How to Beat $2/$5 NL | Aqua Caliente Poker Vlog

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How to Beat $2/$5 NL | Aqua Caliente Poker Vlog

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In my latest poker vlog, I'm battling in the $2/$5 NL streets at the Aqua Caliente casino in Palm Springs, CA. My goal is to play the stakes many of you are playing, and share strategies and insights to help you improve your win rate at low and mid-stakes poker.
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00:00 - Agua Caliente Pregame
02:36 - Hand#1 Alec 46
04:55 - Hand#2 Alec A8 vs A6
05:55 - Hand#3 Alec AQ vs JJ
09:55 - Hand#4 Alec QQ vs 88
11:52 - Hand#5 Alec T7 vs KK
15:13 - Hand#6 Alec Q2
17:43 - Post-Game Analysis
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@paulp8652 Жыл бұрын

Alec we enjoyed having you in our room, and it was great chatting with you on your way out. A bit disappointed you didn't mention the outstanding floor staff, but no worries......Hope to see you again!!

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

You're totally right, you deserved an honorable mention! Thanks for being such great hosts and keep up the great work!

@paulp8652 Жыл бұрын

@@ConsciousPoker Haha Just messing with you Alec but I do appreciate the kind words for myself and our room. Take care...

@Edward-xd1td Жыл бұрын

@@paulp8652 the staff is nice but the management sucks $2 jackpot drop and no jackpot supposedly goes to Promotions come on

@riley_bohr Жыл бұрын

For hand #5 before the river, there are the same number of combos of AQ compared to AA/KK. 12 combos of AQ (4 aces, 3 queens remaining), and 6 combos of AA, 6 combos of KK. So there isnt "double the possibility that he has AA or KK". Unless you're not giving villian all AQo combos. But on the river the AQ combos is reduced to 8, so still AA/KK combos isnt double the combos of AQ combos. He could also have the 2 combos of KQs

@kennethdick1998 Жыл бұрын

Spot on. As he was saying this I’m like wtf is he talking about….

@Ramz007 Жыл бұрын

I've just recently starting taking poker a little bit more seriously. The explanations of the hands are very good and I am proud that many of your strategies I have noticed or picked up in my time playing. It assures me I am on the right step. Hopefully this new motivation of mine to take poker seriously pays dividends. Thank you for helping us!

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Awesome I'm glad you're improving. Keep up the good work!

@brittdoughtie5597 Жыл бұрын

This was a fun to watch vlog with great commentary and good advice, as we’ve come to expect from you, Alec. Many thanks! 🍀👍🥳🍀

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@monsterstackwizard9313 Жыл бұрын

You are absolutely on point when you say that these games should be (relatively) easy to beat, especially given the context of opponent hand ranges, who is a pro and who is not and the 200BB buy-in structure. Also, happy birthday. 🎂

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the support!

@cameronandrew1853 Жыл бұрын

pretty close to 29 palms! i did some time over there while I was in the Navy, pretty mountains but awful place to live

@pocketzhs5788 Жыл бұрын

Really great video! Keep up the good content! Thought your breakdowns of each hand was spot on for whatever that's worth. Loved it.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed! Awesome!

@difFamilyVlog Жыл бұрын

Poker scene out there is pretty easy to clean up. I was out there last year and had two great sessions w easy reads to cash out for about $3500 First time I ever went to PS…if I ever go back… definitely gonna play there again

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Good stuff!

@mrcav9565 Жыл бұрын

Tough to get past the first hand. You bet/jam the flopped straight and expected to get action? Not unless you are against a set, poorly played hand in a typical 2-5 nl.

@madamkirk Жыл бұрын

Nice job. Do some meet ups. Great idea. It seems that the nuts comes when we just don't really need it that much.

@jacobbirkenfeld9261 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the content! Love the vids! I swear though, the NE has THE toughest 2/5 tables in North America. Come play Mohegan/foxwoods/twin and tell me what you think. I think $50/hr at those tables is only possible on certain days.

@jacobbirkenfeld9261 7 ай бұрын

But then again, maybe I just suck 😝😂

@brandondorsey7204 Жыл бұрын

In the queens spot I’m jamming. I truly wish I could give you some high level analysis but at that stack depth my solver has me jam JJ and QQ there often and it’s just something that I’ve memorized.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Works for me!

@randomtandom Жыл бұрын

Hey Alec, were you going to fold T7 hand if your opponent jammed on you?

@paulpena5040 11 ай бұрын

Great video overall! I don't quite understand his math at @<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="879">14:39</a> though, "there are twice as many AA, KKs than AQ". There are 4 unseen Aces and 2 unseen queens that makes 8. There are 12 combos of AA, KK (6 each). So it's 1.5 : 1 not 2 : 1 and on the turn it was exactly a coin flip but still super informative video.

@derrickfinch1464 Жыл бұрын

I think you should’ve raised more with the QQ’s to about $150 just to take down the dead money. Suited connectors are calling $55 more.

