@@dougmccuskerpoker surely not. My father had a Great Pyrenees that was huge (and taller than Zeus). He weighed 156 at his biggest. It's possible he is beefier, but 50lbs? He is freaking huge, tho, no matter what. Weigh him. If he's 200lb (or anywhere near!) I want to know and I want to meet him! 😃 I LOVE big dogs. We had Great Pyrenees throughout my childhood and early adult life. BTW, is my screenname still showing as Eric Huechteman? It still looks that way when I post a comment, but I tried to edit it to make it somewhat more anonymous, and someone called me Mayday the other day in a reply so....
7:37 flop should be a 1/3 range bet. if you bet 2/3 or more, you're risking unnecessary amounts when you have bluffs (which you should have a ton of). it's a mistake to check a lot of holdings on flops like this because opponent will whiff a large % and we need to bet to deny equity. checking when we whiff and betting when we're strong also makes it hard to get consistently paid when you have value hands. flop is basically a small range bet, and turn is never a check, slam dunk 2/3 pot. sucks to make a boat and get 0 extra dolares, but don't sweat it. when opp has 8x, flush draw or doesn't believe us with smaller pairs, we get all the money. this is just my opinion, i'm a monkey at texas holdem so take it with a grain of salt. happy new year doug!! best wishes :)
Thanks Corey, if you’re a monkey, you’re the smartest monkey I know. I’ve been experimenting with some no standard cbet sizing with certain players and textures. There are some players that will happily continue for larger sizes that would not take advantage of my sizing.
Great vlog! On the AJ hand, a pot-sized raise is a little over $100. I would have made it about $125-$135 depending on how sticky the preflop raiser was. Given the stack depth and implied odds, K5 suited was still a very bad call against your three-betting range and even your exact hand (it's less bad if you are both $2,000 deep). Hope you have a happy and healthy new year!
Great stuff 👍 4’s hand was awesome and great lay down with the 10’s. It was a great reminder not to get married to your hand with minimal investment. It was clearly the definition of “finding a better spot” with that player type.
There are many flops I will call to see and fold top pair without a second thought. For example, call multi-way pre with JTs with the idea of making a straight or flush. Hit top pair and fold to aggression. Didn’t play the hand to make top pair, top pair weak kicker is nothing but trouble multi-way.
Enjoyable as always/ 99 is your hand! Like the goals; the first one is good of course but IMO too vague. It's hard to be measurable and track tilt/ playing solid but I would suggest adopting some kind of measure, even if imperfect. FWIW I break down and track errors (from tilt/less than solid play) on my phone and keep monthly totals on computer spreadsheet and see which ones trend the most, and then try to work on those specifically. I chart 10 loss leading behaviors but some major ones that are leaders for example are: Failed bluff (significant $ size, not cbet) Bad call (for specific BB size, example 30BB or so) Losses (70BB or more) with 1 pair hands Etc/you could make up others based on your weaknesses and track that, then set specific goals to improve. Sounds like work but really nothing to it once you get it set up/ this has really improved my game. Sorry about the TLDR ha/Happy New Year tho!
The goals are vague to the outside world, but to me they are crystal clear. You know when you make a bad play, so do I. Just have to limit them as much as possible.
Well if you get people to put in $95 preflop with king /5 suited then you will be very profitable there this year and every year, Happy New Year buddy, all the best to you , your Family and of course Zeus, the superstar!
2:55 AJ - Standard 3b from SB with a 20 open and 2 callers would be 120 (4x plus callers). I'd just fold AJ here. MP raiser with 2 callers gives you too many ways to lose. 16:45 AdA on ddd flop - I think you can check this flop (not that you need to) and maybe get villain to either bet flop or call a later bet....
It’s a fold or 3 bet situation in my mind. I decided to 3 bet because the initial raiser was opening loose and I had a solid image at the time. 120 would have been better of course.
5:10 (AJo) I'm not sure if I ever liked the theory: _"3-bet a tone from SB position with a speculative hand that flops good"_ Particularly not in multiway field. Why? b/c on the long run it's a losing strategy. When I win, I win small, when I lose, I lose big. 1 large pot lost will not make up for number of smaller pots won. I would not mind if someone proves this wrong.
Standard C bet from the open with your pocket 10’s. He very well could have AKs there. Need to peel at least 1 more card and re evaluate. It not, you can be easily exploited by continued aggression in the future. Otherwise, enjoyed watching your vlog for the first time.
