From the many poker videos I have watched over the years, this is one of the best. Saved to my all-time favorites, high re-watch value. Thanks for having made it! ♥
One cool thing about opening small from EP is that it actually induces some 3b / light squeezes allowing you to 4b the top of your range. Pool telegraph hand strength so much that most people at 1/2 or 1/3 can’t imagine someone going only 3x with a premium when the norm is 5x-10x. Nits that almost never 3b JJ/QQ or AK start doing so and have a hard time not going broke with them when you come back over the top.
This guide is perfect for online microstakes too. Thank you for sharing so many tricks in the hat! 😍 May I suggest to put some furniture behind you to muffle the sound? The reverb of the room is very loud. Also adding furniture makes the videos more pretty. 😉
Great to hear that it helps for online poker as well! And thanks for the comment about the reverb. You should notice a significant improvement soon. My editor has removed some of the reverb, and I have bought a new microphone, so hopefully this should be much better soon.
The 1/2 game I play there can be 5 limps before me and if I open for 15 I will get 4 out of 5 that will call. I have to go to 22-27 to get only one or 2 calls.
I love the tips! I play online $.01/.02 and see this player pool every day. I agree about raising small in EP. No matter how much you raise, you’re likely going to at least get two callers, and then you’re OOP. I would almost rather get 6s7s UTG than KK. How I generally deduce who is good when I first sit down is by looking for people with stacks of 700 to 1000BB. In my $.01/.02 games, when I see a player with $10+, I know (s)he is running over people, and I’ll avoid that player in most cases.
Thank you! Great to hear that the video provided value. And yes, big stacks often indicate that players are good. It can sometimes be that they are just very loose and aggressive.
I usually raise with good hands in 1/2 to $15 but i think i gotta memorize gto to know how to play each hand. Because maybe I am raising hands i shouldnt depending on position as well
recent subscriber, great videos btw. However I don't agree with the being tighter in multiway pots. If it's just limp like you said any hand would probably get some at least like 10% equity. If it's like 1 dollar to to call for like 10 dollars there's already enough equity to warrant a call. Plus the points you've made earlier, people overplay their hands after the flop so wouldn't you get a lot more value?
Thanks, I understand what you mean with the 10% equity. However, let's assume you have 92o and you limp behind because of the great price. Say the flop comes 955 and a lot of money goes into the pot, are you happy about that? Or what if the flop is A92, are you now happy to put a lot of money into the pot? You will almost never make a really good hand and you will tend to lose more than you will win with these mediocre hands against 5 opponents.
It really helps when you start playing poker in the pre 2003 era of limit 3-6 4-8, 6 seeing a limped flop, any 2 being played etc. At 1-3nl I see the same players/action/play 20 years at 3-6 limit haha
Ha, that's cool! I missed the pre 2003 times, but I play against some of those players as well. They have such a different way of playing, it can be quite funny. Where do you play?
Hi, Andreas! So pocket aces are underdog in a 7-way pot with just 40% equity. Yes. But why on earth shouldn't we play it when due to the leverage, the average value is 0.40*7 = 2.8 bets, i. e. 1 to 2.8 odds? Yes, we'll win only 2 times out of 5, but having invested 5 bets in 5 games, we'll win 14 bets.
Hi, sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean that we should not want to play it. If you have exactly AA, then you want to pile in as much money as possible. But with any other hand (maybe with the exception of KK) you don't want to pile in more money. I explained that a bit better (I hope) in my newest video about bet sizing. ua-cam.com/video/VsPhFBIr4f8/v-deo.html
@@nickg408permission is given automatically in UA-cam’s t&c’s. Any creator is allowed to use any bits of any video under the fair use policy. So, yes, I do have permission to use the footage.
