chips shuffling skills: Over 9000. Bluffing on the river skills: Negative 5

You need to understand that everything you do at the poker table conveys information.

I know that Doug has no control over the ads that run before his vids but I love the Daniel Negreanu poker "Masterclass" ad. hahaha classic.

If I am bluffing or going for value on the river, I always follow one rule. Do the opposite of what your opponent wants; stare blankly at the felt and STFU.

If Garrett could only read people this good on survivor

Garett always seems to try and grab your attention to initiate the conversation - stands up, leans over and leers at your chips - all to get some kind of reaction

"Normally on the channel this is when we conclude the video with some nerdy math shit that nobody likes" lmao But that's achually why we all watch!

Doug, is not the bigger issue that some person outside the hand starts asking him questions if he should put the rest of it in? Seems kind of out of line having a player at the table trying to fish out information of a guy in a big moment on the river...

I did this once when i tired upping the stakes from 1-2 to2-5 tried bluffing 80% of my stack with a 5 card flush out there with leaving little behind the player started talking to me and i stupidly talked back and he called after 4 minutes of tanking i learned never to do that again

I don't even play poker and still find this really insightful. Keep up the good work dude.

Just wanted to thank you Doug for your insight. I played my first live poker tourney last Sunday and won!! Watched many of your poker tourney strat videos to freshen up for it. Felt great.

Listen Polk, you have been my guiding light, helping me learn advanced strategy and upping my poker game these last few years. You have always been a straight shooter and advocated for the little guy. I SWEAR, if you stop posting content and start living the high life now that you've won the one drop, my faith in humanity will be gone

Why am I seeing a Daniel Negreanu masterclass ad on a Doug Polk video...is the world ending?

Doug Polk? Our GTO lord and savior is giving us advice on our live game tells and skills?? What is this madness, next thing you’ll say joe Ingram has given up the great game in favor of Wrestling.

Jamie Gold talked a lot and he was the greatest bluffer of all time

Had to rewatch this one for the 4-years-later-still-lols. BTW, the biggest tell is around @8:15 when Garrett says "you know I don't fold hands, right?" and Buzz quickly replies "yeah, yeah, yeahyeahyeah" as if to say "let's move on from that part, my money's already in the middle"

I'm really liking the recent poker hand vids. I feel like now that Doug is post playing career he's back to focusing on entertainment + strategy which is the optimal blend for me. Enjoying the videos recently from my favorite video blogger (maybe 2nd fav because marle is hysterical)

I think that betting smaller as a bluff can work really well when your opponent has a weak range. Then you can rep a wider and less polarized range. With that said, his stack on the river was too small to do anything else than shoving.

Strong bit of info that I hadn't noticed before but is true, when a guy's opponent calls his hand out correctly, the guy will usually say something back really quickly. You can see this a lot on High Stakes Poker and in Daniel Negreanu hands since he's always guessing people's cards out loud. If the guy doesn't answer, he may or may not have that hand, but I don't think I've ever seen someone snap reply when their opponent was misreading them.

No mater how many times I’ve heard Garret’s voice it still gets me coming from a man who looks like that!

@Doug Polk Poker: I learn so much from you, thanks for sharing your knowledge. It's absolutely invaluable. You're an absolutely great guy... super positive and a super tactician when it comes to poker man! Out of all the poker channels that give advice yours is way above the rest!

Got a Daniel Negreanu ad before this video lmaooooo

Pretty sure that Garrett guy went on survivor a few seasons ago... weird

Garrett read that dude like a damn magazine cover lol

Hi Doug, please include some more mathematical info in future. It would be great to see, why certain actions as you usually tell us, makes sense or not. I am highly interested to see the math more often.

I love me some Garrett. He has to be my favorite LATB reg. More Garrett hand review please.

"If you need that last little bit of money for the road, don't play this game!" Best advice, right there.

That chip playing drives me nuts

I play mostly live 2/5 and talk while bluffing. I also talk while going for value. Not always, but only when I feel the situation pertains to it (the overall mood of the table). I honestly don't believe the vast majority of people have the capability of extrapolating any real information from confident in-hand chatter (a confidence which Buzz seems to notably lack in this spot). I've straight up held flopped nuts and pretty much told iso'd villain that "I am good here" while preparing to stack off and all it did was admittedly put the villain in a leveling tailspin. In my experience people generally don't know wtf to think when you start talking. Imo it really screws with peoples heads and causes people to make errors of judgement (iow focusing on desperately picking apart your speech instead of the progression of the hand). As long as you legitimately do not tilt, I think talking can be extremely effective in a variety of spots especially in low-mid stakes.

