Learning Correct Poker Logic (Lesson in Hand Reading) 

Props to this caller for putting himself out there and being willing to learn.

This caller made me want to grab my car keys and head to the $2-5 game right now.

I was doing shoulder presses with dumb bells while listening to this. When he said “I bet 300$ into 150$” I damn near dropped the weight on my feet

He’s not scared of a flush he’s not scared of 2 pair, he’s not scared of a straight, he’s got aces god damnit and isn’t going to get drawn on 💀

This clip is what got me to subscribe and to start following Bart and his teachings. The caller put himself out there, while being nervous, a lot of cocky people would have talked down to him but Bart took the time to explain the poker logic issues onion had. Its awesome to see such a strong player/teacher treating people of all skill levels like they deserve his attention. Not only do we need more teachers like this in today's world but we need more people like this in general. Bart...you are a stand up guy and you just got a fan

Much respect to the caller for wanting to learn and Bart for his patience & kindness to help those at all learning levels

Barts face when the guy said the villain mucks 😂

I enjoyed this call in. I mean it was a mess, but he seems to be rather new/inexperienced, so I don't mind. Love the patience from both Bart and the caller. And we could all learn something from simple questions, as were asked in this video. Although, we should ask ourselves these questions while we play the hand, and especially when reviewing them post game. Good job Bart, love the content

Maybe your best video ever. You are patient, but keep pointing out that he makes no sense, and yet you try to keep it on his level. You deserve millions of viewers!

A tip for the caller: when you've called their jam and they're first to act at showdown make them show first. It's useful information that you've paid for.

Great call in. Fantastic lesson for people that are learning (like me) Asking yourself these questions during a hand and trying to figure out why you are making a decision is such a massive part of improving. Good job Bart

This is one of my favorite call ins. Dude, was open enough to let us hear his faults. Which makes the story even more believable imo. Some of the calls seem to be inflated, so to speak.

Love the twist ending where the caller actually wins the maximum 😂

Wow Bart with some patience

Definitely my favorite call in...Bart was great in the way he ...."counseled"...this guy.....and the caller was...well. .I really don't know what to say about the caller..but I enjoyed listening to him...Actually think the caller is representative of the..."Deer in the Headlights"..mentality that a lot of poker players have...but aren't so willing to be straightforward about..props to the caller for his humility

This caller’s poker is still a work in progress. But I really like the phrase “invoke a raise.” I’m going to star my using that.

I love listening to Onions hand breakdowns. 💯

It sounds like this guy actually deserved Bart’s patience. He was really listening and trying to learn.

Dude got AQ no club to shove all in on this board. Take notes ladies and gentleman.

It was when he mucked that I realized that this guy is a genius. He wanted him to come over the top and the madlad made him do it with nothing.

I’ve seen lots of callers on this channel try to justify their bad decisions during the call even when they know they were probably bad decisions in hindsight. Lol I know I’ve done it with my friends. It’s ok to make some mistakes but we gotta learn from them and take the time at the table to make better decisions from those mistakes.

The caller had a read on the villian. His play seemed inconsistent upon review by Bart. But the caller (Onions) had been playing with the villian for a while and correctly read that the villian was weakish and the kind of guy that would overplay his hand on the turn. The villian check raise on the turn was an interesting bluff (as if to say, 'you're trying to act like you have the flush, but I really have the flush) and the caller knew that that was a move he would make. Good read.

To me it seems like the villain put him on AK with a club. That's why he lead the flop, because he didn't want to see T on the turn. Hero just called, which makes sense with AK. And then used the club as a scare card to sekibluff. There aren't many flushes in hero range, so villain jammed with enough money in the pot and just didn't want AK to be able to realize their equity. That's how I can see the logic from villains perspective. I'm not saying it's good, but it is something that makes some sense. If that's the case, the turn overbet seems genius, because it convinces them you're getting out of line with a semibluff.

He wants to make sure it’s heads up preflop....so bets smaller?

0:50 an observation: Whenever somebody asks a question, try to respond to the specific question. From the side of somebody asking, we have to wait and weed through aalllll the extra info, when all we want initially is the specific response. As in "we started $800 deep effective". I deal with this as a PM in construction all the time.

Nothing about this hand makes sense from either player lol

The caller sounds like "the hashtag king", the guy who binked a tourney several years ago. If thats the case, you could make the case that this is a good play, since he's known to make large overbets with hands with draw equity, which would induce villain to shove over the top with a hand with AQ (hero could have Ackx, Axkc, or even all 16 combos of AK, from villains perspective given hero's image). There's a video of cristian soto vs hashtag king on RU-vid for reference .

