lex you are my favorite poker blogger on UA-cam, and I want you to know that you have a super fan (me) from Shanghai, hope I could meet you in person if you make a trip to Shanghai sometime in the future
Folding pocket aces….that’s a wild story….thank god you folded! But with 3 callers all-in a lousy hand can win it…and it did. By the way, this is the 2nd hand without Rouge!
Pocket aces vs a multitude of player diminishes there value dramatically vs many other calls. In Omaha, if I see two players all-in’img each other, I try to call because I know, most likely, they both have each other’s cards (aces) and that two pair will most likely beat them if the board doesn’t pair.
@@davidthompson62 the chance of winning with pocket aces will drop as you keep adding more and more players, yes. But in NLHE it is always profitable to call all-in preflop with them, because their equity will be higher than the offered pot odds, regardless of how many players are involved.
The story was interesting and I enjoyed it. By the way, if you have time look up "The Big Game guy folds AA pre" on youtube. It was a popular show back 10+ years ago and the premise was Pokerstars gave 100k to a random qualifier to play a high stakes cash game with all pros. Huge game. The person could keep any winnings over the starting stack. So the session was almost done and the guy had made I think a 120k profit which was huge for him obv. So the hand is dealt and Phil Laak raised pre to $2000 and Jason Mercier called. And then the amateur guy looks at AA. The viewers can see his hole cards. He thinks and thinks and thinks and FOLDS!!! And here is the crazy part - if he had reraised I'm sure Phil Laak would have called along with the other player. Laak had 66. Flop was K66!! Phil Laak flopped quads!!! So that amateur definitely would have most likely lost some of his profit back lol. How strange is that right Lex? You're story was similar in a way. It's on youtube, you have to watch it.
Love your honesty and contents you put out on a regular basis. I play mostly small local tournaments and occasionally cash game (1-2-3). Got to admit watching your videos have helped my decision making process greatly. Keep up the good work Lex.
When I saw the headline about you folding pocket aces I was thinking what the hell was he thinking. Once you told the story I completely agree with your decision! Love watching your content! Always look forward to the next video
I folded pocket aces once preflop. Two people went all-in before the action got to me in the first hand of a $1,000 buy-in tournament with no rebuy. Q-J suited made a straight on the turn after the other player flopped a set of kings. I would have went down in flames!
Great story at the end. I think the reason I got good at poker was out of necessity. I was ridiculously broke when I got into the game. I remember the first time I went to a casino I bought into $1/2 for $60 and it felt like an enormous amount. I lost a flip with QQ against AK and was devastated. I rebought for my last $60 and lost again with QQ to JJ. That money meant so much to me and it hurt so bad to lose it which forced me to study my game if I wanted to continue playing. I would see people gamble recklessly and it would blow my mind to see hundreds of dollars thrown around like nothing. My entire rent easily in one pot. Now I’m desensitized to it just like everyone else. Crazy how things work out.
I love the AA story. It perfectly illustrates why you absolutely should not be sitting down in a game you arent properly rolled for. You got the dream spot, and still being forced to fold because its basically all your money on the table, and you cant risk it. It shows why it doesent matter how good the game is, if you dont have the bankroll to play +EV poker in that game.
Thanks Lex O another great video, when your talking seeing you look at hands, then fold etc etc is great more of the full orbit hand folds too makes it real keep on trucking
Whenever I'm at work and I see a notification on my phone about a new video, it makes me look forward to getting home to watch. Keep up the good work with the videos and good luck at the tables.
Probably a blessing in disguise. Sometimes we do things differently based on the information we have at the time. Yours turned out well for you, so scared money it was. We know your never folding that nowadays. Loved the story. Makes us feel that little bit more connected to you.
Looking at it from a bankroll perspective, and you knew the probability, it was a great fold. I played blind vs a dealer from another casino, called every street including his river jam, and cracked his pocket aces. I think he talked to the floor because 2 minutes later they broke our table haha. Nice story Lex, and nice session.
Awesome video Lex!! Liked your move laying down Aces. I did that once in a tournament where I made 500 instead of being out. Sometimes you just have to fold. I hope you keep making videos and one day I get a chance to meet and play cards with you
I learned my bankroll management lesson many years ago playing online. I deposited $100 on UB and sat down with all of it in front of me @ a .50/1 cash game. Like you, I'd only been playing about 6 months. Waited for the BB to sit in and was dealt Ad7d. Cutoff limps, button limps, sb min raises, all 3 of us call. Flop comes 9dQc4d. SB bets 2bbs, so I'm getting 5 to 1, both players with position on me call as well. Turn is the 2d. SB bets the pot, I'm never raising here, hoping that one of the two others will go along, so I flat. CO shoves, Button calls, SB calls. I'm ecstatic, the first hand I've played and I'm going to quadruple up. The worst I can be is a 4 to 1 fav if someone holds a set. Turns out CO has Q high flush, Button has K high flush, and the donkey in the SB has 2 pair, Q2. 3 outs. I'm a massive favorite, 92.5%, but the last Q in the deck hits the river, and my nut flush gets sucked out on. Never ever sit down at a table with more than 10% of your bankroll. Long story short, I didn't deposit anymore, studied using the Sit N Go wizard, and turned 0 dollars to 1200 grinding 9 person S&G on FT Poker, with an occasional MTT. Never tried more than a $40 game, with a $500 bankroll at that time, and lost that one getting all in pre with KK against K4, they rolled him 4 cards to the str8. Variance is a part of poker, you're going to get in dominating and lose, it's just going to happen, that's why bankroll management is so important.
