pair of ones and another pair of ones" 🤣🤣
Bugs Bunny was the nuts.
@@dougmccuskerpoker yes sir! Hard to beat quad aces 🤣
17:00 ahahahaha....63s!! Goes all in PF.
Tell ya my story:
$2/5 game, 3 limp, I (BTN) TT, raise to 45, one call, last limper 3-bet to $90 (short stack ~$235). I shove, he snap called. He flips over 57o! ( I almost laughed). Flop 57J, turn 5, river...irrelevant!
2:28 river bet was unnecessary. The best case scenario would be chopping it!? So: it is a no win/lose situation (losing to quad of 99, FH Q9, K9, T9.).
Doug I went back and watched all past vlogs, I enjoy your vlog a lot. Thanks !!
Wow, that’s a lot of watching!
77 (7:37): Wp. This is a bad spot for a large turn bet. Neither one of you has many sixes or straight draws on this flop, so the primary hands that hit are 77 or Ax. You ran into the perfect hand to get all in here. TT at the end was wp too. Good job getting it in before the river.
10:54 What happened? He folded, correct?
He folded
Glad the 77 hand worked out. Devils advocate- a lot of people would fold the A/10 to a bet and you would have gotten nothing there. I like a check when they are very likely to have nothing. But I can understand the bet.
I cbet often, get called light often. It might even look fishy if I don’t cbet.
👍
Thanks Wayne
Hey Doug! My wife and I love watching all your vlogs and admire your solid game. Only one critique about your goal #5. Goals are things you can work on and acheive. You cannot do anything about luck. Luck is up to the Poker Gods and they work in mysterious ways.
It was meant to be a joke to those who are paying attention. Plus I am already luckier than most 😀, ask my wife 😉
The opening song sounds a lot like from a 007 movie.👍
It would be a good Bond song.
Played last night and hit quads over quads. No bad beat jackpot at that venue unfortunately. I had 10/10 my opponent had 8/8. Runout was 5/8/10/8/10.
Ran into the other end of quads over quads last night too. My 44 vs KK on a K-Q-4-K-4 board, felted of course.
1st time in 18 years of poker that my quads were beat. Ugly feeling. 🥺
No bad beat here, either
Ouch, I once hit the bad beat jackpot 3 days after they discontinued it!! I was so pissed.
I hit quad AA on the turn a few weeks ago and it gave my Villan a royal lol it was 5 10 plo and luckily he was not super deep no bad beat jackpot in plo at foxwoods where I played the hand
Been wondering in your 2023 poker goals you have “Be luckier then my opponents”. I’m not sure if this is a tongue in cheek thing or not but why would you have a goal be something you have no control over?
It is meant to be a joke for the observant 😀
@@dougmccuskerpoker haha nice!
Thanks. Always enjoy
You are welcome Scott, thanks for the comment!!
The flopped straight, I don’t agree with going for value on the river. What do we get value from other than a 9. Even KQ is in a tough spot to call with that runout.
yeah i mean it's not a pro, just a regular player , but that was really bad yeah.
It was a punt, should be an easy fold every time and check the river was best after he called a big turn bet.
Disagree as played I would bet 1/3 on the river fold to check raise.
Great Vlog!!! 👍👍👍
Thanks, appreciate the comment and thanks for watching!
Doug!! Bowling league is on Sundays, so can’t make the 26th. Looking forward to playing some cards soon!!
It’s the only night that really works for the casino, they have been very busy there lately.
Nice aggression on the 77 hand. I'd definitely fall into the trap of just calling the turn, but I like your play there.
Thanks Huggie, I would say the majority players tend to play that way. You may pick up a small bet here and there, but you miss out on stacking someone who is a non believer.
Great vlog! You should double check capital’s jackpot policy, a lot of casinos don’t honor bad beat during bomb pots
Jackpot are good during bomb pots, but not if you have double boards.
Wet dream river 😂
Sorry Doug your pain in the 99’s Vs 63 hand me laugh. After an almost “perfect runout” for having 9’s in that spot.
Even the best made plans fail to an unexpected hand. Oh well, I like the play.
Looked like an older gentleman and his hands were shaking when he put in the call on turn like he liked that card. Usually that check raise on river is super nutted but can't blame you for calling. Enjoy the vlogs keep em coming
It was a bad call, should actually check back a large portion of river cards. His hands shake most of the time.
