Do you need to BALANCE in Live Poker Games? 

"How's it going?" "Not much" It's important to balance your responses to typical greetings.

That Ryan DePaulo shoutout. How far he's come.

Being a former fish myself (some say still currently) I can 100% explain his mindset why he shoved. "I've made a flush, WITH A ROYAL FLUSH REDRAW, AND IVE now hit a straight as well. Im not folding $300 and being shown AQ or AT. Ive hit flush AND straight so if she has better good luck, but if I have best, I want ALL THE MONEY." In a way its what I call the fish tilt shove. They realise they're likely beat and are pissed off that the one time they make a big hand they still lost. They basically want another bad beat story to tell. To prove that they lose because they're so unlucky ie "After 4 hours play i FINALLY make a hand. I made a straight AND a flush in the one hand and this lucksack bitch hit her 2 outer to make a boat!"

I started watching Brad Owen, Ryan Depulo, Rampage poker, and Crudh live poker 2 months ago. I finally started playing with real money on the $3 / $300 game at talking stick this past Friday and it is so true that at the low stakes games people play horrible hands and just throw their money away. I won $375 last night in 1 hour. I’ve caught on pretty quickly. I already figured out what your saying in this video

Bet flop, bet turn, jam river.. Keep it simple

I dont think the line confused him I think he had a flush, he didn't come to fold a flush.

I see this happen from time to time in live poker. I have an idea about why. I think that certain players seek out the sympathy and validation that comes from getting a “bad beat”. It is almost like they want to send a certain message to themselves and to others, that their problems or failures are always due to bad luck.This can be so severe that they will make the pot larger in a conscious or subconscious attempt to make the beat worse. They sort of know that they are beaten and they’re very unhappy about it. This is why you get the commentary prior to the all In.

People at these games don't understand relative hand strength. Mainly betting flop because we unblock Ax. At these sprs, you want to start betting and build a big pot. he has A7 suited, 77, we shouldn't include AK in his range. Since we are getting 4.5 -1 on a call, we are never folding. And yes, people punt a lot in these games so I'm not even remotely surprised.

Am I the only one who thinks she played this hand badly and got lucky that a spewy rec decided to pile? I’m 100% c-betting 30-40% pot on the flop and check raising the turn larger

Haven't seen the end, but screams QT of clubs. You check the flop, not defending against the flush draw and this confuses him. On the flop, he puts you on a weak hand. The turn check raise, though he's drawing dead, doesn't scare him because he has a flush and you are bluffing. You bluff again on the river and he shoves because it's not much more. He's not putting you on a hand, he's playing that he has a flush. He isn't worrying about you have AK or AJ or AA or JJ, all hands that you could play the way you did. He would have called your flop bet as well, as he had an inside straight and flush draw. You see this all the time at lower limits. It's recreational players who mostly play their hands, and don't even attempt to think what others have, much less what others may think he has. If he had AJ he'd have bet the flop. If he AK he'd have 3 bet pre. If he KQ suited he'd likely 3 bet pre. The only real hand you'd have to worry about is A7, but then he'd likely bet the flop as well.

I think an important question to consider here is if there is a reasonable royal jackpot because ranges could turn some rips into flats esp on the tirn

Key take-away from this video "Balance is NOT going to win u the most amount of money AT THIS LEVEL." Surprised chat here is not more focused on this gem of advice! Thanks Bart!

i was playing outside at lake elsinore when it was 100 degrees , with the mist fans i was comfortable.

And it is very important to disguise your hand

Hit and run is a good way to balance in live games .some times u sit down first habd flop the nuts against tight Mike's AA double up and leave table before the blinds come again

He thought she had an Ace and bet for value, I played Oceans for 10 years, not unreasonable, she had the best hand possible really, he had the third nuts in his mind. And yes, she played it poorly, he bailed her out and gave her the $300 she left on the table.

What I learned from your videos is that you should never fold good hands on the river at low stakes...

And this one guy shows me his hand and mucked it but he had the winning hand!? And another guy sitting next to me saw it and tried to tell the guy he won but I was like “he mucked it. It’s too late”. That’s why you pay attention instead of sitting there with your phone in your face

Why must AK 3b pre vs a live full ring utg open? Idt it does 100%. That said, it certainly would of bet the flop, so can still omit from V range. But not all live player 3b AK pre nor does optimal strat suggest AKo shld be always 3b vs 9 handed utg open.

As Ben Deach says, "You can't check-raise if nobody bets"

Your villain was a fish, great for you! this shoved river is just so bad considering your raise PF. A call yes, but surely not a raise

So many fish and people must bluff a lot cause people think I’m bluffing but I’m playing super tight but I have got 2 bluffs through with my image so far

Just the facts, ma'am

I have played in the tent at oceans we are really jam packed in there would be better off inside the casino action is really juicy here though I played some 2-2 and 2-3.

If he says fuck it and he moves all in he doesn’t have the nuts

it doesn't fuxcking matter.love that line.

If there is one thing to take away from this vid, it's that the guy saying "Aw fuck it, I'm all-in!" doesn't have the nuts.

It turned out that V had QTc. However, the way he played (and H played) it could’ve easily happen that he had AKd. (Or A7). Talking about GTO? Don’t.

I dont even think a solver balances here even heads up,with an ace out there and flush draw and OP, i think it would bet the flop here 95'%.

The way the villain played that hand the only thing that made sense was Qc10c. If he had Kc10c he would have bet when checked to him on the flop and KcQc would have re-raised on the button before the flop. I’ve seen people constantly go all in on boards like this instead of just calling the river bet and leaving themselves a few hundred. It’s all or nothing for them. These are the players you want to play against

Stops Karen's story to shout out RDP!!!! 🤣🤣 Joeys A Mush

This whole video is so cringe. But the best part was: 8:07 "...basically, the whole kind of jist with this line, is then you make a polarizing bet on the river regardless of what comes, um, and in this case, uh, the river was king of hearts and so now I make what would be a fairly large bet in live poker, and I made a bet of 300..." lol lol lol

Parkour!

Anytime a guy says fk it I'm all in. He turns over KK.

As for her saying people don't say stuff like 'fuck it, I'm all in' I have to disagree. Mainly said by newbs who want to act weak trying to get called with nutted hands

Balance isn't real Kind of like time

He barely missed the Royal

Is a raise to $20 UTG with JJ a little light in 2/5?

This caller is wrong about the guy never having a full house. The "shrug and shove" is a pretty reliable tell of someone having the nuts. With this action she's going to be beat 90% of the time, IMO.

It's not just that she has no bluffs. Even more important is, she has no medium strength hands. By checkraising turn on this board she's literally saying that she has a boat and a boat only. In villain's shoes I'm folding my flush in this spot. Completely face up play.

PARKOUR

Definitely a Karen I can tell one when I hear one