You were so correct in your analysis (4:50). He totally didn't have the jack, but he wouldn't have bet that with it. It wasn't a hero call, it was a raise and fold. Love your analysis in the commentary, but wonder how much really goes through your head in real time. Granted, thinking for 2 minutes and raising might induce an all-in that you can't call, but a value raise would work. Don't know how to think that fast. Love when you talk about your action IF. Would have worked there.
You living the dream bro !! Hopefully soon I will as well, this video reminded me of myself 🤣 I’m 22 with barely any poker bankroll but I just paid off my credit card debt and I’m ready to roll. just gotta keep grinding and saving!
Good story, perfect forum. It needed background which you gave. It’s hard to tell a story in context at the table, but it doesn’t stop some people from trying, Lol! Good content as always, appreciate the thought process, especially with the guy who you have history with. Some days I imagine it might be better to avoid sitting down with him altogether! You had the good fortune of having solid hands to go along with the live reads. Keep the good stuff coming 😎👍
Great video Lex! My gut tells me that because you are resilient you would have dusted yourself off and not quit playing! Thanks again for putting out great content!
Great story Lex. Discipline is so important. I know whenever I play and I’m tired or in a rush, I always end up loosing my stack. I only play super small stakes online. But when I have the time to play and am focused, i am able to build my small bankroll. I was even able to fold pocket aces last night. I was card dead for awhile, got pocket aces on the button. I decided to trap (and i almost never do.) 2 limpers and BB calls. It was horrible wet board. Long story short, I let my hand go and it was the right move. I would have lost. Anyway thanks again for the videos!
I can totally understand folding the aces. Personally, I would have jammed all in - if you plug the hands you listed into an equity calculator, you were almost a 2:1 favorite and getting 3:1 , doesn't get much better than that. But again, I get it. I think this illustrates a good point - if you ever find yourself in a game where you have a lot of money on the table, and losing all of it would be a big blow to your survival, then it's probably best to cash out to reduce the variance, because spots come up where the right thing to do is to put it all in and if it makes you uncomfortable then you shouldn't be playing.
Fav Vlogger, crazy story LeX. I folded AA2o in a 3 card Hold'em game one time because I limp 4 bet then got jammed on by 4 players. Would have been drawing to 4 outs on the turn and then woulda hit the river. It was a similar situation for me. I had a really small BR, was in the game for 700 and had 800 in front of me.
Started watching poker videos 2 months ago when Wolfgang first popped up in my UA-cam. Lost count how many times I seen pocket aces get crushed in both low and and high stakes. Can easily make steady profit with WAY LESS risk playing other table games - roulette, blackjack, baccarat 💰💰💰
Thanks Lex, I played at a higher stakes table and I had only been playing for 2months and got crushed for a thousand dollars. I new better then to play but I wanted to know what it was like playing at a higher stakes table. Anyway it was a good experience.
great fold Lex and that 1 hand probably got you to where you are now, i once had AA on the bubble to a wsop main event seat and called, luckily i won but the correct choice was to fold. im still making bad calls and thats my weakness
Thanks for another great video Lex. Anyone else notice that the flop is K, 10, 4 both times Lex has pocket 9's in this video? P.S. Lex, I haven't played Jacaranda for 20 years. When make it back to So Fla I'd love to treat you to a round...I'll even cover the drinks.
Agree with the temp. I work in the phosphate and rock Mines in florida ...with the heat index lately, its been hotter then a three rat orgy in a wool sock..
you assumed they had pocket pairs, that’s insane seeing as 2 were all in blind. Maybe the one caller has a pair, even if so you’re closer to 60% equity
I haven't played poker in a long time but I gave it a shot My first time with about the same scenario as lex. About 2K to my name. Two 5K guys came to the table, I went to two five the biggest table not knowing what I was doing at all. All in all in the first guy and I won and all in on the second guy I won.. I didn't know it's bad how to get to leave but I had 3400 bucks. Over the next few weeks I lost everything. I haven't played since but I've been learning by watching all the vloggers for the last 2 years and live games on UA-cam. Anyhow I think big and play big in my mind so I just went to start at 2 5. Lol. I just didn't care for the smaller tables.
