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I'm never ever folding this spot. End of story.

The caller is the type of a player that thinks he thinks and plays on a high level, but is actually just a weak reg that doesn't read (exploit) live scenarios well enough. But kudos to him for calling in wanting to get better!

" I couldn't find a bluff so I folded" This is the most hilarious shit I heard on this channel to date 😂🤣

Really, really good hand to go over. I see this weird play alot from rec players. I think the pot odds answer is spot on.

I love that people like this caller play poker haha

Guys like this caller are living proof that live poker will never die. He's been listening to Bart for at least a year, has even called in on the show and been featured in a youthbe video, and STILL doesn't know what an effective stack is. This guy torches money at the table EVERY day he plays, guaranteed.

Easy call, if you got me you got me. People at the low limits do weird things when the SPR is in this range. Also, I think you should be more inclined to call when you don't know the opponent.

I've decided to work 100% on my poker game and my life. This is me starting.

I always thought people knew terms when they use them so confidently so for anyone wondering, the effective stack between two stacks is the lesser one. You could have $1000 the other player has $400. Only $400 of your $1000 stack is in effect.

I've had a pretty shocking run moving up to these stakes recently, however calls like this remind me that it's just variance :)

Yeah, when I was a total noob who didn't know what I was doing, I would shove 1010 the way villain did. Just an "I'm confused and don't want to get pushed around" mindless shove. No thought of what worse calls, and what better folds at all. Ironically, he did get a better hand to fold, but clearly that's not what he was thinking.

It’s mind blowing how the term “effective stack” is misuse or not understand

Bart: what would you have done if he checked to you on the river? Caller: I was contemplating either checking or betting 😂🤣

So much to learn from your hand analysis !! thank you 🙏

While I roll my eyes at people who scoff at the idea of “blockers”, this was one of those times that holding the Qd isn’t significant enough for me to alter my decision on the river(not folding the way it was played). But he stated that he would’ve def. called if he instead held black Qs…seriously???

Great analysis, Bart. My logic would be this. If I was willing to get it all in pre-flop with QQ, there is nothing on the Board that should change my view. If villain is slow playing AA or KK, I’m losing no matter what. If villain is playing 88 or A4, A5, lucky them. But maybe I’m not smart enough to find a fold with that board.

Thats exactly what I put him on. 10s or JJ. These players get scared on the river and just decide "Fuck it, I'm gonna go with this hand if he has me beat he has me beat I'm not folding anyway". Which if you look at it is interesting here because it's one of those merge bets that Bart talks about. Worse hands like Ax diamonds or Ace high could potentially (yes its a stretch) call, or he could get bigger over pairs to fold (which is also a stretch to me, but many of these players at this level are ultra tight and play scared). It's an interesting spot. With QQ I'm always bombing river or calling and if he's got it, hallelujah pay the man. Nice video call in.

This is absolutely one of those spots where a good portion of the player pool has no clue what to do in UTG1 perspective OTR. Some players think that AK will call them down and some will think that they can get an overpair to fold to them. I think it's important to know spots like these, because a lot of players get put into a blender in tough spots.

The villain table talk reveal contributes to my opinion that “The Hand” at HCL was not cheating. Expecting a bad player to do things that “make sense” is a low probability event

I really ran through every combo in my head and never put him on TT. Side note - Bonita Springs is one of the most profitable rooms I ever been too

Still nobody knows what an effective stack is lol I love these callers

I’ve done that move so many times when I was a complete beginner. I figure I have an overpair to the board and I don’t want to face a huge river bet bluff and have to decide of villain has aa kk qq or just ak aq type of hand, so I jam all in thinking I’m denying them an opportunity to bluff them off my hand as well as thinking I can get better to fold aswell lol. Then I get shown a better over pair and feel dimb

Clicked one of ur videos to watch while I’m in this online tourney and the callers from my hometown! Love the poker games there

Ive watched all your videos and haven't seen one that I don't like. Keep up great work Bart

Im pretty new to poker but consider this, " the KEY to poker is aggression, the SECRET to poker is folding ". Having said that i would call this because he kept calling i put him on 89 or 87s, , something he might open for $15 and keep calling. With.

good call. I feel like there is a type of low stakes player for which every hand until the river is a draw unless the nuts and when the river comes if they decide they have the best hand they overbet / bet too much to make up for value lost on previous streets. Not folding here.

Folding here is a big punt and a big leak in your Game. “If i had 2 Black Queens i would call” it s a suuuuuuper overraction to “blockers”.

