Bart's analytical approach is incredibly helpful to improving our games. Much appreciated!

One thing to note if you jam over the top on the river: the SB will a) know they are beat and they will only call with a full house, and b) they might just fold because the Lowjack is priced in to call with his last hundred bucks, so there will be a showdown and they won't have to pay 600 to quench their curiosity as to what you have.

LJ played this so incredibly badly… this is definitely a nice table to be at

Wow every player misplayed their hand

Lol @ the LJ having ACES 😂😂 This hand encapsulates live poker so well

Lol Bart’s reaction to LJ’s hand

Raises with A/k spades. Gets called. Flop 3/4/7 with 2 spades. Calls Bart. “What do I do here??”

"I mean you woulda gotten called by the low jack, hehheh." haha that cracked me up

Small blind is cold calling a 3 bet with JT spades in the worst position. No way he is folding a flush to a jam when he was specifically playing a hand to get a flush. I know caller obviously didn't know his hand but jamming to get called by a smaller flush would have been right move in my mind.

thank U buddy for your helping..its one of the best stuffs in youtube i ever seen

Definitely a raise on river given what went down. Can’t be afraid of the monster under the bed, I get it tho! Always easier when you’re not in the hand. One of my biggest leak is missing value and I’ve definitely done this before. This is why we review, great video!!

Great video! Thanks as always.

"Not sure exactly what betting here on the flop accomplishessss" Bro, and you're playing $10-$10?

Shows how bad some of the play is even at this level. LJ not four betting and then slow playing the rest of the way is awful imo.

What people don't seem to understand is that you need villain to call with worse hands over 50% of the time. Also they WILL fold some hands against a raise, especially on the river. So just a few boats will already ruin your day. Let's just count the combos: SB is clearly clueless about preflop so we give them more flushes and boats than reasonable. flushes: JT, QJ, QT, J9, T9 -> 5 combos. Considering card removal from LJ it should be even fewer combinations. Boats+: 33, 44, 77 -> 6 combos, 78s 88 -> 3 Combos. That's a total of 9 combos!! So if SB calls with all flushes and boats it's a terrible jam. We can safely assume that SB WON'T call with anything less than a flush. Having the Ks really does block a lot of weaker flushes SB could have. There isn't even T8, T7, 98 available with the board. And even if we give them 65, which is ridiculous, they still have more boats than flushes.

Its hard trying to analyse this hand when the LJ is playing his own version of Poker!! 😉🙃😎

Bart good work,

Wow great analysis

LJs line just screams JJ or similar. And even if you lose vs LJ, he doesn't have much more behind so you're just losing value vs SB.

I was thinking 100% soneone has AA KK QQ and they dont want to give it up with the 88 which is two pair

God bless live poker

You can never raise here. When the LJ calls, you can never or almost never have any bluffs. When you can't bluff, when you raise, your only value is at least flushes. That means that when your opponent has the lower flushes, he has to fold them, since you're incredibly likely to have high flushes. You also shouldn't really value low flushes yourself that much, so it makes no sense for them to call. Furthermore, the SB cold calling is indicative of many medium or small pairs, which also destroy you. Jamming all in in this spot is a spew and I can't see how you can reasonably consider it to be anything else. The only way it's not a spew is if you know SB is very, very terrible and will just think "I have a flush, I call" in every situation. Even then, it's not exactly an ideal spot.

I like that jam because sometimes the deep stack will call with wrose and the shorty will have the better so win a nice little side pot.

This is a obvious raise on the river. I would never dream of not raising in this spot.

Gr8 vid Bart

You’ll be surprised at the hands I seen at show down in 1/2 live. I’ve seen pots grow as big as $400, and the winner just show bottom pair in a wet board. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I agreed with Bart that checking the flop is a mistake by hero. On the river, it just depends what I think of SB. The LJ is always putting his last 100 in, he's just pot committed [even though it's actually a mistake, it's one that almost all players make]. The issue with the SB is that he should fold, but he might call. Bart's point about him getting better than 4 to 1 is a good one. Most players cannot get away from that. But again, they really should.

Good caller.

Great call. Is a take away from this that we can jam lighter when opponents are in a tough reverse pot odds situation? They both will feel forced to call off with a weaker range than normal.

Week it seems his check on the flop actually worked and indicates that he doesn't have the nut flush draw (AK of spades exactly) which I didn't hear any of them specifically talk about.

How do you check this flop??

I'm definitely going all in on the river

I so wish your callers were at my tables.