Dealer and floor need to crack down on the table talk by people not in the hand, even if they're regulars.

Polk should do a vid of him talking strategy AS he is playing online. NOT after. Then id like to see if his over analysis is any good in the moment. I only say this because there are a lot of vids of Polk getting felted that he doesnt upload and when he does, he has this long over analysis explaining why he made the wrong moves lol

The way buzz fondles those chips is hypnotic

G-man is a beast. Super intimidating with his body language and he perfectly applies the heat to get the read.

I would have said "I didn't want to bet 3,500 because I thought that would give away my hand."

Daniel Negranu just offered to poker school me in the ad for this video 😂

wc3 reforged HYPE :) saw your on reddit post on r/wc3 . Big fan here ! . your totally right about the if hes acting weak he is strong an if hes acting strong he is weak. some players in the mid stake games tend to over do it when it comes to this.

Hey doug love your channel. Glad to see that you have upgraded your hair style. wtf were you thinking in 2016?

I’m pretty sure Garret was calling regardless of if Buzz was talking or not

I know we aren't talking about building a rocket however, I do like the way you intellectually break down hands. Have a great and safe Thanksgiving everyone!!!

The guy sitting left from Buzz = Tim Duncan

After listening to Doug analyse by talking so much, I understand why the players take so long to make a decision. Buzz just wanted to keep some chips to fondle with.

really not a fan of talking on a river bluff, especially if you don't know exactly what you're going to say in response to everything

If I were to say anything (which I wouldn't, being too hard to balance) it would be,"You got me, I'm trying to save money on my bluff," and that would be it.

Clearly garret is fishing info. Buzz should just zip it up

At the end of the hand Art says "Fuck", Garrett immediately says "Art said Fuck. I got the whole fucking world anti-sweating me" hahahaha

A lot of people don't know this but Buzz is the kid from the movie "UP".

That move at 3:53 fake muck and then reach for a time bank with his thumb, was nicely done

It’s good to see that Garrett is a lot better at Poker than he was at survivor XD

It's hard enough to balance your hands, let alone balancing other things like banter.

He was VERY nervous. If your going to bluff you have to be relaxed. And on the talking tip If you possess the ability to table talk the trick is you have to talk when your strong Talk when your weak Talk when your in a hand Talk when your not in the hand Just talk and talk and talk And be relaxed His body language And how he responded EVERYTHING SCREAMED BLUFF He should have ripped it in there and started laughing at him 🤷‍♂️ That would have worked FOR SHORE

Using a time extension pre flop seems like the biggest tell ever, especially on a relatively short stack. It screams AQ or tens/Jacks to me

I played a game where i had legit like 5 high kept snap calling it was heads up i shove all in guy asks me if i was bluffing i told him yes he folds i show the bluff 6 hands later had a boat same guy asked if i was bluffing again because its heads up i tell him know he calls and lost with a set he was mad i told him im an honest player a week later find myself heads up with him he asks if im bluffing i just told him he meeds to call to find out and thats where the guy got pissed loosing Ace high flush to a straight flush 😂 that gentleman doesn't ask me anymore

Thank you for calling out the black Friday sale 😂😂😂 Everytime I hear someone say that I m just like 🙄 really? Yes you will have another sale this big. Fucking love it.

His chip shuffling makes me want to flucking live life to the fullest dear God

Negreanu ads on this vid 😂😂

All those who are negative and bitter inside and have nothing nice to say...Don’t interrupt or doubt others who are making it if you can’t make it. At least the owner of the KZfaq channel is doing something good for and giving back to the poker community. What have you done for the poker community? My sentiments exactly, NOTHING. Sometimes try to think before you say something, you might actually look smarter.

I wish these videos didn't show the action, rewind, freeze, talk, then show the action again.

It was the third party who was talking that cost Buzz this pot. Whoever it was asked some questions that caused Buzz to show his face that gave it away right away, to me at least.

Buzz does not have the table talk skills of Scott Siever... Just ask Reinkemeyer! " I was trapping Scott...." "What can you do?" lol

Why is seat 5 talking during the hand? Garrett is trying to get a read and he's asking the player if he'd like to put the rest of his money in? Really?! His name is Nick. Does he not understand how inappropriate that is?

Is it just me or is it ironic that the ad I see on Doug's poker videos is always for daniel negreanu's training course? xD

A Daniel Negreanu ad on a Doug Polk video. KZfaq is just on top of it.

Oh my bad.......I thought you were referring to YOU talking too much during this video. LOL

It's best to keep quiet in either case. You want your opponent to consider you a mystery. I would have pushed if I were Buzz. That leaves Garrett with the decision. Shoving would tell your opponent that you're most likely solid.

