$2/$5 Best Bet LIVE Poker
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Makes me want to play live. Loved watching the call-off with KJo in the Q9 hand, LOL. The keys at the end are great, especially that last one. I'm cracking up.
Live cash is king nowadays. The boredom factor helps to generate a ton of action.
great video great content. Can i know where can i find good charts for live cash game 2/5 and 5/10 basically? Just to have a solid strategy And then adjust table tendencies
In my opinion, PokerSnowie Pro > Scenario > Preflop Advice has the most cost-effective, user-friendly, robust preflop ranges for all stack depths -- with or without antes. If you want ranges for live poker, I suggest using the "Pot" tab for RFI, 3-bet IP/OOP, and 4-bet OOP.
https://www.pokersnowie.com/?idev_id=200
Disclaimer 1: Monker ranges are more accurate but they're also much more expensive and less robust.
My book contains many of these ranges. It also explains all the different ways you can use PokerSnowie to quickly evaluate many preflop situations.
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Concepts-No-Limit-Holdem-Approach/dp/190945768X
Disclaimer 2: There are errors and outdated sections in my book. Part of the reason I agreed to coach for RIO was to get feedback for a 2nd book that will be much more accurate and comprehensive.
Full disclosure: I have a financial incentive to promote both of these products.
I love this exploitative shit, big fan of your videos here!
Really good video. This is a nice format.
At 16:00 you talk about a btn straddle spot. You said you should limp your whole rng. Did you mean just the bb? Why limp your whole rng?
37:15 you mention the play to jam river with q9 would be different in higher stakes. To me, you don't have that many bluffs 3 way on the flush completing river after overbetting flop and 75% pot turn into 2 opponents. You also block a lot of your opponents non flush calling rng. A chk or block bet would seem better.
Thanks!
In live poker or against people not capable of folding just have to bet your own hand and not care about they do. Small bets are used if your opponent is capable of raising. There are just too many passive players out there that will flat the nut flush vs a small bet because board is paired. They don't try and raise you because their thought process is literally board is paired, so I shouldn't raise. I've seen people LITERALLY check back a straight flush IP on the river because "You were not going to call a bet anyways."
Kryzstof has a video on this actually. Its not live poker or straddle pot, but he made a video on limping entire range and what hands to limp call, limp raise, or limp fold. Its an older video, so you might have to scroll through his videos a bit but it was a decent video.
RunItTw1ce yeah I agree exploitively we need to bet our hands value here. I think small bets have their place when we block so much of their call rng with our boat but as you say live players tend not to hit the fold button much. I think any flush even weaker ones make the call. However, it is interesting to see what we should be doing in gto land to understand our play vs good players. I think our other full houses get to bet big more often than q9.
I will look for the slaski vid. I probably have watched as I have watched most all of his theory vids. I don't play much in games with a sraddle but I can see in the blinds limping our whole rng but in other positions it makes sense to come in for a raise to iso.
16:00 | If SB folds, BB should limp his whole range unless the players behind him are isolating too passively. I will elaborate on this in high stakes hand history reviews when it's more relevant. The Monker output for this spot is far superior to any strategy I see live cash players using nowadays.
37:15 | The purpose of this video is to show creative exploits against less experienced players. The Q9 river jam is one of those exploits. If this was a high stakes game, my flop strategy would be B33 or XR75 exclusively with Q9s. If I used B33 on the flop, my turn strategy would split between B33 and B67. If I used B67 on the turn, my river strategy would be B33 due to the absence of bluffs.
Excellent video and I really love all your videos too. This stuff is really good and different from everything else on the site. Please keep doing more examples and explanations of exploits..would love to see how you implement these in much bigger games too..thank you!
About minute 38, you say raising 22 UTG is bad, but better than limping. In fact, you 3! light and it goes 5-ways to a flop. It is clearly very profitable to play 22 5-ways, even if there are some reverse implied odds of set over set. So folding a pp UTG would be bad and it is not clear to raising is better than limping. Limping leads to a smaller pot and multi-way more. It is not a good result for 22 to play the hand HU OOP. Of course you wouldn't play 22 UTG in a tough game, but I would look to almost always play any pp in games like this, unless I had reason to believe the pot would be HU.
I appreciate your excellent summaries, Hunter.
I doubt the J9cc fold at 13:45 is actually bad. He is OOP against 2 players and most of their
range will dominate J9s for sure. Depending on rake structure, Will is getting 28%-33% pot odds to call and he has 31% equity in a scenario that, miraculously, none of the other 2 players dominate him. On top of that, OOP against 2 players he will not even realize his whole 31%. Easy fold for J9s. Surprised you said it was bad.
Hey hunter great video! I’m transitioning from 6 max to live cash myself trying to build my bankroll
All the limping and straddling going in multi way pots is tough to navigate through sometimes, like online I never limp but Friday I decided whatever 1/2 cash game I’ll do it
Stack 285 effective
Zeb Straddle to $5 is on
I’m utg1 wake up with QQ
I was like well here we go
Limp to $5
Dan in cutoff raises to $15
Ryan on button raises to 40
Folds to me, I raise to 100$
Dan jams
Button folds
I call
Dan had ak, we run it twice and I scooped
Now, in the past, I open to $15, with any hand I’m playing from utg, get 6 callers maybe even a squeeze in later streets.
The limp raise with premiums though, doesn’t have any bluffs. Imo and you’re not getting any calls from a lot of weak holdings.
Do you tighten up your iso range with lots of limps ahead of you? Let's say you are on the button and there are 5 limps ahead. A6o would be a fine open from the BTN, but since we are Isoing to a huge size, I assume we want to tighten up to something like ATo+ in this spot?
Yes, you have the right idea.
Great example why we don’t need to be defending vs 3 bets this wide, just run into scenarios like these where we never really know where we’re at and just torching money
I saw Limitless raise-fold 55 in that exact situation on the $1K/$2K/$2K Triton Jeju cash game stream this week. If he can't find a way to make it profitable, it's a fold all day.
I need to watch some of that stream!
You can learn more from listening to Brian Rast commentary than you will from most training videos.
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