5 BIGGEST Poker Mistakes To Avoid

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These are the 5 biggest mistakes to avoid if you want to be a profiting poker player!
In this poker strategy segment we analyze the major mistakes that losing players are making and how to rectify these mistakes & maximize your win rate.
I get a lot of people in the comment section asking me how to avoid getting their aces cracked, or when will my bad run of cards end! And often the answer is that you are making one of the 5 common mistakes I discuss in this video!
Poker Mistake #1 Overplaying Marginal Hands
Poker Mistake #2 Too Entitled & Not Enough Grit
Poker Mistake #3 Not Thinking in Terms of Ranges
Poker Mistake #4 Hero Calling on the River Often
Poker Mistake #5 NOT Defending Your Blinds Enough
#pokerstrategy #jonathanlittle #pokercoaching

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@joshb9657 24 күн бұрын

Biggest poker mistake I ever made was to play it

@bozapub3507 24 күн бұрын

😂😂

@dharryg 24 күн бұрын

This poker reg always loved the classic advice and warning, “The very worst thing about gambling is….sometimes you win.”

@9ernation543 24 күн бұрын

While the overall aspect of poker isnt gambling, there are gambling aspects, and you are very correct on it being awful winning those, because then you have a false sense of value in that position when you get lucky @dharryg

@alecburris4225 23 күн бұрын

@@dharryg the cure to this is never gamble money you can't afford to lose

@aaronlloyd6905 23 күн бұрын

@@alecburris4225Yea try telling that to addicts

@LouisTorrespoker 24 күн бұрын

Think one of the Biggest mistakes I see is chasing to much trying to get your straight or flush. Trying to really understand pot odds, blockers and outs. I see a lot of players doing this. It was one of my biggest mistakes. But learning from you and over time I think I fold a lot more than I have before not trying to chase when the odds are against me. I do understand implied odds as well. But if I see that they aren't playing deep and it's not worth it. I'll just fold. Don't get me wrong I do it here and there still. Guess it's just human nature. But I do fold a lot more. Thanks for the tips and content.

@MikeD-rr2bj 17 күн бұрын

Considering clean outs is one of the biggest ways I like to determine whether I chase or not. I find this is a very nice way to not chase too often and to maximize gains and minimize losses in big pots.

@beatingu8347 24 күн бұрын

Big mistake is not looking for better more beatable games. If you sit down with 3 crushers while there are fish at another table that’s a mistake.

@timhefner4056 20 күн бұрын

#2 I ran so bad for so long I had a college math wiz come watch me play at Texas Card House. After that night he looked right at me and told me I should quit and not look back. He didn't believe me until he saw me lose 3 all in's that night. Worst odds was 85% to win the best odds was the guy had one out with just river to come. I still wish I could bet people who don't believe my luck :)

@andrewchisholm3476 24 күн бұрын

Too entitled, not enough grit. What a saying.

@GavBA1972 22 күн бұрын

Great content Johnathan. Thank you and good luck for the future 👍

@PokerCoaching 16 күн бұрын

Thanks so much, Gav!

@xavierbrezniak7597 24 күн бұрын

Biggest poker mistake I made was yesterday in a huge pot against DK where he told me he had an ace and then started dancing on the table at Hustler when he was talking about this BMI challenge he won. These guys dressed as Disney characters walked in and started screaming at me to fold so I did. DK showed 7 high.

@barygol 24 күн бұрын

That'd make an amazing Spielberg movie.

@maldjng993 23 күн бұрын

Do you have schizophrenia my man?

@albertforletta1498 22 күн бұрын

Excellent content. Thank you!! I must say you are an excellent teacher. I agree 100% about all except number 5. I’m not sure about defending the blind. ??????. In my experience I have seen a lot of people lose a lot of money simply because they too often defend their blinds. I trust what you say and maybe it’s just that I don’t play poker often enough to fully understand the concept of #5. 🤷🏻

@Dustin.Born. 23 күн бұрын

My mistake in poker is having such a good time... I mean, I'm always drunk when I play and play 99.9% VPIP and get everyone a round of drinks and end up racking up a bar bill bigger than what I buy in for. Then, I lose everything I bought in with. So, a $2/5 session, I buy in for $1,500 and by the end of the night and leave with -$3,000. I'm pretty sure it's -EV, but everyone else at the table seems to love it.

@staceybertran52 23 күн бұрын

Love these little reminders. :)

@PokerCoaching 22 күн бұрын

So glad you find them helpful, Stacey!

