Have you tried any of these 7 small stakes poker tips? Also, everybody screws up this hand these days (fix this now!) ua-cam.com/video/h4mpLuNjfFo/v-deo.html
You're my favorite poker mentor! I just started playing five years ago (took two years off for covid). My gf and I play in free tournaments with winning pots anywhere from $250 to $1,000. Some say that isn't "real" poker, but I disagree; I'm on fixed income and the cash pot is very enticing! Its also the perfect setting to try out your advice. We like sitting side-by-side, and of course we must be extremely careful so as not to arouse unwarranted suspicion. We compete over who sits in front of the other. I like sitting before her bc in I reraise her bid and "go big" she gets upset with me. Do you have any advice on playing position when playing with a partner? I should add that she introduced me to the game but through videos like yours I am surpassing her and at times struggle to balance relationship and winning big. Thank you for your videos!
Small stakes games are played hand by hand. Fish don't pay any attention to anything but the current 2 cards they have. Playing really tight? They are oblivious to you playing tight. Balanced range? They have no idea what "range" is. Wet board? Uh... Wet? Wait... what?? Play simple, use position, play better hands, bet properly, get value. Be ready for UTG to show up with 10,2 off because Doyle Brunson won 2 WSOP titles with that hand, they will.
Exactly this. I watch some of these UA-camrs who analyze hands at 2/5 and some 5/10 talking about structuring properly, bluff percentage, dynamic boards, etc... All that shit doesn't matter to most players in these games cause they simply don't care and don't care to care. Play exploitative poker in live cash games no matter what. The moment you break out the GTO theories is when your world gets rekt by an overlimped AA that snap called your bluff on a one liner board.
@@DescartesRenegadeFor real, so true. I make a living off of small stakes poker, the only secrets are being patient and finding the right players to take advantage of.
I recently played a lower stakes poker game ($50 buy in) and I was chip lead up until the end where I got third place because of a bluff that played right with the pre flop raise to the c bet until the river I went all in and my opponent called with only top pair. I didn't go full tilt but yeah sometimes you can't bluff them out be wary of that
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I usually play with friends, we are sometimes 7, most of the times we are 9 or 10 and very few times 11. What's the strategy do you recomend me to follow? There are some very aggressive, some fish, its a mix of all. Fortunatelly i can say i might have one or two very good weeks and maybe 2 weeks where i dont loose or win, and maybe 2 or 3 weeks where i end UP losing. But at the end i have a winning récord. We play once a week
Great video and tips! I have learned alot from your videos so far. I think nr. 3 is very interesting in the micros. I hope you make a video about bluffing or bluff catching in the microstakes. I mostly agree on nr. 3 and (as you know) is very situational and player based. I have improved my redline a lot by not giving up with air or draws and I love to put a lot of pressure with jamming the river with the right combos on specific board textures (blocking villains calling range / unblocking folding range or at the very bottom of my range). I think experimenting with this in the micros is really a good way to become a better player and makes the game less static and fun to play. But it really feels bad when you get called by bottom pair and bad kicker 😅
Here would be my main question. You are dealt small pocket pair..2's to perhaps 7's. Flop is any 3 cards higher than your pair. Say 8, 9, Q. Do you stay in after the flop assuming someone before you bets on the flop, or calls you on a bet after the flop? Essentially all you have is the hope of making a set on turn and river.
17:17 "Most of the best poker players in the world actually aren't technically the most proficient. Where they dominate is in their mental toughness and their emotional stability when they get a string of bad beats or coolers or so-called "setups" in a row; they don't allow themselves to get obsessed by the short-term bad luck..." Somebody tell Phil Hellmuth lmfao
Ok what happens when ur 100 BB's deep and in order to isolate 1 player and get everyone to fold you need to bet at LEAST 12x What do you need to change in your game in this situation. At the 1/2 games I play a standard raise with mediocre cards is about $15 and this gets no less than 3 callers... usually more. Are we then supposed to just play more tight? Reduce the preflop chart by 20% and only bet the best hands up to 15x? When you do that though, it becomes obvious... What is the answer in this situation... there is no sweet spot as to get only 1 or 2 callers... It's either you get 4-6 callers, or you get zero callers.... ie, 5x even 10x gets 3-5 callers and 15-20x gets zero callers..... And the sweet spot does not seem to be between 10x and 15x it doesn't seem to work that way..... This is the biggest riddle that has been vexing me for the longest time now!