Great coaching on what hands you have and who are you playing against with pocket 10, Usually the player raising who is about to leave is sign of strength. How do you put him on a strong pair why not a AK AQ or even pocket 9.
3:50 I was thinking $125-$140 on the AJo SB squeeze. Too big is barely big enough. Ask yourself how much you could raise in a PLO game and adjust from there.
Hey Doug I'm moving towards Sacramento within the next couple months. Besides thunder valley where else to play. FYI couple years ago you meet me at Graton. I need a good game and TIA
I have a question. I play 1/2 and I see players raising preflop keeps barreling on a wet board,dry board or even a paired board. How do we respond to this play. Sometimes I have to give up on turn barreling even if there is no face cards and I have connected with say middle or bottom pair. It is difficult to put this players on pocket pairs or even over cards
Don’t chase with weak hands. When you make a strong hand they will overplay theirs. If you’re card dead, it will be a long night. If you make some hands, you will get paid.
I am learning a lot from your vlog. Please continue the good work while you make money. You might have to try a different casino or a different spot if it is available near you. I think that will be interesting.
At least you made some profit. I am running so sick bad at the 1-2 game I play it's unbelievable. For the last several months, I get it in as a 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 fav, and I cannot win. Played only 3 hours today, ran into a couple coolers early. Get a good chunk of it back with AQ. They do a quadruple straddle and i wake up with red aces in the C/O, get it all in pre against A-10suited, and the flush hits. Rebuy. Card dead for the next hour and a half and they do a double straddle, I wake up with AK in the C/O, one player min raises the double straddle, I bump it up 3.5x another player shoves and of course I call. AK vs A9. 3 out 9 on the river felts me. I've done this over and over lately, and it's getting old, but how can I feel bad about getting in dominating? It sure would be nice to win one for a change, but I keep taking beat after beat.
That’s the way I ran last year at the beginning. Very frustrating indeed. Take a short break, enjoy some non poker activity. Then when your head stops spinning, go back and win.
@@dougmccuskerpoker I hear you. I've already done that....twice. I laugh at people who say online poker is rigged, they should come to this game. It's not like I tilt. I just say OK, you will get another spot to get it in great, just be patient and wait for it, and I do. It just feels like I'm never going to win one of them. I understand it's just variance, but when it's at the point where you need to win over 100 of these spots in a row to make the math come out right, it feels like you're just so unlucky that maybe cash game poker isn't for you. I did well online before Black Friday, top 93% of the stakes I played, but played only S&G, with the occasional MTT. The variance in cash games was just so bad online for me, I quit them. And now it's right back live. DeJa'Vu. After BF I spent hours and hours studying cash game strategies, how to read people live, etc. It feels like all of it was a waste of time. None of them even know what pot odds vs outs are, one of them doesn't even know what a top ten starter means. 18 years of playing and I can't beat these players that don't have a clue? Demoralizing.
Hi Doug!,AJ hand I don’t think that right play is to bet in to the tree players on that flop from your position…you getting called with any pair or someone with a five. I would check and continue cautiously.Cost you some money that hand.
At minute 5, when you had the ace jack, one guy showed his hand and folded. Isn't that a giant no no? It may not have any relation to the board, but isn't that REALLY bad etiquette??
Overall a big leak in your game is not raising big enough in any situation isolating 3betting and especially squeezing. Live poker is full of donkeys make them pay more when you have a good hand and scare the crap out of them with hammer of a bet. Good luck in the new year
Feel like your desire to increase your win rate may be a stretch. You are already in the 70% range. Variance alone makes that an excellent win rate. 20% on top of that would be +14%, or 84%. A win rate that high is achievable, but you must play as a nit. Costs actual profit.
I’m not referring to win %, just my hourly win rate. Playing like a nit would reduce my hourly. I feel that $60/hr is very reasonable for the game I normally play in.
Hi Doug, what is your opinion on showing bluffs? Is it disrespectful or just part of the game? I'm not trying to embarrass anyone but since showing my bluffs (way more frequently) my win-rate has skyrocketed. I love your videos and also love watching your journey. Your feedback would be much appreciated! Thanks!!
I normally never show bluffs. My thinking behind it is to not give my opponents any information that might help them read me better. Of course all they have to do is watch my vlog, but at least I make a penny for the view. 😀$
9:45 FFS McCusker bet your hands. When nobody raises pre and you flop the world why do you think somebody *else* will bet? Just lead right out for full pot. No jack is ever folding and prolly not second pair either. Players call too much and don't bet enough - leverage that. Oh, that's right - *you* don't bet enough. 😉
There's a tradeoff with a strong hand between letting the other players catch up, and building a pot. You might fold out a middle pair hand who could hit two pair later and pay you off, but you might miss value from someone with a jack who would call right now. But I agree that hoping someone with a jack bets is probably not the ideal way to think about it.