Caller just has a hard time expressing his thoughts on the game. All the jargon and buzzwords these days can be a little over the top to a relatively new player. Keep it simple when you are starting. VPIP should be like 15% (fancy jargon lol). Dont flat call, position, position, and position.

Poker is not dead ladies and gentlemen ♦️♠️♥️♣️

When the caller said ya you’re right I lost it lmfao

Watching your neck turn red during his thought process is the best part of the vlog.

How is a call fine (w black AA) on the flop when Villain leads with 1/4 pot on a such a draw heavy board?? Cannot understand why a raise on this board with given preflop action isn’t in order?? From $40 to $135 seems so standard. If he has QJ, so be it and you still have quite a few 2 pair outs and the back door nut flush draw. I’m almost always in agreement with you, but this hand really had me up in arms...haha (Sorry if you were simply trying to agree with the caller despite his faulty logic... Like when he said on turn he turned his AA into a semi-bluff because he’s scared of two pair’) -WTF is a ‘parachute bluff’ ?? lmao -I feel like some of your callers include hands that try to make them look like Dan Cates. Also, they don’t include all of the relevant history that can be crucial to the hand. -finally, you ask if villain showed you his hand and he said ‘yes he told me he had xxx’.

Great call. Do we know where this was played?

Bart hears for the millionth time that 1/3 and 2/5 are soft and is still shocked

This dude is almost impossible to listen to. Takes him 2 minutes to relay 15 seconds of information.

It seems like the caller’s basic read is that villain plays badly against polarizing bets. he overfolds better and overbluffs worse. it’s pretty clear that the caller was aware that this was an exploitative line and not a standard play. whether the read is correct or the adjustment makes sense is debatable but I have definitely made similar profitable plays where over-repping your hand can get your opponent to spaz.

All the comments echo my sentiments and thoughts. Man this guy had no idea what he was doing. You could tell he was trying to use high level poker verbiage but he clearly had no idea of the concepts and their meanings. The confused look on barts face several times was priceless 😂. But ya props to the caller for putting himself out there 👏🏻

This caller saying he wanted villain to come on him really got me goin😂

I’ve learned a lot from watching this channel but I think Bart was more GTOing this hand than listening to what you said about your history with this guy and the read you had on him. You felt you were good. The reason you felt you were good is because he would behave differently if he had the nuts or a stronger hand. He would let you continue to bluff. He thought maybe he had the best hand on the flop so he bet $40 to see if you raise with an overpaid. You call. If he had the nuts or a set of course he’s checking. The club hits so he checks so you will bluff. You over bet, which looks like a bluff, and he shoves assuming he has the best hand. Obviously this isn’t how you should always play this hand but given what you said I completely agree with “I had the best hand and this is how I could get all the money”. If you bet $100 on the turn he can’t jam but he can raise. And then when you jam he can’t call... good read knowing you had the best hand and nice job getting the best value

He messed the hand up from the start with the min click and on the turn he scared snd wants the hand to be over. He’s only getting called by better if he gets jammed on! He min clicked because he didn’t want a walk preflop and then compounded his problems post flop. The guy has all the 9T AT JJ. You have enough showdown value so check the turn back and hero on the river on good run outs, Right?

The caller was kind of all over the place, but he got exactly what he wanted to happen. Knew he was good the whole time and was actually right. I see a lot of people clown him and I get why the communication was pretty scattered, but ultimately his instincts all worked out

Great call with onions. Love the chat around the turn motivation and size of bet. It was an incoherent strategy but onions explained his thinking very clearly which made it easier for us to see and learn from that mistake. 👍👍👍👍

What a fun call! Thanks Bart and caller.

At the 1:22 mark, I'm already of the opinion that the caller needs a lot of work on clarifying his thought process. Just from how he's presenting the setup and hand info, it's clear that he's not yet using a consistent/repeatable process to analyse and navigate a hand.

At the end he is asking if a large pf 3b will eliminate the likelihood of straights on the flop because Bart said earlier, we can't eliminate QJ off because the pf 3b wasn't big enough to narrow the villains range. That is why he was looking for clarity. Bart has excellent logic and understanding of hands but sometimes things just get weird in small stakes games and players make crazy decisions based on previous hands ....

I like a lot of your videos. This one is particularly dope. Thank you, Bart. Great job

Where is this 2/5 game?

I feel like so many situations that have bizarre development, usually have a back story or some kinda history between hero and villan.

LMFAO. Bart’s facial expressions are priceless here.