Good content. I’m thinking you had as much bad luck as good luck. The 7’s full flop was certainly lucky but the 63 that got a straight was very poor luck. I’m always amazed at how accurate your reads are. It’s almost like your regular opponents are playing their cards face up. Sorry can’t make the 26th. I plan to be in NC visiting daughter. Maybe next time, or I’ll just plan a trip to Capitol Casino. If you can, please recommend a hotel.
The 77 was amazingly lucky, so was the 63 but the other way. His call isn’t awful if he puts me on AK or AQ. Enjoy time with your daughter, family first always! Lots of good hotels in downtown Sac, few minutes to Capitol by Uber.
Where is this it looks like heaven
Capitol Casino, Sacramento CA
Looks like you play most every day, how long of a drive is it for you
30 minutes or so from my house, play 3 or 4 days a week. Never long sessions, I lose my edge after 5 hrs
Nice Sunday afternoon viewing for me, Ive been watching quite a bit of Hustler action, would be nice to see you get involved although the games are quite big, the average quality of player there is poor, theyve got no idea about position, betting sizes , opponents ranges etc, there are about 5/6 guys /girls who know what theyre doing there, look at how Mariano is cleaning it up there, he must be close to $500k profit , anyway, I wrote this before watching your vlog, haha, will now sit back, relax and enjoy, as you always so eloquently say!! regards Bro from Fraser in the UK
Thanks Fraser, the games on the stream are large and action packed. My wife always comments that those games are not for me. 😀. I do plan on making some small trips this year to play in bigger games where I am less known.
Played a sesh last night, was in for 300, out for 218.. Had some big wins but couldn’t hit a flop with AK and none of the flops touched my range. Learned a lot though, but still a bit upset. Was up to 420 at my best but
It’s frustrating going on a 2 card rush. Missing flops in action games is painful, you did well to only lose a couple of bucks.
When facing 3 limps you should raise larger than $15. Minimum raise should be about $25. Thanks for the great vlogs!
Technically him announcing 2 pairs means he loses a straight beats it,But that’s up to the dealer too sort that out
Lol people can say whatever they want. If he shows his hand (which he did) then that's what matters.
So, by that logic, me announcing royal flush everytime means I have the winning hand. I like your style of game
I’ve done this before though, as a joke among a ton of regulars. I had quads and announced “two pair…. These fives and those fives”
It’s not an issue, lots of people say one thing and show another. He played it well, I played it poorly.
Always great content. Channel your inner Zeus!!!
Thanks, Zeus knows best.
Thanks for the content
Thanks you Bart! You are always in the comments and I appreciate it.
@5:30 You folding Ace King here is just really bad. especially vs an agressive opponent, youre getting exploited hard here
I definitely felt exploited after that hand. I randomize my call down frequency in spots like this, this time I folded. If only my watch was 10 seconds faster I would have called. I blame it on my watch. Lol
@@dougmccuskerpoker hahah allright. O well, but i would recmmend looking at it that way: if you fold AK here, which hands are you calling? Keep up the Vlogs btw!!
Why was that guy bluffing the 9/10. No real draws. Don't think it was a good bet just got lucky you didn't feel strong.
Why did he fold
He knew that my range didn’t hit that flop hard. He was putting the pressure on with air. I planned on calling down unless a wheel card came. Once it did, to many hands in his range has me drawing dead or bad. Good play by him, risky, but good. He tried a similar move later and bluffed off his stack to someone with 2 pair.
Day 2, on your left. Next time just elbow me and I’ll stop shuffling my chips so much. 👍🏻
Lol
Another great vlog, Doug - thank you!
Appreciate you watching and commenting 😀
It can be very difficult to play against so many fish. :)
It is hard to get good reads when many opponents haven’t a clue to the strength of their hands.
Some seriously amazing lay downs and reads
Thanks, I have learned to trust my reads. Listening to that little voice has saved me on many occasions.
Entertaining as always. 👍
FWIW ~9 handed limped pot w/66 from SB A86 flop I'm always leading out here, not check raising. Small-medium bet here usually gets multiple callers 9 handed, in my games check raise looks way too strong. Leading small/medium each street flop and turn gets more $ in vs weak 1pair hands which are most likely holdings in 9 handed limped pot.
Keep the run good going! 👌
I agree, leading is a better line IMO
Nice come back Doug
Thank you, always nice to have more at the end. 😀
#PornClickbait 🤣 great as always, thank you for all your hard work on these vlogs
You are welcome, not sure if it was porn clickbait, but I get your jest.