From a learning perspective (at the 4:20 ish mark), I comment that i would have led for $75. When Bart says he would bet $75-$80, I 'know' I'm in the zone; when my bets are way off, then I re-evaluate why that is. Score Bart!!! :)

Put me in a game with this caller. Goodness. Horrible fold. Any 2 become a profitable bluff against this guy. The move screams of a desperate attempt to get you to fold and he doesn’t know that he’s only repping a boat here. And I’d have a hard time believing if he did have me beat, he’d just call turn after I double barrel, basically saying “I have a good hand”. They’d wanna get the money in. Never, ever folding this.

Never folding here. Before I reveal I told myself “I bet this guy has 99/1010 here and just thinks it’s the nuts”

Paused before the river to think about sizing. I think I downbeat again for about $160, 1/3 pot with a likely bet call line. Betting 2/3+ seems terrible because you can’t really bet fold but they don’t have many bluffs left you’re mostly just calling into the teeth of better hands and you get all the value from 1/3 with calls like 8x. The 1/3 sizing gives them room to bluff at the end as well and call with worse. Edit: lol, effective stack totally wrong, totally fucks any analysis before this point. Bad error. Well I’m snapping that shove off with all the dead draws. Edit edit: lol no, the takeaway is not call in Florida, it’s that this is a huge call.

Am I confused or does the caller not know what an effective stack?

Especially at bonita, never ever folding here

I'd jam all in on the turn here or an oversized bet, only AA KK would call Hero preflop raise to set trap or reraise but he didn't

How did the Villain look when he went all in? What were his movements like when moving chips? Did you try and talk to him? So many opportunities to get a read.

There is a big difference between Queens and Kings. Kings heavily blocks Ace-King, and Queens does not. I think AK is the perfect hand for the villain to bluff with here because it blocks both AA and KK. It's not too likely that the hero is going to check back the river if he's got a hand worse than AK (worse than any Ace because the board is double paired), so the villain shouldn't really be checking AK hoping that the villain checks it back and that he can chop or win the pot.

just finished a poker sesh! learnt a lot from your channel and definitely improved my game!!!!

I immediately thought the person could just be flopping around with JJ

I agree with the bet size complaints on flop and turn, but for the river, I strongly think this is a fold against an unknown. 1. UTG raise (strength) 2. UTG calls 3bet (not necessarily capped if Villain is tight, some people flat to trap with AA/KK) 3. Checks-calls low board. Tank is potentially to think about raising. 4. Check-calls low board again. Tank is potentially to think about raising. 5. Leads all in, against someone who has bet twice on a very dry board. - Pocket pairs we are beating: 99, TT, JJ would not do step 5. If Villain though hero was bluffing/drawing, then they should let hero bluff again on the river (since none of Villain's river value bets would do anything). If Villain thought hero was value betting, then they should definitely NOT shove into a better hand. - Missed flush draws are few in number (UTG raise + call 3bet, removes a ton of the lower flush draws, mainly leaving only Ax). - Very few missed straight draws (only possible ones on the flop, 76s and 56s got there) All of these scream 88, Aces, or Kings that decided to play trappy, then rush to get all the money in on the river. Only reason to call, if we look at an exploitative standpoint, is that Villain is a fish. And if Villain was talking strategy the entire night, then they are much more likely to be fish. My experience is 10NL online, so maybe that is different from live where people are more gamble-y? I think most fish (besides maniac fish) would be content to check-call (all in) on the river with 99+, and only lead shove with QQ+.

"Fewer" combos, not "less." - The Grammar Police

"I could not find enough bluffs here so I folded". If I were a coach, I would follow this up with a few questions: 1) Ok, so how many value hands do you find here? 2) How about value hands you actually beat? 3) And now, back to the bluffs - how many do you think villain actually does have?"

A lot of people at these levels will hold onto that A high hand, hoping for a win, counting on a chop. They will play it like it is the nuts.

I basically ran into this same situation just today. Got rekt by 6 9 two pair when they pushed all in

Under bet if you want a call early. Over bet if you want a call late. The tricky part is bet size when you don't want a call.

I don't get why you said you'd go larger on the flop. It's because Theresa diamond draw? Solvers say bet small in paired boards.

The guy called a raise in early position. If he re-raises then red flags go up. You’d have to put him on QQ,AK, JJ, TT. If the villain has A4s or A5s then that’s just bad luck. You gotta have heart. After all, it’s only money! You can make more.

I like Villain’s shove here but not for the reasons he stated. If I’m villain and I have 10’s or JJ’s here, and I know I’m calling the river regardless, then lead out and maybe you’ll get a fold by QQ’s thru AA with the pot size All in. Hero has to call here. He is getting 2-1 on a call so he needs to be good around 33% of the time. Villain has 88’s, 2 A4s combinations which makes his shove look legit. Have to call though!!

