BTN (Hero) vs BB in a single raised pot and the flop is a ATx, AJx, AQx, AKx (consider x is smaller than a 10) board. You should c-bet HUGE here due to your "Nut advantage".
I've stacked people early in tournaments in situations where there was a complete 5 card straight on board, and i had the 2 cards at the top end to make the best possible straight (ex JT on 987-6-5 board). I stacked a guy early in last years sunday million anniversary for about 2.5x pot with that exact hand, he had a Tx. I thought about just betting the usual amounts of 1/3p to 2/3p to guarantee calls from air or Tx, but it was early, there were rebuys, and so some people will just call it all off in a heartbeat, so you have to maximize value in those situations.
Did this at a home game just last week. Had about 35ish BB left, had queen jack of spades. Made the two left in fold, one had a mid pocket pair (think it was 8's) and another had suited connectors.
Yeah, I did actually, very recently. Once with 10s on a 987 board when I was actually up against J10, the other time with Aces on a low board against Queens and a queen comes in the turn. Oh and another one with lower two pairs up against Kings, turn is a king.
Jonathan!! I appreciate everything you do for the poker community!! I keep hoping New York will join the multi-state compact for online poker. Maybe 2024 will be the year! Hope you have a great day
I love the part about how you should have the same amount of Bluffs as the odds you're laying your opponent. That's such a simple way of thinking about it that I never heard before
Yes this is the "Indifference Principal"... You want to make your bluffing frequency "indifferent" to whether you are called on not as best you can. This will allow you get more value on your value bets and lose nothing on your bluffs. This is of course only true Long Term, and only if you are able to accurately guess about what percentage of the time your villain will call or fold. You will never be perfect but you can be reasonably close. The inverse principal of this is the "Minimum Defense Frequency" (MDF) which is the frequency you should call your opponents bets especially on the river. Doing these things will make you much harder to play against.
@@_Coffee4Closersindeed; the MDF is the explanation of why one will often see top pros call flop bets with hands such as overs and a backdoor draw. The days of fit or fold are long gone.
The math for the over bets on highly polarized river situations is simple, as in a highly polarized situation, where you balance your nut hands and bluffs correctly, your EV is 1 pot, regardless of what your opponent does, because you’re making him indifferent to folding and calling. By increasing the bet size, you increase the number of hands you can have a 1 pot EV with.
I shoved it for 3x size on the flop, but to be completely honest with you, I didn't know what the hell I was doing I was kinda new to poker at the time
What are the safest sites to play on and what makes them secure? I'm a new player and just want to find a fair game online I can practice. I also reside in a legal state within the usa to play online if that factors into which site I should use. Thanks to anyone willing to help a 'noob' find their way to a good practice table.
Hi Jonathan, can you make a video about how to play when you raise 9handed to 3bb and get 6 callers? Because that's 75% of the hands I play at 1/2. Should you ever push your equity with good draws or just play super straightforward and value only.
@@maxk453 Maybe 1/6 will fold. At my casino its so common to have a raise to $10, and then have 5-6 callers. You pretty much have to make it $15-20 if you want only 1-2 callers.
I was playing last online and I had. Q9 spades in the small blind ... I've also got a super agg on the button ... He raised ... I three bet pot + 4x the big blind. The flop comes Qc, 2s, 7d ... I check the button bet 1/3 pot and I jam it all in. The button calls he had As,7c This spot comes up a lot for me ... I did not know this was a GTO thing ... How cool is that!?
That isn’t a GTO play. What does your raise accomplish there. Typically folding out worse hands. Getting called by better. Unless you’re super shallow I don’t see the point.
I must have shoved all in with a flop like in your example jtx. Isnt it a standard play however with good hands suchs as overpairs or top pair? And big draws, like open ended straight or 1 card to flush?
I play short stack very well, I don’t play gto to much. I do find spots where I’ve jammed. What are you going to call me with? That’s what I think as I stare at the board. As that’s what I do when I have the nuts
10:30 As semi-color blind, those colors aren't actually that bad. Good difference in brighness. It would be worse if they mixed e.g. red, brown and green.
Ive watched quite a bit of your live videos the last 2 days and the examples and charts you give IMO are unrealistic in the sense that none of the 1/2 and 1/3 games I play is any significant portion of the game being played late position versus blinds heads up and quite frankly its pretty rare to be headsup at all even with 3bets. I realize that means the game is crazy soft, and it is, extremely beatable with super straightforward play but its odd to keep having 9max examples of live poker where its HJ/CO/BTN vs SB or BB or CO vs BTN or HJ vs BTN or HJ vs SB/BB -- and im talking about all the various examples throughout numerous topics you have webinars on. IDK if my games are just insanely soft but it was the same thing years ago when I played on the opposite side of the states. Almost every hand is multiway, almost every hand has limps. Theres an insane amount of multiway 3bet pots, theres an insane amount of 3bet cold calling. And again yes this means the game is crazy soft and everyone sucks but its just weird to give a bunch of blind vs late position examples and HU examples targeted to 1/2 players when literally no 1/2 game plays that way in my experience. Youre playing late vs blind pretty rarely and youre getting headsup also almost never, theres enough short stacked players at the table always too that you can rarely just get very out of line aggressive 3betting without value.
