Welcome to a brand new, one hundred percent free episode of the Low Limit
Cash Games podcast. This is a podcast I created exclusively for you, the
lowest stakes poker player at your local card room or at your home poker games.
One two, no limit, one three, no limit. We're here
to help you become a winning player. Today's free, public facing episode of
the podcast is going to be reviewing a hand history sent in to me by
a listener of the podcast. Today's hand was submitted to me by Mark,
who is playing a one to three game in South Florida. He did not
tell me which room that he was playing in, only that it was a
South Florida room and one to my evaluation of a hand that he played.
So we're gonna have a theme for today's episode, and I think it's very
important that probably a lot of people pay its close attention to today's theme as
well as the hand history. And the reason I say I think it's important
is because I get so many messages from you guys every week with hands,
and I see people doing these type things all the time and they're confused as
to why it's not correct and the reason that it's not correct. But more
importantly, The reason people are confused about why it's not correct is because they
spend a lot of time watching a lot of social media poker gurus giving instructions,
hand histories, examples of optimum play and bringing out range charts and these
type things. And these gurus, who I don't have anything against them,
they're all all of them probably are way better poker players than me. I'll
just admit it, Like, I don't have any ego in this game.
I just don't. Like I'm just the person that beats one, two and
one three. I can beat two to five as well. I've also have
a winning record in five ten, but as the stakes go up, I
play less of it. So I'm perfectly fine being who I am in the
game and knowing what I know in the game, and so what I see
out there is so much in this hand history we're going to go over today.
It's just a perfect example of it. So I had to make an
episode of the podcast for you guys. You've got to learn to beat the
games that you play. That's what you got to do. That's what that's
why I created this podcast. Out four years ago, I was looking at
a video online of somebody that I follow, and I follow a lot of
poker creators online, and I'm like, you know what, there isn't really
anybody out here helping people beat one to no limit. They just aren't like
they're telling them things. They're trying to give them all these concepts. It's
hard to wrap their heads around when if they just had the average one twoerladers,
I had somebody to give them some simple concepts, some basic concepts that
they could implement quickly and nearly mistake free and just instantly go from loser to
break even to winter. That's what is needed for the one two player.
And people are giving them these hard concepts that sure, it makes you a
better poker player to understand these complicated concepts, but it doesn't get you to
beat one two very fast, and in fact, it convoluts your efforts because
it's a case of try hard, you try harden. You got all these
just these hard, intricate things you're trying to play, and you still haven't
learned how to just value the best hand and fold and beaten right right.
You need to master that first. It's just so many things you need to
master first. So there's so much stuff out there and it's teaching you how
to beat games you're not playing it, and they also giving you advice that
you're not ready for yet. And I just I just see this so much
and so uh all these year this, four years later, I still see
hand histories that justify what I do with the Pot and it's why I love
doing it. I love doing it more now that I'm it's like stressful.
And hey, I got to say, the reviews are in right now.
Overwhelmingly people are thankful that we went to the one free public episode a month
and the other three episodes being behind a fight allar pilewall, Like, I've
gotten so many messages about God, the pot is so much better now,
thank you. So you know, you learn as you go, but I
still see it. There's a need for it. So learning things like being
balanced, for sure, can help you in the game and help you understand
the game. But just let me tell you low Stake's Poker and making max
profits at low Steak Poker, it boils down to exploiting the massive mistakes your
average one two player makes and then playing correctly versus their mostly face up play.