Spot on about playing scared money, it rarely works out… when I was out of a difficult financial situation the poker came easy to me, just playing max buy in at the Green valley ranch or the Excalibur, before that I was buying in for my life and needless to say it didn’t work out…. I don’t play professionally
I really liked your story, my instinctive reaction was that you were a fool to fold, but then you talked about how the future may have been different once you knew the result, maybe you would have decided poker wasn’t for you. It’s brave of you to tell the story, because the maths side of it seems simple and it’s easy to say it was a bad fold Lots of talk about it being a flip, but just bear in mind it’s not a flip for $1500, it’s a 50:50 chance to win $3700 dollars or lose $1500 dollars, so in theory it makes sense to call. If I was offered the chance to toss a coin, if it’s heads I win $37, if it’s tails I lose $15 dollars. I would take that bet all day, but if you showed me the same coin and the deal was heads I win £800k or tails I lose my house, that’s a bet I can’t take and that’s the difference, even though the odds are right the risk isn’t worth it. Such a good story thanks for sharing!
You missed the point - it was a test from the Gods. If Lex had gone all-in, it was proof that he would have fallen into gambling degeneracy. It's a slippery slope if you brush +EV to the side. And we all do that from time to time.
Wise decision on the AA fold, regardless of the outcome (9-2). Being able to set aside temporary emotion and base your decision on what was best for you outside of poker takes a lot of courage. Well done!
Wow I have never heard of anybody foldning AA pre flop, but you where "lucky" in that result. Really when you think off it, you should never had played that stake. Thx for the video Lex. Love your content
Considering that the $1500 in front of you was half of your bankroll at the time, I believe that the AA fold is actually correct. There's no reason for you to flip there for 50% of your bankroll. With a 30k bankroll, it's an entirely different story. But a 3k bankroll? When you're playing that short, you have to take extreme steps to minimize the variance until you get closer to 20 buyins deep. Of course, the better answer is to _never_ play that short at all. You likely shouldn't have taken that shot until you had $7500 to $10k. Escaping with the small win was the right thing to do.
Nice story Lex. I once folded AA pre flop aswell but it was in a tournament with 4 all ins before me. Tournament play is the only time I would fold that hand. Just like you I would of lost. Pocket 22 won set on the river. Keep on making your videos and hope to play against you soon in FL.
My man is a golfer!! Next time you're back in Texas and want to play a round let me know. If you give me enough heads up, I may be able to get us into one of the nicest 9 hole courses in the state (Waller TX), if not I know a fun public course too! 😆
Great story @end! It was a -EV fold (obviously) but the correct decision for your bankroll. The wrong decision was joining the game at all, but glad it worked out. :^)
@@scotttavernier720 haha he said himself it was scared money and he was playing outside good bankroll management 🤣 mate if you were offered the same odds with your life savings at risk would you call?
Never folding pocket aces, versus 2 blind hands and a guy who probably had a king or queen in his hand, nope I don't care how much of my bankroll is on the table
You're a cool dude man... I'm glad ya laid them aces down I would have went broke when that 9 or 2 hit the river and if you did play that hand maybe you wouldn't be where you're at today so it worked out
You just can't call a pot sized bet with 4th pair on a 4 line board. You have to let the fish get the bait sometimes or they'll eventually figure out the situation and back off. If they know you won't fold what is essentially the bottom of your range, then they'll stop bluffing. I find myself in spots sometimes where I know I am going to call but I just take a little to try to make it look like the bluff could have worked. It's the same idea here.
The 89 straight hand, that's still just a bluff catcher. You say you would fold some single pair, two pair combos.. but why? If your opponent is polar to flush or nothing. Calling with any value is still a bluff catch. There's really not a difference between 89, 67, A7 holdings in that scenario.
I see this a lot and I can’t decide if I understand the argument either way, “my hand is too strong to fold” do you think it’s a difference between how hero sees the hand vs how villain sees the hand, hero sees polarising nuts or bluff but maybe sometimes villain is value cutting? I agree with your point as you’ve made it but plenty of poker content has hands like this
Lex, omg that had to be a hard fold with the rockets. Pretty sure I never folded aces preflop, If it would have been for all the noodles in my bag I very well could see me folding. I have seen aces cracked so many times. In your hand it was a very hard but correct fold.
It is never a correct fold in a cash game. If you aren't willing to call (or shove on top) there, you have made a mistake even being in the game with that bankroll and that chip stack.
Great AA lay down story.. How did you build your bankroll up enough to venture out then Lex? Did you win a big tournament? Just curious.. love your videos and best of luck
After thinking about it, is it a bad fold? Don't you want an advantage going all in. Yes AA is the best starting had but you have 5 cards coming out and 4 more players. Good video, even though no Rogue this week. :)
Some of the elements of your story described my poker life.. I would have ripped it and gone home broke. I’ve played AK more cautiously lately multi-way pre flop but not AA.. considering bankroll deserves props.. why turn your entire session into a coin flip?
