How to Check-Raise in Poker | Upswing Poker Level-Up 

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Gary and Mike have really good chemistry. Keep these coming Upswing, you have a home run with these 2. Thanks-

Fantastic episode guys! First time I've had a reason to look forward to Wednesdays!

Great format and content!

Thanks guys! Really well explained and interresting stuff!

Great stuff, guys! Look forward to more.

@13:23 Mike's point is so great about betting low pairs and then turning the hidden trips or 2pr,. Without the bluff on the flop, the trips or 2pr on the turn wouldn't be worth much. It's not unlike like limping vs. raising PF and then flopping trips or 2pr. The psychology of setting up the big bet, via bets raises or traps, even later that game, is the essence of winning poker to me.

Great job guys-loved the content

awesome video guys, looking forward to the next one

Good stuff! Well done guys. 👊

Future topic: Spots where we want to c/r instead of probe on the turn. From solver work I've done I know how to find some value spots where we like to take these lines but I'm pretty lost when trying to bluff with this sort of line.

Great video Mike. Thank you.

Amazing content! Go UpSwing!

Very nice presentation with clear explanation, thanks guys also love the examples ... but i would love even more examples 😍👍👍

Top notch!

Great tips!

I never knew there was this Much calculating in poker!

good stuff

Very good

Great stuff! Looking forward to future episodes. Does this check-raising strategy apply equally to cash and tournament play? Or is it more for cash games? Thanks!

really great contet 2

This is great content. I dont think it could have been explained clearer

Is this a weekly thing? Can´t wait for the other episodes!

Love it, very organized. Is the cash and tournament both?

Absolutely great stuff. Thanks! Question: You say that the global frequency for a board where we have the nut advantage (e.g. Js 6s 4h) should be about 15%. But you don't say how much of that 15% is value and how much is bluffs. Going just by the specific example, you say 44, 66, J6, 64 for value and Q2ss/K3ss, 75/53, 85s with backdoor. I assume that the J6 would have to be suited, or I would have folded preflop, right? So that makes for 18 value hands, assuming I'm playing all 64 preflop. For bluff hands, I count 37 hands (again, assuming I called preflop with all one-gappers). That seems like too high a bluff to value ratio, to me. Granted, all the bluffs are semi-bluffs, so we want it higher than we would for river bluffs, but it still seems too high. Am I mis-counting the hands? If we require our small one-gappers to be suited for us to call preflop, then it is 11 value hands and 13 bluff hands, which makes more sense to me. (But two of those hands are both OE and flush draw. If I want some big draws in my check-call range, those seem like good candidates.) I try to aim for a bluff to value ratio of 1 on the flop in general, but definitely lower for check-raise bluffs. Am I bluffing too little?

Amazing content guys, best pod presentation Ive seen, perfectly paced. I have a question here, How do you arrive at 65% cbet Btn vs BB on A62rb? I'm wondering if you could give me a little insight into the ranges you guys are using. In the SIMS ive seen (I'm a tournament guy) This board is cbet 85% for a 1/3 sizing. I understand that lot of these numbers are heavily dependent on range construction preflop, so the takeaways would be different.

The point made at the very end a about the solver having a healthy amount of pure floats that most human opponents don’t have in their continuing range - what would be the fastest way to use a solver to find out what boards or even more general outside of highly disconnected boards the solver suggests floating a healthy percentage of the range? This seems like a very good opportunity for “hero “to attack, and or exploit opponents who have some meddling level of understanding of GTO play as well as people without any.

On the high-frequency boards, why is the bluff to value ratio so high? Is it because much of the bluff range has so much equity (2nd and 3rd nut FDs and OESDs)?...

What about check raising as the pre flop aggressor?

How did you arrive at your global frequency percentages?

What does tt mean in AK7tt? I understand it basically means opposite to rb (rainbow). HELP!

Why do you have suited aces in your bb range on the flop in a 2bp?

what does tt mean in poker notation Like “KQ8tt”?

18:20 how do we proceed on the turn if we get called when we check-raise our top pair?

Why is KK not a high value starting hand for a K83 rainbow flop? Edit: I assume it's because KK is already a premium hand, check-raising wouldn't necessarily be the right move. You'd rather want to plug it as hard as possible and bet for value.

Gary at 17:46 hahahaha

8:40 why is top and bottom pair treated differently and elects to have more calls?

23:08 ?

Is this for 100bb?