Being card dead is not a problem. Just fold and observe what the others do wrong. This video shows you why you still make money when you're card dead: ua-cam.com/video/nU3Q62k-hec/v-deo.html
Play PLO and you always get loose and splashing games. Great win rate even at low stakes which are much higher than hold'em. There's a myth that PLO has a higher variance than hold'em, this is because PLO is losses and splashing game where there are lote if limpeza and no one folds to a raise. In contrast to hold'em, where it is a nit game. So variance is due to loose passive players in multi way flops where there are 5 or more players fighting for the pot.
Yeah PLO is definitely a higher return game for players who know what they're doing. The gamblers gravitate towards PLO; that's where the money is made.
What you were saying early in the video about how if you see opens for 10+ BB…… have you ever played in Texas? It seems like by your definition most of the games here are exactly what you’re talking about. I’m taking about the guy in early position opening to 25 with J10 off. Just a 15-25$ is just the norm. It’s supposed to be a 1$/2$ game but from people I’ve talked with that were playing in Vegas before, they say Texas 1$/2$ plays more like a 2$/5$ as far as bet sizes. Idk how true that is, I’ve never played anywhere else.
Unfortunately, I have never played in Texas, but would love to. The games there must be amazing. And I know that raise sizes are crazy, which makes the games so great. And yes, it is true that your 1/2 games probably play like 2/5 in other parts of the country. Congrats to playing in such great games!
Opening for less than 5X bb in a loose and splashy game from ANY position is a huge mistake imo. In my experience, nearly everyone will go fishing for 6 or 7.
I know, thank you! I am trying to sort this out. I'm buying a better mic, and we are treating the sound in post production. Hopefully, you will hear an improvement in new videos soon.
Couldn't disagree more with just about everything in this video. Here's a hint: in loose splashy games open your playable hands from any position like you're playing AA. Give it a try. You'll thank me later.
We have the table with worlds worst poker players here in Germany, and i am part of it, haha. We always raise 5bb and go 5ways to the flop with 6max. Do not think playing very tight and 3bet or fold would work.
Then I raise 6x then 7x etc or maybe use the old school limp-reraise occasionally. There are always adjustments to be made regarding to the players tendencies
Thanks for the refreshingly honest comment. But I don't agree with you that playing tight wouldn't work. I know the games you're talking about (I used to play in Baden-Baden, and that was exactly what happened there). You would have to play a boring style, where you only play very good hands, and you always 3bet them (big). You won't be able to outplay opponents, but this is how you would make money.
Wow..... 11 minutes in just to hear what is probably the worst advice ive ever heard. Raising small in loose splashy games is just asking for trouble. Youll get called by 69o and when you have AK and the board comes K96 youre just going to end up losing a decent chunk of your stack. Most loose splashy players are just going to call down until the river. By then you'll have put 25 or more bb into the pot. The best adjustment i have made in loose splashy games in playing a little bit tighter. And being way more aggressive pf. If i have a hand i want to play its an automatic raise even if its a 3 bet. The caveat is the omc types. I never raise them if they raised first. Anyway. Ill start my raise size at a standard 3bb + extra money in pot. And gradually move it up and up until i find the spot where only 1-2 people call. For $1-2 its usually around the $15 mark. So if im raising with JTs or AA its always that raise size. Then post flop this is where i slow down. If i have nothing and i have 2 others in the pot. Im not going to make many moves. In loose splashy games trying to out play idiots is a huge mistake. They will make you look like the idiot. I know its not balanced. But in $1-2 and $1-3 you dont have to be. These people arent thinking about your range vs theirs. They are just thinking about their own hand strength.
Thanks for your comment. If you think that that is very bad advice, then that’s fine with me. But I’m not sure that raising AK bigger really solves that problem. In fact, I think it makes it much worse. Yes, 96o might fold to a bigger raise, but there are still plenty of other nonsense hands that will call you. And yes, maybe you won’t go seven ways to a flop, but you’ll still be five ways, and you’ll still face exactly the same problem, except that now you will have put a lot more money into the pot, so it will be already bloated.