@bradleyfarquhar1757 23 күн бұрын

These videos have helped me a lot. I only play very small tournaments (up to $65 buy in in my small town) and consistently make FT/the money. I see all types of players doing all kinds of things, but they often just dont make it

@PokerCoaching 22 күн бұрын

I'm glad they've helped you, Bradley!

@denisfolcik1373 23 күн бұрын

Seen so many people get mad when their min raise pre flop late in a tourny gets called by the BB with any non garbage hand. I personally will call any min bet in the BB besides unconnected and unsuited cards (that aren't broadway cards). 1 BB to win a min 5, you miss oh well, just fold. Hit and can win decent, if not huge. Unless really short, it would be dumb to fold for 1 BB at that point.

@nicholaslynch8213 24 күн бұрын

One of the mistakes I see and have occasionally been guilty of is showing your hand at Showdown when you don't have to. It's basically free information. Or just showing too often in general

@webguy943 24 күн бұрын

At low stakes players r too dumb to utilize that info effectively so i wouldnt worry about it too much

@nicholaslynch8213 23 күн бұрын

I agree , but if the whole point is to shore up mistakes to in order to improve to start playing the bigger games then you might as well work on everything.

@webguy943 23 күн бұрын

@@nicholaslynch8213 if ur good enough to play at highers stakes i still wouldnt worry about it cuz u should be adapting to play styles so showing ur hands also dont mean much.

@denisfolcik1373 23 күн бұрын

At small stakes, I think it's actually good to show cards at times. Show a couple bluffs or nutted hands, and since most people don't pay enough attention, they will remember just that, so can get away with the opposite for awhile. Even then, a lot of people do not pay attention. Was playing really tight one day, since I wasn't getting crap. Raised one hand, and the one guy paying attention said something about how I must have a huge hand since I've barely played, which I did. Very next hand I have AKs, raise and get 5 callers. People are oblivious most of the time.

@kurtilein3 23 күн бұрын

@@nicholaslynch8213 In small, fun games with lots of bad players i sometimes show when i do not need to and sometimes even explain some things about the lines that were taken, because its fun for the other players. I still win, the EV loss is not as bad as you think, and the losing players see that they get extra learning opportunities. It depends on the table and the context. In some games i never show when i do not need to, in other games i want to be the nice, friendly guy so they do not mind having me there as a strong winning player.

@ianshirreffs5604 13 күн бұрын

After the first listen, I listened 4 more times for it to sink in. I play 70 hours a week, but the keep it simple reminders are +EV. Thanks.

@PokerCoaching 12 күн бұрын

Great idea to relisten! GL Ian

@GabrielCriado-ts3dd 23 күн бұрын

Dang I make all of these mistakes. This is great!

@chlyon 18 күн бұрын

Mistake 6 Playing on ..

@PO-Dunk_din 24 күн бұрын

Big mistake I see and have done myself is not have a proper bank roll bc its small stakes

@UncleJoeLITE 18 күн бұрын

Yep, hero calling here is often self-deletion. It sure is 'paying to see it' when a known tight player is value betting the river at small stakes mtts. Thanks.

@jamesjones2675 23 күн бұрын

Thank you

@PokerCoaching 22 күн бұрын

You're welcome, James!

@jacevincent2574 24 күн бұрын

Important tip for defending the big blind, this advice mainly works in tournaments where the raise sizes are low! In cash games where people are opening to 4+ BB, the concept of defending really goes out the window because you dont have the odds you would have vs a smaller size.

@kurtilein3 24 күн бұрын

Even then, the correct calling range may be larger than you expect because you undervalue the big blind you already have in, and you can also undervalue the fact that you close the action and WILL see a flop. So it does not go out the window, the range gets smaller but may still be bigger than you think. In his example the correct calling range is enormous, in your example there are still factors at work widening your range.

@jacevincent2574 24 күн бұрын

@kurtilein3 Sure, you're still closing the action and all of that is true. However, I would argue that the range is a lot tighter than most would expect, since many people learn poker from GTO charts that assume 2.5x raise sizes or from YT videos like this one where J Little assumes the villains aren't raising that large. For example: BB vs LJ 200BB deep vs a 4BB raise. You're supposed to be pure folding hands like KJo and decent suited hands like Q7s.

@kurtilein3 24 күн бұрын

@@jacevincent2574 If some people raise to 4BB a bit too often, the ranges change again.

