Hello, here we go with another episode of the Low Limit Cash Games podcast.
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We're gonna be talking about best hand poker. What does that mean to
you as a no limit poker player at the lowest stakes. This is as
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I don't understand people sometimes, so let's jump right into it. This person
named poker Dutch gave us a one star rating and said, if you're an
experienced one, two, one three no limit player and you listen to these
episodes, you will quickly realize that the advice is correct only about half the
time. I wouldn't waste your time here. Well, first of all,
it would be great for me, as a person that's trying to get better
at poker if you would send me some messages and tell me what half of
what I'm doing is bad so I can improve my game. That'd be awesome.
But secondly, I guess you missed the part to where my podcast isn't
four experienced one, two and one three other players. I'm pretty clear about
that right up front. In every single episode, I give a very basic,
simplified, easy to understand, ample, easy to implement set of rules
and strategies to help people who are new to the game or losers to the
game get better and become break even slightly winners or improve their win rate.
So that's on you for not understanding what the podcast is about. So you
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on, but thanks for stopping by. Now on to the people who are
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I'm almost finished season two. I'm listening in order. Thank you,
Coach Macki one for the kind words for the five stars, and also for
understanding who this podcast is for, unlike other people whose names I won't repeat.
Then I have a message from Lucas. This was sent to me again
on these screenshots, I can never tell in hot this is for sure Facebook,
so they sent me a private message on Facebook. I just want to
let you know I'm on my fourth straight month of being a winning poker player.
Your podcast has been a phenomenal asset. And he sent a screenshot of
his tracking and he is making thirty three dollars an hour. Thirty three dollars
an hour, So thanks for sending that in Lucas, I appreciate. I
don't share all these I get some of these every single week from people whose
games have been improved, and that's why I really should just ignore the haters.
I really shouldn't give him the time of day. But sometimes some people
just don't even understand what they like. They're talking about experienced great people shouldn't
be listening to the podcast. Well duh, I've never said that should be
he should be listening to the contest. That being said, I just recently
spoke with a person who is a one two pro grinder who said that he's
had episodes of the pods helped him improve some leaks in his game. So
anyway, all that being said, we're gonna jump into today's topic and content,
best hand Poker. Now. The reason I decided to do this particular
episode today is because I would say over the past two really over about the
past four weeks, I've gotten people who have sent me hand histories and strategy
type questions about things at the table or hands they been involved in, to
where they are just really thinking about the game and in a way that is
very convoluted and so kind of sticking with the theme of what we've been talking
about this entire episode, which is who this podcast is designed for, the
type of advice that we give, and who it's intended to help. I'm
trying to help you if you're a you know, if you've been playing one
two, no limit, the lowest stakes at your poker room, and some
poke rooms it's one three. But you know, whether you're brand new,
maybe you've just started a week ago, maybe you started four months ago.
You know, even if you've just been a person that's went to the poker
room and you've been going for years just to have fun and you just thought
it was all luck. Because there's a lot of people like that. There's
a lot of people that just have been going for years to the poker room
and playing poker because it's just well, maybe I always get lucky this time,
and I enjoy it, and I hanging out with people, and I
like being in the environment, and maybe we get lucky and win sometimes and
we lose sometimes. And that's the extent to which they have thought about poker,
all those people I described as who this podcast is for. And so
when I give really simplified basic advice for you to how to move you into
the winter column, it's not that hard to move a one, two or
just's just keep saying the lowest stakes at your card room. It's not that
hard to move you from loser to winn. That may not be big winner,
but let's face it. If you've been losing ten fifteen dollars an hour
playing poker, and I can get you to where you're making five dollars a
hour playing poker, that's a twenty dollars an hour swing. Now you're going
and playing poker, you're enjoying yourself, and you're actually coming home with a
little bit of profit. Now it's not every session played poker. Long enough
you know that you don't win every session, but over time it should start
averaging out to where you become a winner. And the number one single best
way to do that, the number one single best way to do that,
which if you've listened to my podcast for any length of time, you'll know
that this is a theme that I drive home a lot. I drive home
at different ways I drive at home. When we talk about opening hand ranges,
or when we're talking about continuation betting and bet sizing and these type things,
it's all about best hand poker. Now, when you watch people like
Doug Poke and Jungleman and Phil Ivy, and you know, these people playing
one hundred two hundred or two hundred four hundred or five hundred, one thousand,
one thousand and two thousand a limit, and some of the best players
to ever to play the game are sitting in there. These guys just can't
sit there and try to play the best hand all the time. That's not
going to work against really great players. It just isn't gonna work. But
I'm telling you right now, as I live and breathe, it does work
at the lowest stakes poker in your local poker room. You don't have to
be fancy, you don't have to ever have opened up a solver, you
don't need to understand have hand ranges memorized to any specific degree. What you
do need to understand is that we mostly need to be coming into a into
a pot, entering into a pot with a good hand, and when we
still have a good hand or a great hand or an amazing hand, we
need to be betting. And that's that's that's like eighty eighty five percent of
what the lowest stakes poker is about. It's best hand poker. You want
to have the best hand possible preflop, otherwise you don't enter the bot right.