Hey Nathan, I recently re-read MCS and in the book you recommended different bet sizings for NL2 (60% for c bets against regs and fish with air, pot for value against fish). Do you still recommend those sizes for NL2 or would you say that the smaller ones are better these days, except maybe against the more oblivious whales out there?
5NL reg here, actually half pot c-bet is better for regs since it does job done when they don’t hit the board anyway. That 10% more can cumulate after hundreds failed ones, as for the fish I would still go for same c-bet size with air since they will be calling you a lot so it’s not a good idea to float, as for the value go bigger since fish do not care as much about stack size. In general do not overcomplicate your game keep it simple, having one sizing for c-bet is completely okay. C-bet regs on flops a lot that’s where the dead money is since most of them play robot ABC style
A tip playing against bad players is the only hand they put you on is AK. Other than that they only care avout their two cards. But they think opponents have AK every hand.
Man I am really happy to see that I was already doing/thinking several of these things just through experience. Though my experience is mostly small stakes home games with people who aren't serious and don't "play right" lol. Never know wtf is going on with them. The feel is way more important than the math. I been getting into online games a little bit. But its rare. These videos have helped cus its clear more online players are bothering to research and play "right". Its actually easier to read them and predict what they likely have. Never know with my friends. That crap flop might be a road to a straight cus they will call on 8-4 offsuit. Lol especially if its later in the game and the case of beer, and they get bored waiting for good hands.
Fancy play syndrome I def had. I never had a name for it but I was like wow, these people are playing pretty straight up and seemingly not even thinking about my table image, previous hands on similar boards where I had it, where I was bluffing, how many hands I've been playing, like all they think about literally is their 2 cards and the 3/4/5 on the board.
How do you beat a table where everyone is a fish and everyone calls everything and plays every hand. Even when I had great hands pre flop and value bet, all 8 players call. The flop hits and everyone calls every bet. It was an insane table. I struggled to eliminate players and lost some hands because of the sheer amount of players on the board. Maybe I just have to wait for the nuts 🥜
Yes. You have to wait for the nuts or near nuts in hands like this. If you have an extremely high equity draw, you have to be okay with putting lots of money in the pot in those instances as well. Your play needs to be dictated by your the way your opponents play. In most games, waiting for the nuts will make you a small loser. But in the game you described, a strategy like waiting for extremely strong hands or draws is the way to go.
At the 2:15 mark you said " Ca-veat"". The word is Cav-e-at".. 3 syllables not 2... Good word and you used it properly,just terrible pronunciation.. love what you do though.. helped my game and I love your presentations
Point 4 hits home, getting lots of coolers against people way worst players than me, gets me tilted. They play like they are playing roulette and win lol... One example last night, my KK lost to 74... Guy saw a 7 on the board and went all in thinking he would win with 77, I surely called the all in, he makes a straight on the river.
Hey, man. I respect your strategy and your opinion a lot because you have a lot of experience and good results. But I would respectfully not agree that the fish don't fold. I agree that they do underfold in various parts of the gametree, but there are already mass data base studies that show many other parts of the gametree where they fold much more than they should. And a lot of those parts happen on the turn and river. For example, when the fish plays the XC-X-X line against us, this is a part of the gametree where the fish fold much more than they should and therefore we can bluff a lot. Of course, it's just my opinion :)
Was playing $1/$2 NLH on poker stars. I had the nut straight after the river. Pot was like $75 at the time so I wanted to make a smaller bet because I figured the guy would fold anything big. I bet $20 bucks. No flush draws on the table, no pair on the table so no full house and I have the nuts. The guy raises to $45, I reraise him to $90. He then goes all in for like $200 bucks. Obviously I call and raise him all the way as I have the nuts. I won $450 on this hand, he had a pair of tens. No idea what this guy was thinking, trying to bluff me when I have the nuts and there's nothing on the board that says he has anything. Lmao
Every $1/$2 I’ve played in, if you raise 5X or less you will get at least one caller. If there are two callers, Noe the rest think they got pot odds, thus, everyone calls.
I’m not questioning your validity. I’ve enjoyed your videos, and they’ve definitely helped my game. But 10 million hands? If you were 37 years old, that’s nearly a hand every 2 minutes for your entire life. Double that at the age of 74. It’s still 1 hand every 4 minutes of your entire life. I imagine you play multiple hands on multiple sights at once, but 10 million? I’m curious where that number comes from.
@@justingifford4425 5% of all poker players are profitable, and these people play and study it to the point that it consumes their entire lives. What a silly thing to do. Losing money sucks, but it’s not as bad as winning money and having no life.