@jtome84-91 Жыл бұрын

Something tells me Brad Owen is also wondering about the smaller stakes phenomenon.

@JohnSmith-su3ze Ай бұрын

The word "smaller" suggests that there is a comparison being made with something else that is larger. In this context, without additional information, it is unclear what is being compared to as the surrounding text does not provide the full picture.

@hymnofashes Жыл бұрын

Okay, guess he was cool getting his money in with 2 outs or flipping at best

@billsalge5690 Жыл бұрын

Happy B-Day! Yeah... The games in the desert are beatable

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bill!

@jamesoriah Жыл бұрын

Game selection. Simply put the lower the stakes, the more tables of said games are in play. This lowers the overall average of the collective "table skillset" for lack of a better term. When you are used to playing at the high level you are frequenting, dropping down is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel. Just my .02

@cartoondhamakaofficial646 Жыл бұрын

Will re watch soon, going for Dinner🤑🤑🤑🤑

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@MrAgmoore Жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="484">8:04</a> I play 2 NL and 5 NL and I'm grimacing. AQ wins 25.56% with only 2 cards to come. Even if this was pre-flop and the other guy had AK, it's about the same, with AQ winning about 25%.

@etherjoe505 5 ай бұрын

Damn good video ...

@ConsciousPoker 5 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@tomknapp2621 11 ай бұрын

Congrats on deep Run at WSOP Allec

@Northernale705 Жыл бұрын

good stuff from a chat pro

@AdventPoker Жыл бұрын

I would probably call as I don't think many combinations of straights like A2 and 67 are plasuable. Maybe, 3 of a kind could play this way but at the same time I think 3 of a kind would just call

@MelFinehout Жыл бұрын

Alec, why not an exploitative min raise on the flop with the flopped nuts on the first hand? Followed by two small-ish bets on Turn and River? I always ask myself "how can I get all in against the widest possible range?"

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Love the framework and suggestion. Awesome!

@robb5987 Жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="904">15:04</a> but what would you do if he raise-shoves? For me it's probably often a call and a loss when the opponent has a Queen for the stronger Full House.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Fold if he shoves on QQ77 board.

@fmcdomer Жыл бұрын

Aqua Caliente splashes the pot $80 every morning for hours

@jackbauer789 Жыл бұрын

Alex was playing live, yet he remembers the stack sizes, and pos in all the hands shown. How is this possible? Is this from taking notes during play?

@NewWebDesign Жыл бұрын

call is a nice play

@Matthew-gg8ep Жыл бұрын

Call and let Him continue to bluff don’t raise to blow him off his hand / draw

@jwerkjy34rku2rkjoilj Жыл бұрын

Nice, I enjoyed it. Me as a grinder small stakes pro would not really be getting into many similar spots I think. I just finished 22 weeks @ 1-3, with an 11.3 K profit in a 100 bb capped buyin, and one thing I take from you here, that with a bigger buyin you can make a much nicer hourly Thanks

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Awesome, congrats on the win!

@donjones3620 Жыл бұрын

@@ConsciousPoker Nick Vitucci the scammer that swindle millions of dollars from people in his real estate Seminars 😢

@DarkTruth1 Жыл бұрын

The 64 hand looks like your UTG in the graphics.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

I straddled. Probably didn't have the option in the replayer.

@robb5987 Жыл бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="651">10:51</a> What would I do and why? I would shove. While holding the Queens. And why? OK, the options are to raise, fold, or call. 1. Fold option: I wouldn't fold because my hand is too strong, way too strong. I could probably fold AK, AQ, other non-pairs. But I cannot fold a hand like QQ with a runner-runner Flush draw. Simply too strong compared to other hands I might have. I also don't have a tight image. 2. Call option: I wouldn't call because why? The only way a call would help much is if the opponent is entirely bluff-raising, and you haven't called him a maniac. Even if it is a total bluff, there's still a remote chance that the total bluff would outdraw me. 3. Raise: There isn't much left behind, so the raise could be a shove, so I would shove.

@qsdailydose8970 Жыл бұрын

Because when you move down you don’t care as much so there’s no pressure

@Illiadofmalorne Жыл бұрын

You probably, subconsciously or not, play more speculative hands in lower stakes and thus hit those more often?

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Right but you miss more often too!

@evanserickson Жыл бұрын

At <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="840">14:00</a> he says KK is more likely than AA or KK how does he get that math?

@director2bob Жыл бұрын

I am jamming (hand 4)

@johnskaf1276 7 ай бұрын

I jam with QQ

@yasielpuig9991 Жыл бұрын

While you're down there smash that like button. Last night in bed my wife said the exact same thing to me.

@shakesbear8516 Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he has 12 combos of AA, KK and 12 combos AQ, It's equally likely, not double. Even at the river is 12 vs 8. If he ever has KQss here, then its off even more.