And that's what it boils down to. It It's not a lot more
complicated to that. Now, the longer you play, the more experience you
get, the more you learn how to implement other strategies. You can hinch
that win rate higher and hire and hire. But just to get into winner,
we need to understand this basic concept. So we're gonna go through Mark's
hand. This one three game in South Florida. They're four hundred and fifty
dollars effective. And Mark has ah jack off suit in the cutoff, so
he says there's a limper, and then he says, a villain makes it
fifteen. So look, there's some nuance here. If it was an under
the gun limper and an under the gun one player made it fifteen, that's
way different than if Lowjack limped and hijack made it fifteen and you're in the
cutoff with as Jack. Like, those are two pretty different scenarios. So
I did reply to Mark and wait for an answer to that, but ultimately
I had to do this podcast. I got to get it recorded and get
it scheduled. I got things to do, and he didn't get back on
me in time. So we don't know. I'm gonna assume it wasn't worst
case scenario, right, I'm not going to assume that it was the tightest
of ranges, which would be an under the gun limper and an under the
gun one raiser. We'll just assume that. So there's a limper, Villain
makes it fifteen, and now Hero has ace jack off and the cutoff,
and Hero just calls to fifteen dollars raise. So I'm not gonna spend a
lot of time on this, but I do think mostly you just want to
be raising here, like you don't want button to come in behind you so
that you lose your position. You don't have a great hand, and if
you anytime, you can disguise the strength of your hand. Sometimes you just
get folds pre which is always a benefit of three betting. You also want
that limper to fold, like it's a win. We get that limper to
fold, and if villain calls, will get heads up. I mean,
there's just a lot of reasons to raise the ah jack here. You know,
I'm not gonna lie and say calling is the worst thing ever. You
know, ah jack is a pretty bad quote unquote premium hand. But I
mean I'm usually just raising this here for the reasons that I pointed out.
Anyway, that's not really where things go. The rails in his hands.
So I'm not gonna spend a lot of time on that part of it.
Nevertheless, he wrote calls and then one of the things we don't love,
uh, the the under the gun. I don't know if sundy gun or
not. Whoever the first person in the limp was. They call as well.
So we have a forty five dollars pot, and now the flop comes
King ten six rainbow. King takes King tick, can't talk King ten six
rainbow. The early limper checks the villain who raised pre flop. Now BET's
forty into a forty five dollars pot. That's forty into a forty five dollars
pot. Our hero with ace jack on King ten six calls the forty dollars
bet, and the limper folds and then Mark says this, I thought I
could stack him if I hit my gutter and my ace might all all might
be good as well. That's why I called well. I mean, first
of all, you know a raising range on a King ten sixth board.
And when they bet pot, I mean it basically bet and pot. They've
been forty to forty five. I mean, it's just screams strength. He
still has aces, he has as king, he has king Queen has intense
suited. I assume he has pocket tens. Uh probably doesn't bet this big
with pocket jacks or pocket queens, but I mean he's betting big. It's
continuing to tell the story, like, you aren't that crazy deep to try
to be looking at imply it odds to peel off one and try to bank
a turn and stack somebody. I mean, I don't see. I just
don't like any of these things. Like if you were gonna make a play
here, I mean I don't mean suggest you should, but if you're gonna
make a play at this pot, I mean, you know, a one
and done kind of play, which is kinder to me what calling the flop
is. It's a one in, right, you're calling you're hoping to bink
Broadway and stack them on the turn, So it's a one and done call.
I see a lot of people do this. I do it sometimes as
well, but for much cheaper Like not when villain bets forty into forty five.
No, but if they bet like fifteen into forty five and we're really
deep, yeah, I might peel one off and try to bink Broadway on
the turn. I mean I also raise sometimes well when they bet so big,
man, it's just you know, any ideas of raising or something like
that is kind of out of the question because of the size of their bet.
I think calling is just really horrible because of the size of the bet
and the stack sizes that are left. I mean, it's just I just
fold here. Uh. Nevertheless, Hero calls and as I mentioned before that
limper folds. So now our head's up to a turn. It's one hundred
and twenty five dollars plot one hundred and twenty five dollars plot. Flot was
King ten six rainbow, and now we get a six on the turn.
So the boar is King ten six six, King ten sixty six, one
hundred and twenty five dollars pot. Villain now leads for one hundred one hundred
into one twenty five. Hero shoves villain, snapcalls, and the hero tables
pocket tens for a set of tens, and the heroes drawing dead like even
Broadways, no good villain just has a full house. Mark says I was
crushed here. But I know, as pre flop caller, I have all
these six x hands and he doesn't. So I think if I shove here,
he has to fold lots of his one pair hands. Thanks for looking
at this hand. You can use it on the podcast. So I see
a lot a lot of videos out there and listen to not a lot of
podcasts, but I have listened episodes of the podcast where people talk about this
concept of when you're let's say you're in the big blind and you defend right
and you get to go a little bit wild on a ten five five board
because you know, you're a villain has a lot of ace king, a
king, ace queen, queen king type hands that missed. They don't have
a lot of five x, and you have all the five X. You
also have all the ten x and they can't have it, and so you
get to like, don't lead is one example we'll see advocated for and sometimes
you know, so you see these things talked about where hero can have all
of the you know whatever five x four x, six x seven x,
you know, hero can have all that in villain can't. So that is
a legitimate thing in the right spot, the right set of circumstances. But
what's happened here, and this is what I talked about at the beginning of
the podcast. You've taken these advanced principles, these things that you've heard talked
about, or you've seen poker gurus with you tube channels talk about it.