Your story at the end really demonstrates how you've been able to ascend in poker over the last 4 years. 90% of players would go all in preflop with Aces, even if it is for 50% of their poker bankroll. Poker requires discipline and there's no better example than the one you gave
I think it's an example of TERRIBLE discipline. If he'd had good discipline at the time, he would have cashed out WAY before that hand. It is a huge leak/mistake to be afraid to get your money in that good due to fear of breaking your bankroll. Not taking a coin flip where you either lose $1500 or win $3700? If he couldn't afford to lose his stack of $1500and be down $1200, then he couldn't afford to lose his stack of $400 and be down $1200. How the cards actually ran out doesn't matter.
@Hybrid actually, what Lex explained makes perfect sense. He had about 50% equity against 3 unknown hands who will all see 5 cards and go to showdown. At 50% equity, that's only marginally better than going to the roulette table and plopping down $1,500 on red or black, odd or even, or first 18 or last 18. That's gambling. What he should have done is, if he made up his mind he was done playing, is not take the last hand and just gotten up. Building a valuable bankroll takes discipline and management skills. You can think of a bankroll as working capital to make more money, which has a snowball effect as you put yourself in a position to make more and more money. Being 50-50 in success or failure is not a wise investment strategy.
@@joyride1598 It's a very simple math problem, and you are 100% completely wrong. At a roulette table, they don't give you a profit of $3700 on an even-money bet of $1500 when you win, they only give you a $1500. There was already $3700 in the pot, not $1500. Flipping a coin to either win $3700 or lose $1500 in the next 30 seconds, is the biggest no-brainer bet of all time. For most people, it is by far THE BEST "investment strategy" they will ever encounter in life. If you make that call 1000 times, you make $1.1 MILLION dollars, with a very high degree of certainty. Calling is $1100 better than folding, period, on average. The fact that he was a degenerate gambler not bankrolled to be sitting there with $1500 was the problem. NEVER put yourself in a spot where you have to turn down that $1100 of average expected profit, just because you'll go busto in life if you lose that one coin flip,. Mathematically, it is an EXTREMELY PROFITABLE call all day long, not a breakeven gamble. Even Lex understands that. It's a shame that you don't. What he's not explicitly admitting, is that before that hand, by sitting at that table down $800 and with only $400 of chips left, he was at risk of losing all his chips the entire time. He didn't turn the $400 into $1500, without risking losing all the chips and being down $1200, the exact situation he'd be in if he called and lost. So he sat there risking his chips over and over and over while building the chip stack to $1500, and only chickened out when he had a chance to make the most profitable call of his life at the time. If he can't make that call, he needed to not be in that game for the $1200 at any point in time.
I was pretty disappointed to hear that you made an obviously bad fold with AA, but props to you for acknowledging that you know you made the wrong choice.
It was still a good fold on those pocket 9s as like he showed he only has pure bluffs. Plus you didn’t mention that your pair of 9s blocks one of his key bluff cards. Good analysis.
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Nice content as usual bro. Keep up the grind.
Personally with the 1 card flush on the board I would check it back. Better positions for you.
You're AWESOME man, loved the story!!
lex you are my favorite poker blogger on UA-cam, and I want you to know that you have a super fan (me) from Shanghai, hope I could meet you in person if you make a trip to Shanghai sometime in the future
Folding pocket aces….that’s a wild story….thank god you folded! But with 3 callers all-in a lousy hand can win it…and it did. By the way, this is the 2nd hand without Rouge!
That’s a great story about the aces! Loosing to 9-2 in that situation might have sent me down to my local Army recruitment center.
Things are never that bad!
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Pocket aces vs a multitude of player diminishes there value dramatically vs many other calls. In Omaha, if I see two players all-in’img each other, I try to call because I know, most likely, they both have each other’s cards (aces) and that two pair will most likely beat them if the board doesn’t pair.
@@davidthompson62 the chance of winning with pocket aces will drop as you keep adding more and more players, yes. But in NLHE it is always profitable to call all-in preflop with them, because their equity will be higher than the offered pot odds, regardless of how many players are involved.
Excellent idea!! Those guys only have a few good men and they don’t know when to fold
Such an insane story ~ turns out it was the correct fold if you are results oriented.
Loved the story at the end of the video. Thanks for the great content Lex!!
The story was interesting and I enjoyed it. By the way, if you have time look up "The Big Game guy folds AA pre" on youtube. It was a popular show back 10+ years ago and the premise was Pokerstars gave 100k to a random qualifier to play a high stakes cash game with all pros. Huge game. The person could keep any winnings over the starting stack. So the session was almost done and the guy had made I think a 120k profit which was huge for him obv. So the hand is dealt and Phil Laak raised pre to $2000 and Jason Mercier called. And then the amateur guy looks at AA. The viewers can see his hole cards. He thinks and thinks and thinks and FOLDS!!! And here is the crazy part - if he had reraised I'm sure Phil Laak would have called along with the other player. Laak had 66. Flop was K66!! Phil Laak flopped quads!!! So that amateur definitely would have most likely lost some of his profit back lol. How strange is that right Lex? You're story was similar in a way. It's on youtube, you have to watch it.