@@fluffysheap it's so hard to flop a set. When you do, you should be thinking about stacks. Stop worrying about getting a little from 2nd pair. Target a jack, and no jack is folding for pretty much any bet. Go from there.
I don't like the AJ play. It's OK to fold that from the small blind. I know you don't want to if you're card dead, but you're only in this for $1 so far. The problem with the squeeze is that with four players in the hand, if you get two or three callers, there's no room to maneuver after the flop, because the pot is bloated. If you don't hit, you will have to go all in to bluff (as actually happens). Maybe MP is the sort of player who just likes to make really big bets, but for most players you are probably behind. You block JJ, so he probably has TT or QQ but might have AA/KK or could still have JJ. He's not folding any of these (mayyyyybe TT) and once he calls the others might call too because something something pot odds. I think if you want to play this hand at all, you should call, hope for an ace, and see what develops. If you decide to bluff, at least you'll only be bluffing at an $80 pot instead of a $400 pot. In the case of the exact hand, you can check, someone will bet $30, you can raise to $150 (or fold), and then when K5 guy jams you can fold. You still lose some chips but you're in better shape every point in the hand.
In my mind it’s a raise or fold, hate calling with that hand. I decided to raise because my image was good, not because I was bored. My sizing should be slightly larger to induce more folds. As played, like the jam on that texture, just happen to run into a 5. The majority of the time that play is +ev I believe 2 of my 3 opponents saw my video about squeeze plays.
Doug, you're getting far too trappy slow play-y with your value hands. Too many examples to list but you're not getting full value for hands that are hard to make. ❤️
Okay 18:30 flatting turn with trip 9's. Then you let a third trump peel off and scare your guy to death. It's really hard to win big pots if you don't put in bets and raises with the best hand.
@@leehjones Well, maybe. After the fact we know opponent has an ace and will probably call a raise. In the moment, the tradeoff is between letting them bet river (either as a bluff or mistaken value bet) or risking them fold now. The ace is a scare card, they might be bluffing at it. And the same, we know the river is a diamond, but that is only 20% of the time. Do you lose more by diamonds killing the action, or by opponent folding the turn?
Zeus looked so comfy on his bed. Jaman Burton, Mariano and you are my favorite poker vloggers. Great vlog once again!
That’s a high level compliment to be mentioned with Jaman and Mariano. 😊
Doug, I really like the info box in the upper left corner with your win/loss total and session timer. It really helps with perspective….
It is a great way to feel the game flow up or down, a viewer mentioned the idea and I ran with it.
Wow, I never realized how big Zeus is. What a beautiful beast 😍 Good luck in your session!!!!!
Haven’t weighed him in a while, but he must be around 200 lbs now
@@dougmccuskerpoker surely not. My father had a Great Pyrenees that was huge (and taller than Zeus). He weighed 156 at his biggest. It's possible he is beefier, but 50lbs? He is freaking huge, tho, no matter what. Weigh him. If he's 200lb (or anywhere near!) I want to know and I want to meet him! 😃 I LOVE big dogs. We had Great Pyrenees throughout my childhood and early adult life. BTW, is my screenname still showing as Eric Huechteman? It still looks that way when I post a comment, but I tried to edit it to make it somewhat more anonymous, and someone called me Mayday the other day in a reply so....
What a wild hand 44 vs 22! I like that you went for it all on the river since you could tell he was weak on the turn!
Without the read, I would make a crying call. But he felt very weak on the turn, so I went for it.
I like 41 dollar pots on the river! Haha great vlog great hand. Also 10s are tricky for me to play…thanks for including that hand too.
Thanks Kevin
I have learned a lot from your casts. Enjoy the lessons, especially from Zeus. May good times find you both.
Glad you like them!
