Tip #5. People check quickly when they are strong to try and make it look like they are weak for people who believe this rule. People also check quickly when they are weak making it look like they are weak to someone who knows that thus thinking they are strong. Thinking if someone checks quickly is a sign of weakness will get a new player in a lot of trouble. Thats like people taking a lot of time when they have the nuts to make it look like they are thinking. People use reverse and even reverse - reverse psychology. I think it would be better if you told someone to be aware of how each individual player uses their time to act and then use that information to base your own judgment on why he is betting/checking quickly or not. Also if people are multi tabling they could just simply be hitting the button quick to get to the next table or hadn't acted yet cause they are on another table still. So many factors to just assume someone is weak with a quick check. Just my 2 cents. Not trying to take anything away from the poster but to me this tip should have much more explanation in the video to avoid people getting the wrong idea.
This is exactly what I was thinking, but for the purposes of this video, he’s mostly talking to beginners. Most low level tables will have people that check quickly because they’re stupid
@@jonathanlegg4308 Why do you watch Alec's channel if you don't value his content? Why not spend your time more effectively? I value Alec's advice, insights and perspective, so I win watching his videos. You lose if you don't get the value, on both senses of meaning. One, you don't respect him or you wouldn't taunt him. Two, you are too deaf or dense to understand it, OR too eager to taunt him, to seek to torment him in your vindictiveness, AS THOUGH YOU ARE PERFECT...LOL. Little petty pathetic troll.
You're right about facing big turn and river bets in micro cash games, as most micro players are usually multi tabling and just waiting for premium hands that improve after the flop.
Failure to fold against AI on turn/river is a major leak for me. I was looking for an answer on this situation. I found it in the first of your videos I watched. Great job!
Appreciate the content Alec, nice to see you ignore the hate you still get in some places. People need to move on, you're a great poker player and put out some great free content. These tips may be basic things but it's still good to hear. Like I grind 50nl online, not huge stakes but with rake back and bonuses I'm making around 1200 a week. I've decided to keep my job for now but I only work a minimum wage job in the UK atm so depending on how much money I've made in the next 6 months who knows maybe I'll finally take the leap and go full time. I've already been using these strategies for a while, like choosing small bet sizings when I have a range advantage and using a mixed 3 betting strategy but it's nice to hear you confirm that this is what I should be doing. When watching a lot of pros play like Charlie Carrel, Bancb or Stephen Stotheimer, probably spelt that wrong I notice they employ the same strategies at 500nl and it clearly works. Would be interesting to see you do an online session like an hour of you playing some 500nl.
Hey I know this is a year late but how has your poker been going? I play 6 handed tables but only in "ticket" games and am looking to play cash games in the future but I find myself losing more than winning.. is there any other fundamentals I need to work on?
@@ConsciousPoker this may be pretentious but will leave the micros really soon I'm dedicated to dully developing my BR, idc if it takes me 3 years or 6 months
Great tip. I returned to the poker after few years and started from micro i love how majority of players overfold turn and river. Pls Alec give more this GT unoptimal tips.
Great content. One tip I would give beginner players is: Everything you do at the poker table conveys information. You can't be all loosey goosey eating a sandwich.
This is one thing I don't get. Sometimes you'll see someone who is really quiet, keeps a straight face, doesn't give anything away then you'll see people who are the opposite who won't shut up. Why doesn't everyone just keep quiet when they know that's the best thing to do?
You can eat a sandwich and be goosey or eat a sandwich and be loosey, but you can't do these things at the same time while eating a sandwich. Is what I think is being said here.
It's kinda tough for me to win in $5 - $30 online tournament because I really can't tell what my opponents have because most of the people playing online is a donkey. And you will never be able to win by bluffing donkey people so I really prefer live. But by watching this video and downloaded the PDF files I think I have a higher chance getting atleast at the final table in online tournament. Thank you Alec!
Great video. Not enough ads next time put an ad every 15 seconds or even 10 seconds insted of every 20 seconds. I love watching a video where i learn more from 80% of ad watching and 20% of video.