This style of betting a little more aggressively on good hands on the pre-flop just drains all my cash. Tried it on a day with incredible bad luck. On a 6 player table, I was winning maybe one in 20 hands. On each turn I have almost nothing, and if I continue chasing the bridge/river, I still get NOTHING. So, I usually flop until I have something on the turn. But today, that was almost NEVER. Blew all my money and I'm poor as fuck. Lost all motivation :(
I think Poker is easy when you are getting playable cards and good turns. Maximising winnings is quite logical. It's how to win anything when you don't get the cards, as you can't bluff small stakes players. If they have even only a pair of Aces, they won't fold. So, high bets just makes them call and me lose all my money fast. I dunno man. Maybe poker is not for me.
Have you tried any of these 7 small stakes poker tips? Also, everybody screws up this hand these days (fix this now!) ua-cam.com/video/h4mpLuNjfFo/v-deo.html
You're my favorite poker mentor! I just started playing five years ago (took two years off for covid). My gf and I play in free tournaments with winning pots anywhere from $250 to $1,000. Some say that isn't "real" poker, but I disagree; I'm on fixed income and the cash pot is very enticing! Its also the perfect setting to try out your advice. We like sitting side-by-side, and of course we must be extremely careful so as not to arouse unwarranted suspicion. We compete over who sits in front of the other. I like sitting before her bc in I reraise her bid and "go big" she gets upset with me. Do you have any advice on playing position when playing with a partner? I should add that she introduced me to the game but through videos like yours I am surpassing her and at times struggle to balance relationship and winning big. Thank you for your videos!
What site do you play on?
@@CB-zs7lj I think the best thing you guys can do is not to play at the same table
Love the directness of the video. Needed to hear a lot of this information again
Small stakes games are played hand by hand. Fish don't pay any attention to anything but the current 2 cards they have. Playing really tight? They are oblivious to you playing tight. Balanced range? They have no idea what "range" is. Wet board? Uh... Wet? Wait... what?? Play simple, use position, play better hands, bet properly, get value. Be ready for UTG to show up with 10,2 off because Doyle Brunson won 2 WSOP titles with that hand, they will.
10 Deus OP
Exactly this. I watch some of these UA-camrs who analyze hands at 2/5 and some 5/10 talking about structuring properly, bluff percentage, dynamic boards, etc... All that shit doesn't matter to most players in these games cause they simply don't care and don't care to care. Play exploitative poker in live cash games no matter what. The moment you break out the GTO theories is when your world gets rekt by an overlimped AA that snap called your bluff on a one liner board.
@@DescartesRenegadeFor real, so true. I make a living off of small stakes poker, the only secrets are being patient and finding the right players to take advantage of.
Thank you BkackRain. Awesome stuff man.
Thanks Jason, glad my videos are helping you!
I recently played a lower stakes poker game ($50 buy in) and I was chip lead up until the end where I got third place because of a bluff that played right with the pre flop raise to the c bet until the river I went all in and my opponent called with only top pair. I didn't go full tilt but yeah sometimes you can't bluff them out be wary of that
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The last is a big one. Tilt is what’s keeping me in the micros . I’m hoping to overcome this and finally get that chart up.
The best coach I have ever studied thank you.
I usually play with friends, we are sometimes 7, most of the times we are 9 or 10 and very few times 11. What's the strategy do you recomend me to follow? There are some very aggressive, some fish, its a mix of all. Fortunatelly i can say i might have one or two very good weeks and maybe 2 weeks where i dont loose or win, and maybe 2 or 3 weeks where i end UP losing. But at the end i have a winning récord. We play once a week
Great video and tips! I have learned alot from your videos so far.
I think nr. 3 is very interesting in the micros. I hope you make a video about bluffing or bluff catching in the microstakes.
I mostly agree on nr. 3 and (as you know) is very situational and player based.
I have improved my redline a lot by not giving up with air or draws and I love to put a lot of pressure with jamming the river with the right combos on specific board textures (blocking villains calling range / unblocking folding range or at the very bottom of my range).
I think experimenting with this in the micros is really a good way to become a better player and makes the game less static and fun to play.
But it really feels bad when you get called by bottom pair and bad kicker 😅
Thanks for watching!
what are good low stakes sites to start playing on?
« Let’s jump right into it » has got to be your trademark quote by now.
I agree
"I think you get what I'm saying."
“So, guys”. Lolol.
I'm in the US, what poker sites would you recommend for cash or tournaments? ACR, GG, or something else?