Love your honesty and contents you put out on a regular basis. I play mostly small local tournaments and occasionally cash game (1-2-3). Got to admit watching your videos have helped my decision making process greatly. Keep up the good work Lex.
Fun story! I've been through a similar situation. Love your videos . Looking forward to the next one. Have a good weekend!👍
Excellent story Lex! I can see your logic “at that time”. Hope to meet up with you at the Hard Rock soon. Great video.
When I saw the headline about you folding pocket aces I was thinking what the hell was he thinking. Once you told the story I completely agree with your decision! Love watching your content! Always look forward to the next video
Golf and poker. Rough life. I’ll keep watching
I folded pocket aces once preflop. Two people went all-in before the action got to me in the first hand of a $1,000 buy-in tournament with no rebuy. Q-J suited made a straight on the turn after the other player flopped a set of kings. I would have went down in flames!
Great story Lex! We’ve all been in those crazy spots where we had to fold really good hands just because of monetary reasons!
Great story at the end. I think the reason I got good at poker was out of necessity. I was ridiculously broke when I got into the game. I remember the first time I went to a casino I bought into $1/2 for $60 and it felt like an enormous amount. I lost a flip with QQ against AK and was devastated. I rebought for my last $60 and lost again with QQ to JJ.
That money meant so much to me and it hurt so bad to lose it which forced me to study my game if I wanted to continue playing. I would see people gamble recklessly and it would blow my mind to see hundreds of dollars thrown around like nothing. My entire rent easily in one pot. Now I’m desensitized to it just like everyone else. Crazy how things work out.
I love the AA story. It perfectly illustrates why you absolutely should not be sitting down in a game you arent properly rolled for. You got the dream spot, and still being forced to fold because its basically all your money on the table, and you cant risk it. It shows why it doesent matter how good the game is, if you dont have the bankroll to play +EV poker in that game.
Thanks Lex O another great video, when your talking seeing you look at hands, then fold etc etc is great more of the full orbit hand folds too makes it real keep on trucking
Whenever I'm at work and I see a notification on my phone about a new video, it makes me look forward to getting home to watch. Keep up the good work with the videos and good luck at the tables.
At 8:20,,,,anything other than checking back on the river would be pure insanity!
Probably a blessing in disguise. Sometimes we do things differently based on the information we have at the time. Yours turned out well for you, so scared money it was. We know your never folding that nowadays. Loved the story. Makes us feel that little bit more connected to you.
Looking at it from a bankroll perspective, and you knew the probability, it was a great fold. I played blind vs a dealer from another casino, called every street including his river jam, and cracked his pocket aces. I think he talked to the floor because 2 minutes later they broke our table haha. Nice story Lex, and nice session.
Awesome video Lex!! Liked your move laying down Aces. I did that once in a tournament where I made 500 instead of being out. Sometimes you just have to fold. I hope you keep making videos and one day I get a chance to meet and play cards with you
Great story at the end Alex about the aces. Love the story and talking through it all!
I learned my bankroll management lesson many years ago playing online. I deposited $100 on UB and sat down with all of it in front of me @ a .50/1 cash game. Like you, I'd only been playing about 6 months.
Waited for the BB to sit in and was dealt Ad7d.
Cutoff limps, button limps, sb min raises, all 3 of us call. Flop comes 9dQc4d.
SB bets 2bbs, so I'm getting 5 to 1, both players with position on me call as well.
Turn is the 2d.
SB bets the pot, I'm never raising here, hoping that one of the two others will go along, so I flat.
CO shoves, Button calls, SB calls.
I'm ecstatic, the first hand I've played and I'm going to quadruple up. The worst I can be is a 4 to 1 fav if someone holds a set.
Turns out CO has Q high flush, Button has K high flush, and the donkey in the SB has 2 pair, Q2.
3 outs. I'm a massive favorite, 92.5%, but the last Q in the deck hits the river, and my nut flush gets sucked out on.
Never ever sit down at a table with more than 10% of your bankroll.
Long story short, I didn't deposit anymore, studied using the Sit N Go wizard, and turned 0 dollars to 1200 grinding 9 person S&G on FT Poker, with an occasional MTT. Never tried more than a $40 game, with a $500 bankroll at that time, and lost that one getting all in pre with KK against K4, they rolled him 4 cards to the str8.
Variance is a part of poker, you're going to get in dominating and lose, it's just going to happen, that's why bankroll management is so important.
You were so correct in your analysis (4:50). He totally didn't have the jack, but he wouldn't have bet that with it. It wasn't a hero call, it was a raise and fold. Love your analysis in the commentary, but wonder how much really goes through your head in real time. Granted, thinking for 2 minutes and raising might induce an all-in that you can't call, but a value raise would work. Don't know how to think that fast. Love when you talk about your action IF. Would have worked there.
You living the dream bro !! Hopefully soon I will as well, this video reminded me of myself 🤣 I’m 22 with barely any poker bankroll but I just paid off my credit card debt and I’m ready to roll. just gotta keep grinding and saving!