@LivePokerGuide obviously you didn't actually read my comment. You keep upping the raise size until you find the sweet spot so that it's not going super multi way. I used to only raise 3 or 4x and it always went 5-7 ways to a flop and my win rate was in the negative. Once I started bumping it up incrementally I eventually got it to around 10bb/hr
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"how do you even know if you are in a splashy loose game?" Well, If you are in Tampa Florida and the building says Hard Rock on it, you're there!
Haha, I love this! ;-) I wish I could play there. Heard so many good things about it. Must be one of the best venues for poker in the world.
Exactly. But I love it. HR Tampa does really good high hand promos too. But if you are at a Hardrock you are correct 😂
From the many poker videos I have watched over the years, this is one of the best. Saved to my all-time favorites, high re-watch value. Thanks for having made it! ♥
Thank you! That is so nice to hear. I'm glad it has provided some value. And it's a great idea to save it and rewatch bits in the future.
One cool thing about opening small from EP is that it actually induces some 3b / light squeezes allowing you to 4b the top of your range. Pool telegraph hand strength so much that most people at 1/2 or 1/3 can’t imagine someone going only 3x with a premium when the norm is 5x-10x. Nits that almost never 3b JJ/QQ or AK start doing so and have a hard time not going broke with them when you come back over the top.
Exactly! I didn't even factor that in, but that is correct.
Awesome video. Keep putting out geat content. 💪
Thank you! Really appreciate this.
Always pick up great nuggets of advice that can be applied right away
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My friend, I live in south Texas. And this is the EXACT type of games around here. It's crazy, and if you're not careful, you get crazy too.
Yeah, I've heard about those games. If you managed to go crazy, you can win big in those games.
This guide is perfect for online microstakes too. Thank you for sharing so many tricks in the hat! 😍
May I suggest to put some furniture behind you to muffle the sound? The reverb of the room is very loud. Also adding furniture makes the videos more pretty. 😉
Great to hear that it helps for online poker as well!
And thanks for the comment about the reverb. You should notice a significant improvement soon. My editor has removed some of the reverb, and I have bought a new microphone, so hopefully this should be much better soon.
Excellent!!!
Thank you!
Great content. Good job
Thank you, appreciated!
Great content as always, happy I walked into your channel, long term sub here! :)
Thank you! Much appreciated! Really nice to hear. Lots more (hopefully) helpful content to come.
The 1/2 game I play there can be 5 limps before me and if I open for 15 I will get 4 out of 5 that will call. I have to go to 22-27 to get only one or 2 calls.
That's okay, as long as you're doing that with the right hand class and in position.
It's ok to to get a bunch of calls with strong hands , you can open smaller like he said.
I love the tips! I play online $.01/.02 and see this player pool every day.
I agree about raising small in EP. No matter how much you raise, you’re likely going to at least get two callers, and then you’re OOP.
I would almost rather get 6s7s UTG than KK.
How I generally deduce who is good when I first sit down is by looking for people with stacks of 700 to 1000BB.
In my $.01/.02 games, when I see a player with $10+, I know (s)he is running over people, and I’ll avoid that player in most cases.
Thank you! Great to hear that the video provided value.
And yes, big stacks often indicate that players are good. It can sometimes be that they are just very loose and aggressive.
Great video
Thank you!
I usually raise with good hands in 1/2 to $15 but i think i gotta memorize gto to know how to play each hand. Because maybe I am raising hands i shouldnt depending on position as well
Yeah, I think it is important to memorize the right hands. This video should help with that: ua-cam.com/video/ZMrvtbFPNyk/v-deo.html
Like your information, I mainly play $1/2 and do add at times $1/3, I do understand your thoughts on say $7 raise in EP.
Great! Good luck! Where do you play?
very good❤
Thank you!
In words of Daniel Negreanu: "You can't be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich!"🥪 Nice video!
Unless it's a vegan sandwich ;-)
Thank you!