Thanks for this video, Really great Tips but my Attention about Tip 5. I felt weird there for a moment when he basicly said that the speed of the player shows off weaknes. That's Buckshot . It's the same principle for bluffing. You can only give tips what to look after in players.I adjust my bet/bluff depending how my hand is and how last games went. Heck i even take my time and build it up for a juciy bluff/bet I recommend for beginners to focus on only one persons patterns until you notice them or a rythm. But carefully they might notice and use reserve pyscology.
I must be playing online somewhere different. I play really low stakes because I'm not very good but here is my issue. All of your examples are heads-up. 90% of the hands I see have minimally 3-4 players in to see the flop. Here's what life looks like in my world: 1) of 6 players, 4 usually call the blind, 3 will call a raise. 2) Every other hand someone goes all-in pre flop. 3) Someone always calls the all-in - the hands look like 44 and A-T off-suit. 4) post-flop someone goes all-in and TWO people call it. 5) hands go check check check check on flop, turn and sometimes river. Should I just give up trying to learn poker at these tables?
I just keep losing non-stop the cards I'll call with are so tight but I can never play what my opponent has like the 9 8 that gives him a straigt as I'd never call with that I can't visualize my opponent having it
They really aren't bluffing enough. A player who makes weird bluffs and takes bizarre lines is going to go broke fast and he won't be in your player pool long. Far more likely is a Peruvian nit who does things that don't make sense, like flatting with aces preflop, or checking his set down to the river despite a dynamic flop, only to shovel it in on the river for 4x pot and pray you level yourself into calling. Or he'll bet one big blind trying to induce you to raise. Or he'll min-raise you to "price you in." Or he'll raise the flop, then check back the turn, then overbet the pot on the river with a "stop and go" to make it appear that he was bluffing and then chickened out on the turn and now he's going for it again on the river because a scare card came. But what all these lines have in common is that mostly you're going to get shown the STONE NUTS at the end. I play low-stakes zoom; it is a meat grinder, a very tough game. It is really not enough to sit there and wait for an idiot to pay you because no one needs to be impatient when they're in a fast-fold game. You have to fight for every small pot and be very disciplined to realize that whenever, however the money goes in, one-pair hands are not good unless it's a 4-bet pot. They will sometimes stab in position to pick up pots no one is interested in. They will occasionally bluff-raise (but not on later streets.) But very rarely will they triple-barrel as a bluff. Very, very rarely will they bluff-raise rivers. Definitely not often enough that you would ever have a profitable call. Honestly I would be crushing the game if I'd known that and applied it in the beginning. It's definitely the costliest leak you can have. If you don't plug it you don't have much of a chance at all. 5% rake is not outrageous but against good players it's a real factor: in fact, most zoom players make most of their money from rakeback and barely stay afloat in the game itself. So that tells you how thin the edges are. You've got to exploit them by making brutal folds because they are not going for it enough on the river.
Why is it always a bluff? If it was always a bluff then you'd become exploitable which is why you need to mix in some strong hands, for example I will often choose the same sizing with a strong hand. Like on a K high board you have AA or AK sure you can bet big but if you bet small one third you put a lot of weaker hands in tough spots because they know they have to float you more often and call at least once maybe twice. If you chose a larger sizing especially on a board that favours your range they're going to get to fold more often. So it's definitely not always a bluff, when betting small you want to have some strong hands in there like sets and over pairs because it protects your range and gets value from weaker hands like under pairs or weak top pairs that are forced to float you more often.
I'm just learning. There's a few things I still don't get if you don't mind answering questions? Also, would it be a good idea to observe a poker room, figure everyone out, go in and win then move onto another poker room before anyone figures you out? Do people do this or is it cheating?
Hello i please need help it seems almost impossible to read hands in low stakes cash games because everybody play loose is there anyway i can change my game to beat them
All good in theory but when you play and start losing emotions get in the middle. For me. As a poker player I'd describe myself as someone who knows how to win 10$ but by the end of session ends up losing 20$.. unfortunately. The amounts are examples.. I've lost much much more in long run.
@SIOUXICIDE * Yes if I get a badbeat it's ok. I finally manage to understand this. However, my problem is that If for example my game goes fine for 1 hour and maybe I'm winning then I would not go ALL-IN in a three-way all in with K-10s. I would fold. But when I'm deep losing for day I go up in stakes a lot and I would put all-in with K-10s even though I know the shark will have KK minimum. Is like hoping I get lucky and recover from all the money I lost the last few hours before that moment.
