Hey Lex, Great Video. I think everything you talked about in this video is very solid advice for low stakes players especially starting out. I remember trying to beat $1/$2 years ago when I first started playing cash and I was a break even player. I studied all the coaching sights but still never made any real progress as a cash player (solid tournament player). I finally realized that thinking in ranges, range advantage, nut advantage, and balance was just over thinking things at this level. It was way better just to play solid values with a tight range. Play suited cards, and mainly from position. When you flop your top pair with a good kicker, value bet to the river and collect your pot. Also, DON"T PAY OFF! Your tip about folding to big bets is very true, $1/$2 players simply do not bluff at a high enough frequency to worry about it, just FOLD! That was the biggest leak in my game calling big bets on the river. Once I plugged that leak things changed for me fast. Earned a subscribe from me, keep up the great work.. I only have seen a few of your videos but I like your no non-sense approach.
This is my favorite, tips and strategy video in all of RU-vid. The reality is that a big portion of us who play poker as a hobby, or perhaps an extra stream of income do so at low stakes, and these tips and strategy are fucking GOLDEN, in it's simplicity. Thanks, good luck the rest of the year.
I am going to watch this before every session from now on. I've ruined two otherwise great sessions recently because I couldn't fold to a big turn bet raise with good but not great hands. Love your channel and congrats on the huge win you just posted. Looking forward to seeing all the action at TCH in the coming weeks. Keep crushing it!
Great work Lex! I hope your channel explodes! The most important tip in this video is to keep it fun. Life is short enjoy your poker journey!! Thanks again!!
I've put some effort into learning enough to have a pretty great win rate at the small stakes, but I'll be playing live next week for the first time in well over a year. I feel like this video was a good review of principals to keep the odds in my favor. I don't want to play poorly due to COVID rust! Thanks bud!!
Hey lex first time viewer here, really enjoyed your video and insight on your 1-2 strategy. Those are great fundamentals to worth with but I would like here a little more on exploitative play if for instance you have an edge on players at the table and how to properly use that! Thanks again for the vids great job man!
One of the best video I have watched with great tips. Thanks for sharing and good luck in Texas. Can't wait to see. Watch out for those Texas Boys because they love to Gamble.
This is exactly where I'm at in my poker game, trying to get better at 1/2-1/3 This helps a lot with my poker game myself as I have learned a lot about myself in my own poker game.
when I was younger I would go to Vegas to visit family and I would play 1-2, but I didn't have very much money behind and I didn't realize how scared I was playing at the time, now I can comfortably buy in for the limit and my success has been far better... thanks for the content!
I'm just getting back in to poker after taking a 5 year break. With the dividers up in my neck of the woods its a much less social feeling. Thanks for the video and good luck with your vlog.
great video and really good advice ... especially the last one .... got to give it to get it .. Nits get no action from this guy right here. GL in Texas
What I didn't like about 1/2 or 1/3 NLH is the $6.00 rake , $ 1.00 is for the Bad Beat , and $5.00 for the rake , it's hard to come out a big winner especially when you include the tips . My money isn't long enough for the higher limits , with the way these youngsters betting as heavy as they do , so I gave it up . That's why I love to watch you bloggers play poker , at least I can watch and think about what I would do if I were them , :-) .
Find a social club to play at that does not charge rake but a door fee. They are few and far between but they are there ( they usually don’t advertise)
You are right. I’m really starting to pay more attention to the rake. Normally I play in Oklahoma and understand the rake is high but fair and it’s pretty standard between casinos. Was just in New York and the rake I can’t remember but it was really high. Plenty of action in NY and it honestly made the topic a little mute but ya they do hit it good on 1-3, 2-5 tables
This is one of the better $1/$2 how to video I have seen. Although most we probably already do most of these steps, it does serve as a reminder to reevaluate things like if we are betting/folding in the right times, not c-betting into multiway pots, etc. which will save money.
hey great tips and commentary, very helpful, I know you're higher stakes but I play 1-2 at the Hardrock in hollywood often and hope to see u there sometime! keep it up
Great tips for this level. Too many newer gto players at this level find themselves bloating pots with marginal hands preflop out of position and not being deep stacked. Also keeping it fun is a great and underrated tip. Got to be friendly at the table and not drive away the soft action players especially by berating them or calling out bad plays. If someone makes a bad play and sucks out on you, take a deep breath, say nice hand in a non sarcastic way and move on. Let them keep playing bad and hopefully get it back soon.
The tip about folding pairs when check raised of the flop was a massive leak for me. Even when I have the possibility of making a draw or strait I tap pout because if we are being honest it rarely happens but our confirmation bias wants it to so badly we convinc ourselves a flush or strait is coming... It rarely does
Watching your vid soon after busting out a cheap online MTT b/c I couldn't lay down Top-Top after being re-raised on. More discipline needed, thanks for the reminder.
good video Lex, I'm trying to improve my play at local 1/2/3 games. Question for you, how did you record your hands in the casino? Also how you keep track of all hand history you played? Thanks
Bet-fold is the best advice you can give to any low stakes player. So many players are married to top pair big kicker and too stubborn to fold. But most solid players have the discipline to pay attention to what they have invested and how much they are risking if they genuinely believe AK is good based on what they know about the opponent. Folding top single pairs is probably one of the hardest habits to learn
As someone who has only played 1/2 at a casino, I see most people not able to fold their top pair, this also makes bluffing less efficient too. Waiting for a big hand and being aggressive is the best strat imo.
Thank you I appreciate your content, a lot of your strategies are nearly identical to mine. Short of Max buying at 1 to I have found my first buying being a short stack and accepting the money as already being gone enables me to play tight and get my head in the game before I start making moves yesterday 100 turned into 600 playing 1/2! And that was my first buy
I actually like the short buy as well. I think it comes down to your playing style and how many pots you like to play. Once I can get in the habit of protecting my max buy stack, I’ll feel more comfortable, but alot of that comes from the discipline you learn buying short. Not short like ‘$40’ buy in to 1/2. I wouldn’t buy in with less than 50BB but I found that I played sharper and smarter in position vs splashing/bluffing/calling too much with a max buy knowing I have max BB. Half max also gives you some all in protection where you might feel hesitant to push 200+ vis a guy that has you covered.
I love short buy on the first bullet and then buying max or 100bb… gives you a good chance to double up with a short stack going all in with a premium and running it out to the river… after that u play with a little house money and it starts to roll from there for me personally