And I'm by no means saying that the YouTube gurus or the podcast gurus that
you've heard were wrong. They were probably one hundred percent right in their discussion
of it. It's just that your understanding of it and your application of it
was wrong. Because why why is it wrong? It's because we get bored,
man, we get bored. That's just the number one reason Live Hokre
is so profitable. People get bored, and so you want to figure out
ways to win that don't involve having the best hand, and so you get
a little adventurous with it, and you hear about this new toy and some
you know, this is what it becomes. This I have all the six
X and they don't toy, right, So it's a new toy we got.
We just learned about it, and so now we're going to go implement
it. And we misunderstand the concept, then we misapply the concept, and
so that's what's happened here, Mark. So I mean I don't think I
need say a ton about this hand, but the things that you missed in
this hand, like you became so focused on stacking your opponent hitting a hand
then bluffing when you probably have more than them, that you just missed a
lot of things. And I'm gonna go through the things that you missed,
so this should help you in the future pre flops. I don't know positions
a lot or anything. I mean, I can't super narrows range down right,
but we can say obviously has Andy likes, and it does include everything
like if he doesn't get three bet and have to make a decision, then
a RFI in hand from any position really, but especially something that's ahead of
cutoff, so we know it was ahead of cutoff, so it's you know,
earlier middle position. It contains all the pocket aces, pocket, King's
pocket, Queen's pocket, Jack's pocket, Ten's ace, King Ace, Queen
ace Jack, King, Queen, Queen Jack suited, you know King ten
suited. I mean it's just on this king get six board. Villain has
all of those monsters. He has pocket kings, he has pocket tens.
Depending on the position he was in when he raised, he could also have
pocket sixes some small amount. We won't focus on that, but it's certainly
as possible, if probably more possible if he was in the hijack than if
he was in you know, under the one one. But nevertheless King ten
for top two that exists as well, pocket aces. I mean, he's
just all these monster hands. That's the first thing we have to understand.
Second thing you have to understand is villain bet basically pot like. He's telling
you I raised with a strong hand, and now on this King ten sixth
board, I like it. I have a good hand. He's telling you
very loudly and very clearly he has a good hand. The other thing to
note is it's a rainbow board. So what draws exist, right? I
mean queen Jack comes to mind for him to bet big with a big draw,
there's still big draws that exist. There's just the open enders with the
queen jack and you have one of the jacks, so provided you know,
again, we don't know his position, so this makes it a little bit
more difficult. In near and down his hand was the only raised with queen
jack suit or is he raising with queen jack? Off? But I'm assuming
since you're cut off and you know you didn't mention he raised right ahead of
you. I mean, we'll just assume he was earlier in the seating.
So, I mean, I just think queen Jack off. We removed some
of it. That leaves Queen Jack Suita. Do you have one of the
jacks that leaves three combos of that? I mean, if you're trying to
be optimistic here, I mean, I don't know. It's just you just
don't have much of a hand. So that's the first thing on the flop.
