Give me pocket Jacks every hand and I'll win every tournament.

Tranquilo con los Jacks mi gente.

_"Jacks, no matter how you play them it's wrong!"_ - Norm Chad

"Tranquilo" Si patron

Always love seeing videos from you, I'll have to check out your podcast soon.

Great video! Would love to see more of these tips and tricks!

Please keep posting these types of vids! Thanks Kid poker

Love the videos Daniel. Thanks for all the education.

Nice one Daniel. Proper quality of the video for the great advice you give

There's a 100 ways to play pocket JJ, and they're all wrong.

DN, loving the improved production value on the new videos

Can't wait to be watching your vids daily Daniel! Best Poker Player of all time in my eyes.

Great analogy 12 cards can hit the flop that can beat you plus all connector and flush draws, stack size vs oppents in and how they been playing there premium hands, position and level in tournament, nearly same stradgy in cash came. Very nice video

Watched this, got pocket Jacks at a home game, forgot the advice and misplayed. Never again! xD

just getting back into poker. always great to get some sound advice

Dan makes some good points. My advice for someone who loses a lot of money with the fish hooks would be to play them similarly to the way they would play a pair of 9s or 10s. It can be a big mistake to play them like they are aces or kings, especially when a lot of players are in the hand.

I just found out you got an active YT channel! I love your podcast btw! Greetings from Spain playing tranquilo :D lol

Daniel I have a good question what if we are deep into a tournament and two tables left and usually the final table pays so around a 50/100 person tournament usually I end up mid to low stacked and to my right is a top chip stack .....he seems to be splashing around early from position 3/4 x and stealing blinds is this a good way with jj 1010 99 to limp call a raise if it comes or just raise from the small blind usually bigger stacks exploit me by min raising or just shoving how often should I balance this is it just an auto shove with 15/30 bbs ? Or is it a good idea to trap and check call one street how often should I play aggressive or passive in this situation ? Thanks you for your input and do we also have this same concept against an aggressive cash game stack doing the same tendencies? Do we ignore 1/2 paint cards and close bets or play em passive and release with certain board textures?

Awesome video Dan!! Those were some good tips thanks a lot!!!!! And btw I've become even a bigger fan after seeing the Bob Marley drawing there😍😍

love the tranquilo advice

great quality dan! keep at it.

Great video daniel! I'll never be afraid of pocket J anymore

since i play more cash games than tournaments wondering what some tips for cash game situations would be that are diff from here. obviously the deeper it is, the more careful you must be and try to re-raise pre only in position. but when i 3bet in pos in cash game and the flop is K72 and guy checks to me, its prob a good cbet i would assume.

Good advice from the master himself!!

Cheers for the advice Dan! I'll remember it right up until I'm dealt those damn pocket jacks ha!

Hey nice video, useful advises, keep posting content you rock, greetings from Colombia

Pocket jacks is one of my favorite hands, how I play it depends on the situation....

Great vid Daniel, thank you good sir!

I like pocket Js! They’re still a bit set-mine-ish but have good potential. I find them easier to player than things like KQo, QJo, etc.

It took a while for me to get the thumbnail but I laughed when I got it. Also great video Daniel!

One thing Daniel. Add some interactive stuff to your videos. It would make them more enjoyable! Keep on uploading stuff!

Daniel, I play cash games strictly and there's a point I think you missed. What happens when you raise your jacks and an overcard hits flop. You missed the most important stat (even though you didn't give any)... If you have JJ, 59 percent of the time an overcard will flop. Personally, I like to pot control with jacks when deep as you mentioned, and I have no problems folding flops with an ace or a king. First of all, you have to consider what hands will call your preflop raise.... most likely hands with either an ace or a king. Maybe you can call a flop bet with a queen and reevaluate turn. Maybe against certain looser fishy opponents you can call a flop bet with an A or K showing. But I think the proper move (especially multiway) against solid tight opponents is to fold A or K high flops. Anyways, love you as a player and I look forward to seeing your future content!

guys, careful handling this super precious and high valuable piece of information, we are really dealing with some break through stuff here!

you said "play them tranquilo" and I insta Subscribed. Always been a fan!

I play 2-7 like pocket 2s, I limp them and hope for a set and 8-Js like pocket 8s, sometimes I all in with them if I'm desperate enough.

Same advice in a cash game? I know it's situational but was wondering people's thoughts on playing JJ in a NL cash game.

Generaly the right things to consider, however for most people playing fastpasted lowstakes online tourneys/sitngos pocket jacks is mostly just a monster hand and you should almost always raise

Commenting for support. Great video, Daniel!

Tranquilo is the key!

are queens the same as jacks in the early stages of a torunament ?

I love jacks and I tend to play them like you. I am sure I fold the best hand now and then but hey, that's poker

Salutari Daniel din Bucuresti.sper ca mai stii romana.Te urmaresc mereu la turnee atunci cand sunt transmise.Mult succes in continuare:)

I love JJ - win or lose, big or small, they're rarely boring!

you will become a king of poker youtube :D keep it up

from those 240p video in bahamas to 4K, not bad and thanks for the tips!

Good info D!

Got it thanks Daniel

Great free tips!!

Thanks Daniel JJ

Can someone please answer this: Let's say you are 9 handed. And you have around an average stack size in the tournament, let's say like 30-40 big blinds. You get dealt jacks +2 under the gun (not sure if that's the correct term), under the gun folds, under the gun +1 raises 3x big (and he's been playing pretty loose). You aren't sure whether to call or re-raise him because there are still 6 people who have to act after you. You decide to re-raise to 6.5x big blind hoping it folds all around and you get into a heads up scenario. It folds all around and the initial raiser goes over top again to almost 33% of his stack. Do you shove in this situation, do you call, or is it safe to say he probably has AK at the worst?