@hymnofashes Жыл бұрын

For hand #4, I would call. Villain should be polarized here, but since this is a fishy $2/$5 game, he has many worse over pairs in range. I think KK specifically would be inclined to 4-bet you preflop because he doesn't want to give 2 ranges the chance to flop an ace or a set, even if he is the tricky kind. He may have that anxiety to a lesser extent with AA. So his value range is flopped sets and sandbagged AA; he also has 66 and 22 as merges that don't particularly care about stacking off into an over-pair, and he has bluffs, specifically the NFD which is also a gutter. Villain shouldn't even be flatting 33 and 44 here but we know that he is. If he doesn't have the discipline to lay those down preflop, then he probably also thinks that 77 or 88 here is the nuts and/or you're full of shit. So combo-wise, there's at least twice as many worse over pairs in his range compared to nutted combinations, so folding is, I think, out of the question. Since we're going to pile it, the question is how; the NFD will most likely call off if we jam, reasoning that he has 50% equity (which he does.) Same with the straights. But he might fold the portion of his range that is dead, such as 88, and we don't want that. He may also have some bullshit hand like KJo, and if this is the case, we want to keep him in. So I would call, then pile if he checks any non-heart turn, and call if he shoves. However if the turn is specifically an ace or a heart, we do have to fold to the jam, I think, which is going to happen 22% of the time. If we get some sick live read, or get some good price, maybe we can continue. But this is worth it given that, say, 50% of the time, we aren't letting him off the hook with 66-JJ, which is going to pay us.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Great feedback!

@samuelmckinnon6976 Жыл бұрын

Hi Alex, question in relation to your 80/20 video. Say I have a roll of $2k. $1600 goes to cash. $400 to tourneys. But what happens if I play a few sessions of tourneys and I lose $300. My roll is now $1700. But that means that my tourney roll is now $340 or 20%. If I decide to have another few sessions of tourneys and continue losing, it will keep putting a dint in bankroll. How do you manage this?

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

You'll have to rebalance often. It's a constant adjustment. You'll prob find over time your cash winnings are funding MTT losses :)

@TheHardRockG6 Жыл бұрын

2/5 NL In The House!

@marlonespenilla5839 Жыл бұрын

I will call wt QQ

@alvasteven 5 ай бұрын

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="729">12:09</a> 🤔🧐 say.........

@Rob.777 Жыл бұрын

At $2-$5 I'm jamming he could easily have 7s-10s

@calvinsteele6052 Жыл бұрын

Call

@pluto3215 Жыл бұрын

Where is the audio, I see your lips move but no sound

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Separate mic. Must not have synced properly.

@michaelb4090 Жыл бұрын

Ace q is an easy fold wtf 😂

@monacojerry Жыл бұрын

But the rake looks awful

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

No limping lol.

@bogdans1343 Жыл бұрын

Clearly you should stick to these kind of games ,because at the Hustler stream something is obviously wrong with your game!

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

Lol did you see last night and the week before? I dominated while being card dead. I've won 4 in a row.

@bogdans1343 Жыл бұрын

@@ConsciousPoker I was watching you last night…great play…this is what you need to do…congrats!

@jdaz5462 Жыл бұрын

64 is not the nuts on an 875 board. You know this. We know you mean the "essential nuts", but sometimes you're up against 96 and it can also get really bad if the turn is a 9 or a 6.

@zekebones34 Жыл бұрын

He says “I flopped the nuts or close to it.” He literally corrects himself but you have to be that guy….

@jdaz5462 Жыл бұрын

@@zekebones34 I missed the "close to it" part, but I'm not that guy because it's important to know that you don't have the nuts. You can be that guy that can't accept criticism.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

I acknowledged that! But if I'm beat on this board then GG me lol.

@clapforboobies5892 Жыл бұрын

Not sure the point of this video. You're saying you are playing loose and the opposite of how you're supposed to play to get into interesting spots but seems strange to play against the book

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

I'm playing in a game where I have a huge edge and only have 3 hours to get into interesting spots, so I'm purposely playing looser to find situations I can exploit and then share with others. Lots of unique spots in this session.

@clapforboobies5892 Жыл бұрын

@@ConsciousPoker Ah ok. Thanks.

@mothecat776 Жыл бұрын

ALEC. The reason you flop the nuts at lower stakes, is because you play too many hands. AND like all players you have a selective memory!!

@BigTymer-zo2iz Жыл бұрын

I fold QQ there

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

No way!

@Roman-uc3bs Жыл бұрын

Leave it to Torelli to get the poker combos math wrong then try to sell you a course on poker math. On the river there are 6 combos of AA, 6 combos of KK, and 8 combos of AQ.

@ConsciousPoker Жыл бұрын

lol yes, you're right! I should have specified I discounted some because he doesn't always 3-bet AQo given the fact it's me and positions, whereas he always 3-bets KK/AA. I realize this looks careless on my part and thank you for pointing it out. Come to think of it, it may actually be closer to 4 combos based on this assumption I'm making. Anyway, my broader point was KK/AA is way more likely than AQ, no matter how you cut the cards.