Right, But you called you had a game plan. I'll give you
that. You didn't say this specifically, but my assumption is is this was
a one off call. You were calling for one Street, try to bank
Broadway and stack them. I guess I don't know. I could be wrong
about that. Nevertheless, now there's one hundred and twenty five in the pot,
and the bottom card pairs, and now villain comes out and bets one
hundred into one hundred and twenty five. So it's not quiet pot, but
it's it's a massive bet, right, It's a massive bet, and he's
setting up a river shove. This is clearly obvious. It's just he's obviously
setting up a rivershove. He's betting one hundred and hundred twenty five. It's
going to make a really easy buttery river shove, which is another thing you
missed. I just don't you weren't paying attention to the bet sizing. We
now have two bet sizes that tell us Villain probably isn't full of it,
probably likes his hand. The other thing that I would point out is you
say, hey, I can he can't really have much six X, and
I can have some six X, right, And I'm assuming you mean six
' five suited, seven to six suited and maybe some ace six suited,
I guess. So yeah, if you believe that, and for sure I
can go with you on that. Well, Villain understands too. And Villain
now BET's big again, Like Villain doesn't. He's not all that concern that
you could have a six You know, he didn't go with a half pot
sizing. He didn't go with forty percent pot sizing or whatever. I mean.
He goes big. It's like, what is it, like eighty eighty
percent pot or something? Shu, what is it? One hundred and one
hundred and twenty five. So now when you go into this, you know
it's just new toy that you've seen. It's I likened it to a toy
we've we've learned a new thing. It's I gonna have the six so I
get to do some things here. Well, I mean you just don't.
And I think I think missing the obvious things here h caused us to try
to do some kind of weird wonky thing when it just wasn't required. And
so if we go back with this concept that I talked about from the beginning
of the podcast, where uh, one, you need to learn to beat
the games you play, like, yeah, sure you could probably still use
this concept. I have all the six xs and they don't. If you
were using it correctly and it was correct bet sizing, proper configuration or whatever,
you could probably still implement it at one too. I'm not saying it
couldn't be implemented at one too, but for sure it would need to be
implemented in the right set of circumstances. So that's number one and in the
right way. But number two, we go back to worrying about being balanced.
There's things like that versus just playing low stakes for max profits, which
means one exploiting the massive mistakes your opponents make that's part of it. And
number two playing correctly versus their mostly face up play. And this is about
as face up as it gets. Your opponent's telling you, like, the
worst hand they have here is Ace King. That's just the worst hand they
ever have. Here's Ace King. I mean maybe king queen sometimes, but
basically there's like I got Ace King. And at no point in any any
part of this runout do I envision Ace King ever folding and when that's the
worst hand they have. Best hand they have pocket kings, they can have
pocket tens. They can have so, you know, sets on the flop,
full houses, on the turn, king ten they ain't folding, King
can either not folding top two and then obviously they have pocket aces, you
know, so the worst one pair of hand they have here is a's king
or a pair of kings. Second worst and one pair of hand they have
her pocket aces. You're just not farewell against any of that. And they
are playing their hand in such a face up way that they're telling you I
have one of these hands and I'm trying to get paid and you obliged.
So what can we learn from this? Learn to beat the games you play
this highly nuanced stuff that you see talked about because look, I've said this
before, and I don't say it in a jaded way. I don't say
it in a hateful way or a negative way. But these guys that run
these really big training side or they'd run these really expensive coaching things, they're
highly incentivized for you to feel confused. The more confused you feel about things,
the more you need them. And so they will tell you things that
are correct but nuanced. They'll tell you things that are correct but are tertiary.
They're like only outside fringes. It's not what mostly happens. You know,
the amount of times you're playing poker when this whole concept if I have
all the six x and they don't will happen. It's not that much of
the time. It's a very tiny percentage of the time that it ever comes
into player would come under player, you'd try to execute it. What mostly
comes into play is just good fundamental pre flop ranges, understanding when to raise
win to three bet, when to four bet sizing, understanding bet sizings on
flop turns and rivers, and understanding the value of your hand, the incent
of your hand, and your opponent's hand range. Fur'st your exact hand mostly.
That's another thing I see people get where they mess up some when they're
first trying to be And again I'm not, by no means saying you shouldn't
be playing your range versus their range because you want to keep getting better,
that's sure what you got to do. You know, the step before that
is playing your hand versus their range. Right, This is what I struggle
with with people that join my Patreon or even some of the people that I've
worked in one on one when we start early talking about hands and stuff,
where I'm not even trying to get them to play range versus range. I'm
just trying to get them to where they start trying to play their hand versus
their opponent's range, which I think is the easiest implementation of that, and
I think works fine at those stakes. Don't knock me and hate me for
being one of these dumb poker you know, mentors, you're just very unsophisticated.