7:37 flop should be a 1/3 range bet. if you bet 2/3 or more, you're risking unnecessary amounts when you have bluffs (which you should have a ton of). it's a mistake to check a lot of holdings on flops like this because opponent will whiff a large % and we need to bet to deny equity. checking when we whiff and betting when we're strong also makes it hard to get consistently paid when you have value hands. flop is basically a small range bet, and turn is never a check, slam dunk 2/3 pot. sucks to make a boat and get 0 extra dolares, but don't sweat it. when opp has 8x, flush draw or doesn't believe us with smaller pairs, we get all the money. this is just my opinion, i'm a monkey at texas holdem so take it with a grain of salt. happy new year doug!! best wishes :)
Thanks Corey, if you’re a monkey, you’re the smartest monkey I know. I’ve been experimenting with some no standard cbet sizing with certain players and textures. There are some players that will happily continue for larger sizes that would not take advantage of my sizing.
corey ive seen your vlogs and you play like rampunts jr. wise council indeed :) still watched all your vlogs though so youre doing something right
Good luck to you and me Mr. McCusker! May we both have a profitable 2023!
Yes sir indeed, 2023 looks promising!
Way to recover, Doug! Well done, sir. 💪👍
Thank you kindly, it was a grind.
You make a good video. I love the format and the pace of the action. Thanks for sharing. Thumbs up
Thanks Bubba, your comment made my day.
Great vlog! On the AJ hand, a pot-sized raise is a little over $100. I would have made it about $125-$135 depending on how sticky the preflop raiser was. Given the stack depth and implied odds, K5 suited was still a very bad call against your three-betting range and even your exact hand (it's less bad if you are both $2,000 deep). Hope you have a happy and healthy new year!
Yeah, needed to go a little larger pre. Might have been enough to get a fold or two. Happy New Years!
Happy new year. Thanks for all the hard work on the channel.
Happy Nee Year, I don’t mind the work as long as people are enjoying it.
Great stuff 👍 4’s hand was awesome and great lay down with the 10’s. It was a great reminder not to get married to your hand with minimal investment. It was clearly the definition of “finding a better spot” with that player type.
There are many flops I will call to see and fold top pair without a second thought. For example, call multi-way pre with JTs with the idea of making a straight or flush. Hit top pair and fold to aggression. Didn’t play the hand to make top pair, top pair weak kicker is nothing but trouble multi-way.
Those pocket 9s were so good to you, it's so unfortunate you didn't get as much value as we would have wanted 😔 Happy New Year bud!
Happy New Year Erick! Hope you and the family are doing well
Happy and Healthy New Year too all!
Thank you Josh, hope you have a great year also.
Happy New Year, would love to see you playing a bit higher stakes your patience at the table is amazing and would pay off at higher stakes.
My bankroll can support some trips to the big boy table. Will be exploring some higher stakes this year.
Happy new year 🎉 Doug !
Thank you! Hope the year treats you well.
Good one.
Thanks
I wasn't going to comment on the pocket 10s hand, but I figure Doug is worth it. 😂 Good, smart lay down.
Thanks Larry, I knew I could get you to comment if I did something smart. 😀
Enjoyable as always/ 99 is your hand!
Like the goals; the first one is good of course but IMO too vague. It's hard to be measurable and track tilt/ playing solid but I would suggest adopting some kind of measure, even if imperfect.
FWIW I break down and track errors (from tilt/less than solid play) on my phone and keep monthly totals on computer spreadsheet and see which ones trend the most, and then try to work on those specifically. I chart 10 loss leading behaviors but some major ones that are leaders for example are:
Failed bluff (significant $ size, not cbet)
Bad call (for specific BB size, example 30BB or so)
Losses (70BB or more) with 1 pair hands
Etc/you could make up others based on your weaknesses and track that, then set specific goals to improve.
Sounds like work but really nothing to it once you get it set up/ this has really improved my game.
Sorry about the TLDR ha/Happy New Year tho!
The goals are vague to the outside world, but to me they are crystal clear. You know when you make a bad play, so do I. Just have to limit them as much as possible.
Well if you get people to put in $95 preflop with king /5 suited then you will be very profitable there this year and every year, Happy New Year buddy, all the best to you , your Family and of course Zeus, the superstar!
Gotta love the action, it was a high variance play. Not surprised it failed, but I feel it was a good spot for it to succeed. Happy New Years!
2:55 AJ - Standard 3b from SB with a 20 open and 2 callers would be 120 (4x plus callers). I'd just fold AJ here. MP raiser with 2 callers gives you too many ways to lose. 16:45 AdA on ddd flop - I think you can check this flop (not that you need to) and maybe get villain to either bet flop or call a later bet....
It’s a fold or 3 bet situation in my mind. I decided to 3 bet because the initial raiser was opening loose and I had a solid image at the time. 120 would have been better of course.