I understand that games this soft is just, make hands, get paid off, stop paying off with non nutted hands. I agree but struggling poker players who are watching content arent going to become winning players learning how to play HU late vs blind poker at 1/2 live games because thats just like 5% of the hands you actually play and i dont mean 5-10% of orbits I mean 5% of VPIP hands. No matter how good these players get at these HU situations at live 1/2 if they are not playing well 90% of their other VPIP hands then they are still going to be losing players
Remember shorter stacks play tighter so in these scenarios they can be capped at top pair or just over cards. When they move all in, they do so with value and not as many bluffs. So you should be defending with a linear range than a more polarized one. (They have a video on knocking short stacks out of tournaments) These scenarios are more implementable for a polarized range to beat passive opponents in normal and deep stacked play
I wish the poker world would recognize colorblind people. $5 chips are red and $25s are green. boxed 25s are irritating. all of these flop charts are green/red.
Don't ever bet big while your short stack in an online tourney. 90% of the time I get my money all in with a stack of 10BB or less and get call by a deep stack, I lose... Everytime. KK vs 77 better believe he's hitting a one card straight. AK clubs vs 89 offsuit.. one card flush coming right up!
Ive been there, in fact every poker player (good and bad) will inevitably experience that. I suggest you have a positive mind and continue training with Jonathan Little’s videos, youll see your results get better sooner or later!
Zzzzzz bad player is bad. Variance is a thing. Maybe you should be more concerned about whether or not you played the spot properly than if you won or lost.
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Can you list another situation where it is good to bet HUGE? 🔥
BTN (Hero) vs BB in a single raised pot and the flop is a ATx, AJx, AQx, AKx (consider x is smaller than a 10) board. You should c-bet HUGE here due to your "Nut advantage".
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After betting flop on a wet board if the turn is a brick you can easily overbet as sets or two pair would have raised the flop
Where you hold a nut blocker like the ace of clubs when three to the flush is there . Do the exact same with the nut flush .
I've stacked people early in tournaments in situations where there was a complete 5 card straight on board, and i had the 2 cards at the top end to make the best possible straight (ex JT on 987-6-5 board). I stacked a guy early in last years sunday million anniversary for about 2.5x pot with that exact hand, he had a Tx. I thought about just betting the usual amounts of 1/3p to 2/3p to guarantee calls from air or Tx, but it was early, there were rebuys, and so some people will just call it all off in a heartbeat, so you have to maximize value in those situations.
Did this at a home game just last week. Had about 35ish BB left, had queen jack of spades. Made the two left in fold, one had a mid pocket pair (think it was 8's) and another had suited connectors.
Yeah, I did actually, very recently. Once with 10s on a 987 board when I was actually up against J10, the other time with Aces on a low board against Queens and a queen comes in the turn. Oh and another one with lower two pairs up against Kings, turn is a king.
Jonathan!! I appreciate everything you do for the poker community!! I keep hoping New York will join the multi-state compact for online poker. Maybe 2024 will be the year! Hope you have a great day
Here in MD, there’s a referendum in the next election to legalize online poker.
HOLY $#!T....when is that coming up? Love MD...but that ban is some BS@@Simon-vo7gi
Just use a vpn
Hello mr Little! Could u make another video about pko/live pko? Thank you for the amasing content, helped me a ton
I love the part about how you should have the same amount of Bluffs as the odds you're laying your opponent. That's such a simple way of thinking about it that I never heard before
Yes this is the "Indifference Principal"... You want to make your bluffing frequency "indifferent" to whether you are called on not as best you can. This will allow you get more value on your value bets and lose nothing on your bluffs. This is of course only true Long Term, and only if you are able to accurately guess about what percentage of the time your villain will call or fold. You will never be perfect but you can be reasonably close. The inverse principal of this is the "Minimum Defense Frequency" (MDF) which is the frequency you should call your opponents bets especially on the river. Doing these things will make you much harder to play against.
@@_Coffee4Closersindeed; the MDF is the explanation of why one will often see top pros call flop bets with hands such as overs and a backdoor draw. The days of fit or fold are long gone.
The math for the over bets on highly polarized river situations is simple, as in a highly polarized situation, where you balance your nut hands and bluffs correctly, your EV is 1 pot, regardless of what your opponent does, because you’re making him indifferent to folding and calling. By increasing the bet size, you increase the number of hands you can have a 1 pot EV with.
I shoved it for 3x size on the flop, but to be completely honest with you, I didn't know what the hell I was doing I was kinda new to poker at the time
What are the safest sites to play on and what makes them secure? I'm a new player and just want to find a fair game online I can practice. I also reside in a legal state within the usa to play online if that factors into which site I should use. Thanks to anyone willing to help a 'noob' find their way to a good practice table.