I mean maybe, but I do not understand the steps that you have
to take to go from a losing one player to a winning one player.
And I do understand the easiest way to get there, And I know one
of the steps you need to take is when you start, when you make
the leap from putting your opponent on ace king all the time, which is
what most low stakes players do, and you're trying to play your hand versus
king. I mean, that's just I'm telling you that's eighty percent of low
stakes players. They're putting their opponents on as king. Although when you move
from that to trying to play your hand versus what their range at hands could
be, that's a big leap for most one to two players, and then
it's a bigger leap still to get them to understand that we're playing our range
versus their range. So I understand all that, and when I'm in tougher
games against better players, I for sure implement that a ton. I guess
I implement it all the time when it's applicable, But mostly I am just
trying to maximum maximumly exploit players and a pool that make huge mistakes all the
time. They just send it in in just the worst set of circumstances all
the time. And then players who also mostly just play their hands head face
up like they like. This is a perfect example. This guy played his
hand as face up as you can play a hand. He's had a big
hand. He spent the hell out of it, and no amount of fancy
play would get us out of this. All right, guys, I hope
that you've enjoyed this episode of the podcast I mentioned earlier. The other three
episodes of the podcast to come out during the month are reserved for fans of
the pod, which is a mere five dollars a month. You can also
get a discount on that if you just want to pay annually for it.
I can't tell you the reviews that have come in. I've been phenomenal so
far. Just last a week a long, I got so many private messages
from people who were already fans of the pod, and then people who have
recently become fans of the podcast. They don't want to miss an episode,
just going on and on about you should have just always done like, there's
no ad at the front, you're not talking about Patreon. You're straight into
the content. It's clear and concise. There's nothing in there anywhere except it's
just straight to the point. Bam bam, Thank you, ma'am. And
then Jeremy who I actually got a message from Jeremy today who was talking about,
Wow, I didn't realize that you had started uploading the podcast at the
public here is with the ads and stuff. I didn't realize that I would
also get that over on the from the Patreon feed without the ads and stuff.
So anyway, he was going on about how great it was. So
I mean, it's been better for me. It's taking a lot of load
off me. Like I was getting so many messages every week because we put
out episode of the pod every week, you know, haters to the side,
which that existed, and that was a problem. And I'll be the
first tom that I probably didn't handle it well. But beyond that, I
actually got so much messages. I'm a one man show and I don't have
assistance and stuff handling stuff like a lot of these other guys do. It's
just me, and it was it was just a lot. Look, you
can still message me stuff by all means, just like Mark, thank you
Mark for this and history. I appreciate it. So that's for the other
thing I'd like to say, is you any podcasting app you use as most
of them, I can't say all, but most of them. When you
when you become a fan of the pod, you'll get your own little feed
link, and most all podcasting apps you can add a custom feed and just
click it in there and bam, it'll come through your app just like you
get it. Now, what I wasn't sure about until this most recent week,
I did a little research on it. It does work for Spotify too.
Now I've had some of you guys in the past ask me, Hey,
I can't you know I can't get your custom Patreon version of the pod
to come through my I can't. Now I can't program my Spotify to do
it. Well, good news you can. I didn't know about it.
I did a little research. I have now activated the private Patreon version of
the podcast to where it will show up on Spotify. So as I understand
it, and this is my best understanding now is you should be able to
find it on Spotify and you'll see Low Limit Cash Games Pod will be over
there, but you should also see patren Low Limit Cash Games Pod and if
you click it, it should take you to a form where you can link
your Patreon account if you're if you are a fan of the pod, or
anybody that's a member of my patreon, you should be able to link the
two accounts together and bam, the Patreon only episode we'll show we'll start showing
up in your Spotify feed. So that's something I learned this week. Anyway,
we got football on training over there. It's just twenty five dollars a
month. It's half what anybody else charges, and it's only for one,
two and one three. Like, I don't get off into the of this
other kind of stuff. And of course I work one on one with a
handful of people. As of the time we recording this, I don't have
any of those. I hope you've enjoyed this episode. I hope you're enjoying
the new format. A big heartfelt debt of gratitude to everybody that's come over
and said, hey, what you do is so valuable to me. For
sure, I'll give you five dollars a month and it's and all the positive
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