5:10 (AJo) I'm not sure if I ever liked the theory: _"3-bet a tone from SB position with a speculative hand that flops good"_
Particularly not in multiway field. Why? b/c on the long run it's a losing strategy. When I win, I win small, when I lose, I lose big. 1 large pot lost will not make up for number of smaller pots won.
I would not mind if someone proves this wrong.
Standard C bet from the open with your pocket 10’s. He very well could have AKs there. Need to peel at least 1 more card and re evaluate. It not, you can be easily exploited by continued aggression in the future. Otherwise, enjoyed watching your vlog for the first time.
It’s a player I have a good read on, his bet was pure value.
Great coaching on what hands you have and who are you playing against with pocket 10, Usually the player raising who is about to leave is sign of strength. How do you put him on a strong pair why not a AK AQ or even pocket 9.
I have a good read, he was betting for value.
3:50 I was thinking $125-$140 on the AJo SB squeeze. Too big is barely big enough. Ask yourself how much you could raise in a PLO game and adjust from there.
Yeah, going bigger is hardly ever a mistake.
Hey Doug I'm moving towards Sacramento within the next couple months. Besides thunder valley where else to play. FYI couple years ago you meet me at Graton. I need a good game and TIA
Capitol Casino has the best games IMO
@Doug McCusker Poker thought so they got 3-5 or 5-10. I'll be in the area soon for family since they want me there to move
@@707ridah the 1-3 plays like a 3-5, they also have 2-5 and 2-5-10 that play very big. Big games start around 2 pm
@Doug McCusker Poker sounds good. Thank you, I play the 3-5 5-10 at Graton and looking for new place to play when I move
I have a question. I play 1/2 and I see players raising preflop keeps barreling on a wet board,dry board or even a paired board. How do we respond to this play. Sometimes I have to give up on turn barreling even if there is no face cards and I have connected with say middle or bottom pair. It is difficult to put this players on pocket pairs or even over cards
Don’t chase with weak hands. When you make a strong hand they will overplay theirs. If you’re card dead, it will be a long night. If you make some hands, you will get paid.
I am learning a lot from your vlog. Please continue the good work while you make money. You might have to try a different casino or a different spot if it is available near you. I think that will be interesting.
At least you made some profit. I am running so sick bad at the 1-2 game I play it's unbelievable.
For the last several months, I get it in as a 3 to 1 or 4 to 1 fav, and I cannot win.
Played only 3 hours today, ran into a couple coolers early. Get a good chunk of it back with AQ.
They do a quadruple straddle and i wake up with red aces in the C/O, get it all in pre against A-10suited, and the flush hits. Rebuy.
Card dead for the next hour and a half and they do a double straddle, I wake up with AK in the C/O, one player min raises the double straddle, I bump it up 3.5x another player shoves and of course I call. AK vs A9.
3 out 9 on the river felts me.
I've done this over and over lately, and it's getting old, but how can I feel bad about getting in dominating?
It sure would be nice to win one for a change, but I keep taking beat after beat.
That’s the way I ran last year at the beginning. Very frustrating indeed. Take a short break, enjoy some non poker activity. Then when your head stops spinning, go back and win.
@@dougmccuskerpoker I hear you.
I've already done that....twice.
I laugh at people who say online poker is rigged, they should come to this game.
It's not like I tilt. I just say OK, you will get another spot to get it in great, just be patient and wait for it, and I do.
It just feels like I'm never going to win one of them.
I understand it's just variance, but when it's at the point where you need to win over 100 of these spots in a row to make the math come out right, it feels like you're just so unlucky that maybe cash game poker isn't for you.
I did well online before Black Friday, top 93% of the stakes I played, but played only S&G, with the occasional MTT.
The variance in cash games was just so bad online for me, I quit them. And now it's right back live. DeJa'Vu.
After BF I spent hours and hours studying cash game strategies, how to read people live, etc.
It feels like all of it was a waste of time.
None of them even know what pot odds vs outs are, one of them doesn't even know what a top ten starter means.
18 years of playing and I can't beat these players that don't have a clue?
Demoralizing.
Hi Doug!,AJ hand I don’t think that right play is to bet in to the tree players on that flop from your position…you getting called with any pair or someone with a five. I would check and continue cautiously.Cost you some money that hand.
I would proceed cautiously with the hands I’m repping, had to go for it with that board texture
At minute 5, when you had the ace jack, one guy showed his hand and folded.
Isn't that a giant no no?
It may not have any relation to the board, but isn't that REALLY bad etiquette??