Ya lost me at "check back nut flush draw"

what does the title and thumbnail have to do with the hand? The AA not 4betting pre? what do you do if LJ Jams turn?

I do not understand raising here. The only smaller flushes are 10-9, J-10, and Q-J ,compared to 3 77s, one 88, and maybe 33, 44, or 8-7 suited. If youre saying he has Q-10s, Q-9s, or J-9s, he DEFINITELY has 33, 44, and 8-7 suited, giving him 12 total combos of full houses/quads compared to 6 flushes. Either way he has more full houses than flushes. AM I wrong?

What is a cold call

He was trying to rope the late position in the call what it seams like to me

Dam Bart , Your making everybody too Smart!🤫

Most of the time at low stakes, all this poker coaching goes out the window. PPL limp and cold call all day long just to see flops. Then if they have anything they become checking and calling stations. It becomes a game of bingo where anyone can have anything. This is why I prefer tourneys.

Flop check wasn't great, otherwise this hand is very easy to play. Shoving or calling on the river are both close, doesn't really matter. Just pick one and go....

On the flop I think it's close between a smallish bet for protection and value and a check to preserve your showdown value on brick turns and rivers. The problem with betting is mainly that lots of dominated hands will fold (Ax and Kx hands that missed the flop) while almost everything that is ahead of us is likely continuing vs small bet, and if an opponent raises it kind of sucks because we may face some hard decisions on some turns. However, against weak passive players they are going to call with worse flush draws which is just amazing for you, so I think I lean towards a bet even though it does make our checkback range quite devoid of nut flush draws. We can have A4 though of course if we would 3bet that. I think both betting and checking have merit but against these players as described, betting probably wins a bit more money. As played turn is obvs an easy overcall with a draw to the nuts. River is close. The reason the LJ calling in between makes it weird is that it makes it so that we can't really bluff because he is committed and therefore the pot is protected. So now we are putting in what is essentially a thin value raise with a hand that is not that close to being the nuts, and that blocks a range of hands directly below it (because we have the Kc.) I would definitely jam this spot, but I could see an argument for just calling. There can't be THAT many worse SB holdings that would actually call.

Why would JT or even QJ call there? Is he expecting the hero to jam an 8 for value/turn into a bluff w/ LJ with only a 100 back? Jamming a hand like A3s makes sense. Jamming AKs makes no sense at all. Then again, the LJ has AA; I know fuck all about life poker

Long live live poker!!

I play this game twice a week, and it’s never this shallow, nor does play like this usually happen. Couldn’t have been a Tuesday or Friday night

LJ felt pretty irrelevant to the river decision, except insofar as how his presence might affect SB's likelihood of paying off a jam. There are 12 "reasonable" combos that beat hero: 33, 44, 77, 88, 87s. How many "reasonable" flushes are there in SB's range? QJ, QT, Q9, JT, J9, T9, 65, 54, uh... hmm... I was thinking shove, but maybe only because 33/44 are pretty unlikely cold-call-a-3-bet hands, so more like 6 "reasonable" combos? Still... feels very close. Highlight of the hand is obv the LJ just calling the 3-bet 3-ways closing the action all while OOP to the PF3. Live poker will always be profitable. A friend just shared a hand where someone called his 3-bet pre w/99, then just called down on A9338 because he thought the 3-bet sizing pre "had to be pocket aces". Would have been funnier if he'd folded river. My buddy did not have AA.

If I’m the LJ I will always 4bet AA then c-bet after the flop and might as well shove all in @ the turn..

How this guy was thinking on the flop is an example of players way over thinking their play. The fact he isn’t sure what betting accomplishes is interesting… anyone with any equity will call a smallish bet… which would be the ideal bet… 35%ish. You bet here to build the pot in case you hit the nuts and to deny equity on players who stay in when they shouldn’t… all hands with combo draws can check, but this hand is a clear bet, giving yourself a free look at the river in case you brick the turn, etc.. don’t over think what you’re doing. Focus on the most ev play and not always the one that makes you balanced… and fyi, checking to have nut flush draws in your checking range doesn’t give balance as it’s a hand that should almost always bet for value and equity denial

Bet flop, equity protection, can get called by worse draws that have terrible equity. Turn you will be able to check back after flop is called. Can call as played. River given stack depth easy jam all in. If SB a boat so be it, they're not getting away from most of their hands given pot odds given. It's not a shocker if you lose to a full house from sb but you should beat half the calls. LJ should almost never have a hand that beats us.