Hmmmm registering for the preflop play charts using my email address doesn't seem to work. I know he's trying to sell me something, but it says in the video, the description and the link that you can get the preflop play chart for free. That's misleading
I wish You made this video in the beginning of covid: casinos being closed I went from crushing livepoker to playing online for the 1st time in a long time and got slapped online the last 4 months like butt cheeks spread. It was disgusting. Its very weord i rely on gto but its as if i get a higher number of bad spots than good spots when i play. Its weird need someone like Alec to literally watch one of my sessions to show him im not losin my mind. and then yes i get tilted and lose more than I should (a bit of entitlement tilt like why cant i have villains spots) because im sick of the cycle But Im recalibrating & will try again go back to basics use your sheets. miss livepoker so much-playin at home im losin my damn mind and losing way too much money. I hate my house Now cuz ive negatively associated it with losing so Im going to have to find a new place to live or hire a holy monk or shaaman to throw some holy water around and chant some spells & incantations so that I reaffirm my place is a place of positivity & wins (Yeah its this extreme need an excorcism done on my laptop too just so it “feels real” to my mind like the flow of everything is now corrected and clear in order to dissasociate my preconceived notions)
Checkout Alec's August 24, 2020 video uploaded today. It is amazing advice on how to reset from tilt, better than anything I have heard until now. Also, drop down in stakes to the level you have any 60 buy ins at least, and better yet. 100 buy ins. Play only 2 fast fold tables or 4 regular ring games until you are winning steadily over a week or two, and then add one higher buy-in table. Hope my advice is not presumptuous, and GL.
Hello Alex, where can we look on the sites for example Pokerstars to see if they or others are in fact RNG Certified. Thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
Conscious Poker by Alec Torelli Alec, thanks for the quick reply and I have indeed dug little deeper and found out that Pokerstars does use the the RNG and is heavily audited to maintain these standards and driven policies. ***This is not intended to collaborate with and I am not a PokerStars affiliate.*** Just stating my findings during my research. Thanks again!
The other day I checked the river knowing I had the best hand, but yet also knowing the only way I could get value was to let him bluff it off. Do you recommend the "Value Check" if you're absolutely sure opponent will try and bluff?
Your silly if you think. Multi million dollar businesses are going to risk extremely hefty fines among shut down of an extremely profitable business just to try and swing a couple hands... the house makes money on the rake they have no advantage to helping players hands. Use your head.
Great content thanks! One question in lower stakes say $11 tourneys - I often find when I c-bet small on a dry flop say 1/3 bet I often get raised - I feel it seems they always interpret this small bet as a sign of weakness? What are your thoughts re this? Thanks :) - Is it worth c-betting bigger in these smaller buy-in tourneys?
Hope my advice is ok. If you get 3bet often, c-bet less but use small c-bet when u think it ahead to induce 3 bet. If draw heavy flop, 4 bet 3 to 4x, or if short stacked, go all in. Keep bubble in mind if close, and if early stages b4 antes, just play to maximize winning a big pot with strong hands (sets, 2pr, oesdfd combo draws with medium to high suited connectors), imho. I am simplifying a lot, cuz SPR, stack sizes, position , frequency V 3bets ur cbets matter too.
Why do people value poker? idk mystery why do we value pro sports? or anything? We give it attention because it's of use for survival and reproduction? Anything that leads to extinction collectively as a species is um probably not something most people want-to become nothing. Whatever "nothing" means
People value poker because they enjoy it, simple as. Lots of things the west has that probably aren’t good for us, but we have them anyway because we enjoy them.
It's as easy to cheat at poker as fishing with electronics. First, poker sites allow you to choose a table. This means you can chat on chatsites with another computer buddy or 2, or text with your on line buddies and gang up on other people by all choosing the same table number. You simply tell each other what you have and allow the person with the best hand to win over all the others. Yes that's how simple it is and why some people win all the time. That's why I don't waste money on them. You can even do that in the same household if there are more than one IP addresses. This simply cannot happen at real casino's. As far as bad algorithm is concerned, it most certainly is on some sites, rigged in favor of higher rated players, but not all. It is impossible for people with very little money also to beat those with tons $. They simply keep forcing the small change players to fold. Online Poker is totally rigged in favor of the wealthy and cheaters.