@@LivePokerGuide How about a pulled pork sandwich? my local casino makes a bomb one
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@@sretenie not giving away such vital info to sorry dude
Thanks so much buddy
You're welcome! Keep crushing!
recent subscriber, great videos btw. However I don't agree with the being tighter in multiway pots. If it's just limp like you said any hand would probably get some at least like 10% equity. If it's like 1 dollar to to call for like 10 dollars there's already enough equity to warrant a call. Plus the points you've made earlier, people overplay their hands after the flop so wouldn't you get a lot more value?
Thanks, I understand what you mean with the 10% equity. However, let's assume you have 92o and you limp behind because of the great price. Say the flop comes 955 and a lot of money goes into the pot, are you happy about that? Or what if the flop is A92, are you now happy to put a lot of money into the pot? You will almost never make a really good hand and you will tend to lose more than you will win with these mediocre hands against 5 opponents.
It really helps when you start playing poker in the pre 2003 era of limit 3-6 4-8, 6 seeing a limped flop, any 2 being played etc. At 1-3nl I see the same players/action/play 20 years at 3-6 limit haha
Ha, that's cool! I missed the pre 2003 times, but I play against some of those players as well. They have such a different way of playing, it can be quite funny. Where do you play?
Thank you
Thank you!
Hi, Andreas!
So pocket aces are underdog in a 7-way pot with just 40% equity. Yes. But why on earth shouldn't we play it when due to the leverage, the average value is 0.40*7 = 2.8 bets, i. e. 1 to 2.8 odds? Yes, we'll win only 2 times out of 5, but having invested 5 bets in 5 games, we'll win 14 bets.
Hi, sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't mean that we should not want to play it. If you have exactly AA, then you want to pile in as much money as possible. But with any other hand (maybe with the exception of KK) you don't want to pile in more money.
I explained that a bit better (I hope) in my newest video about bet sizing. ua-cam.com/video/VsPhFBIr4f8/v-deo.html
Why are you using b-roll from poker vloggers in your intro?
I don’t have vlogging rights myself where I play, and I needed to have some B roll, so I used other vloggers’ footage. Do you not like that?
@@LivePokerGuideI mean did you get permission? If so, that’s fine. If not, that’s kinda messed up.
@@nickg408permission is given automatically in UA-cam’s t&c’s. Any creator is allowed to use any bits of any video under the fair use policy. So, yes, I do have permission to use the footage.
Excellent 🫶🏾
Thank you :) Glad it provided some value.
5:22 THEIR wrongs.
How about when a person is card dead?
Fold fold fold. Use position to see cheap flops to cure boredom. Then fold fold fold.
Being card dead is not a problem. Just fold and observe what the others do wrong. This video shows you why you still make money when you're card dead: ua-cam.com/video/nU3Q62k-hec/v-deo.html
Exactly that!
Took your advice and made $ 300 today
That's excellent! Keep going!
Play PLO and you always get loose and splashing games. Great win rate even at low stakes which are much higher than hold'em. There's a myth that PLO has a higher variance than hold'em, this is because PLO is losses and splashing game where there are lote if limpeza and no one folds to a raise. In contrast to hold'em, where it is a nit game. So variance is due to loose passive players in multi way flops where there are 5 or more players fighting for the pot.
Yeah PLO is definitely a higher return game for players who know what they're doing. The gamblers gravitate towards PLO; that's where the money is made.
What you were saying early in the video about how if you see opens for 10+ BB…… have you ever played in Texas? It seems like by your definition most of the games here are exactly what you’re talking about. I’m taking about the guy in early position opening to 25 with J10 off. Just a 15-25$ is just the norm. It’s supposed to be a 1$/2$ game but from people I’ve talked with that were playing in Vegas before, they say Texas 1$/2$ plays more like a 2$/5$ as far as bet sizes. Idk how true that is, I’ve never played anywhere else.