At least you didn’t fold river. This is really -ve play.

The safe play is flat. If I felt that anyone couldn't have a full house then I jam. I play a lot with OMC's. So out of that, I'd just flat

Don't know the outcome yet but I just can't think that SB or LJ has a boat here... with a straight and a flush draw on the flop it checks around? that would just be a wildly terrible play for someone with a set...

How are we discussing anything but a jam here? Once we check the NFD on the flop the reason why we add these hands into a check back range is exactly to get value when we get there and our opponents are put to the test. I have no idea why its even an debate. If the board was say 34T turn J river J then we can discuss maybe flatting rivers but on this type of run out it's a slam dunk value jam

I feel like this was an extremely simple hand

Definetly raise river,a ton of worst hands will call especially when flop wasnt bet.Thats about all the analysis this needs

No way can he raise!!

At these stack sizes, I’m raising 99.99% of time on river

Lojack has dead man's hand?

I don't like the hero's play but it looks brilliant compared to LJ

He is beat on river everytime

Noob players often leave that little bit behind when they have the nuts. I bet this guy has a full house.

AA could have won at turn possibly.

"So you had the best hand". Saying that with the nut flush?? Yeah I get that the board paired but paranoid poker anyone? The STP ratio is too low to be worried about boats here. Not to mention it's rare for a set to play this way with 2 to a flush out there on the flop.

I don’t think you can give them high enough probability of a boat to not raise here. Just raise it.

Parx poker, everyone cold calls big opens or 3 bets., flop bingo..

Can't believe this is what live poker has evolved into. It's such an auto shove it's not even close, if he has a full house god bless him, you beat 99% of possible hands. Grow a pair

please add a comma to the title

don't understand hero not betting the flop. if the river is any other card you lose the pot. also don't understand LJ checking the flop

i kind of disgree about ur guys comment on LJs play. He only has 80bbs starting the hand. after sb cc 3b, the pot gonna be 12x3+1=37. he only has 68bbs left and spr is lower than 2. A lot of u talking about 4b pre, it is kind of weird with his 80bbs stack, how much he can 4b without jamming pre with sb cc 3b？By flating 3b with AA, he can keep all the bluff and can stack off whenever he wants to. Same logic when u play tourney flating with AA with 15-20bbs depth.

Calls the other players weak/passive - checks flop. lol

Why is cold calling so bad?

Ez fold on river

This should always be a jam on the river by hero. Reasons… 1. The pot ratio to stack size on the river is like 4 to 1 after the sb leads out 2. His range - He cold called a 3 bet out of the small blind. So I would think the range consists of a lot of mid pairs, some over pairs up to QQ and some suited connectors (loose but let’s give him that given that is where he ended up!). There are more flush and overpair combos than the 9 combos of flopped sets in his range. Given all of the above, I always jam knowing sb is getting 6 to 1 on a call and can never fold any of the value hands we beat. If he has one of the 9 combos of flopped sets I am happy to pay him knowing he will be paying me a much higher percentage of the time.

I’m so happy that pocket AA got burnt with this kind of play. And I am! Gottn sick of pocket AA limps, or just calls pfr…and then slow playing it all the way to river against 2 opponents…, and then called my (pair of KK) bet! Beat a crap out of me just because I’d thought that no way he can have pocket AA with this kind of arriving to the river.

This was an example of only getting the minimum, although I get why you may be scared of a boat

How is it even a question he had the best hand 😂 new age poker guys if u want to play online hit me up great games day and night

What I think is that when LJ calls it's likely both players have flush+ and if one player has a flush the other one is super unlikely to also have a flush. Thus, boats are definitely a threat

So much bad play from multiple players. Where can I find these guys at my table

I'm jamming here automatically...if I lose god bless them...these players are TERRIBLE!

You missed value, big time.

Caller making excuses why he did not bet! 1000 percent bet! And stop BS

I think it's a fold. 3 way pot, there's got to be a full house somewhere.

You should never fold at the end there or even raise because there's two hands that beat you. A Full house and Quads. One the Flop Hero lost out on lots of Value. Same can be said on the turn if he already bet the flop and then checked to on the turn.

Donks at every level, terrible play all around

8n will call

no differeance,, aa, 4 betss 5 brts his calling with ak, and his calling after the flop. so differance, just luck. aa just cost t jt of spade money, nothing more.

jt is not foldoing , its all luk, you think better player becasue you analyzit it bno differance.