Good luck , finding you vids very entertaining and learning a lot by watching them , thank you , all the best from London 🇬🇧
Good story, perfect forum. It needed background which you gave. It’s hard to tell a story in context at the table, but it doesn’t stop some people from trying, Lol! Good content as always, appreciate the thought process, especially with the guy who you have history with. Some days I imagine it might be better to avoid sitting down with him altogether! You had the good fortune of having solid hands to go along with the live reads. Keep the good stuff coming 😎👍
I like the way you divide videos in 2/3 parts showing poker, your life and your 🐕 keep it going like this thanks to you my man
Great video Lex! My gut tells me that because you are resilient you would have dusted yourself off and not quit playing! Thanks again for putting out great content!
Great story Lex. Discipline is so important. I know whenever I play and I’m tired or in a rush, I always end up loosing my stack. I only play super small stakes online. But when I have the time to play and am focused, i am able to build my small bankroll. I was even able to fold pocket aces last night. I was card dead for awhile, got pocket aces on the button. I decided to trap (and i almost never do.) 2 limpers and BB calls. It was horrible wet board. Long story short, I let my hand go and it was the right move. I would have lost. Anyway thanks again for the videos!
Crazy, what discipline. I would have lost that, but you are right bankroll matters. 50% to triple your money should be a call.
I can totally understand folding the aces. Personally, I would have jammed all in - if you plug the hands you listed into an equity calculator, you were almost a 2:1 favorite and getting 3:1 , doesn't get much better than that. But again, I get it. I think this illustrates a good point - if you ever find yourself in a game where you have a lot of money on the table, and losing all of it would be a big blow to your survival, then it's probably best to cash out to reduce the variance, because spots come up where the right thing to do is to put it all in and if it makes you uncomfortable then you shouldn't be playing.
Good video, Lex. It takes a lot of balls to tell that story as a poker player imo.
Enjoy your vlog Lex.
Golfing is so relaxing 😌 I love going to the driving range and hitting the ball as far as I could before a poker session 😎
Fav Vlogger, crazy story LeX. I folded AA2o in a 3 card Hold'em game one time because I limp 4 bet then got jammed on by 4 players. Would have been drawing to 4 outs on the turn and then woulda hit the river. It was a similar situation for me. I had a really small BR, was in the game for 700 and had 800 in front of me.
Hey Lex I respect your honesty hope u have more run good come your way keep your eyes in front and never look back good things will come your way
Started watching poker videos 2 months ago when Wolfgang first popped up in my UA-cam. Lost count how many times I seen pocket aces get crushed in both low and and high stakes. Can easily make steady profit with WAY LESS risk playing other table games - roulette, blackjack, baccarat 💰💰💰
what a story! love it. The fold is something I'd do vs 3 other players... in that scenario... nuts
Lex you're the best keep it up love your videos
Thanks Lex, I played at a higher stakes table and I had only been playing for 2months and got crushed for a thousand dollars. I new better then to play but I wanted to know what it was like playing at a higher stakes table. Anyway it was a good experience.
I sometimes think when watching Lex if he were a dog he would totally be a golden retriever nice fold by the way
I think it was a good fold! 🙃🙂given your bankroll !!
I doubt you'll ever forget that aces hand and now neither will I. Great vlog as always.
Superfan Alert!! Another great video with great content! Keep'em coming brother!!
Anyone else notice both times lex had pocket 9s the flip was k 10 4
Good luck and good story
great fold Lex and that 1 hand probably got you to where you are now, i once had AA on the bubble to a wsop main event seat and called, luckily i won but the correct choice was to fold. im still making bad calls and thats my weakness
I’m a huge fan Lex, I love your content, where’s your pup at? I’m sorry I don’t remember his name
Thanks for another great video Lex. Anyone else notice that the flop is K, 10, 4 both times Lex has pocket 9's in this video? P.S. Lex, I haven't played Jacaranda for 20 years. When make it back to So Fla I'd love to treat you to a round...I'll even cover the drinks.
Agree with the temp. I work in the phosphate and rock Mines in florida ...with the heat index lately, its been hotter then a three rat orgy in a wool sock..
You always say you may have had to quit poker but I don't think you have that in you man. You love the game too much and I'm glad you stuck with it.
you assumed they had pocket pairs, that’s insane seeing as 2 were all in blind. Maybe the one caller has a pair, even if so you’re closer to 60% equity
You're my hero.
I'm 66 and when I grow up I want to be like you.
I just started playing online poker, looking up to you for guidance. Keep up the good work man.
Keep ‘‘em coming Lex , I hope to play with you soon brother
I haven't played poker in a long time but I gave it a shot My first time with about the same scenario as lex. About 2K to my name. Two 5K guys came to the table, I went to two five the biggest table not knowing what I was doing at all. All in all in the first guy and I won and all in on the second guy I won.. I didn't know it's bad how to get to leave but I had 3400 bucks. Over the next few weeks I lost everything. I haven't played since but I've been learning by watching all the vloggers for the last 2 years and live games on UA-cam. Anyhow I think big and play big in my mind so I just went to start at 2 5. Lol. I just didn't care for the smaller tables.