@ikrenji8125 23 күн бұрын

@@kurtilein3 statistically playing from SB or BB is very EV negative (more so in cash game where the preflop raises are on the larger size). you flop a big hand very rarely and even if you manage to flop a draw 1/3 of the time - so what. you're out of position against an aggressive player who is not letting you see the turn for cheap

@kurtilein3 23 күн бұрын

@@ikrenji8125 Overfolding the big blind is negative EV. You need to know how to play marginal hands out of position against agressive players. I recently played at a table that was so agressive that i won a lot by simply check-calling out of position with some draws and marginal made hands.

@alymere761 24 күн бұрын

What about late reg. and specifically rebuying into the same tournament (online) 5, 6 or 8 times? I see a lot of people buying in to the same tournament a half dozen times. Some are seemingly profitable. Thoughts.

@jacevincent2574 24 күн бұрын

as long as you think you have an edge, there's no real difference between buying into a tournament and rebuying into a tournament.

@Actaeon2nd 23 сағат бұрын

Rebuying with a now piddling starting stack is a recipe to light benjamins on fire.

@chanceneck8072 23 күн бұрын

All in with Q,3 on an A,K,3 board. 😅 I ran into that once. I had pocket aces... Jack on the turn, ten on the river .....

@El.Espartano 23 күн бұрын

Disgusting hand

@cafferacer 22 күн бұрын

Yep

@Mitjitsu 21 күн бұрын

#5 is only applicable in tournaments.

@DreamChaserEiRi 24 күн бұрын

Sitting long hours is a big mistake.

@PO-Dunk_din 24 күн бұрын

Mistakes, tips, we will just call em steak tips

@griffingaming1450 18 күн бұрын

The hardest thing about poker is people are insane, especially at amateur and small stakes, throw what you think you know about poker out the window because it means nothing against these insane people.

@joecass87 23 күн бұрын

Guilty of #1 all the time. Even AA on a wet board becomes marginal and I overplay it. Just busted out of a small tournament last week b/c I defended the SB with J8o (not GTO) from CO raise (LAG player big stack), J73 rainbow, check raised his C-bet, he pushes all in right away and I called. He had QQ. Poor mistake.

@markupton1417 20 күн бұрын

If it only cost 1 to 5 BBs and I have 30 or more BBs I'm calling ANY two cards in the BB. Unless we're on the bubble.

@andrewchisholm3476 24 күн бұрын

What about when playing heads up vs a player who bluffs a ton and will bluff if given rope a lot of the time.

@9ernation543 24 күн бұрын

Call more? If you already know he is bluffing then what is the issue lol. I'd go with 2 pair and sometimes even a pair depending

@andrewchisholm3476 11 күн бұрын

@@9ernation543 Sherlock?

@tphuynh85 23 күн бұрын

Overthinking there's a pattern because some players on the table are winning with any 7 in the hole cards for the past 7 of 10 hands. So I think I need to play any 7 to win because 7's been winning. 😅 donk here

@alexmagana9770 23 күн бұрын

I like when you keep your videos short. Other then that I can’t pay attention for more the 10 mins

@willlinke2849 22 күн бұрын

Yes ego… stop wanting the rest of the players at the table to witness your tale of woe. Play as close to ideal as you possibly can every time you observe the opportunity.

@joelvig 24 күн бұрын

Yeah. grit is a thing. it makes you appreciate running good

@cjgooding4512 23 күн бұрын

Got rivered so many times yesterday FML

@DeliceProductions 23 күн бұрын

Same all week :) losing 90%'s multiple times a session. Time will change just keep goin :)

@untouchable360x 24 күн бұрын

6. Having "blockers" in your hand.

@skelthouser2730 24 күн бұрын

This is what we call an incomplete sentence.

@NLjunkie 20 күн бұрын

My biggest mistake in poker is to shove on the turn with 90% plus equity, and thinking I'm gonna win 90% of the time and lose more than 80% of the time.... Oh wait thats why I quit playing online poker. 🤣🤣

@guytaylor6891 14 күн бұрын

The biggest mistake you can make in poker thinking that you’re going to win and that you can make a living out of playing poker if you’re not playing poker for fun you’re in big trouble

@sachsenschlachter6401 15 күн бұрын

Everyone will run bad except when your last name is Robl.

@Insane_Logic 24 күн бұрын

Defending blinds in cash games is beyond silly. $1-3 $2-5 so what they took the blind from you. If you wouldn’t play the cards on the button you shouldn’t 0lay them under the gun with a raise. That’s really bad poker advice!

@CAPTEINRIGGS 23 күн бұрын

Yeah, well, he obviously wasn't talking about cash games. Opponent's 2bb, my 2bb, sb and ante = tournament poker.

@Insane_Logic 23 күн бұрын

@@CAPTEINRIGGS lol oh shite I never played a tournament. My bad!