Bovada
Here would be my main question. You are dealt small pocket pair..2's to perhaps 7's. Flop is any 3 cards higher than your pair. Say 8, 9, Q. Do you stay in after the flop assuming someone before you bets on the flop, or calls you on a bet after the flop? Essentially all you have is the hope of making a set on turn and river.
Great tips to live by
17:17 "Most of the best poker players in the world actually aren't technically the most proficient. Where they dominate is in their mental toughness and their emotional stability when they get a string of bad beats or coolers or so-called "setups" in a row; they don't allow themselves to get obsessed by the short-term bad luck..."
Somebody tell Phil Hellmuth lmfao
Ok what happens when ur 100 BB's deep and in order to isolate 1 player and get everyone to fold you need to bet at LEAST 12x
What do you need to change in your game in this situation. At the 1/2 games I play a standard raise with mediocre cards is about $15 and this gets no less than 3 callers... usually more. Are we then supposed to just play more tight? Reduce the preflop chart by 20% and only bet the best hands up to 15x? When you do that though, it becomes obvious... What is the answer in this situation... there is no sweet spot as to get only 1 or 2 callers... It's either you get 4-6 callers, or you get zero callers.... ie, 5x even 10x gets 3-5 callers and 15-20x gets zero callers..... And the sweet spot does not seem to be between 10x and 15x it doesn't seem to work that way..... This is the biggest riddle that has been vexing me for the longest time now!
Hey Nathan, I recently re-read MCS and in the book you recommended different bet sizings for NL2 (60% for c bets against regs and fish with air, pot for value against fish). Do you still recommend those sizes for NL2 or would you say that the smaller ones are better these days, except maybe against the more oblivious whales out there?
5NL reg here, actually half pot c-bet is better for regs since it does job done when they don’t hit the board anyway. That 10% more can cumulate after hundreds failed ones, as for the fish I would still go for same c-bet size with air since they will be calling you a lot so it’s not a good idea to float, as for the value go bigger since fish do not care as much about stack size. In general do not overcomplicate your game keep it simple, having one sizing for c-bet is completely okay. C-bet regs on flops a lot that’s where the dead money is since most of them play robot ABC style
A tip playing against bad players is the only hand they put you on is AK. Other than that they only care avout their two cards. But they think opponents have AK every hand.
What is the best HUD for Omaha?
This is really good advice. Im a pro. I approve of these tips
Great video!! Thans!
Glad my poker videos are helping you, thanks for watching!
Thanks always
Np George, glad this one helped you!
How much for coaching me
Dude! Why did you give up #6. Those are the best players to play. Love you work though! This is really good advice. Where were you 20 years ago?
Man I am really happy to see that I was already doing/thinking several of these things just through experience.
Though my experience is mostly small stakes home games with people who aren't serious and don't "play right" lol. Never know wtf is going on with them. The feel is way more important than the math.
I been getting into online games a little bit. But its rare. These videos have helped cus its clear more online players are bothering to research and play "right". Its actually easier to read them and predict what they likely have.
Never know with my friends. That crap flop might be a road to a straight cus they will call on 8-4 offsuit. Lol especially if its later in the game and the case of beer, and they get bored waiting for good hands.
Fancy play syndrome I def had. I never had a name for it but I was like wow, these people are playing pretty straight up and seemingly not even thinking about my table image, previous hands on similar boards where I had it, where I was bluffing, how many hands I've been playing, like all they think about literally is their 2 cards and the 3/4/5 on the board.
How do you beat a table where everyone is a fish and everyone calls everything and plays every hand. Even when I had great hands pre flop and value bet, all 8 players call. The flop hits and everyone calls every bet. It was an insane table. I struggled to eliminate players and lost some hands because of the sheer amount of players on the board. Maybe I just have to wait for the nuts 🥜
Yes. You have to wait for the nuts or near nuts in hands like this. If you have an extremely high equity draw, you have to be okay with putting lots of money in the pot in those instances as well. Your play needs to be dictated by your the way your opponents play. In most games, waiting for the nuts will make you a small loser. But in the game you described, a strategy like waiting for extremely strong hands or draws is the way to go.
Another strategy might be to tighten up your opens then open BIG. 10BB, 15BB. Nathan mentions this in some of his videos.
Great video.
Happy to help, thanks for watching my poker videos!
At the 2:15 mark you said " Ca-veat"". The word is Cav-e-at".. 3 syllables not 2... Good word and you used it properly,just terrible pronunciation.. love what you do though.. helped my game and I love your presentations
Point 4 hits home, getting lots of coolers against people way worst players than me, gets me tilted. They play like they are playing roulette and win lol... One example last night, my KK lost to 74... Guy saw a 7 on the board and went all in thinking he would win with 77, I surely called the all in, he makes a straight on the river.