I value them less than the odds suggest, usually. I might play them similarly to a suited jack/10 to the flop.

You're a good speaker!

Great quality

Amazing video, it makes feel so much better of playing jacks now. It would be awesome if you also make a video about how to play AK, I often find AK is very tricky to play, I used to play very aggressively with my AK, I lost lots of money on those plays.

JJ is a very situational - based hands for stack size 35 BB ++ , ppl hate it because it require so much flexibility and they just want a "formula" to play JJ. Daniel give some good tips on play JJ here but poker is learned from exp

much appreciated!!

'Learn Spanish with Daniel' You will learn a new word by hearing it several times in every new video. Oh, and you can learn some poker too. You are the best Daniel.

Danny that last bit of "tranquilo con los pocke jacks", that was pure cuban accent 😂

I had to exercise option 2 once. Had a raise, then folded to me. I called with Jacks. Next person 3 bet it. Folded back round to original raiser who 4 bets it. I look at my hand once more before slowly pushing it in the middle.Three better then shoves and gets called instantly. Obviously it was Aces against Kings. Original raiser had the Aces and holds.

7 players. Blinds 500/1000. Loose player raised to 2600 UTG. I call in the hijack with JJ. New player on the button makes it 7600. UTG folds. I put him on AK and flat call. Flop is 862 rainbow. I bet 11,000. Guy min-raises to 22K. I only have 35K left. I go all-in. He turns over Aces and I miss on the turn and river :(

6-handed? I'm squeezing with JJ in the blinds for sure.

Thanks for the video the legend himself Daniel Negreanu ;)

Can anyone explain in simple terms what a C-bet is , and more importantly what is a 3-Bet. I have seen varying definitions for the later

Nice video. The better than I see.

Can't get the "tranquilo" stuff..., I'm from Spain btw..

Squeezing with blockers (such as A5s) has its downside. Yes, it makes it LESS likely your opponent has an Ace, but not entirely impossible. So the times your opponent has an Ace (and you do too), hes going to call your squeeze with a better kicker than yours and so your equity decreases by a large percentage.

Have you thought about calling these videos "How to play Polker Hands?"

post vids more often!

I Love Jacks but my fav is Jack King Off Suited lol....love the advice Danny Boy

Anyone else watching this after his 2019 WSOP run? I'm sure he'd have some more to say about Jacks now. haha

Tranquilo !

So the key is to be tranquilo?

yes.

I love pocket jacks! Well I do now! I watched this video 3 days ago and was like okay ill try that in the future. So I got jacks in the small blind and there are two crazy guys on the table and I'm literally like WHY JACKS!? Then I think oh god I've got to watch this video again because I have forgotten EVERYTHING!. So I flat call the bet, looking crazy for your video, PokerStars pops back up, flops jack ace three and I'm like screw it I know how to play 3 jacks.....

tranquilo

odds of having the nuts by the river with jacks is pretty low at 1%.. making it tough out of position unless you got a read or your opponent sucks

I'm a simple man, i see 1080p and I like!

Coolest dude in the poker world by far, tranquilo mode lol

my favorite hand

Ha! Traquilo, love the spanish

Did negreanu immigrate from latin america? I can detect a latino accent in some of his monologue

I don't know why people hate jacks so much. I love playing them. It is easy to tell when someone has higher pair or AK pre-flop and flop, if you get mildly aggressive with JJ and they come back at you. I play JJ to at least flop or turn unless the board is bad or they are trying to get me to go all in pre-flop. No A no K hits the board on the flop, put out a bait bet, draw out the bigger pocket pairs and hands get the flop chasers out. If someone who is normally aggressive with big pairs raises on the flop, then I'll likely drop it. But I don't scare easy with JJ, and sometimes you can bluff it as a bigger pair easier than straight junk. easier to keep a straight face saying you have a decent or big pocket pair when they actually are.

It's amazing how much better QQ plays than JJ. I love to squeeze with QQ, for example, but not with JJ. A good rule of thumb I use in tournaments is to play JJ exactly like 99, unless you're short stacked or it's a short-handed table.

what about JJ in a cash game with players with approx 100-300bb

I really don't like the tranquilo aproach with JJ on BB. I mean what exactly your post flop plan going to be? check fold if overcards apear? check call all the way if they don't? I prefer to play agressive mostly for info.. if somebody 4bets you can evaluate the situation again based on image.. history.. stacks etc.. but if you just call there it will get horrible with a ton boards.. specially with more than 2 other players.. unless you are playing exclusively for set value which feels a little weak IMO

Daniel forgot to tell us what to do with JJ UTG...that's the main question :)

i've always been pretty lucky with JJ...and J10

what about queens... that is my problem :P

amazing thumbnail

more often than not people win more with two pairs, straights and full houses

I always shove with pocket jacks, works every time...

You can always try to mine a set with jacks.

Danny!

Aye, jj is considered as a somewhat so so hand for it is useless after flopping even a single ace , king or queen. So Daniel is right . Be calm, check the reactions around the table. If more bets or raises, don't be ashamed to fold for one may lose bigger unless he folds timely.

Even pockect aces won't be useful if one doesn't play smartly. And jacks aren't strong enough clearly. So why get hastey? Breathe in slowly and observe the table. Don't hesitate to fold if feels right. May be later..

Unless your playing online where people 4 and 5 bet and ship all on with 2s

If you know how to play pocket 10s you should know how to play jacks they are basically the same with jacks a little stronger heads up

I was watching this while playing online and I just got dealt pocket Jacks. I lost the pot.

Your hair looks much better. Good investment.

tranquilo !! #spainisproudofDaniel