Unfortunately, I have never played in Texas, but would love to. The games there must be amazing. And I know that raise sizes are crazy, which makes the games so great.
And yes, it is true that your 1/2 games probably play like 2/5 in other parts of the country. Congrats to playing in such great games!
Most players at these kinds of games couldn't beat a rock with a piece of paper
;-) Probably true
Opening for less than 5X bb in a loose and splashy game from ANY position is a huge mistake imo. In my experience, nearly everyone will go fishing for 6 or 7.
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Thank you!
The echo and sound quality in your video are poor. Too many hard surfaces in that room causing the echo.
I know, thank you! I am trying to sort this out. I'm buying a better mic, and we are treating the sound in post production. Hopefully, you will hear an improvement in new videos soon.
Well that intro looks familiar
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_you make the money by folding the hands that your opponent do not fold!_ !!!
Couldn't disagree more with just about everything in this video. Here's a hint: in loose splashy games open your playable hands from any position like you're playing AA. Give it a try. You'll thank me later.
Fair enough. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions. And if that works for you, then great.
We have the table with worlds worst poker players here in Germany, and i am part of it, haha. We always raise 5bb and go 5ways to the flop with 6max. Do not think playing very tight and 3bet or fold would work.
Then I raise 6x then 7x etc or maybe use the old school limp-reraise occasionally. There are always adjustments to be made regarding to the players tendencies
send me an invite brother man
Thanks for the refreshingly honest comment. But I don't agree with you that playing tight wouldn't work. I know the games you're talking about (I used to play in Baden-Baden, and that was exactly what happened there).
You would have to play a boring style, where you only play very good hands, and you always 3bet them (big). You won't be able to outplay opponents, but this is how you would make money.
Was just thinking that. I really want to play in that game.
@@LivePokerGuide my latest adjustment were to play looser (!) before the flop and tighter after.
It worked pretty well.
Wow..... 11 minutes in just to hear what is probably the worst advice ive ever heard. Raising small in loose splashy games is just asking for trouble. Youll get called by 69o and when you have AK and the board comes K96 youre just going to end up losing a decent chunk of your stack. Most loose splashy players are just going to call down until the river. By then you'll have put 25 or more bb into the pot. The best adjustment i have made in loose splashy games in playing a little bit tighter. And being way more aggressive pf. If i have a hand i want to play its an automatic raise even if its a 3 bet. The caveat is the omc types. I never raise them if they raised first. Anyway. Ill start my raise size at a standard 3bb + extra money in pot. And gradually move it up and up until i find the spot where only 1-2 people call. For $1-2 its usually around the $15 mark. So if im raising with JTs or AA its always that raise size. Then post flop this is where i slow down. If i have nothing and i have 2 others in the pot. Im not going to make many moves. In loose splashy games trying to out play idiots is a huge mistake. They will make you look like the idiot. I know its not balanced. But in $1-2 and $1-3 you dont have to be. These people arent thinking about your range vs theirs. They are just thinking about their own hand strength.
Thanks for your comment. If you think that that is very bad advice, then that’s fine with me.
But I’m not sure that raising AK bigger really solves that problem. In fact, I think it makes it much worse. Yes, 96o might fold to a bigger raise, but there are still plenty of other nonsense hands that will call you.
And yes, maybe you won’t go seven ways to a flop, but you’ll still be five ways, and you’ll still face exactly the same problem, except that now you will have put a lot more money into the pot, so it will be already bloated.
@LivePokerGuide obviously you didn't actually read my comment. You keep upping the raise size until you find the sweet spot so that it's not going super multi way. I used to only raise 3 or 4x and it always went 5-7 ways to a flop and my win rate was in the negative. Once I started bumping it up incrementally I eventually got it to around 10bb/hr
Calling this a masterclass lmao
What would you call it?
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. these are losing strategies
slowly losing
Fair enough. You don't have to use them.
@@LivePokerGuide I do enjoy your channel.... Keep up the good work !!!