Check/call, Check/call,, bet the river is a missed flush draw so often that calling so profitable that I need a massive read to fold

Man I gotta get down to these FL games

People need to stop overvaluing villain "having enough bluffs here" at live 2/5 games. They can and will find literally any two cards for a bluff, even in raised pots. Offsuited Jx Qx and Kx are all severely overplayed at these levels, to the point I see any face card being played or bet called way too frequently. Literally almost every suited broadway bluff or underpair can be here with a 3b pre.

Villain has a bunch of hands that hero can beat here including many bluffs. I'm calling there at a high frequency. You shouldn't make a decision just based on 1 blocker.

Love my stomping ground of bonita springs

That's what they call me at the table "Spaz Factor" 19:05

Did this guy slow roll us on telling us his hand at the beginning

Having the Q of diamonds takes away opponents JQ KQ AQ suited. The jam from upfront is super sus though……. I think I’d have to call it off. Although I would went 1/3 for 3 streets or 1/3 3/4 Jam strategy.

How is this a fold? He will shove his 10/10, JJ, 99. How tight is the hero here

I wouldn't rule out 99-JJ just because V tank called on the flop. bad players will consider raising overpairs in this spot

The point of calling in is to get answers. Not to show off how amazing you are. The asshats flaming him for making a mistake are the reason recs quit playing.

Lol, the old effective stack conversation. Haha

Very hard to find a fold

Guy is just a mega nit lmao Bart was too nice here

Hero should have call on the river all in

From the flop I put V on tens or Jacks. i am screaming call at the hero…. 🤦‍♂️

Pushing TT is desperation. He is afraid of facing an all in when checking and that's why he is pushing. I have seen that before.

I think in situations like this he could lose some times sometimes you beat jj-99 and sometimes you beat ace high trying to get you off of a chop ??? Altogether you should win roughly half the time in a 3 bet flat pot range … so it’s always going to be a profitable play in the long term …

Bart, is there a down and dirty formula that you use to figure out how much to bet on each street to get all the money in by the river? thanks

Callers. You keep using that word effective. I don't not think it means what you think it means.

I'm no expert, but I wouldve bet 1/3rd pot on the flop because I would be betting a large percentage of the time due to my range advantage. Is this more of a value exploit for these stakes, or is there negligible range advantage when it plays out this way preflop with the UTG caller?

Hey Tom! Hope all is going well down home. Would love to hear who the villain was in this hand.

7:20...$180 would call here as well as $120 bet. Why??

Curious about Bart saying if checked to him he all ins in this spot with QQ. You might get called by TT, JJ and 8x that you beat. I dont think any Ax will. And you definitely get called by AA, KK, 4x, 5x which you lose to. Is it just because of the pre flop play that he shouldn't have AA and KK? Trying to figure out sizing in those spots I usually end up going low risk there.

I want to play at the table

Yeah, this is just a call on the river.

Really barts whole point about bet sizing doesn’t really apply since the caller fucked up the effective stack size and spr would be way different

call easy call

How the crap do you fold there???

Never under estimate the Bad Plays made at the lower 1/3 and 2/5 levels. People just Spaz Out and do stupid shit.

This hand generated 25k views as well

I swear to god before he revealed I said this is tens or jacks 100%. These 2-5 games are not as tricky as we think. He clearly didn't have aa kk only a4 suited is the hand that I'd say maybe and that's wat 2combos? I'm never folding qq to pot sized jam. Maybe ina big game like hustler vs Garrett n others that are competent n have broader range. 2-5 this is a call 99x100

that's weird

Here’s money. No thank you.

Caller: “his effective stack was lower than mine” 😂 Also caller: I call with black queens bc I don’t block the flush draw. I couldn’t find any bluffs so I folded. 😂 Doesn’t know what effective stack means but understands blocking properties

Flaming

Good vid! The moral of the story is… You can’t beat doofus players at low limit poker by overthinking the mathematics! These type guys are the bane of my poker existence! !!’ If you have some Poker knowledge….Go with you gut!…… a dufus will try to f**k you ! That would be your lesson!!!! Thanks Bart…. Please give us low limit Rec players some consideration!

This is such a fucking nitty fold. How do these people make any money playing poker?!

Hero is screaming over pair, villain is screaming???

For some reason the way he said what his hand was, was the most obnoxious thing I’ve heard in a while.

A d ? Robbie and garrett remix ?

I just realized why I get bored with your videos. They're too slow. You went over and over the same material. I start feeling like I'm wasting my time. You're good. Please pick up the speed so we can learn more.

caller made up the hand and still played it bad... #pokerisdead

Maybe it was acting. Claiming to jam TT to look like a complete idiot

Please stop exposing Florida poker for the absolute fish fest that it is

Caller is not good at telling a story.

The 1 time you call and he has 1010 is way less frequent then the 99 times he has a 4 or 5. At 2/5 when people shovel money in the pot they have it, the vast majority of the time. Maybe if its some young arab splashing around you call but this is an exploit fold all day.