Lol...the Aq rules off AA and put him on a big hand like KK because he had an A blocker (big mistake) he also thought he could steal the pot because of that weird turn over bet (because who would do that with the nuts?). What a wild hand. AA very lucky the way it played out.

I want in on this game!!!

7:26 & 8:56 😲👀 Hero just wants Villain to come over the top, on him...

"Onions, Onions, Onions!" That was hilarious.

600 to call 1400 pot is 2.3:1. around 30% equity or more needed to call this. Did I hear bart saying just under 2.5:1 which makes it around 27% needed? 2.5:1 is 29% 2:1 is 33% am I missing something?

12:52 “Oh boy” HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAJA

14:28 that would be an awesome meme

Dude be trollin’

There are weird situations where you can bet the river and get better to fold and worse to call when you’re playing low stakes

14:27 That look :D

I love Bart for being patient here but I don’t think that this is a player who should be playing 2/5 or will last very long at that stake without massively improving

Was actually just pondering people's donk bet ranges 5:00 in Bart hits exactly what I was thinking.

Actually a very interesting hand on the turn.what is the correct play with the AA when checked to?I mean i can see logic in checking back,do we always have to bet here?

Barts smirk at the start 😂

I feel like he does make a good combo bet

I have strong hand but didn't made anything. I'm pretty sure my opponent has middle pair or worse. However he is a calling station. If i raise he will most likely call. So should I just give up on hands like this?

I feel like all of the hero's bet sizing we too small and putting the opponent on a proper range becomes very difficult because he gave him good odds to call with every hand... until he made the 300 donk bet. The whole line seemed stranged

He started with 800 lost a couple of hands and had 1000? How does that work?

I found myself yelling at the phone as if I am watching reality TV.

This player needs to bump it down to 1-3 for 3-9 months then go back to 2-5

The called sounds like the comedian Dan Mintz trying to learn poker lol

Bart is the best

Holy demon 🤣🤣 he bet 300 into the 150 which was definitely a protection bet which should have just been called and then utg1 back jams, haha I would literally need new pants and would not be very happy with my now thin value pAA

decent pre flop 3 bet prolly folds out unsuited combos of 9T and JQ which is a lot of combos.

I for months now just though the Crush logo was a random symbol. Now I see it.

Caller. Please tell me where this game took place. Thanks in advance

Wow, never heard someone explain he bet 2x pot because he wanted someone to come over the top! Actually this illustrates why you can’t give opponents too much credit and outthink yourself-this is 2-5 which isn’t really totally the lowest stakes... so imagine you’re the utg+1 player and you have T9 of hearts and you convince urself with a 2x size opponent must have the nut flush, like ATc polarizing with stiff Ac like maybe AcKd🤦🏻‍♂️

I think what the caller is trying to say when he bet $300 on the turn is that he’s trying to bluff with the Ace of club similar to if he had like Axo with the Ace of club?

Wow this hand was really something else 😂

Sppspp spit it out junior!!!

Wow… where can I join this game? Lol

Im also newish to Poker but what would have been the right play for the +1 with top top if hero plays the same? Call pre, check call flop, check fold turn when the club comes in (or a K/T)

anybody have the link to this entire Call in show??

a victim of "infotainment" buzzwords

😂😂😂😂😂 Great Call!!!! Make my day 😅😆😅😅😅

Hi Bart ı am following you since 2 years . I have some questions; I agree for the prefop action (for the Black Aces,,that is small raise,wrong action for sure but With the turn minclick raise is ok(as nobody with aces and club having will fold) with the rivers also with a jam. Indeed minclick is inducing the villain to fold or a jam

Geez that was rough.. lol

In hindsight, his small preflop raise was fine. He had no problem getting all the money in 😂

Wholesome call :)

This is one episode that I wish your caller had of thought out what he wanted to say. He seemed totally confused and lost, and that makes it frustrating listening to him. I guess I don’t have to tell you that.

I feel like I just graduated from 1/2 to 2/5

He got max value, did he really play bad ? Isn’t the purpose to get money

Super bizarre shoving with TPTK when the caller bet $300 into $150 on the turn????????

This was a hard listen but I always like to hear how people think about poker but wow all over the place

The villain was lying, he got caught repping a flush. He probably had flush draw gutter ball and hoped you would fold. If you didn't he figured he was maybe 25% to river you.

Well, he extracted max value with his aces

bizarre.. also bizarre i get AK vs AA and KK all-in pre like 5 times in a row!!

why make it sure that it's heads up?

There are times where you can chill the fuck out and play a small pot with an overpair and not put yourself in a super weird spot for all the money

Why not rais flop?

So many people struggle playing AA.... they get played so weird