congrats on 200 vids!!! I always watch your channel, Ive learned alot from watching your style of play even though some would call u a NIT lol, I think you are TAG, look forward to the next 200 and since u booked a big win buy Rouge a steak dinner lbvs
Very good decisionmaking Lex. The moment you sit in a game that deep against other skilled players ,late at night and you start even thinking about racking up- its the correct move.
Jamming the AA is the right play out of position. You can easily catch a scary flop and either get bluffed or be forced to check it down. There is $4,000 in the middle already (that's more than 25% of your opponent's stack) and if he folds it's not a bad result. Even if he has KK, you are 80-20 which means on average you will win 60% of his stack. Here you can win nearly half of that without seeing a flop at all potentially. I think because your opponent has already committed more than 25% of his stack, he would make a huge mistake by folding to an all in preflop so shoving is the play. If your opponent is willing to put 25% of his stack preflop then fold to a reraise, he's got a major leak in his game IMO.
If you knew you had a big edge on the player with the AA hand and you think he’s never 5 betting without AA. Is there ever a chance you can rep kk or qq or aks and get him to have to fold the best hand? If you saw his hand isn’t that the optimal play ?
If you actually listen to all the professionals and experts they say the threshold is about 30%. Once you put in 30%ish of your stack, you should pretty much be going with it. 25% and fold is actually perfectly fine.
luv the vids...keep em coming....i luv when u said ive been buying in deeper and deeper at these games and then say im not studied at deep stack poker...its kinda like an oxy moron
Mr. Lex.... I have been watching your RU-vid channel since the beginning.... You strategies and intelligence you have for the NLH is outstanding... I try to base my play off of your strategies and do it the way you do it ...... but sometimes it doesn't work out that way ....... but nevertheless ....I would like you to know that you are my favorite player of all time..... your biggest fan ....... River Rat 🐀 .....
no messing around here lex, i would have done the same thing and jammed with the aces. if he had kings and got lucky thats poker but knowing that u went all in with the best hand, is the best thing u could have done mentally.
Moving to the st. pete area soon. As an amateur who has studied enough to be profitable in 1/2, any recs on where to play or advice as I begin a potential poker "career"?
My only thought process is that if you think they have Aces, while holding aces, then you call and try to bluff a set of Kings, Queens, 888s, etc. That's the only way, most of the time you'll be getting it in regardless, but at least leave some room for a bluff.
Lex O big fan! In the wrestling community as well we run deep brother always rooting for you hopefully some day i can meet you and we could play together.
If you knew you had a big edge on the player with the AA hand and you think he’s never 5 betting without AA. Is there ever a chance you can rep kk or qq or aks and get him to have to fold the best hand? If you saw his hand isn’t that the optimal play ?
I would jam. Getting fancy and flatting with AA there is way too suspicious and like you said if the board runs out badly, you’re deep enough you could get bluffed off the best hand
Cuz how many hands do we see without most of, if not all the community cards....Poker vloggers don't show hands that end preflop without the run out. He knew it'd chop, but this allows him more content to show.
absolutely the AA vs AA hand is a six bet jam for you. He probably has AA but you don't know for sure so once you do the six bet he has to know you had AA and if he had KK or AK he would have to fold
Interesting spot in that AA-AA hand when you realize he has AA100% of the time. Since you know you chop if you jam there is no reason to jam, you should call and then try to put maneuver him in the run out. See if you can wait to jam on a Broadway card or 3suited cards. Would he just call anything at this point? Probably, but it is still higher EV than 100% chop. Super interesting to think about what to do in AA-AA. I’d probably jam to incase I’m not against AA anyway, that’s the easier option for sure.
I think it's always a call after a 5 bet there. A 6 bet just looks way too strong there. You prob only do that with AA in that spot giving a potential out to KK , QQ or maybe AK. By just calling and with a bit of luck for a good flop, the money is going in on the flop anyway. So no need to give him a spot to potentially hero fold KK or QQ or AK. Also, been meaning to ask. What breed is Rogue? 😍
On that 5bet hand, I prefer you just flat. No one ever is balanced in 5 and 6 betting, if you lay some traps it makes you harder to play against. When you 6bet jam it looks like 3 hands, black aces, red aces, or red and black aces lol.
Definitely would’ve jammed just as you did aces versus aces. However, I guess I’m more “chicken” than you are… I would’ve taken the CHOP over running it twice. 😅😅
What is your 6bet bluff range? AK suited? Hardly possible. Unless you're super agro or your opponenet is completely incapable of folding I think we should be flatting against the 5bet. Against the average player Id strongly consider folding KK against a 6bet jam. The "what if its a bad board" is old man coffee logic. Thats poker, sometimes we're going to have hard decisions.
I've been running so bad for like 2 months... Card dead as hell and can't catch shish when I have cards... Think I'm going to quit for at least a month I dinno