You are the man. 😺
Good stuff.
Making it rain
Hey, man. I respect your strategy and your opinion a lot because you have a lot of experience and good results. But I would respectfully not agree that the fish don't fold. I agree that they do underfold in various parts of the gametree, but there are already mass data base studies that show many other parts of the gametree where they fold much more than they should. And a lot of those parts happen on the turn and river. For example, when the fish plays the XC-X-X line against us, this is a part of the gametree where the fish fold much more than they should and therefore we can bluff a lot. Of course, it's just my opinion :)
Did this nigga just say "caveet" instead of caveat? (Caviyacht)
😂😂 2:14
Was playing $1/$2 NLH on poker stars. I had the nut straight after the river. Pot was like $75 at the time so I wanted to make a smaller bet because I figured the guy would fold anything big. I bet $20 bucks. No flush draws on the table, no pair on the table so no full house and I have the nuts. The guy raises to $45, I reraise him to $90. He then goes all in for like $200 bucks. Obviously I call and raise him all the way as I have the nuts. I won $450 on this hand, he had a pair of tens. No idea what this guy was thinking, trying to bluff me when I have the nuts and there's nothing on the board that says he has anything. Lmao
Nice video. I hope between the time you made this video and now, you've learned how to pronounce "caveat" 2:10
🤣🤣thought it was pretty lame calling him out on this…but went and checked, and that was pretty bad. Lol. I’d want to be corrected
Warranted, i guess.
A pessimist would say the site is rigged against them when they are losing. An optimist would say they love playing poker on WSOP, Pokerstars or etc.
Every $1/$2 I’ve played in, if you raise 5X or less you will get at least one caller. If there are two callers, Noe the rest think they got pot odds, thus, everyone calls.
Just an FYI: "caveat" is pronounced "kav-ee-ought"
This made me chuckle.
i played exactly like the charts in the micro stakes, every one folded because they knew i had good cards
I just go out and donk it up. I’ve played 5/8 and hit 2 8s on the flop. You can’t win if you’re not in
2:14 "ka-vee'-ott"...not "ka'-veeed".
Over 10 million hands of poker? Are you playing multiple tables in your sleep as well...? JK Thanks for great content!
Haha, 20+ tables for many years. I would sleep sometimes though :p
caveät
I’m not questioning your validity. I’ve enjoyed your videos, and they’ve definitely helped my game. But 10 million hands? If you were 37 years old, that’s nearly a hand every 2 minutes for your entire life. Double that at the age of 74. It’s still 1 hand every 4 minutes of your entire life. I imagine you play multiple hands on multiple sights at once, but 10 million? I’m curious where that number comes from.
online players play multiple tables at once, i think you forgot to factor that in
@@ten4267 I did indeed state that in the comment
He's said that he regularly 30 tabled.
Search for his name. You can see him playing 24 tables.
No way
I just realised I am a nit 😢
Did you just say CAH-VEET instead of Caveat?
What the fuck LOL Are you reading from what someone else wrote? I don't get it...
Over 10mil poker hands? That’s around 15,000 every month for 50 years lol you telling me you play 500 hands of poker every day for 50 years?
500 hands is 2 hours of zoom cache, one table
Ca veet. Lmao
Bro come on you have not played over 10 million hands
I don’t care about winning I care about having fun. If you’re playing poker to make money then you should either be a pro or get a job.
Spotted the fish
@@justingifford4425
5% of all poker players are profitable, and these people play and study it to the point that it consumes their entire lives. What a silly thing to do. Losing money sucks, but it’s not as bad as winning money and having no life.
Poker is simple, these UA-camrs are here to sell courses like crypto and amazon marketplace 😂
This style of betting a little more aggressively on good hands on the pre-flop just drains all my cash. Tried it on a day with incredible bad luck. On a 6 player table, I was winning maybe one in 20 hands. On each turn I have almost nothing, and if I continue chasing the bridge/river, I still get NOTHING. So, I usually flop until I have something on the turn. But today, that was almost NEVER. Blew all my money and I'm poor as fuck. Lost all motivation :(
I think Poker is easy when you are getting playable cards and good turns. Maximising winnings is quite logical. It's how to win anything when you don't get the cards, as you can't bluff small stakes players. If they have even only a pair of Aces, they won't fold. So, high bets just makes them call and me lose all my money fast. I dunno man. Maybe poker is not for me.