Agreed, people shouldn’t show period.
Overall a big leak in your game is not raising big enough in any situation isolating 3betting and especially squeezing. Live poker is full of donkeys make them pay more when you have a good hand and scare the crap out of them with hammer of a bet. Good luck in the new year
I agree, bigger bets in 2023!
No high hand? For the quads? Can win 250-1k every 15 min at my casino
15 minutes?? Most high hands are every hour, or even every two hours, and don't run all the time.
@fluffysheap oh ok maybe it's just ac borgata. Every 15 min min $250.
For Fri and Sat. Plus the bad beat
Someone had a straight flush
Feel like your desire to increase your win rate may be a stretch. You are already in the 70% range. Variance alone makes that an excellent win rate. 20% on top of that would be +14%, or 84%. A win rate that high is achievable, but you must play as a nit. Costs actual profit.
I’m not referring to win %, just my hourly win rate. Playing like a nit would reduce my hourly. I feel that $60/hr is very reasonable for the game I normally play in.
You know I like your play but the AJ Hand with 55 on the flop ....that was a punt...into 3 opponents
It is high variance, but that is a great board texture to jam.
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Hi Doug, what is your opinion on showing bluffs? Is it disrespectful or just part of the game? I'm not trying to embarrass anyone but since showing my bluffs (way more frequently) my win-rate has skyrocketed. I love your videos and also love watching your journey. Your feedback would be much appreciated! Thanks!!
I normally never show bluffs. My thinking behind it is to not give my opponents any information that might help them read me better. Of course all they have to do is watch my vlog, but at least I make a penny for the view. 😀$
9:45 FFS McCusker bet your hands. When nobody raises pre and you flop the world why do you think somebody *else* will bet? Just lead right out for full pot. No jack is ever folding and prolly not second pair either.
Players call too much and don't bet enough - leverage that.
Oh, that's right - *you* don't bet enough. 😉
There's a tradeoff with a strong hand between letting the other players catch up, and building a pot. You might fold out a middle pair hand who could hit two pair later and pay you off, but you might miss value from someone with a jack who would call right now.
But I agree that hoping someone with a jack bets is probably not the ideal way to think about it.
Lol, I’m guilty
@@fluffysheap it's so hard to flop a set. When you do, you should be thinking about stacks. Stop worrying about getting a little from 2nd pair. Target a jack, and no jack is folding for pretty much any bet. Go from there.
I don't like the AJ play. It's OK to fold that from the small blind. I know you don't want to if you're card dead, but you're only in this for $1 so far.
The problem with the squeeze is that with four players in the hand, if you get two or three callers, there's no room to maneuver after the flop, because the pot is bloated. If you don't hit, you will have to go all in to bluff (as actually happens).
Maybe MP is the sort of player who just likes to make really big bets, but for most players you are probably behind. You block JJ, so he probably has TT or QQ but might have AA/KK or could still have JJ. He's not folding any of these (mayyyyybe TT) and once he calls the others might call too because something something pot odds.
I think if you want to play this hand at all, you should call, hope for an ace, and see what develops. If you decide to bluff, at least you'll only be bluffing at an $80 pot instead of a $400 pot. In the case of the exact hand, you can check, someone will bet $30, you can raise to $150 (or fold), and then when K5 guy jams you can fold. You still lose some chips but you're in better shape every point in the hand.
In my mind it’s a raise or fold, hate calling with that hand. I decided to raise because my image was good, not because I was bored. My sizing should be slightly larger to induce more folds. As played, like the jam on that texture, just happen to run into a 5. The majority of the time that play is +ev I believe 2 of my 3 opponents saw my video about squeeze plays.
@@dougmccuskerpoker I see what you are saying. I guess I think against three opponents, with such a big preflop bet, fold is better.
Doug, you're getting far too trappy slow play-y with your value hands. Too many examples to list but you're not getting full value for hands that are hard to make.
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Okay 18:30 flatting turn with trip 9's. Then you let a third trump peel off and scare your guy to death. It's really hard to win big pots if you don't put in bets and raises with the best hand.
@@leehjones Well, maybe. After the fact we know opponent has an ace and will probably call a raise. In the moment, the tradeoff is between letting them bet river (either as a bluff or mistaken value bet) or risking them fold now. The ace is a scare card, they might be bluffing at it.
And the same, we know the river is a diamond, but that is only 20% of the time. Do you lose more by diamonds killing the action, or by opponent folding the turn?
Working on it