Spot on about playing scared money, it rarely works out… when I was out of a difficult financial situation the poker came easy to me, just playing max buy in at the Green valley ranch or the Excalibur, before that I was buying in for my life and needless to say it didn’t work out…. I don’t play professionally
I really liked your story, my instinctive reaction was that you were a fool to fold, but then you talked about how the future may have been different once you knew the result, maybe you would have decided poker wasn’t for you. It’s brave of you to tell the story, because the maths side of it seems simple and it’s easy to say it was a bad fold
Lots of talk about it being a flip, but just bear in mind it’s not a flip for $1500, it’s a 50:50 chance to win $3700 dollars or lose $1500 dollars, so in theory it makes sense to call.
If I was offered the chance to toss a coin, if it’s heads I win $37, if it’s tails I lose $15 dollars. I would take that bet all day, but if you showed me the same coin and the deal was heads I win £800k or tails I lose my house, that’s a bet I can’t take and that’s the difference, even though the odds are right the risk isn’t worth it. Such a good story thanks for sharing!
But are you willing to flip a coin and risk over half of your net worth?
@@lexopoker nope 👌
You missed the point - it was a test from the Gods. If Lex had gone all-in, it was proof that he would have fallen into gambling degeneracy. It's a slippery slope if you brush +EV to the side. And we all do that from time to time.
@@lexopoker if my net worth is only 2.5k yes. However it would of been a dixkhead move to call when the guys wanted a private pot imho
Wise decision on the AA fold, regardless of the outcome (9-2). Being able to set aside temporary emotion and base your decision on what was best for you outside of poker takes a lot of courage. Well done!
You are now invited to my home game fishy 😂
@@scotttavernier720 I’m guessing it’s a 1c / 2c home game so anyone would call in that spot 🤣
Wow I have never heard of anybody foldning AA pre flop, but you where "lucky" in that result. Really when you think off it, you should never had played that stake. Thx for the video Lex. Love your content
Considering that the $1500 in front of you was half of your bankroll at the time, I believe that the AA fold is actually correct. There's no reason for you to flip there for 50% of your bankroll. With a 30k bankroll, it's an entirely different story. But a 3k bankroll? When you're playing that short, you have to take extreme steps to minimize the variance until you get closer to 20 buyins deep. Of course, the better answer is to _never_ play that short at all. You likely shouldn't have taken that shot until you had $7500 to $10k. Escaping with the small win was the right thing to do.
Nice story Lex. I once folded AA pre flop aswell but it was in a tournament with 4 all ins before me. Tournament play is the only time I would fold that hand. Just like you I would of lost. Pocket 22 won set on the river. Keep on making your videos and hope to play against you soon in FL.
My man is a golfer!! Next time you're back in Texas and want to play a round let me know. If you give me enough heads up, I may be able to get us into one of the nicest 9 hole courses in the state (Waller TX), if not I know a fun public course too! 😆
I always enjoy watching your videos. Thanks
♥️ the stories!!! Your a terrific young person-
Great story
Great story @end!
It was a -EV fold (obviously) but the correct decision for your bankroll. The wrong decision was joining the game at all, but glad it worked out. :^)
Scared money. Folding aces pre is idiotic
@@scotttavernier720 haha he said himself it was scared money and he was playing outside good bankroll management 🤣 mate if you were offered the same odds with your life savings at risk would you call?
Never folding pocket aces, versus 2 blind hands and a guy who probably had a king or queen in his hand, nope I don't care how much of my bankroll is on the table
You're a cool dude man... I'm glad ya laid them aces down I would have went broke when that 9 or 2 hit the river and if you did play that hand maybe you wouldn't be where you're at today so it worked out
You just can't call a pot sized bet with 4th pair on a 4 line board. You have to let the fish get the bait sometimes or they'll eventually figure out the situation and back off. If they know you won't fold what is essentially the bottom of your range, then they'll stop bluffing.
I find myself in spots sometimes where I know I am going to call but I just take a little to try to make it look like the bluff could have worked. It's the same idea here.
that reg deserves to get stacked, if 2 whales want to flip, just let them flip
The 89 straight hand, that's still just a bluff catcher.
You say you would fold some single pair, two pair combos.. but why?
If your opponent is polar to flush or nothing. Calling with any value is still a bluff catch. There's really not a difference between 89, 67, A7 holdings in that scenario.
I see this a lot and I can’t decide if I understand the argument either way, “my hand is too strong to fold” do you think it’s a difference between how hero sees the hand vs how villain sees the hand, hero sees polarising nuts or bluff but maybe sometimes villain is value cutting? I agree with your point as you’ve made it but plenty of poker content has hands like this
Lex, keep playing great! Playing in the Tampa area, and playing poker at the Hard Rock, hope you wander over to the gulf side!
I would have done the same thing folding AA in the same situation. 100%.