Hi Jonathan, can you make a video about how to play when you raise 9handed to 3bb and get 6 callers? Because that's 75% of the hands I play at 1/2. Should you ever push your equity with good draws or just play super straightforward and value only.
Open 4-6x bb they will stop callin
@@maxk453 Maybe 1/6 will fold. At my casino its so common to have a raise to $10, and then have 5-6 callers. You pretty much have to make it $15-20 if you want only 1-2 callers.
I was playing last online and I had. Q9 spades in the small blind ... I've also got a super agg on the button ... He raised ... I three bet pot + 4x the big blind.
The flop comes Qc, 2s, 7d ... I check the button bet 1/3 pot and I jam it all in. The button calls he had As,7c
This spot comes up a lot for me ... I did not know this was a GTO thing ... How cool is that!?
That isn’t a GTO play. What does your raise accomplish there. Typically folding out worse hands. Getting called by better. Unless you’re super shallow I don’t see the point.
The Q, T, 6, 5, 2 hand is a classic Adamo shove and all the commentators would say he's going crazy and then we find out it's literally just GTO 😂
I must have shoved all in with a flop like in your example jtx. Isnt it a standard play however with good hands suchs as overpairs or top pair? And big draws, like open ended straight or 1 card to flush?
I actually do have a 4x pot even 8x pot bet river range. But it doesn't contain bluffs and is only used against fishes with uneslastic ranges 😅
I play short stack very well, I don’t play gto to much. I do find spots where I’ve jammed. What are you going to call me with? That’s what I think as I stare at the board. As that’s what I do when I have the nuts
10:30 As semi-color blind, those colors aren't actually that bad. Good difference in brighness. It would be worse if they mixed e.g. red, brown and green.
Excellent info.
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If I jam on the flop is that positive EV? Aren’t I only getting called by better hands most of the time?
You’ll get called by draws and bluff catchers
Therefore you’ll almost always be ahead when you bet with value
Ive watched quite a bit of your live videos the last 2 days and the examples and charts you give IMO are unrealistic in the sense that none of the 1/2 and 1/3 games I play is any significant portion of the game being played late position versus blinds heads up and quite frankly its pretty rare to be headsup at all even with 3bets. I realize that means the game is crazy soft, and it is, extremely beatable with super straightforward play but its odd to keep having 9max examples of live poker where its HJ/CO/BTN vs SB or BB or CO vs BTN or HJ vs BTN or HJ vs SB/BB -- and im talking about all the various examples throughout numerous topics you have webinars on. IDK if my games are just insanely soft but it was the same thing years ago when I played on the opposite side of the states. Almost every hand is multiway, almost every hand has limps. Theres an insane amount of multiway 3bet pots, theres an insane amount of 3bet cold calling. And again yes this means the game is crazy soft and everyone sucks but its just weird to give a bunch of blind vs late position examples and HU examples targeted to 1/2 players when literally no 1/2 game plays that way in my experience. Youre playing late vs blind pretty rarely and youre getting headsup also almost never, theres enough short stacked players at the table always too that you can rarely just get very out of line aggressive 3betting without value.
I understand that games this soft is just, make hands, get paid off, stop paying off with non nutted hands. I agree but struggling poker players who are watching content arent going to become winning players learning how to play HU late vs blind poker at 1/2 live games because thats just like 5% of the hands you actually play and i dont mean 5-10% of orbits I mean 5% of VPIP hands. No matter how good these players get at these HU situations at live 1/2 if they are not playing well 90% of their other VPIP hands then they are still going to be losing players
If you’ve played long enough you’ve for sure shoved in a tournament with Air and any board when your short stacked lol 😂
I have in tournaments where I'm trying to bully players. But it puts them all in. So idk if it really counts. Lol
Remember shorter stacks play tighter so in these scenarios they can be capped at top pair or just over cards.
When they move all in, they do so with value and not as many bluffs. So you should be defending with a linear range than a more polarized one. (They have a video on knocking short stacks out of tournaments)
These scenarios are more implementable for a polarized range to beat passive opponents in normal and deep stacked play
I wish the poker world would recognize colorblind people. $5 chips are red and $25s are green. boxed 25s are irritating. all of these flop charts are green/red.
was that a "large" fart at the begining :D
Can't see the charts
Don't ever bet big while your short stack in an online tourney. 90% of the time I get my money all in with a stack of 10BB or less and get call by a deep stack, I lose... Everytime. KK vs 77 better believe he's hitting a one card straight. AK clubs vs 89 offsuit.. one card flush coming right up!
Put in more volume. Or play cash then. Tournaments are high variance.
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Yea fold everything till you are down to 1 blind 😂😂😂😂
Ive been there, in fact every poker player (good and bad) will inevitably experience that. I suggest you have a positive mind and continue training with Jonathan Little’s videos, youll see your results get better sooner or later!
Zzzzzz bad player is bad. Variance is a thing. Maybe you should be more concerned about whether or not you played the spot properly than if you won or lost.