You want to have the best hand on the flop. You want to
have the best hand on the turn. You want to have the best hand
if it goes to the river. And then the big thing is you want
to make your opponents pay you with a worst hand. And so I keep
getting people that send me these hand histories of where they were, like,
well, I thought my range was this and his range was that, and
so I decided to just check the flop and then turned and and no,
look, you can get better at the game, and you can get into
all this. That flop's more favorable for his rains than my range stuff or
whatever. But I'm gonna tell you right now, if you raise pre flop
with pocket ass and the flop comes like eight five deuce, sure that's not
a favorable flop for your range. But if you check back your pocket ass
on that flop, you're just throwing money away. You're setting it on fire
because it's eight high and your opponents are calling you with their pocket five six
is pocket sevens, pocket nines. They're ace eight, they're king eight,
they're queen eight, they're jack eight, they're ten eight, they're nine eight,
they're eight seven. They're calling you with all those tiny pairs. They're
calling you with like nine ten because they got three to a straight and they
might pick up a straight draw on the turn. I'm telling you this how
bad players think, Well, I got three to a straight, I could
pick up a straight draw on the turn. I mean, so if you
got pocket aces on an eight whatever I said, eight five douce flop or
something, it doesn't matter if it favors your range or not. That you
mostly have ace king as queen, king queen and you don't have that many
overpayers, none of this matters. You have pocket aces on a raggedy board
against the worst players to ever play the game. You need to be betting.
You need to bet, and until they give you a reason to not
to bet, you just need to keep betting, because if they have a
set of fives, they'll let you know. If they flopped two pairs,
they'll let you know. If they somehow run, run, run and runner,
run and run and runner straight on the river, they'll let you know.
And until that happens, you just need to be extracted money man,
because one two players are bad. They're just really bad. So one two
no limit, one three no limit is best hand poker. Rather than starting
with a five eight suited pre flop, let's start with as king. Let's
start with king queen suited. Let's start with queen jack suited. Let's start
with pocket tens. Let's start with pocket eights, and we'll leave the five
eight suited to the bad players. Best hand poker pre flop, best hand
poker on the flop, I probably has got the best ben here. What
should I do? Should I get all tricky? Should I make my strategy
all convoluted? No, you need to be putting money in the middle.
They either have a hand that they're gonna pay you off with, or they
don't. That's what it boils down to. They either have a hand that
they're gonna put money in on the flop or they don't. They don't,
it doesn't matter that you check it back. I mean, what are the
odds that they catch some miracle turn that they'll now put money in with.
That's what we're a lot of people do. Like why, I don't think
the villain could have any kind of a hand, So I wanted them to
check up. Well, first of all, you don't know what kind of
hand they got. You don't know. Secondly, if they don't have a
hand, what are the odds that they catch up on the turn. It's
pretty hard to catch up on the turn, so you need to start extracting.
And if they don't have a hand, you know, sometimes they'll still
call you because they're just bad. But yeah, for sure they'll fold sometimes.
But when they do have a hand, and sometimes really bad hands,
really marginal hands, they're just gonna pay you because they're a nonbeliever. Because
they put you on ace king. I put them on the ice king man.
The flop was eight five deuce I had ten eight. I put him
put him on ace king man. I couldn't fold, And then the turn
came four. He's still bluffing me with ace king, and I got the
pair of eights. I called him down again, and they just pay you
off, man, because they're just bad. They're just horrible players. It's
best hand poker. Make them pay when you have the best hand, and
try to always have the best hand. The transfers to that is what do
you do when you don't have the best hand? Wags it fold? It's
fold at. Somebody send me a message the other day. They're like,
I raced with ace three suited and I got three bet and called, and
the flop came seven seven four three, and I bought them pair with an
ace over card and a runner runner wheel draw, and my opponent bet,
and I didn't think he could have much, and so I three bet him
and then he shoved on me and I he was full of it, and
I called and he had pocket kings. Well yeah, yet bottom pair,
man, Yet bottom pair in a hand. For some of the worst players
to ever play poker, they ain't in there going crazy with ace king.
Your bottom pair is no good, So look, get away, don't get
crazy, don't get fancy pan syndrome, and just play best hand poker.
Just try to have the best hand, pre flop, come in for a
raise, try to have the best hand on the flop, and when you
do bet it and try to have the best hand on the turn, and
when you do bet it and try to have the best hand on the river,
and when you do bet it and just try to get paid paid paid
wash rints repeat, wash rents repeat. Is there more to poker than that?
Absolute? There's more to poker than that? Is there levels? Absolutely,
there's levels to this. To my hat, your friends an quote unquote
experienced one three player and thanks, my podcast is garbage. Of course,
there's lots of other levels to poker. But if you're out here in these
streets trying to become a winner, the very first thing you do is start
playing best hand poker. Put the days of playing worst hand poker behind you,
optimistic poker behind you. I might can get a draw on the turn
poker behind you. You know, I think he's bluffing, and I got
bottom pair poker behind you. Put all that poker behind you, and let's
play best hand poker, and we will move you into the winner's column.
And then once you established this, you get used to it and you understand,
Okay, I can just keep doing this and I can make a little
bit of money and we're gonna be doing all right. Then you can start
looking at more advanced things to do. But it all starts with best hand
poker. It's how we all learned. We all started out too loose.
I'm telling you right now, this is the path every winning poker player that
I know took. We all started out too loose. We didn't know what
we were doing. We're playing way too many hands. Then we read a
book or two and watched a video or two, and then we all went
too tight. We weren't way too tight, but we started breaking even or
slightly winning when we went too tight. And we stuck with the two tight
thing for a while, and we talked about how other horrible players were when
they won with the eight nine suited and when they won with the six seven
suited, and we talked about how horrible they were, because tight is right.
And then at some point we had just nailed the tightest right thing,
and we'd nailed the being a slightly winning player thing, and then we started
studying other things we could add on, and then we added on this,
and then we added on that, and we had it on that, and
then ten years later we had a bunch of stuff we'd added on, and
we're really formidable players at the poker table. It's a journey, and every
journey begins with the first step, and the first step is playing best hand
poker. I hope this episode has helped you. I hope that it was
simplified and straightforward. I hope that, as several people in the review said,
I didn't talk down to you, or it didn't make you feel dumb.
That's not my goal. My goal is to just understand a simplified version
of winning poker at the lower stakes, get you winning, and then try
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