Thanks for sharing love and respect from London UK
I like the story at the end keep it coming 💯 👌
Lex, omg that had to be a hard fold with the rockets. Pretty sure I never folded aces preflop, If it would have been for all the noodles in my bag I very well could see me folding. I have seen aces cracked so many times. In your hand it was a very hard but correct fold.
It is never a correct fold in a cash game. If you aren't willing to call (or shove on top) there, you have made a mistake even being in the game with that bankroll and that chip stack.
Great AA lay down story.. How did you build your bankroll up enough to venture out then Lex? Did you win a big tournament? Just curious.. love your videos and best of luck
After thinking about it, is it a bad fold? Don't you want an advantage going all in. Yes AA is the best starting had but you have 5 cards coming out and 4 more players. Good video, even though no Rogue this week. :)
you shouldn't even bother playing poker if your gonna fold aces in that situation
Agree 100%. He’s always been a scared nit though
Did you notice first two 99 and both was KT4 flop
Some of the elements of your story described my poker life.. I would have ripped it and gone home broke. I’ve played AK more cautiously lately multi-way pre flop but not AA.. considering bankroll deserves props.. why turn your entire session into a coin flip?
Question is - Would you be telling this story if your aces would have held...or would you take your secret to the grave? :)
Thanks for sharing it puts me in different perspective now
Your story at the end really demonstrates how you've been able to ascend in poker over the last 4 years. 90% of players would go all in preflop with Aces, even if it is for 50% of their poker bankroll. Poker requires discipline and there's no better example than the one you gave
I think it's an example of TERRIBLE discipline.
If he'd had good discipline at the time, he would have cashed out WAY before that hand. It is a huge leak/mistake to be afraid to get your money in that good due to fear of breaking your bankroll. Not taking a coin flip where you either lose $1500 or win $3700? If he couldn't afford to lose his stack of $1500and be down $1200, then he couldn't afford to lose his stack of $400 and be down $1200.
How the cards actually ran out doesn't matter.
@@EfficientRVer and it’s just ignorant to fold when you’re 100% ahead.
@Hybrid actually, what Lex explained makes perfect sense. He had about 50% equity against 3 unknown hands who will all see 5 cards and go to showdown. At 50% equity, that's only marginally better than going to the roulette table and plopping down $1,500 on red or black, odd or even, or first 18 or last 18. That's gambling. What he should have done is, if he made up his mind he was done playing, is not take the last hand and just gotten up. Building a valuable bankroll takes discipline and management skills. You can think of a bankroll as working capital to make more money, which has a snowball effect as you put yourself in a position to make more and more money. Being 50-50 in success or failure is not a wise investment strategy.
@@joyride1598 It's a very simple math problem, and you are 100% completely wrong.
At a roulette table, they don't give you a profit of $3700 on an even-money bet of $1500 when you win, they only give you a $1500. There was already $3700 in the pot, not $1500.
Flipping a coin to either win $3700 or lose $1500 in the next 30 seconds, is the biggest no-brainer bet of all time. For most people, it is by far THE BEST "investment strategy" they will ever encounter in life. If you make that call 1000 times, you make $1.1 MILLION dollars, with a very high degree of certainty. Calling is $1100 better than folding, period, on average.
The fact that he was a degenerate gambler not bankrolled to be sitting there with $1500 was the problem. NEVER put yourself in a spot where you have to turn down that $1100 of average expected profit, just because you'll go busto in life if you lose that one coin flip,.
Mathematically, it is an EXTREMELY PROFITABLE call all day long, not a breakeven gamble. Even Lex understands that. It's a shame that you don't.
What he's not explicitly admitting, is that before that hand, by sitting at that table down $800 and with only $400 of chips left, he was at risk of losing all his chips the entire time. He didn't turn the $400 into $1500, without risking losing all the chips and being down $1200, the exact situation he'd be in if he called and lost. So he sat there risking his chips over and over and over while building the chip stack to $1500, and only chickened out when he had a chance to make the most profitable call of his life at the time.
If he can't make that call, he needed to not be in that game for the $1200 at any point in time.
Good fold with those AA!
I was pretty disappointed to hear that you made an obviously bad fold with AA, but props to you for acknowledging that you know you made the wrong choice.
Folding pocket and aces are a thing we have to think about beforehand so that when faced with a situation like yours, what is the risk reward.
Awesome as usual Lex!
It was still a good fold on those pocket 9s as like he showed he only has pure bluffs. Plus you didn’t mention that your pair of 9s blocks one of his key bluff cards. Good analysis.
I'm checking 100% of the time.
Even without knowing the outcome, you made the right decision given the totality of the circumstances.
You might only be 50% with aces but you're getting four to one on your money.
LivePokerKing is a fan of your fold I'm sure.
Great videos Lex
Always another hand or another day . Good lay down
I was in early on, Good stuff.
You ever think of bluff raising river with the 9s? Folds outs out any pairs he turns into bluffs and maybe even 2 pairs he was value betting.
wild story bruh... GL.
Great story!