I actually like buzz's hand selection for bluffing here. I dont think flatting a cold 4 OOP in a SPR >2 is a good idea with hands like suited broadways or connectors, or whatever. On an A high board TT seems very close to the bottom of buzz's range, so we bluff with our 10c for equity/blockers and we're targeting garrett's JJ-KK. That all seems very reasonable to me

Nice channel , like the analysis. Subbed

why are there 12,000 ads for a 14 min vid?

Garrett is right. Betting not his full stack makes this look and smell like such a bluff. And it makes any call from Garett easy, he only needs about 35% to call, and almost nothing changed from the turn - where he could have shoved more into a smaller pot on a flush draw - which looks like the Ace of clubs.

@ 9:00 is there not a point where bluffing all-in becomes readable in itself as a bluff, because you are trying to look like you are making the "big" move by going all-in (which is debatable in cash games where these guys are effectively bottomless bank rolls most of the time anyway) so actually making a value size bet becomes the better bluff size to look like you are trying to extract value. I understand it opens up more of their theoretical calling range, I guess it becomes quite stack size dependent between about 60-120% pot?

The best thing to do is, if you talk then always talk, and if you dont talk then never talk. Either that or constantly switch it up but if you do never play hands the same.

More rake is better, right?

Started the vid with the Daniel class add nice 😉

00:58 Corona came early to this place

Man did the man making the video put me nervous cutting the video everytime

I find that with videos like this, there are no real lessons to be learned. Sure, in this case it didn't work out for this guy with this particular hand, but I can imagine that there are situations that you want to play like this. Acting nervous and not putting in all your chips can be a nice bait. Especially since the other guy was obviously looking for tells.

PLEASE MAKE MORE OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Postle talks all the time when he bluffs.

Ah, seeing Daniel negs system advertisement talking about not being loose and talking while bluffing on a Doug polk video about not talking while bluffing

i feel like I make a lot of calls in live poker just because they talk me into it

Buzz looks kind of embarrassed. (like he fucked up and knows it)

This is true. I often say I'm weak when I'm strong and say I'm strong then I'll be weak lol

Corona got me fucked up im watching videos seeing Asian dude cough directly into his hand and then shuffle his chips and push them in...shit will never be the same 🤣🤣🤣

My guy was born to be a news anchor. Doug missed his true calling

Buzz dug a nice big hole getting in far too deep with a weak hand. Any justification for him folding after the 4-bet pre-flop? Which is probably what I'd have done, as what are you beating?

Doug I like your videos but you need to fix the audio levels. Your voice is like 2x louder than the table. Don't edit with headphones they give a misleading impression of the dynamic range.

that guy with the QQs probably calls 6k and change shove just as well as the 4k that was bet on the river. I am unsure what the guy with 10s could have said to get the guy with the QQs to fold. I guess as a player you'd have to develop skills that go beyond actual poker. You have to give off the vibe of having a strong had, the mannerism have to be on par and you have to act a certain way where it subconsciously makes the other player actually believe he is beat.

hey doug, do you play high stakes poker?

"When you start bluffing, keep bluffing". Isn't that the truth!

Buzz probably should have folded the 10's to the 4 bet pre-flop. It's either fold, or go all in.

Buzz has to much nervous action going on? I would have pick up on this and played all in for the pot rookie move!

I keep raising up good hands, missing the flop, getting raised on, then What do I do with like A high, underpairs; folding feels bad? Calling feels bad?

It wasn’t Buzz’s talking alone that prompted Garrett to call the bluff. First, Buzz was so super slow in calling the 4-bet preflop. Second, Buzz completely unreacted to the flop, which is a strong sign that the flop missed him. Third, at NO time before his river bluff did Buzz glance at his or Garrett’s stack.

Just don’t expect to use any upswing sales on renewals. They value new customers... existing customers not so much... this comes from personal experience... it’s funny, shortly after I had this negative experience I discovered the iPad option to record whatever you have on screen, say, a video... and for some reason I felt a lot better

Garret mustve been a cop in his past life lol using those techniques

Is folding pre-flop to exploitable? Early position 3bet and 4bet i feel pocket TT OOP is gonna have a hard time almost everytime

Have you been buying more Bitcoin and Dash

I talked during a bluff the other day day and got owned. I even told the guy what he had and he still called. 🤔

This dude spends more time looking up videos on how to be an expert at shuffling chips rather than watching Doug's poker analysis.

Garrett sounds like Ryan Reynolds .

Daniel Negranu master class commercial... let the games continue. Time for another billboard